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PromptX, do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content
@PromptX@lemmy.zip avatar

I would have agreed if they replaced steam with discord.

Kbobabob,

Or twitter

Or Facebook

_cryptagion,

To be fair, Discord has been feeling the heat for a while, on multiple fronts and for multiple reasons. Not the least of which was a dumbass leaking classified information to his teenage buddies.

Thcdenton, do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content
@Thcdenton@lemmy.world avatar

Young adults. What we gonna write laws to protect young adults like goddamn children now? Fuck off.

Kbobabob,

Wait… what’s wrong with laws that protect it’s citizens? This seems like pretty standard practice.

I’m not saying that I agree with this particular take but having laws in general isn’t a bad thing IMO.

That_Devil_Girl, do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content
@That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml avatar

Never forget, Steam allowed Alex Jones to publish his “anti-woke” video game there. And it was as disgusting as you can imagine.

Blazingtransfem98,
@Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online avatar

Worst part is, it seems like it’s still up on the platform for purchase. They legitimately do not care. It’s funny though that they decided to ban one developer and their games because the person was being openly transphobic, so it seems like they’re trying to make people think they care, despite not actually caring.

That_Devil_Girl,
@That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml avatar

Sort of like every business and corporation that has a booth at Pridefest. Many of them are hostile to the LGBTQ+ community, yet they’re at Pridefest just for the PR.

Blazingtransfem98,
@Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online avatar

Yeah, sort of. Though they’re a bit more honest since they don’t even pretend to care about us. Probably hoping that if they stay quiet long enough the problem will go away and won’t hurt them.

SplashJackson, do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

Authority fetishists really turning the screws on Middle Earth eh

vane, do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

“…some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
Stop having fun you god damn nazis.

Grandwolf319, do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

I mean, if your gonna go for the worse of it all, 4chan is right there.

Blazingtransfem98,
@Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online avatar

Valve hasn’t openly stated they are like 4chan though, they may correct it if pressured since it wasn’t their explicit goal to be a right-wing safe haven. Maybe it is but they haven’t been open about it yet. 4chan is a lost cause when it comes to this, same as kiwifarms. They do not care and will not budge. Valve might since they need Governemnts not to ban them or publishers not to pull out else they lose money.

_cryptagion,

And 4chan has already been the recipient of government scrutiny, including a lawsuit attempting to shut them down.

Blaster_M, do games w Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers

“Everyone has AIDS!”

scops, do games w Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers

Corrupted Blood taught us that we needed to add the vital “I’m a malicious/selfish asshole” variable to our calculations.

spankmonkey,
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, at the time I assumed that the people intentionally spreading in game were just trolling because there was no actual danger to themselves. Reality proved that tons of people are fine with harming themselves as long as they harm others at the same time.

Brunbrun6766,
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

Or the miraculous assumption that surely I won’t become infected, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna be safe for other people!

Alwaysnownevernotme,

If I start following rules now I’ll break my streak!

Duamerthrax,

nah. There’s some footage out there of people going maskless and when pressured to put masks on for their safety, they proudly proclaimed that they currently have it, so they can’t get infected again. This ignores the fact that you can catch different strains and you probably aren’t going to double the severity of your symptoms from having two infections. Infection duration on the other hand might be doubled. Turns out selfish people are very, very often stupid people.

Fedizen,

This is why the literal only thing that would work is making it legal to shoot people who are unmasked if they’re coughing (which is insane, but insane is the baseline I guess)

dogslayeggs,

I used to get so mad at movies that had unrealistic portrayals of how people would act in a crisis situation.

After COVID, I no longer question the unbelievable stupidity of humans, nor the amount of hatred humans have.

GreyEyedGhost,

I used to think there was nothing more stupid in zombie movies than uninfected humans just leaving each other alone and killing off the zombies. Why would you bother taking guns from other people when you have so many just lying around after 90% of the people died? If everyone just killed 10 zombies, the whole thing would be cleared up. I don’t think that anymore.

j4p, do games w Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers

Nothing clever to say except that this is fascinating and it would be cool to see mmorpg-like environments for other studies of virality, social phenomena etc. Anyone know of anything else like this?

bangsnooter,

Not exactly the same, but Borderlands 3 had a minigame that helped map the gut microbiome.

Developed in conjunction with McGill University, Massively Multiplayer Online Science, and The Microsetta Initiative, Borderlands Science is a puzzle game that benefits the real-world scientific community as you play. Borderlands Science presents you with simple block puzzles based on strands of DNA, and by solving them you’re helping to map and compare the microbes contained therein. Completing these puzzles also earns you in-game currency.

In case you’re curious about the practical applications for the raw data gathered through Borderlands Science, the human gut is linked to numerous diseases and conditions, including diabetes, depression, autism, anxiety, obesity and more. By mapping these microbes, the hope is that scientists will be able to better understand these ecosystems, which may help guide future research into novel treatments and interventions.

j4p,

Exactly the sort of thing I was looking for thank you!

bangsnooter,

My pleasure! The game was actually fun, so I love seeing more of this stuff.

The project site has occasional updates on what is becoming of this data.

DrDominate,
@DrDominate@lemmy.world avatar

There’s only one I can think of, the Faldor Massacre. runescape.wiki/w/Falador_MassacreBasically a bug let players kill anyone they wanted even in safe zones. This meant a lot of people lost a lot of gear. Ironically occurring on the date 06/6/06.

Speculater,
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

Did the victors get to keep all the gear?!

DrDominate,
@DrDominate@lemmy.world avatar

They didn’t even get to keep their accounts. Smited from their victory posts by Jagex

Makhno, do gaming w Star Wars Outlaws is dropping 'forced stealth,' so instead of being reset when you get caught sneaking around, you can just start blasting

Everything I hear about this game makes me care less and less about playing it

SmoothOperator,

It’s actually not bad. I quite enjoy the balancing of syndicate relations.

DragonsInARoom, do gaming w Star Wars Outlaws is dropping 'forced stealth,' so instead of being reset when you get caught sneaking around, you can just start blasting

What kind of spider is that?

Katana314, do gaming w Star Wars Outlaws is dropping 'forced stealth,' so instead of being reset when you get caught sneaking around, you can just start blasting

None of the good stealth games I know actually force stealth. You just get scored based on the amount of chaos, and enemies gain varying amounts of information off your actions. It doesn’t necessarily change to a firefight just because one guy saw you.

If the shootouts are the better part of this game, not to mention the stealth takedowns looking pretty bad, it probably makes sense to shift this way.

gnomesaiyan, do games w Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers
@gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world avatar

If I remember correctly, this happened in Everquest Frontiers. You’d catch some shitty AoE debuff in town and give it to other people, including attackable NPCs like guards. Guards were not easy to kill, so they just carried that shit for weeks. The only way to remove the debuff was die, but it just kept spreading, so the best way was to not coach to other towns, but Freeport was basically fucked. That was SOE for ya, and they did that shit on purpose.

Renacles, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

I’m sure he’ll do it right after launching Hyperloop

Linktank, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

If these people even knew what “Great” looked like they would shut the fuck up, step the fuck back, and let it happen without their shitty input.

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