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FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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It will never stop being funny just how many people dont even bother to read the op in this thread.

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FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Im assuming he meant thw guy in the thread doing "this looks bad" videos and posting them.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Its also not censorship. Its an individual refusing to sell/promote a product because its against their interest. Steam isnt making them remove the porn, they just wont sell porn.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Because i like it when other people weed out the poo poo for me.

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Oct 11, 2012

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SilverSupernova posted:

... you know what, it's only a dollar, I might still get it if I still get to romance the non-anthropomorphic shark.

But that would involve romancing the anthropomorphic shark abomination born from the minds of men.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I still can't wrap my head around everyone reversing the d pad and the action buttons side when emulating stuff on pc.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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credburn posted:

Maybe it's because I'm on the spectrum, but I cannot get past the last panel of this comic. Like, it's kind of predictable, the joke, but it's funny as it is...yet... what's with the last panel? It suggests that the other guys playing D&D with him beat the poo poo out of him? Like, enough to give him an eye so swollen that it's black and shut. That's not funny...that's just weird. A sudden, random act of violence. I don't get it.

It's like, a punchline by itself isn't funny unless also someone gets beat up.

They're exaggerating for effect and readability, dude. It's not high art, but slapstick has been used as a cheap laugh for centuries. The getting beat up is the literal punchline. Cut the holier than thou crap.

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Oct 11, 2012

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Tobermory posted:

Lately this thread is full of minimum-effort cash grabs and/or kafkaesque fetish pornography. Have a sincere labor of love instead.

Math Combat Challenge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-eaYB_HqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8h7vm_353k

Oh man, who needs voice acting when you have microsoft Sam?

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Oct 11, 2012

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StrixNebulosa posted:

Haha, no, I'm just bringing this screencap to marvel at how that's the first screencap in their storepage.

Oh god, until you said that I didn't realize they put that as a game screenshot for the storepage. I thought it was copy pasted for easy laughter.

Just. Wow.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Guy Mann posted:

Why? There is literally no downside to having more games on Steam outside of same vague sense of moral outrage among a small group of people and plenty of great games that never would have gotten on Steam have showed up since they moved from their old "know a guy who works for Valve" model of adding titles so it's a net good regardless.

When a marketplace becomes saturated with rubbish that is a waste of money, it becomes harder to find stuff that is worth the money and people stop shopping there and the market crashes.

This has happened to video games before, see Nintendo's fortune largely existing because of "the Nintendo seal of approval"

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I uh....
Please tell me that isn't a game by a skinny white guy about shooting black dudes.
Because those screenshots make it look like a game about going around shooting black people. To the point of cyborgs in blackface.

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Oct 11, 2012

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Lunethex posted:

$40 for a tag to spray that nobody looks at unless it's shock imagery or porn.

I don't play CS but I wouldn't be surprised if you could only use it once to boot.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Truga posted:

it's an indie 60 minute amine that's gonna sell like 100 copies, since likely most people that wanted got it on kickstarter.

i wouldn't even blame them selling it for 30 bucks, but what's with the not eligible for refund?

Id wager because its short enough to watch it once and refund it with steams refund policy, allowing people to just get it for free otherwise

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Oct 11, 2012

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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

that’s what you get for catering to creeps.

they should’ve stuck to train murder mysteries and cyberpunk novels.

Weren't you reading? It's because millenials =bad

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Released four years ago and still a work in progress :allears:

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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CommissarMega posted:

Am I missing something? They seem like typical VN fan user reviews to me.

It's review #1 and #2, which makes me think dev placed

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I am so confused as to who would want to play that. Like at least with lovely asset flips and porno games I can see a target audience.

With this one, I honestly don't know.

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Oct 11, 2012

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resistentialism posted:

Sure but when it's a defenseless calf and a 13 year old in a cowboy hat you americans are all hooting and hollering.

