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SalamenceFury, do gaming w Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

The rabbit hole actually goes deeper.

bsky.app/profile/…/3lubibyz6r22r

Apparently the people doing this type of pressuring on the credit card companies are anti-furries, TERFs, and other right-wing anti-porn think tanks, with a possible goal to erase all queer or pornographic content off the internet.

BackgrndNoize,

Weird fucks, uncomfortable in their own skin so now they can’t handle others just living their life their way

SidewaysHighways,

They are uncomfortable in their own skin, so they are mad at other people who, (also uncomfortable) choose to download another skin

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

how does one “pressure” credit card companies to that extent?

also just because a group claims responsibility doesn’t mean they actually had anything to do with it.

SalamenceFury,
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Lobbying, I’d imagine.

ushmel,

Shareholders can vote on the executive positions so they pressure the CEO to do what they want.

captainlezbian,

And that’s why I fight for this sort of content despite personally finding it disgusting.

SalamenceFury,
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, as much as I absolutely hate people who draw/write incest and pedophilia on a fetishistic manner I know it’s just the first step to banning any other type of porn.

Those people should probably tag their shit, tho. Furries who are into incest are extremely bad about this.

AngryRobot,
murmelade,

This is the only way they can stop themselves from buying the games.

JoshuaCasey,
@JoshuaCasey@lemmy.world avatar

not even “possible goal”. that IS the goal

BakedCatboy, do gaming w Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

Rip ladykiller in a bind. I’m glad I have it in my library already.

twinnie, do gaming w Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

I don’t understand. Why do Visa and Mastercard care? What do people buy porn subscriptions with?

SalamenceFury,
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Basically there’s been right wing/terf/anti-furry think tanks lobbying those companies to stop offering services to anyone involved with porn. Their entire ideology is “perverted nerds are causing the downfall of western society”.

brown567,

perverted nerds are causing the downfall of western society

Well I sure wish they’d do it faster, it’s taking forever

hoppolito,

Wank faster, my tax report is due!

melroy, do gaming w Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

It's very bad news. Banks can fk themselves.

58008, do gaming w Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
@58008@lemmy.world avatar

Whatever one thinks of this, I think we can all agree that it’s a bit imprecise to be calling these games “adult”. Witcher 3 is “adult”. Furry Hitler Incest Goblin Lolifuckers 3 is… something else.

njm1314,

Pure art?

Hozerkiller, do gaming w Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

Is that RWBY porn in the thumbnail?

acosmichippo, (edited ) do games w RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

what ever happened with the sequel? i thought it was nearing completion years ago.

edit: supposedly to be released in october

SoleInvictus,

Allegedly it’s supposed to release in October. The original release date was in 2020, so I suppose we’ll see!

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

Supposedly the first studio failed to make a fun game and they had to restart with The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Still Wakes the Deep).

I think they are on track with it, but we got to wait longer.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Don’t get your hopes up. The Chinese room version looks to be a straight linear action game with stripped down to non-existent RPG elements

Coelacanth,
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Also like, the whole selling point initially for making a Bloodlines 2 was getting Brian Mitsoda back to write the script. But they’ve thrown it out to make their own story and it will be like BG3 in that sense - a sequel in name only but no actual connection to the original game(s).

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

straight linear action game with stripped down to non-existent RPG elements

This does not sound good. VTMB is not supposed to be linear, you want to explore a living world.

I haven’t been following the release trailers or previous, just saw some concept art from both the first studio that failed and The Chinese Room.

At least now I can manage my expectations.

zzx,

Is it just me or is the first game fairly linear?

Agent_Karyo, (edited )
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

It’s no open world. But there are hubs, often there are multiple ways to finish a quest and there are quest lines that are limited by your skill and clans selection.

But the main story quest is rather linear.

zzx,

Second game better be at least this level, but doesn’t have to be significantly more open imo. What do u think?

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

I would be fine without a full-on open world, maybe a bit more content and larger maps than in VTMB (I always thought the Santa Monica map could have been larger and more expansive).

The writing, world-building and ambience must be top notch in a sequel to VTMB.

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com avatar

The Chinese Room invented the modern Walking Simulator genre so I have hoperectile dysfunction with them.

original_charles,

What’s your basis for believing that it’s going to be linear? Was there a leak or something?

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

If you look at the official gameplay (even if this real) you can tell it’s not going to be a sprawling RPG like the original

You can’t even choose your character and are forced to play as an elder vampire named 'Phyre."

Looks like the biggest thing is that you will decide what faction gets to rule (multiple endings)

They appear to be taking the launch cyberpunk way and are saying this is more of an action game instead of a sequel to the RPG original

Allegedly if no further delays occur, it should be coming out in October of this year

Zagorath,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

I’m also quite disappointed at the change from playing a thinblood to an Elder kindred. I thought the idea of exploring thinblood lore could be really interesting and it would be much more interesting to roleplay someone who starts the game mostly human, compared to a completely inhuman monster right from the start.

