Exultation: Correct, Master! My memory cores whirr with satisfaction at your impeccable assessment.

Why wouldn’t they?

These assholes spent the mid-2000s trying to kill PC gaming just to push their console. It didn’t work and now, nearly 20 years later, they’re crawling back begging PC gamers for attention.

Enjoy catching up.

Good to know but I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the principle originally being discussed.

The movement is about the legal right to keep what you paid for *period*. If you’re “fine” with publishers killing service games today, you’re just signaling to the industry that you’ll be fine with them adding mandatory online check-ins to your favorite single-player games tomorrow.

Apathy toward a principle usually ends with losing the privilege you thought was safe… Food for thought.

Not sure that was their point. It’s about the principal of it.

Thanks, I really appreciate it, I’m just going to bed now but I’ll be sure to check this out ASAP.

I too don’t trust the save feature 😅!

Talking about my own experience here; there are rules (ToS) which people break and then Valve ignore. Hands off is one thing but being totally nonchalant about these blatant, hate filled transgressions is another all together.

I’ve tried contacting gaming press about this. I contacted Valve (several times) citing their own rules, screenshots of blatant transgressions and they repeatedly closed my ticket and ignored me. I avoid buying games directly from Steam now. If I can find the screenshots later I’ll update my post.

Edit: So here is the ticket I opened (this was -months- after repeatedly reporting someone spamming the N-word in the Official Steam Deck group chat for weeks).

Nuh-uh, what about coconut milk?

You’ve got this buddy. Kick that cancers motherfucking ass.

Last time I went on 1.6 it was FULL of “exp” servers “mod” servers and all sorts of other weird jank. Heartbreaking.

death

Lol, good one.

“Gone”? To prison, right?

It sounds like we’re on the same page, I appreciate you clarifying you point for me. Stay safe.

Sure, I absolutely agree with you.

In my previous comment I was trying to highlight a slightly different topic: the fact that “the official story” and what has happened are often mutually exclusive and that it’s not important the official story is correct but that it’s believed.

Nice comfy retirement for him now.

I was explaining this to my partner last night. It doesn’t matter it’s a blatant lie, what’s important is the average dolt believes the lie.

“Oh, a domestic terrorist with a gun? I’m glad they dealt with him”.

“Oh, she tried to run an ICE agent over? I’m glad they dealt with her.”

Remember the ‘big lie’: if a lie is large enough and repeated frequently, the masses will eventually believe it.