Well, yeah. The thirteen year old just did a flying tackle from a horse. Surely that's cool enough to excuse his sexual debauchery?

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

sex in games is bad

For all the times its been shoved in as an option, its never really been beneficial to the game* has it?

*Other than sales count from the devs view

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Oh god, I'm dying. The school shooter game made broadcast news this morning.

Bonus points, the news presented it as a big professional thing and not some hack job put together by some idiot kid.
And to the best of my knowledge ignored his other great works like "White Power: Pure Voltage", "Tyde Pod Challenge", and "Furry"

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Oct 11, 2012

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Rectus posted:

https://twitter.com/RobotBrush/status/1001592220783431680

Looks like Valve finally banned the Active Shooter dev.

So we now know what it takes to make valve pretend they curate the store: being yelled at on national news.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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SomeJazzyRat posted:

If they don't have the employees or want to 'structure' their corporation to allow even basic moderation, then fine just get some volunteers to do it.

There is literally no reason for the storefront to be as bad as it is. And it's still shocking that Valve is willing to gently caress over the legitimate livelihoods of so many people to avoid doing so.

It has close to a monopoly and doesn't actually give a poo poo about any of those people if it doesn't threaten it's bottom line.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Quicksilver6 posted:

Alas, you had the insane notion that they would in fact take an interest in something besides tf2 hats and Dota money and show some loving signs of life. We've all been there. Sadly that will never be.

E: Actually now that I think about it, what the gently caress does Valve even do now? Not making games, obviously. But also not doing any kind of QA, or serious overhauls, or anything. What do they do all day? What goes on there?

Its the one company in the world where using the break room doesn't get you yelled at, so they just sit around in there laughing at us plebians.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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I like how in between the fluff stuff his argument boils down to, "God no! You're shooting up not ea, not a company people care about!"

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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This was clearly made for kids!

This is clearly not appropriate for kids!

Perhaps... it was not made for kids at all exactly as they claimed?

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Erotic Wakes posted:

If the game is harmless then why did the creator feel the need to put a huge warning about the content of the game at the beginning?

It's like a sign saying dont walk into this cave during rainy season. You can tell people not to use your product when it would be harmful to them all you want, but if you let everyone in eventually an idiot will ignore that warning and trap a soccer team in there.

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Oct 11, 2012

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Wamdoodle posted:

presumably, Hitler would not be shooting Nazi's

Mein fuhr! We have found out General hans has been helping Jews escape his area of responsibility!

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Anyone who plays or makes a game called tasty shame is lying about having shame.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Yeah, it doesn't look deep, but it's the same sort of simple stuff that's hilarious for 10 minute spurts to early college kids

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Oct 11, 2012

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TV Zombie posted:

Going through this thread on a whim. I feel the need to wash my eyes out. Given what's allowed on Steam...what gets some games banned? It seems like a very thin line.

The line seems to be drawn at the nebulous point of, "May get valve in legal trouble"

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Oct 11, 2012

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Alien Rope Burn posted:

It's also got a bizarre, incoherent, and deeply patronizing rant about grief:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIcy86Pbmg&t=264s

Wow, that was bad. And then to add to the author's tone deafness it immediately jumps to "Giant golden lama that says, 'Lemonade.' LOL"

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Deadguy2322 posted:

Most post-gamergate game reviewers probably aspire to be that character.

:actually:

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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FirstAidKite posted:

I thought postmodernism was "anything that happened after the nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki," is that wrong?

I've played plenty of awful rpgs and man, while YIIK is most definitely not the worst I've seen, it certainly sounds like it's down there with the worst.

My favorite thing about postmodernism is that it's over half a century old at this point. The incongruity of the name and the reality of how long ago it was coined is so great.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Wow, that is a really ugly metal gear rip off.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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Deadguy2322 posted:

Or set it in a Community College. Those are pretty much High School Part 2.

people interact at community college?

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

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The MSJ posted:

Wait, there's a Gears Xcom coming? That sounds actually good. I mean, even Mario Rabbids Xcom was a good game.

