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Anon delivers a prophecy

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Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just for the young’ns here, the image in the post is from a late 90s cartoon called Recess. Show is about a bunch of elementary schoolers and the one thing they look forward to at school: recess. They basically have roving kid gangs on the playground. Preschoolers are depicted as godless heathen barbarians not to be messed with. It’s a fantastic cartoon.

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    • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah… that explanation was helpful to me because I’m… young…

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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I am also super young, fellow kids. 6-7 or whatever, right?

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    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m Juuuust old enough to remember this cartoon, but was too young to really watch it

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    • SchadeMarmelade@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Loved that show back in the day. Your link might be borked, tho

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      • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Whoops!! I thought I pasted an IMDB link.

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My guy.

    They already profit on loot boxes

    Child gambling

    unfinished products

    AI slop

    Extortionate DLC programs

    Pre orders

    Season passes

    How else has GabeN been funding his son’s racing career. Those Aston Martins aren’t cheap.

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    • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AI slop

      I’d like to be clear what you’re referring to, because I only know two things Valve is allowing in that regard

      1. Games using GenAI are allowed on steam, but disclosure is required, which is a position I appreciate.
      2. Steam hosts promotion events organized by third parties, where banners are displayed, a special page is available, and a lot of games go on sale - in those events (and AFAIK, none of Valve’s own events) promotional art is displayed that is submitted by those third parties, and sometimes has blatant GenAI use

      Is there something else I’m unaware of? Because otherwise I guess it’s a matter of where you draw the line, because I’d still consider Steam the best platform available, and have to agree to disagree.

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    • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The point is that it could be worse, considerably worse. Yes, I know, the standards are low nowadays.

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  • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    SO POOING

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Newell
    pcgamer.com/gabe-newells-son-thinks-valve-needs-t…

    It’s more probably Doug Lombardi or Scott Lynch (COO?) that would take the reigns. Or it would probably turn into a co-op to be honest.

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    • kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      multiplayer company ownership

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        funny but for reference : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

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    • boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FYI it’s “reins”, not “reigns”.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Rain it in there buddy

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    • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      let’s hope they won’t turn it into an extraction shooter.

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    • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think that would be best, like bobs red mill.

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  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then its back to black jack and hookers, atleast those will be cheaper

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    • HornyQueenMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      hookers
      those will be cheaper

      I volunteer! I’m cheap. Working at Valve AND getting to be a hooker? I’ll do it for free :3 /s

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always pondered what should be the contingencies if, eventually, Steam enshittifies because Gabe is gone. I would need a huge storage data to locally store my games.

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    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Support good competitors like GoG

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    • sneaky@r.nf ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Would there be a lot of roadblocks to installing them without the steam client?

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  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      what

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    • nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can’t prove this post is AI, but if you told me it was I’d believe you.

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      • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I thought that reply format looked familiar. I swear I’ve seen a bunch of different accounts describe a meme plainly like this and fuck it all up.

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      • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I put my heart and soul into that comment for like 20 mins, and now I am called a bot!?

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    • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Very wrong.

      Love,

      TJ Detweiler

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  • fuckemiquit@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If it actually got bad - would physical media come back full-force? Or would GOG be the go too?

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Probably GoG, itch.io, or just direct sales. A lot of companies aren’t set up for physical distribution, aren’t big enough to get their product into the retail channels, and/or would have a hard time selling internationally. Steam didn’t invent digital game sales, they just made it a little easier. I think the first game I bought online was around 2000 or 2001. It was DX-Ball 2 from Longbow Digital Arts (RIP Seumas McNally), along with a screensaver I loved that they’ve open sourced and I wish I could get it running on macOS and Linux. I was still in high school and didn’t have a credit card, so I paid using a postal money order. If developers were selling directly in the ’90s they can make it work again.

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      • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Forgive my ignorance, and I might come off as snobby.

        I see itch.io referenced often as an alternate game store but all I see on there are games that are super amateurish like a few notches above 2000s flash games. Am I not looking hard enough or are people happy playing those kinds of games?

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    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh yeah let me just pull entire factory tooling and logistical supply chains out of my hat.

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    • wagesj45@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      GOG is always the go-to. Steam only if you can't wait to play it or its multi-player.

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      • Seralth@piefed.seralth.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gog feels like it’s one step form becoming a enshittified corporate hellscape half the time. And only by virtue of not having a dominant market position keeping it in check enough to not let it self go to shit.

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  • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I seriously doubt his son would not care about gaming. I’d have to hope Gabe has raised his kids to be as non-greedy as he is. He is one of the most ethical billionaires - probably the most ethical billionaire - that I know of 🤣

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    • tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire. Just because you like his monopoly does not mean he’s a good dude.

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    • BlackSwan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Never forget that Valve is single handedly responsible for Lootboxes being a thing having introduced them into TF2 and then CS:GO

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