No no no no you misunderstand

Bottoms are women

That’s a heart? I thought she was doing a Mr. Burns

I’m putting on my tin foil hat here to say that this could be another propaganda technique.

You front load the data you want the smooth brains to absorb and then on the back end you explain why this article has a reason to be shared around to everybody who is sane. Smooth brains and the people they want to control will only read the title and the base knowledge that the article is getting across appealing to their base emotions and fears furthering the point that the publisher is trying to propagandize.

“Smarter” people will read the whole thing and read the back part of the article, which says that this is actually an “anti-age verification article” So you share it to social media to try to prove your own point. But all the smooth brains only see the front loaded point.

So in a way, creating an article like this is more likely to be shared by more people and then the hidden point of age verification is front loaded and the criticisms against it are hidden behind too many paragraphs for most.

Arstechica is a captured media site owned by Condé Naste who not only published “The Art of The Deal” they also are anti-union, pro Iseal, and they are partially responsible for this current radicalization of america through their many publications.

They recently fired several people from Teen Vogue for their political opinions and Union organization.

This is an entity which likes to appear impartial but definitely is pushing an agenda.

Anyway i have to take my tinfoil hat off to play beat saber now. This is all speculation

If you weren’t fucking murdered from the whiplash of not having any crumple zones absorbing the impact. Then you would surely die of your insurance going absolutely through the roof for driving a fucking car from the '70s and getting into an accident

He donates sometimes not super often. Definitely not a big philanthropist in that way.

But he does fund ocean research. So that’s cool.

I want more realistic enemy behaviors in general. Most animal enemies in games react exactly the same. Roar, run at you, bite.

It’d be great if in for example Skyrim, instead of the wolves just beelining straight for you. They were howling and running alongside you in the woods. Stalking you and waiting for the chance for the whole group to strike at once. If you try to go for the wolves, the ones you run after would distract you while the others try to get you in the back. It could be exhilarating but no, we’ve just decided to make games fucking boring I guess

It used to be a lot more viable to publish a multiplayer title and have a good player base. Nowadays, player bases have been captured by large live service models. Games like tremulous where you essentially play as an alien ant and gain points by building buildings and killing human soldiers to evolve into a bigger aliens. There was also the human Marine team who basically played like starcraft Marines.

It was essentially first person team-based starcraft. And it was amazing. And nobody’s playing this shit anymore. It’s kind of a shame.

Ironically cutting him out of the movies like this sort of adds to his mythology

Censorship on my Lemmy? It’s more likely than you think

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It’s not his job to feed the world either. That’s our goddamn government’s job. He puts money where he wants. That’s the system we live under and we can fix that and change it but until we do denigrating this one man out of all the evil billionaires is kind of strange.

He also funds a Marine research facility that maps the ocean floor and gives scientists access to deep sea diving tools and submarines. He donates to charity occasionally, to the tune of hundreds of thousands to millions. What have you done other than complain on the internet?

You need to understand the propaganda machine’s in full swing. There are enemies online that pretend to be your allies and they slowly turn your opinions. You’re being brainwashed.

Gabes goals are twofold. Make money for himself and those under him and improve the PC game space.

He does both both unapologetically and without secrets or shady shit. Honestly, it’s not his responsibility to fix the world. It’s ours collectively. He does his small part to improve what he can. He saw a need and he does his best to fill it. And at the same time he pays his workers the highest wages in the entire industry. Most people who work at valve are millionaires.

I believe billionaires need to be taxed out of existence but this one is not the one that we need to hang first

Nike actually did make those. they sell them.

I’m also drawn to 7. But when I’m feeling myself I’m obviously a 6

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Steam itself still asks your age before verifying any purchase. This is a parenting problem.

By the way, steam actually offers parental controls and family accounts to manage purchasing decisions and the like. If you’re so worried about your children, then maybe be involved in their life and pay attention to them and what they’re doing?

There, your logic breaks down when you say kids can then redeem the items for money within the same platform. First off, the very nature of making purchases on steam requires you to be 18 or have parental consent. Also people cannot exchange the goods on steam for USD only steam points. Steam points are not dollars and cannot be transferred back into USD or any other currency. You have to go through a third-party website to do that and valve has cracked down on those websites in the past. This is up to further legislation further up the pipe to curb this problem.

Also, I want it to be clear to everybody reading this. That steam does require developers to list steam keys STEAM KEYS at the same price they sell them on steam. Developers can mint steam keys for free.

You see this policy is in place because if someone were to start selling steam keys on a platform that wasn’t steam suddenly, steam will not see any profits off those disproportionate sales because they weren’t made on the platform. And once word gets out that it’s cheaper somewhere else nobody will buy it on steam. And then steam is then responsible for all bandwidth now and forever into perpetuity for all of those users downloads and updates.

Many developers have actually tried this look up facepunch. They tried to sell steam keys outside of steam to get all the profit. They decided that it was ultimately worth the cost to just go through steam because hosting their own sales and refunds and support network for their game was too much. Even with the piggybacking off of steam’s bandwidth. By the way, facepunch is worth millions. Steam just provides a good fucking deal.

If you wanted to have your own storefront that sold your game exclusively without steam keys. You could list it to whatever price you fucking wanted. Even if you were selling it on steam for more. But if you want the bandwidth and support network that comes with the steam deal, then you have to follow their terms of service. Go figure.

Anyway, I’m done listing the obvious.

Which can’t be purchased with steam points. What’s your point?

They aren’t supporting children gambling. Every game listed in lawsuit is rated M. They ask you your age before you buy these games and before you put in any payment information into steam. It’s not verified with an ID or anything but that is a whole nother can of worms in computing that will open up a box we do not want to open. Also, you can’t even fucking buy anything on steam without a debit card. Which by the way you need to be 18 to have unless you have parental consent.

The solution here is more parenting. The solution here is to go after gambling culture as a whole. The solution here is to take down polymarket. The solution here is to make it so that gambling is not the main fucking commercial during our super bowl halftime.

The thing you’re all fucking missing is no you can’t sell the in-game items for real money through the service. Steam money isn’t real money. It can’t go back into a normal economy. You always have to sell your inventory through a third party if you want it to be USD

This whole lawsuit this whole thing is to try to get age verification checks through steam to lock down our privacy rights, while at the same time throwing another lawsuit on the pile to try to bury valve for not cooperating with the billionaire computing cabal. You’re all fucking blind