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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Gaben is pretty chill, ngl

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I never gamed, so...

  • Fuck gambling
  • Fuck walled gardens
  • Fuck billionaires (nobody needs that much dough)
  • Fuck Valve/Steam (it's easy for me to say)
[โ€“] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Steam isn't perfect and I sure as shit won't be the one defending a corporation, and this isn't a good excuse at ALL, but if you've never gamed you wouldn't believe how much worse it is on the other side (GOG being the only exception).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For steam I only use their proton compatibility layer for my "DRM free games", I only bought Terraria on their store and I rarely play it these day I'll play it again when 1.4.5 come out

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Valve are irresponsible. Either it should moderate its forums or there shouldn't be any. All the time we see fascist rhetoric about 'DEI' and 'Woke'. We've reported some but they functionally are useless, so why have them?

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Not defending valve but are the forums even necessary?

I've been an avid player for 4 years (my son even more so) and I didn't even know they had forums

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, sometimes they help to communicate with other players or the developers, seek out hints or bug reports, share cool things from the game or that you did in them, or talk to valve about features/bugs.

They would be a lot more useful if they were actually moderated but most game developers seem unable or unwilling to do it, and valve is the same, so what ends up happening is that it just becomes a breeding ground for fascism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Good to know, thanks for the info

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Feels like it needs another meme for this "You guys have forums?"

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which company is the cool one?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Valve, they make Steam. A popular gaming store that brought modern gaming to Linux

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The one running an illegal online casino for minors.

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