Cuando VALVe estaba al borde de la quiebra y Gabe Newell fue a pedir ayuda para lanzar Steam, el 99% de la industria le dijo que no, que perdía el tiempo. No fueron una o dos empresas. Fueron todas. Lo cuenta el propio GabeN en el documental del 20º aniversario de Half-Life 2. Ahora esa misma industria llora porque quieren parte del pastel que su propia incompetencia y arrogancia les impidió ver. Excepto VALVe, nadie pensó a largo plazo. Nadie se jugó la empresa y el patrimonio personal contra una industria sin visión. Nadie apostó por tratar a sus clientes como personas. Por eso CEOs como @TimSweeneyEpic y compañía se la pasan despidiendo gente en masa mientras buscan nuevas formas de exprimir y abusar de los jugadores, en vez de construir una comunidad de verdad. Steam no es un monopolio. Es la recompensa por hacer las cosas bien cuando nadie más tuvo cojones.

Good morning

Please don't say "Happy Memorial Day". It's not a day of celebration, but one of observation and remembrance.

今日はバックパックのベースコートを済ませ、レイヤーを進める所まで。 コード類が束になってマントを成してるの、実にオシャレさんだね。

Painting Green Armour and Gold NMM with a sponge - small clip. #warhammercommunity

oh my fucking god bruh

50h in Blender for an animation nobody asked for, posting it anyway

The irony is hilarious. I defend artists from censorship and payment processors… and I get called an “AI slopper.” These so-called “Artists” are frauds. Real artists support creative freedom. These people only care about gatekeeping and protecting their fragile egos. They attack small creators for using AI when they had no budget, then blacklist them later when they try to commission art. That’s not supporting artists — that’s toxic control. I will never commission from any of these people. I choose AI. That’s my creative freedom. AI is a tool. It’s here to stay. Get used to it. Creative freedom > purity tests.

Things I would do if @PlayStation @Sony allowed me to lead a Destiny update team: -Dedicate a small team to begin the D1-to-PC port process -Unvault all DCV content (red war to forsaken) & package it as its own separate game -Create a D2 reprised content rotation by unvaulting & rotating all seasonal content (artifacts included) on a monthly cadence while ensuring holiday and seasonal in-game events remain available to players And I would lead these teams remotely for free while working my daily job. Don’t let one of the biggest gaming IPs in history go dark because of the past bad decisions of others.

Most of the people played it for the hype and basing it on the first, then started dropping off like flies the moment that novelty wore off. Forcing a militant species such as humans to take a strictly pacifist approach hardly ever -if rarely- works out.

Anti-Roleplaying Zealot: "The 'dungeon master' has complete control of everything, and the players are forced to act out his dark fantasies." Real Dungeon Master: "Please, swim across the river or use the rope bridge. You've all tried to seduce the giant catfish and it didn't work." <starts to sob> You know it to be true. And all of you who are dungeon masters have experienced this.

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When I decided to create the Steam curator Sweet Baby Inc. Detected, my goal was to warn players about people who wanted to turn video games into tools for ideological messaging and political propaganda. Things escalated far beyond anything I ever imagined and today, terms like DEI are widely known across the global gaming community. We have also seen Sweet Baby Inc. become increasingly secretive, and having your game associated with Sweet Baby Inc. has effectively become a badge of shame, leading to significant losses in sales and reputation among gamers. Over the past few weeks, I have been watching the industry's movements closely, and the reemergence of Anita Sarkeesian as a relevant figure is deeply concerning. This is someone who has already done far too much damage to the video game industry with her toxic and hateful ideas, combined with the influence she somehow still holds within the industry. I see a situation very similar to what we had with Sweet Baby Inc.: a malicious individual trying to use video games to spread twisted and hateful ideologies, using gaming as a vehicle for propaganda. That is why I have decided to start including games connected to Anita Sarkeesian in the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator. We need not only to warn players that the game they are thinking about buying may be helping fund Anita Sarkeesian's disgusting work, but also to send a clear message to the industry that WE WILL NOT ACCEPT OUR ENTERTAINMENT BEING TURNED INTO PROPAGANDA. PERIOD. However, I cannot do this alone, not this time. Unlike Sweet Baby Inc., Anita Sarkeesian does not provide a ready made list of games she has worked on through her official website. She does list clients, but not specific games. And I simply cannot spend endless hours every day tracking down and investigating these titles anymore. Life happens. Bills need to be paid, and I have to focus on work that actually brings financial return. I am being completely honest with you here. But I know many of you can help track these games down. To get things started, I have added Slay the Spire 2 to the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected curator. If you can help identify more titles connected to her, please email me at info_deid@protonmail.com. Only games with undeniable proof of her involvement will be added. As always, I do not want to be unfair to anyone, nor do I want to spread false information. ROUND 2 BEGINS NOW!

Reason why I do not participate in the Vtuber vs. IRL build: I'm a cognitohazardous individual. Combining these two aspects is hazardous to everybody's health.

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