parpol
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- Comment on 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 2 days ago:
I haven’t downplayed death threats. It was a conversation where someome falsely alleged that someone else had received death threats, which had no evidence, and the person in question never even claimed they had received any.
The rest is just me calling out misinformation about black myth wukong (the sexism allegations that turned out to be mistranslations) and about the harassment campaing against Sweet Baby Inc, bias in gaming journalism, etc.
I’ve never taken a specific political stance in any of their conversations. I just am against misinformation and censorship and call them out when they happen.
The reason I’m against what your post is about, is because ADL were extremely dishonest in their findings, and I think they’re biased or politically motivated to implement restrictions that require users to give up more private information about themselves, or not be allowed free speech.
And no, I didn’t break any rules either. Every ban I’ve faced have all been completely unjustified, which is why I’ve blocked most of the communities I’ve been banned on. It’s like being banned from hexbear and you saying that makes me deserve to get my account removed. The little information you get out of that modlog only shows the mods being biased.
- Comment on 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 2 days ago:
Yes that is me, and no I am not a transphobe. The ghazi mods banned me because I said that someone losing a visa for something they said is fucked up. I didn’t even know who the person was who lost the visa or what they had done. I have never made any transphobic statements whatsoever, and you can dive deeper through the modlog to find evidence of that because it would show.
Also, I don’t appreciate you trying to cancel me just because I don’t agree with your post. We’re adults here.
- Comment on 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 2 days ago:
ADL says steam was unsafe after stating that pepe the frog is an extremist symbol to more than double the number of cases found.
Remove the meme, and take into consideration the number of users, 0.1% of users have used some form of extreme symbol or statement.
This is a reach for control and surveillance. Nothing else.
Fuck ADL.
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 days ago:
Lucky you
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 week ago:
It is a nice concept in theory. It has a bit of resemblance to the metaverse minus monetary enshittification, but there are some challenges to this.
It would for example end up just as dead if the other players got bored of it and stopped playing. Then there is server costs for something where there really isn’t that much realtime interaction in, and all these metagames would need to be just as fun with a global time at a set flow, or be OK with synching only at the end of the day.
These of course aren’t impossible challenges.
You could leave the “online” part to a simple global api backend and skip the gameserver itself to greatly reduce costs. You wouldn’t see the other players in person but you’d see their shops grow each new day, and there could be an NPC of their owner walking around.
You could bankrupt inactive players and give their lands to new players, and implement import/export costs for distant shops incentivizing local trade. You’d probably still want normal NPCs, but their interactions would have to be predetermined each day if you don’t have a game server running all day, and want to prevent cheating.
The implementation difficulty and cost greatly varies depending on how much interaction and fairness you want, but setting up an API server is fairly easy if you don’t worry about scaling in case the game really takes off.
- Comment on Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
Facing worlds.
I still listen to the unreal and unreal tournament soundtracks to this day.
- Comment on Hej 2 weeks ago:
Hello mixed in vinegar.
- Comment on Hej 2 weeks ago:
Helvete!*
*It means hello in Swedish.
- Comment on Respect 2 weeks ago:
I thought city folk didn’t like that feeling of grass tickling your feet.
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 3 weeks ago:
“Help me stepbrotherboard, my circuits are stuck under the chassi.”
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 4 weeks ago:
Linux mint doesn’t require the terminal for almost anything. If it is required anywhere, there will be step-by-step instructions, but even then there is likely a better solution specifically for linux mint that doesn’t require the terminal.
Use the software manager and update manager and you’re set. Don’t install applications from the terminal, it will be easier to let the manager applications keep track of it all.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 4 weeks ago:
“Call me” is definitely what it used to mean in the 90s
- Comment on Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres 5 weeks ago:
Well, it is the second best option after burning google to the ground.
- Comment on It's a Good Time To Be an Indie Game Fan 5 weeks ago:
It was true in the 90s too.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
You can patent the features that the code makes up.
Also, Nintendo has patented features existing in other games long before, and it hasn’t stopped them. The current lawsuit against palworld contains patent claims for features they do not actually own, which is why they need 100 different lawsuits coming their way so they get a taste of their own medicine.
They have an easy time suing one or two entities, but 100 different ones will have a significant economic impact.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
Patent the code and sue Nintendo when they release the game.
- Comment on Bethesda, you just entered the no flight zone 1 month ago:
Let go. It’ll be quick and painless.
Indie gamedev is where it’s at.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
Incorrect. It means that you pick the best candidate, and when they’re equal you don’t just choose the white man like we always have in the past.
That is not what is happening, and your scenario cannot happen unless by equal you mean based on a very shallow measurement. You’ll never find two people who are equally good. It also doesn’t say the program is for women, non-binary or skilled men. It excludes men entirely.
However, a straight white Christian man would likely never think of some of the things a gay Muslim would think of, because they have faced different issues and been taught different things.
I disagree with this view. “Only people of X can produce quality X” is just shallow thinking, and can in fact be used just as much as a counter argument like “only men can make quality games for gamers who are mostly male, so we should hire mostly men”. A straight white christian male can absolutely have similar views and ideas to a gay Muslim.
Also, if you’re hiring a gay Muslim over someone else just because they are gay and Muslim, how do you think that makes them feel knowing this?
But more importantly, what does gender, sex and ethnicity contribute to a team of programmers, which is half the workforce of gamedev?
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
Nope. It’s important to have a skilled workforce in gamedev. Hiring based on gender and sexuality means you purposefully pick lower skilled workers in order to fill a diversity quota. Being in gamedev and having lead a team of juniors I can say this with confidence. Skill and motivation is everything, and their genders and sexuality mean zero. In fact, you shouldn’t even see their genders or sexuality. Every worker regardless of background has a unique view, and can provide creative solutions without having to be reduced to their genders, sexuality, skin color.
Hiring based on gender and sexuality is discrimination, and illegal for a reason (and these companies get around it by using unpaid internships). It breeds hate and extremism.
Also, going to need to ask for some source of that claim of yours because historically the most creative and successful games have been made by entirely asian male teams or entirely white male teams, and games with diverse teams have been failing miserably.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
Probably not. Still “buy licence” at least gives us more transparency.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
They will get around it. Instead I suggest that buy buttons should say what you’re buying.
For example: Just “buy” should not be allowed.
“Buy License” or “Rent Game” for games with DRM. “Buy game” where you own your digital copy and can do whatever you want with it.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
First of all, discriminatory hiring.
second of all,
With more people playing video games than ever before, it is important for us to help build an inclusive entertainment industry that reflects the diversity of our players.
Sounds like an agenda to me.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
I want to reaffirm that we are an entertainment-first company, creating games for the broadest possible audience, and our goal is not to push any specific agenda.
Press X to doubt
- Comment on Exquisite 2 months ago:
This pizza looks like it’s brother killed the entire clan and left.
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
What part do you find suspicious? I can provide some links and screenshots.
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
The entire article at this point is just “these women who want to be anonymous claim x and y”, with all other “evidence” gone now. I can make similar claims about IGN and my claims would hold as much water.
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
And I’m sure you have at least one example. After all, there are a lot of rapists out there too, but we aren’t going to accuse anyone until we have some evidence.
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
Just drop it. It came out that the sexism allegations were false. It doesn’t matter what you say here, because the point is you’re wrong.
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
Are these death threats in the room with us right now?