Some guy on Mastodon already made some framework for achievements, so it's not undoable. Issue would be a copy protection, which depending on your standpoint, either is completely malicious, a necessary evil, or a mandatory thing for anything other than a free game made as an experiment. Having an open source copy protection method would immediately guarantee a workaround, the best we could achieve is to disable some official servers, achievements, etc.
I’m sorry you went through that, but I want to thank you for having the courage to speak up. It may be worth speaking to some game journalists and sharing your story.
Many journalists care deeply about holding truth to power and would love to help pressure for Valve to better moderate the community they run.
Second: it’s the internet, quit feeding the trolls. Why bother reporting them? They suck, they are going to do it again. Ignore and move on. Internet 101.
Third: profile page? I have looked at that maybe a dozen times in the last 19 years. I really don’t care about it. However: I did review my settings and I do keep mine locked down.
I despise these idiots that are looking for attention. They have been around since the old bbs days and they are not going away. We simply ignore them, block them, and take away what they are asking for: attention.
this is an extremely individualized approach that leaves bigots free to spread their filth everywhere, making normal people (particularly marginalized ones) uncomfortable and at worst forcing them out of the space entirely.
bigotry should be opposed at all times in every conceivable way. unfortunately we can’t do violence to shitheads on the internet, so silencing them is the next best thing
First rule of the internet: everyone is a liar. Therefore nothing anyone says matters. I hate bigotry too, but there is a good chance this is just the leverage a troll is using for attention.
So, we do the same as we do with all trolls, don’t feed them.
We also can recognize that there is racism, bigotry, hatred and marginalization. Otherwise they wouldn’t try and leverage it.
I agree we should denounce it, welcome everyone without expectations, but after being on the net and prior since the 80s, only one thing works: don’t give them the satisfaction or power.
Privileged? Wtf? More like been on the internet long enough to not let much bother me.
It’s a dilemma, if you give them the attention they continue. If you don’t appeal to authority they also will continue.
I will agree that Valve should stand behind their terms of service though. I just never see it as much of a community because I am only their to buy and play games.
If this was happening on my servers, my linux group, or my makerspace they would be out on their ass so fast…
“It’s the internet” is a failed and ruinous attitude that permits bad people (yes, some people are worse than other people in spite of your thought-terminating platitudes). And for what? To feel smug and superior? smuglord
Also, false equivalencies that condemn everyone just so you can dismiss individual concerns are old tired shit that should have been retired in the early 2000s.
i’m saying i disagree with this approach. people have been preaching “not to feed the trolls” for decades and the internet has only gotten more bigoted and terrible. forcing those people out of any non-nazi space should be priority #1. we do this on hexbear and as a result the site culture there is significantly more welcoming to minorities than just about anywhere else on the internet. i’ve been on the internet for like 25 years now (admittedly not as long as you) and it’s the only site i have ever seen where people bandying about slurs and abusive language are not only not tolerated, but are actively rejected by the community en mass
it works. if you build it, they will come. if you ban the shitheads, good people will stay. if you don’t, you end up with 4chan.
unfortunately we can’t do violence to shitheads on the internet
Yet. Muskrats are lining up to get their brain chips, so it won’t be too long before someone manages to hack one and kill somebody (assuming the brain chip itself doesn’t do it first).
Why bother reporting them? They suck, they are going to do it again.
They might think twice if they got banned from Steam and lost their tens of thousands of hours and thousands of dollars worth of stuff on their steam profile.
that’s saying that they just don’t restrict community access, which steam defo has the capability of doing. I’ve seen some profiles marked removed and the acct exists just can’t access community services
Why bother reporting them? They suck, they are going to do it again. Ignore and move on. Internet 101.
I’d still report them. Worst case the platform is shitty and nothing happens to them, best case they get banned. Definitely block and don’t engage them, for sure.
Second: it’s the internet, quit feeding the trolls. Why bother reporting them? They suck, they are going to do it again. Ignore and move on. Internet 101.
That ignorant and failed doctrine is seen as “internet 101” in a way that was such a failure that it lead to the “containment theory” that gradually permitted all of 4chan to become extensions of /pol/ and made it the nazi hive that it is now.
Demonetization works. Look at how relevant Milo Yianopulos is now.
Cool, who is that person? Can you link their steam profile here? Perhaps someone from Valve may see your comment and the person will be banned. Otherwise why are you protecting that persons anonymity?
witch hunts are where you hold horrific racists publicly accountable, and the more you hold them accountable, the more witch-hunty it is up-yours-woke-moralists
No, it’s where you go after someone for some perceived wrong. It might be wrong or it might not be.
They won’t be held accountable for this, they will just get abuse from random strangers. That’s not accountability, it’s more like revenge or some shit. And they likely want you to get publicly angry. They are trolls.
Just report and move on. It sucks but nothing we could do would help anyways,
I got the sense some of them didn’t like each other that much.
There’s usually a temporal aspect to great teams. They work amazingly at a moment in time but once that period has passed you can ever recreate it again.
A couple of structural and ideological problems at Valve lead to this. First, the company’s “flat” organization where people work on what they want means that unless somebody wants to volunteer to mod Steam communities (which no sane person would), they won’t bother. Further, even if someone wanted to mod Steam, they’d have to consider that it might be damaging to their career because “I remove racists and nazis from Steam” isn’t going to get the same kind of good performance reviews that some big sexy project will (even if it never releases).
Second, the leadership are rich white libertarians. They don’t care what their users say or do because of nonsense freeze-peach beliefs so long as they keep making money. The only thing that might get them to take action would be if this kind of thing became a big scandalous news story, because at that point it might be viewed as a threat to their bottom line, but that never happened with the child gambling so it’s still unlikely.
Nothing yet as I need to clear some backlog items first but I have stray, rdr2 , high on life and cyberpunk on my list for when the prices come down. That will be a while though. Deliver us moon and mars look cool too.
These days I like something I can finish without a million side quests. In the case of great games I can make an exception but its just a question of not enough time.
I wish I could have had a steam deck back in the day with my current games 😄.
Currently getting through black mesa and trying to finish off MGS5 with bouts of super mario wonder sprinkled in when I need a change of pace. Also have to finish breath of the wild…
Let me know how Severed Steel is. I tried their demo of Echo Point Nova and actually had a lot of fun with the movement in that game, so I was curious about this other game of theirs.
Is a pretty good game but is quite short. I didn’t play the new game mode release some weeks ago but looks like the developer is still pushing new things to the game so is a great value/fun ratio.
It’s very hard but tons of fun! Very rewarding when you get it down. Check out DunkOrSlam if you need any tips or want to see some cool runs. There’s even a “multiplayer” mod.
Spent a couple hours playing vanilla last night. My second or third run, I fell into a pool of water with an electrically charged wand and electrocuted myself.
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