They won’t stop supporting 10 unless its use drops significantly. They’d not shoot themselves in the foot.

It was the opposite of a useful or helpful stance. For the countries that got the events, it was performative. For the countries that didn’t get them, it was contributing to the problem by telling people they aren’t welcome. Even doing nothing is better than that, which is why I’d rather play any other game.

You’re basically resorting to the perfect solution fallacy. The reality is that even my Naraka example shows it can be done better, though there are even better examples, like Apex Legends that didn’t mind greeting everyone with the trans flag at one point.

At the end of the day, even if the motives are not genuine, sending a strong and universal message has an impact, as does accurate representation. Many LGBTQ+ people will see it as validating, anybody on the fence will get closer to accepting it as normal, while those who hate will see that their views aren’t embraced. What certainly doesn’t help is showing people that there is a Pride event but not in their country, suggesting their existence is viewed as second-class.

I quit Overwatch after hundreds of hours due to Blizzard’s performative support of the LGBTQ+ community. Limiting the Pride events to countries where it sells while excluding others, some of which are in the EU and don’t even have any laws that would prohibit that, means Blizzard couldn’t care less about the most oppressed.

Funnily, NetEase is better on that front in that its rainbow-colored mountain background in Naraka coinciding with Pride was global. Hopefully Rivals follows suit.

Given its in-court defense of Google, Mozilla is clearly complicit and its products should be boycotted. It’s a shame it’s the only alternative to Chromium, but I’m perfectly fine with the US government cracking down on Google, no matter the consequences for Firefox. The monopoly must be disrupted for the benefit of every internet user.

What I believe is worse is people like Taylor Lorenz still criticizing Biden even though there’s no sight of him. Not only is it a waste of time, but it also adds to any dissatisfaction with the Democrats, which always works in favor of the Republicans in a two-party system like that of the US. The goal should be taking down Trump before coming for the other party.

Why would he? And even if he did, his way of solving the problem would be to take further steps against abortion and to “acquire” new people by annexing more land.

If we dig just a bit deeper, it seems your issue is with the whole concept of not owning games, which is the very nature of Steam and its main policy, aptly called the subscriber agreement. Taking that out on game developers, let alone a competitor with more lax DRM practices, is also missing the forest for the trees.

In the previous post, Lee also claimed the app may violate Signal’s GPL license, but GPL allows for commercial use.

I’m not aware of any evidence of Valve’s cut ever adapting to a dev’s circumstances. It’s 30% until they’ve made $10M, which drops it to 25%, and to 20% after $50M. I’d call that scalability available only to the most successful few, not flexibility.

From what I’ve been hearing, their fee is flexible. 30% is uncommon on PC.

Implying review bombing is always warranted is as misguided as it gets. Games regularly get review bombed for something as trivial as having a non-white person for a protagonist.

You do realize the market share of GOG is about 0.5%, right? That’s despite Projekt Red being a beloved developer, the great launcher features, the fairest DRM practices, many years in the business, and so on. It only proves the point that Steam is a monopoly that cannot be disrupted whether you do it nicely like GOG or aggressively like Epic.

Perhaps not legally, but does that really matter? The world hasn’t recognized the annexed parts of Moldova and Georgia as Russian either, but those countries have no control over them, whereas Russians freely enter the regions and do as they please.

I don’t see how Russia getting to keep the occupied territories is good news. The human losses are nothing to Putin. His reference point is the Soviet Union, and the greater the “heroic” sacrifice, the closer he gets to that. No economic hardship would take away from his personal wealth either. It’s a net win from the territorial gains, which will enable him to try again later, irrespective of whether that’s going to be Ukraine or a country next in line after regions of Moldova, Africa, Syria, Georgia, or Ukraine.

That or just ask Bambie Thug for advice.

No profits will not be taken from the fund for the first 10 years, Svyrydenko said.

Huh?

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That’s kind of my point and my reaction to seeing Cyberpunk 2077 on the list. Similarly to what you said, in Altered Carbon, you’re just a stack that can be inserted into any body. I see no future that’s not post-gender. Facial fillers being so prevalent is already a hint of what’s to come, but when you have more serious augmentations, swap out body parts at will or mind upload, gender would be more like clothing or customizing a character’s appearance in a video game. That said, cyberpunk is not necessarily an accurate representation of the future, hence the open question.

Can cyberpunk be transphobic?