Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.

“Yeah, sure, I see no problems with that. Alternatively, I could just boost your characters to max level if you would like?”

This right here, is the insult you were looking for.

The answers for this kind of fucked up lay in paradoxes.

For example:

If Trump was just 10% better, he would seem far worse.

What do I mean? Every single day is some new shit we need to digest, yet we hadn’t even spent the time to fully digest the last ridiculous shit he said. If we actually had time to process everything then he would appear far worse.

Some of the complaints are valid, but their solutions are just as baffling as their targets.

It seems evident that they’ve either got a case of cognitive dissonance flowing out their ears, or they’re dishonest in their motivation.

In any case, you’re right, it is weird to point the finger at valve, especially since they’ve done so much for gaming as a whole;

• Proton: should speak for itself. Carves games out of M$'s gated community.
• Platform features: workshop, discussions, groups, guides. Fucking amazing.
• Family sharing: nobody asked for it, and it seems like a bad business move - Valve did it anyway.
• Index: great piece of tech. Too bad about the price tag though.
• Deck: fucking masterpiece. Blows Switch out of the fucking water.
• Support staff: fucking legends. I’ve had multiple interactions where they have breached their own policy to keep me happy,
• Privately owned: despite the incentives to cash out and make bank. They have a fucking spine, which makes them dangerous to other platforms.

This guy claims to be a long-time developer and modder, yet suggests Game Pass is better for preservation than Steam. If that’s their industry insight, no wonder nobody at Valve took their feedback seriously.

Reposting my comment from the other post:

Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.

But earlier:

I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.

So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it’s only DRM?

If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.

In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve… Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.

Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can’t patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?

Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think… nobody will ever hold them accountable.

Then:

They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true…

Wait, isn’t it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?

Because the Steam client patches itself… their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.

That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it’s reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?

Also, is this really a steam-only issue?

Valve’s… design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input’s initialization.

This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.

If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.

In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.

I havent played 3 personally, but I’ve heard the story is kinda botched because its so inconsistent, and the pacing is fucked.

With 1 and 2 you had the anime-bullshit layered between the disney-bullshit.

Apparently with 3, it goes:

anime-bullshit > (disney-bullshit * worlds) > heavy anime-bullshit with loads of exposition.

This is such a terrible take.

Of course AAA and AA mean something in the gaming industry! I’m hardly going to power my controller with a fucking 9V am I?

Installing Arch ‘the proper way’ is a pilgrimage all Linux users should take. After that, they can fly with EndeavourOS at their convenience.

TLDR: the checkbox for “enable proton for all other titles” is forced on, and hidden.

If you already have this enabled, there’s nothing to gain from the beta client.

I respect that he burned a giant hole in Konami’s pocket and tried his best to block them off at each turn.

Then they fired him before the game was finished and released Metal Gear Survive lol.

Also respect that he made a fucking AAA hiking delivery game, with fucking jar-babies, and Princess Beach.

Perfectly good dirt, awaiting seed deposits

Why would I ejaculate on cement?

How does being dressed like that affect her inability to detect danger?

Edit: I think I need a brain scan.

IMO, look into the linuxserver.io fork of NGINX, called SWAG.

It comes preloaded with a bunch of fantastic addons for security.

Quite easy to get set up, if you’ve got an idea about how it works.

The Mr. Plinkett cat.

You’re erring on the side of caution, and I get the impulse. But there’s a fine line between giving voice to the unheard and drowning out the current conversation by crusading on their behalf without actually checking whether they wanted a champion in the first place.

Language isn’t static, and if people who would’ve been the target of a slur no longer feel targeted by a modern, benign use of the word, maybe it’s worth listening to them instead of getting stuck in etymological guilt.

This is essentially justification for tone policing, language gate keeping, or inventing offenses that marginalized groups themselves aren’t actually calling out.

Campaigning on their behalf looks less like allyship and more like self-importance wrapped in a savior complex.

“The pejorative nature kind of got lost somewhere along the way.”

Not according to some, who I’m surprised havent descended into this comment section yet.

It genuinely amazes me that some people learn of a racist origin and immediately crusade against it, on behalf of people who dont give a fuck.

Words change. When the majority of people are using a phrase in a benign manner, then dragging the racist origins back into the light is a really dumb way to fight against bigotry.

Guilt tripping people into adapting new phrasing isn’t just arrogant and patronizing; it’s counterproductive - it makes the actual fight against racism seem petty and performative.

NixOS Impermanence, Everywhere, All at Once (2022)

Minewhile, NixOS:

“Nice try buddy, now step the fuck away from my read-only file system before I put my flake in your ass”

Depends how you want to define PoC.

The author is fair skinned, like most Japanese.

So this quote does kinda come off as fetishistic.

Here’s the kicker though - who cares?

Author of a manga likes brown girls. If that bothers anyone, go find something worth giving a fuck about.