SupraMario, do games w RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft

This looks promising, gonna keep an eye on it cause TMB was one of my top RPGs of all time. It was so damn good

EarMaster, do games w RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft
@EarMaster@lemmy.world avatar

So we’re adding more advanced reflections to a game with characters most known for having no reflections…

malle_yeno,
@malle_yeno@pawb.social avatar

Hate to “umm ackshually” over what amounts to a difference of fictional rules, but for what it’s worth, vampires do have reflections in the World of Darkness setting. Only vampires of clan Lasombra (not playable in bloodlines) don’t have reflections since it’s their clan weakness.

Otherwise, if all vampires couldn’t have reflections, it would be incredibly easy to tell who’s a kindred and there would be no way of keeping up the Masquerade.

EarMaster,
@EarMaster@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t know that. Maybe the world is in dire need of a RTX remaster for this game…

RampantParanoia2365,

I mean, if everything but the vampire has reflections, that does drive the point home.

b3an, do games w Abiotic Factor review - Abiotic Factor is an instant survival classic, and one of the best games I've played in years.
@b3an@lemmy.world avatar

Man that site is such an ad dump haven… a ad disaster when on iOS.

Minnels, do games w Abiotic Factor review - Abiotic Factor is an instant survival classic, and one of the best games I've played in years.

Started playing this with my friends a couple of months ago. We are old so we can only play for 2 hours every week bit it is a blast! Having so much fun and the graphics being a throwback to half life 1 is just top notch! It really show how much gameplay means compared to polygon count and whatever effects etc.

Not sure if I would have played this on my own. A bit too much of the survival stuff that I am not into too much but that is a personal preference. Less stress about that with friends.

Malix,
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The game is pretty dope, but the thing that broke my enthusiasm with the game was the realization that mosterspawning teleporter/rift can just spawn in the base. Doesn’t seem like a fun mechanic to me, the game is a misery-simulator everywhere else, why did it need to have random monsterspawners in “safe areas” as well. :/

I guess I need to take a gander in the sandbox settings, apparently there’s some slider/toggle to affect monster’s damage to furniture/craftingstations/etc.

SpoopyKing,

I’m pretty sure the portals spawn at set locations, and there are great spots for bases that monsters can’t access at all (except for one creepy guy). There’s a great spot in a little upstairs area right by the elevator in the offices.

Malix,
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I wouldn’t know, not that far into the game, still just working in the starting cafeteria area. But, I’ll check it again at some point.

Zoomboingding,
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Always keeps you on your toes. System Shock 2 also had monsters able to respawn anywhere, so you were never 100% safe.

Minnels,

We built in the cafeteria and as you say we also had these spawns in the middle of the base which seemed stupid but when we progressed further they stoped spawning there. Or maybe because we built more there? Not sure. It’s a thing of the past now anyway so if you decide to continue it will hopefully pass with progress.

Malix,
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sounds promising, thanks for letting me know! I’ll check back to the game during the weekend. :)

IWW4, do games w Abiotic Factor review - Abiotic Factor is an instant survival classic, and one of the best games I've played in years.

I am tagging this so I can check out this game when I get home.

FrostyPolicy, do games w Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re
@FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi avatar

When you run out of even decent logical arguments you attack the people. This really tells that the industry is afraid of this movement and will use all the dirty tricks they know to oppose it.

sanpo,

“Run out”? They never had any arguments.

It was pure unchecked greed and they’re panicking since the movement has a real chance of succeeding now.

FrostyPolicy,
@FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi avatar

Very true. Was just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Klear,

What about “I worked at Blizzard!”. Is that an argument?

lordnikon,

Rachel: There’s no way we can link the gun to Maroni, so we won’t be able to charge him with anything, but the fact that they’re trying to kill you means that we’re getting to them.

exu, do games w Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re

Love the headline. Great to see publications directly call out bullshit

RobotZap10000, do games w Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re
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In short:

The complaint accuses the initiative of “systemic concealment of major contribution,” violating EU stipulations requiring citizens to report any sponsor contributions over €500.

The complaint cites PC Gamer’s interview with Scott from June, in which he said “there have been many weeks on the campaign where I’ve been working 12 to 14 hours a day to keep things moving to get signatures.” That promotional work, the complaint argues, amounts to “€63,000-147,000 in professional contribution” if he’d charged a “market rate” of “€50-75/hour.”

It’s also not how the EU’s disclosure requirements work. As Scott notes in the video, the EU’s citizens’ initiative rules say that “individuals providing non-financial support, such as volunteering, are not considered sponsors under the ECI Regulation and do not need to be reported.”

If the petition heads to the Commission after its petition deadline on July 31, we can expect to see even more exciting rhetorical maneuvers.

I sure hope that the EU can withstand these 4D chess 900 IQ rhetorical maneuvers.

fushuan, (edited )

Wait wait they are guesstimating how much would Scott have had to earn from the movement via his volunteer work, and pose that Labor as a donation????? They are a joke. I'm sure they know what volunteer means, with the amount of volunteer overtime that they strongly suggest (or else) their workers to do.

Nikls94,

Pretty sure that‘s what Money told them to do. By the way, anyone found the corespondent law? When it comes to things like that ChatGPT is worse than bing

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