I don’t understand why you keep replying without even pretending to engage the points and arguments that I’ve made.

Do you think saying “the game is available elsewhere” addresses what I said about marketplace dominance at all?

Do you think anything you’ve said that only applies to this specific game addresses anything I said about systemic problems?

You aren’t even trying to have a discussion. You’re just saying “I don’t like the game anyway so it’s good it’s not on steam” and pretending it being available on other storefronts and that it happened to go viral has any bearing on any of the points I’ve made when it obviously doesn’t.

In any case, it’s pretty clear at this point that you’re not going to engage with me faithfully, so I’ll be on my way. Have a good day!

They are getting loads of marketing from this

This particular game is. It won’t always apply to every game, which is why I want digital marketplaces that have so much market dominance they can make or break studios to not choose which games they allow on their platforms based on vibes.

This seems pretty straightforward and your argument is incoherent at this point.

My argument isn’t incoherent just because you refuse to engage the scenario from a systemic rather than one-off perspective.

Yeah and what I am saying is this is stupid shit to do that for.

You need to work on your reading comprehension.

So what you are arguing for really is for Steam and Epic to distribute this.

Yes, I am. There doesn’t appear to be a non-moral-panic reason for it to be barred, and being barred from steam will have a deleterious effect on the game and on the studio’s ability to keep making games. I wish company didn’t have that power, but they do.

You’re not even trying to understand what I’m saying if you think that deciding if this particular game is the hill to die on is what I care about. I don’t give a shit about this particular game. I care about maintaining the principles of not letting moralists dictate what art and media is appropriate for everyone else.

1. The person in these comments that has actually played the game said there isn’t actually a single child in the game.
2. I’m never going to decide to just accept bullshit “because it’s not surprising”. That’s completely asinine.

I literally don’t care if they had a little girl talk to a naked horseman (who is being treated by the game like a regular horse and not a man at all to make a point). My point is that banning things that aren’t child porn because of moral outrage leads to the moral crusaders escalating. Next thing you know they’re gunning for lgbt themes, then going after violence. It’s ridiculous and should be ridiculed and dismissed instead of pretending things are child porn just because you don’t like them.

Submitting to moral panic bullshit doesn’t placate them. It only emboldens them.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/believe

“To consider to be true or honest”

I don’t know what you think believe means but you’re wrong

1. I like having the upstream versions of software instead of it being patched by package maintainers.
2. I like having up to date software. It means that issue trackers for software I use are relevant
3. Doing distro upgrades when they end support never works gracefully and i have to completely reinstall. I’d rather just use a rolling release which in practice works and is supported indefinitely
4. I do like bleeding edge updates. For wine for instance

Is the space pope reptilian?

No, that sounds like moral panic bullshit. If the naked man is not in a sexual at all context because it’s straight up treating them as horses the whole game to be surrealist or whatever, and the kid was fully clothed, then I honestly don’t see what the big deal is. Perhaps it was worse than described, or maybe… There is something we don’t know

Feels like some key piece of information is omitted here tbh

I guess you could say I’m impressed if we were discussing it like a beta preview of something that might be cool eventually. But what we’re doing is treating it like it’s amazing for all sorts of things it sucks at because it’s unreliable and shoving it in everything.

So yeah, I’m unimpressed with the reality vs the sales pitch.

To be fair, dual booting is not really for people that aren’t very tech savvy. Just thinking about trying to explain partitions to some people I know is giving me a headache

People like to recommend immutable distros like bazzite because in theory they’re much harder to break, but in reality they are a niche community and are nowhere ready for primetime for casual users

Either you didn’t read what I said originally, didn’t understand it, or are just a sad troll at this point. I recommend touching grass

Can’t really do anything but roll my eyes at this ridiculous hyperboly

It turns out that things are complicated, and that a company that is pro consumer in so many ways that almost nothing else is can get praised for that and denigrated for doing predatory loot boxes.

And that a billionaire owner can get praised for maintaining a pro consumer company and denigrated for running a loot box racket and buying yachts. All at the same time.

It’s so exhausting how people like you have to go on every thread and complain that people are happy about something instead of mad about everything, energy single time the company comes up.

sigh

It’s actually less trouble. Back when i used ubuntu based distros I ended up using the arch wiki anyway, and I never successfully upgraded from one ubuntu LTS to the next without problems anyway, so I figured why not try the distro that doesn’t have upgrades and has amazing docs. It’s much more stable.

Ritual sacrifice to the penguin god