Schadrach @ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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...and the fancy steam engine version of solar is probably greener to build that photovoltaics, since it's basically just a boiler and some mirrors.

You’re going to face more hardship than ever before.

Yeah, but private businesses won't be arresting them for doing crack or meth or heroin or w/e. Just firing them for it showing up on a urine test, or just because they feel like it or w/e.

Steam has also been hosting numerous outright neo-Nazi groups for many years (PDF) and never really stepped up effectively against them. User reports and media attention has limited effect.

As a general rule, steam discussion boards for a game are moderated by whoever the developer assigns that power to, and steam user groups are moderated by the group owner or whoever they delegate that power to and Steam doesn't particularly care so long as you aren't doxing, openly coordinating harassment, or doing something explicitly illegal in the US.

That's also the general tilt they've taken with what's allowed on the store since they opened the floodgates - if it's not illegal and it's not going to get them sued, it's probably allowed if properly tagged. Which is why you can find Sex With Hitler side by side with Super Lesbian Animal RPG.

Worst they do is block it from specific regions if the local government requests it - see that game where you essentially play as Hamas fighting against the IDF that they recently blocked from the UK, the one where the largest part of the game description is arguing that the game isn't antisemitic hate speech just because the enemy are Jewish. The call to block it came after a new patch that apparently added a scenario based on the Oct 7 attack.

Epic Game store, good: free games, bad: Epic and Tim Sweeney.

Sums up how I feel about them. I have lots of games on my Epic account. I have paid for none of them, and refuse to change that. If it's an Epic exclusive, it will eventually either release on other platforms, become an epic store free game of the week, or be an epic store freebie on amazon prime. I have enough games in my library I can wait.

Honestly, the Steam Deck has done more for gaming on Linux than just about anything in recent years. Not least because it spurred significant improvements in the software that allows you to run Windows software in Linux (Proton, which is a fork of Wine), since a big chunk of the Steam library doesn't have an actual Linux version.

Like Android, iOS and MacOS, the core conceit of Steam OS is emphasizing usability on a particular set of devices (in this case gaming handhelds, but presumably eventually consoles too since the whole thing is designed around controller inputs as a central UX concern) for a system whose guts are ultimately built on Linux or Unix, but with the worst of the fiddly bits abstracted away and hidden from most end users.

Not sure if that's a joke about a since-corrected typo or if you're serious.

Just in case serious, it's the Linux-based operating system that runs on the Steam Deck, and soon to be related devices. So, Linux modified to work better for gaming, especially with Steam.

So even if this saves HB from further persecution by the Talibangelicals

I know right? Man who is soon to no longer be politically relevant had to make his son who is only politically relevant because of the father immune to prosecution for any and all crimes he may or may not have done over the last decade to prevent the GOP from using him to politically attack his father who will no longer be politically relevant at the same moment they gain the ability to hypothetically start the process to do so.

It's just blatantly corrupt in the same way (but not the same scale) as what we all expect Trump to do. This is Biden getting to be a little blatantly corrupt, as a treat.

You know what, I'd be all behind a subscription mouse so long as it includes periodic hardware upgrades and unlimited warranty replacements no questions asked so long as the subscription is paid.

Admittedly, I'd be trying to figure out the most interesting ways to actively destroy mice to make them rue the day they thought a mouse subscription was a good idea, but that's beside the point. Why no, I can't return the damaged mouse, it's at the bottom of a hole in the woods no human has been down since the civil war. Just like it was none of your business how I found out that the mouse isn't resistant to hydrofluoric acid.

Which is true, there are parts I like about being a man, and there are parts I dislike about being a man.

...and these days there is probably some specialized label to describe that that isn't merely "man" because that would be too easy.

just constant quarrels between instances, defederations and crap like that

Sounds like you picked the wrong instance. The one I use doesn't defederate, from anyone. So when some drama about "should we defederate from some server because they are a big corp/because they are right wing/because they are tankies/because they allow loli/whatever, I basically get to watch and laugh knowing it's not going to effect me.