I still have hope I will see that Mass Effect but Xcom game I dreamt about.

Aren't there a million xcom2 mods on the workshop that come pretty close to this?

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Oct 11, 2012

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Be Depressive posted:

Well if the alternative is to pay actual humans to play censor, it’s easy to see why. Nobody wants to hire a room full of people whose job is the opposite of productivity. If you have standards, the user base might start expecting you to enforce them. Either you spend a bunch of money on content cops or you outsource that work to various internet forums and publications, deleting anything they get too noisy about. Makes sense.

Companies generally have to make a choice about this sort of thing - either you are actively engaged with customer complaints and social media discussion regarding your product (requiring countless hours of work) or you are not (practically free). And it’s not yet clear that being actively engaged with the public generates additional revenue.

Basically, you want your company to make choices about who they interact with. You can think of any time spent on any activity in terms of money, and the cost of actively interacting with the public has a calculable value. But not every customer or potential customer is equal in terms of their value to the company.

The most valuable customers are what you might call “brand evangelizers” who actively recruit other customers. Basically anybody who posts in the Steam thread. Interacting with these people and managing their customer impressions is a valuable activity for obvious reasons.

The least valuable interactions are those who don’t plan to spend any money with you. These have a negative value, because they soak up resources without giving anything back. The next least valuable interactions are with chronic complainers - the sort of people Facebook has gamified the report button to avoid dealing with - who may in fact be customers but disproportionately soak up resources.

So if you are a company like Valve, and you are smart, you would question whether hiring a whole public relations and quality control team to police your storefront is worth the cost. Do you remove broken games, or do you let customers teach each other how to fix them? Do you respond to interview requests about objectionable content on your platform, or do you make it disappear as quietly as possible?

And it’s like - one of them costs money and the other does not. Conventional wisdom says Valve needs to get ahead of this and be proactive and hire people to stop vendors from putting objectionable content on their storefront. But they don’t even spend money on advertising, really. Why would they spend money on that?

In their position I might try to maintain some sort of system where we spent time/money on interactions with evangelists/customers and almost none on anyone else.

Edit: keep in mind that, in the Western world, skilled labor is THE most expensive resource for any company to use, in almost any circumstance.

Mate, this is the equivilant of if best buy and blockbuster had decided that policing their inventory to prevent porn was too much effort and let any regional store manager put whatever they wanted on the shelves. "But think of their bottom line" doesn't cut it.

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Be Depressive posted:

The current conventional wisdom is that companies should socially engage with their customers and actively take on moral leadership roles, but nobody’s ever proven that generates growth. And because of how things are now you really have to always engage all the time or not at all.

They dont need to engage with their customers. They need to do the bare minimum job of screening what they're selling because customer dissatisfaction is high and they're one moral panic from being handed the storefront equivalent of an AO rating.

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Be Depressive posted:

This is what I mean about engagement being a time/labor sink. If you publicly respond to every outcry there will be outcries over there not being an outcry about something else and requisite outcries over your unfair application of the outcry response system and the result is a very, very large amount of work to be done dealing with people who have a low overall value to the company.

But if you create the expectation that the company’s higher ups are impenetrable any hit pieces will be like punching water. If there’s no response to respond to, the controversy will go away.

Again, I do not think this is the right or ethical way to do things. I am just pointing out from a business perspective a company (whose sole reason for existence is shareholder profit) might adopt this strategy for very well-thought out and observant technocratic reasons.

Like, the argument is that nothing of this even matters in terms of the bottom line. Valve hasn’t been proven wrong yet.

It's not well thought ought because selling porn to minors sounds like an easy way to get dragged very publicly in to court in a bad way. Especially if your product is ostensibly not porn because the media will eat that stuff up given the chance. At this point so little effort is put into vetting the store front that someone at valve should be sweating buckets about what a liability it has become.

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Negatory

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