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@ kazerniel @lemmy.world

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  • ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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  • The US Guardian is strongly pro-trans, while the UK Guardian is more mixed. It had (maybe still has?) some TERFs in prominent positions for a very long time, and they kept churning out their transphobic opinion pieces week after week.

    There was even an intra-Guardian clash about this in 2018, when their US reporters called out their UK colleagues: Why we take issue with the Guardian’s stance on trans rights in the UK

  • ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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  • ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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  • mark reviews as being irrelevant to be scrubbed

    as the article details, in the case of reviews flagged by devs, Steam gets to decide if they want to remove them or not, and often they don't, even when they contain open bigotry or personal attacks towards the developer

  • ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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  • This is why I always look at negative reviews. I often come across "downsides" that aren't downsides to me or outright appealing.

  • Be Wary of Bluesky

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  • Get bent, Brenda

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  • Let's correct this behaviour :-)

    it sounds like an evil nursery worker

  • How horses fly on planes

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  • Games you fell out of love with.

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  • Are these games you fell out of love with? That Rainsdowne Players looks interesting, thanks for the rec :)

  • Games you fell out of love with.

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  • Maybe Reus? I enjoyed the basic premise and the first few hours, but then the game's flaws started to become more apparent (e.g. repetitiveness, upgrade chains becoming unmemorisably complex) and I put it down around 12% of full completion.

  • Normal amount

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  • I've come across a still-living webcomics webring the other day, made me feel nostalgic :')

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  • yeah, and that a significant portion of users had their own little websites and/or blogs. I spent ages browsing those tiny iframe sites built with fancy Photoshop brushes and incomprehensible navigation menus.

    I actually got into web design by making a Pokemon fansite with animated gifs on every page xD

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  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • There's also StoryGraph - it's not federated, but ran by a tiny UK company, but seems pretty popular. I like the content warnings feature and stuff like readers rating the pacing and moods of the books, which is then displayed with graphs on the book page, but they have also introduced some AI features :/ (fortunately opt-in)

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  • I understand their reasoning, but still, it soured me on the game. GenAI models being built from non-consensually mass-scraped art was known from the very start, and yet the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game... They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.

    But anyway, we are free to just not agree and draw the line in different places on what we consider ethical conduct 🤷

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  • Tbh I'm the same as Mohab, I strongly prefer third person over first person. First person makes me feel claustrophobic bc the screen is just so much smaller than an actual first person FoV would be (maybe this would be better in VR). Also it stresses me out that I can't see what's sneaking up on me from the sides or behind. I even played Oblivion in 3rd person (with a summoner build so I didn't have to aim).

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  • Clair Obscur for me too, but because of the AI art controversy. I can't stand AI, even if temporary, even if just store banners, I just can't trust the company from then on not to sneak it into other areas.

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  • Cyberpunk 2077 - it still doesn't go on steep enough sales to justify buying when I have hundreds of unplayed games on Steam. But I'm keeping an eye on its downward progress. Maybe when it reaches £10-13...

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kazerniel @lemmy.world

    What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit

    www.theguardian.com /news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kazerniel @lemmy.world

    Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.

    quanticfoundry.com /2025/12/18/gen-ai/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kazerniel @lemmy.world

    Looking for a specific research illustration on how LLMs "do maths"