Short version is that for the most part forum moderation for each game is left up to the devs or whoever they appoint, and users can create user groups and curators without much if any restrictions and they don't particularly give a shit what content the game you want to sell has. The only real exceptions are if it's illegal in the US, which applies to very little (for example no CSAM).

I find it interesting that the federal government threatening a private entity with legal repercussions if it doesn't restrict the speech of it's users isn't such an obvious violation of the first amendment that lawyers aren't climbing over each other to fight this one.

And if you don't see the problem with it, imagine we agree that the federal government should be allowed to restrict what expression can go on on internet platforms content-wise, then imagine Trump and his cronies deciding where the borders lie. They already want to revive the Comstock Act.

The moment you give people a little finger wrt their requests, one of those people will take the whole hand. The same likely applies to modding.

I suppose that depends on which finger.

It’s almost like people ignore men’s issues and scapegoat them at every opportunity for the sake of women.

Men will never ever get the benefit of the doubt, but when we try to demand it we are just crybabies.

Welcome to society. Frankly, it's malagency (mis-assignment of agency, specifically in a fashion that often makes men responsible for things that happen to them even when they really aren't and often absolves women of that responsibility when they really should have it) all the way down.

Malagency as a lens predicts reality better than a lot of other gender focused lenses. "What would happen if women are believed to be less responsible for what happens than they really are and men are believed to be more responsible for what happens than they really are?" tends to map to reality better than "What would happen if everything in society were created by men to benefit men at the expense of women and to oppress women?" Especially once you stop looking narrowly at the top few percent of men, where the two lenses give similar results.

and the cops saw a man fighting a woman and shot the man by default.

Something like 95% of people shot by police are men. This of course is not discriminatory on the grounds that men are evil, violent savages unlike every other group that are disproportionately shot by police who are innocent victims of oppression.

"Gamers" are also a group one elects to be a member of, while one is categorized into a race, sex or gender from birth. One is elective, the other is descriptive. No one chooses to be black, or white, or born with male or female genitalia, etc, etc. And a lot of negative views are often along the lines of a rare bad thing being more likely performed by a certain demographic being extrapolated to accuse that demographic of being dangerous or harmful in general (usually an out-group, though under some ideologies it's only acceptable to have this view with a target perceived to be the in-group - as regards blame they essentially reverse the perceived in- and out-group roles).

To turn it around on you though, imagine we picked some other elective group (a hobby, a political or ideological leaning, that sort of thing) that you are likely to look positively upon (and maybe even be a member of) and did the same kind of thing. Let's say...feminists? Would it be acceptable to accuse feminism or feminists of anything negative I can point to any group thereof doing, and if you aren't one of the ones who actually does that then you should not take offense, right? Not feel defensive at all, not question or challenge the assertion at all, right?

since furries have been marked as a target for fascist enemy within rhetoric

Likewise, fascists have been marked as a target for furry enemy within rhetoric, more or less since the first furries wearing Nazi shit showed up at a con.

They're marching in the hopes that someone will attack them in a fashion they cannot reasonably flee from? Or does Ohio have stand your ground and we could knock the part about fleeing off?

Pardon them for what? Unless their possessing firearms wasn't in line with the law, or that "physical altercation" mentioned that questioning apparently went nowhere reemerges as a thing then I don't know what they'd need pardoned for based on the article.

The marching with Nazi shit and spewing whatever hateful bullshit is protected speech, because speech protections in the US are extremely broad.

And that's before getting into whether or not the hypothetical crime is federal (which he could hypothetically pardon) or state (which he can't).

I think nowadays they just use Facebook groups to shame men they don't like. Are We Dating the Same Guy is the usual name for them.

...and they did this because they'd agreed not to do superdelegates in 2020 which meant they couldn't use the same levers they'd been wielding in 2016 and before to put a thumb on the scale.

And it will be the greatest book you have ever read, just so bigly yuge, tremendous! Not like those Democrats and their small books, with the tiny writing and confusing words and no pictures.

...I tried. Just imagine the pitch gradually increasing and the first part being all enthusiastic, then him dropping to a low pitch and trying to sound all grave for the second sentence. Someone else better at channeling orange asshole-ese?