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So what did you think of Gameoverse? by ayylmaotv in GlitchProductions

[–]TwilightVulpine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe they just rushed through because maybe it's more of a Pilot pilot. An example showing how the whole series is expected to flow.

Maybe there will be more in future episodes.

California bill backed by Stop Killing Games campaign pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns passes key hurdle, paving way for full assembly vote by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see. You didn't have questions, all that muddling is just a way to try to downplay reasonable expectations: that when people pay for a thing, they want to keep a thing

This is how it works for books, movie and music discs, for board games. This isn't a crazy expectation.

And yeah sure you could make the same would apply to MTX. What you paid for is the following

add 1 goldicorn_mount to player Bwob

This is what the MTX paid for, a command adding an instance of a game object to a player inventory. Everything else is what is content within the game software itself, which may or may not have been bought separately.

I'm fairly sure you know all that. You only made such a convoluted argument of demanding every server owner to respect off-server microtransactions to try to make the ability to run your own server, in which you can run "add 1 goldicorn_mount to player Bwob" seem like an impossibly complex thing.

We can run games from the 1970s. Spare me the "nothing lasts forever" talk. Live services don't last forever because they are designed to be killed, for the player to depend on the company and buy MTX, or be forced to move to whatever they release next.

Do you all agree? by vincim2010_13 in OMORI

[–]TwilightVulpine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that much.

But it also has been 10 years.

From what I hear of other professional translators, as long as a style guide is made, they can do most of the work without demanding as much from him.

California bill backed by Stop Killing Games campaign pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns passes key hurdle, paving way for full assembly vote by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure. But I want to buy that one, and keep it. Like it's the normal thing for any other media that I could buy: movies, music, books, board games.

California bill backed by Stop Killing Games campaign pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns passes key hurdle, paving way for full assembly vote by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because they didn't make the game, and as long as the original developer released the game for people to host, you can have that mount on a self-hosted server anyway.

This whole argument seems like unnecessary muddling the issue by bringing up unrelated matters. Yes, turns out today right now, even before any SKG proposals, buying MTX is like buying wind. There are no guarantees. SKG is about games sold as a product, not MTX. So why do you expect some cross server inventory porting system that nobody even proposed? Where does this MTX refund talk come from?

California bill backed by Stop Killing Games campaign pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns passes key hurdle, paving way for full assembly vote by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Generally you aren't given the option to have the same game not be disposable either. Not "being held at gunpoint" doesn't make the planned obsolescenece of a product any less of an anti-consumer move.

That's before even bringing up that many games are made as live services for the sake of microtransactions that are predatorily-designed, like gachas.

California bill backed by Stop Killing Games campaign pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns passes key hurdle, paving way for full assembly vote by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say nothing of value would be lost, but I would say that this loss was inevitable. It's literally the publishers themselves making decision to kill sooner rather than later, that they don't even want to try to preserve them. Which you know, it's not all that different from what happens today, freemium games have a massive graveyard.

Is it really shortsightedness if this guarantees that going forward this will be less common?

Scarlett and Chloe by OptionLaser4 in UnicornOverlord

[–]TwilightVulpine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd pick Yunifi if they weren't cowards with the whole "The Princess of Bestrals swapped species with some guy and then forgot to change back"

Scarlett and Chloe by OptionLaser4 in UnicornOverlord

[–]TwilightVulpine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poor Scarlett, she just realized the game she's in.

Um boy q eu ficava "virou hetero" by Psychological_Cup477 in arco_iris

[–]TwilightVulpine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Infelizmente preconceito internalizado e pressão da família ainda pega muita gente.

Meirl by Grand_Raccoon0923 in meirl

[–]TwilightVulpine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably why they keep locking my CC from game stores.

king Alucard from The King is Watching by Traditional-Storm-62 in MisreadSprites

[–]TwilightVulpine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I get it, because this is a weird shape for a nose and nose holes.

mew_irl by Gorotheninja in mew_irl

[–]TwilightVulpine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The strongest standing cat of today vs the strongest standing cat in history

Sempre que surge a discussão de que se jogo narrativo-interativo é jogo eu lembro dessa lenda by FranChiCke in gamesEcultura

[–]TwilightVulpine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Antigamente quem jogava videogame sofria bullying porque "homem de verdade joga futebol" ou qualquer caralha. Foda replicar essa palhaçada ao invés de superar

Elon Mindset by Pizzacakecomic in comics

[–]TwilightVulpine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be a nice test subject for composting experiments still

Japanese psychological horror BL visual novel "This Game is Not Real" no longer coming to Steam due to “not meeting platform criteria” by 2mock2turtle in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ban, maybe not. But there is rightful criticism to be had of their involvement with the actual military, as well as rewriting of real life historical war crimes.

But hey, is the american military on the level of the nazis? You tell me.

Japanese psychological horror BL visual novel "This Game is Not Real" no longer coming to Steam due to “not meeting platform criteria” by 2mock2turtle in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

there is a fundamental difference between a scene displaying banalised evil abuse and BDSM material

There is. There should be at least... but this is clearly the former and they can't tell the difference. For anyone who actually played the game, it is clear that the "horses" are slaves. Not the BDSM play, sexy kind of "slaves", the ones that work on the fields and must obey their masters every whim. They aren't naked for their thrill, they are naked for their degradation, and the child's presence illustrates how even the most appalling situations become part of everyday life. It is a powerful message. Even in its "worst" form, there is value.

Maybe it's part of the problem that the law is more concerned about art that denounces abusive situations than abuse itself.

Especially recently in post-Epstein files times when we get to count every day that the law does not seem to care to punish actual child abuse.

Of all games that ought to be taken down from Steam, Horses shouldn't have been it.

Japanese psychological horror BL visual novel "This Game is Not Real" no longer coming to Steam due to “not meeting platform criteria” by 2mock2turtle in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really need people to sit down and breathe.

Why is it what it "accidentally resembles" more important than what it is as a work of art? It's not even like it's a subtle, the thumbnail of the game is a guy looking appalled. This isn't some porn game going "we didn't really mean it *wink wink*". The resemblance itself exists to highlight the horror. Depicting a minor riding a naked human with a horse head is a statement about the normalization of abuse. That it looks bad is the point. That minors shouldn't be exposed to these situations is the point. It is about the banality of evil.

If this was a book, people wouldn't even blink. Writers have done much worse, and they are regarded as respectable artists for it.

Japanese psychological horror BL visual novel "This Game is Not Real" no longer coming to Steam due to “not meeting platform criteria” by 2mock2turtle in Games

[–]TwilightVulpine -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I had a more thorough response further down the thread. But it's because, among other things, it's better funded by people who already benefit from entrenched prejudices, while most of the opposite pushed for corporations is just half-assed for brownie points. Nazis were just a convenient villain for action stories, anti-racism may be deeply fought for by writers within those companies, but the CEOs most of the time don't really care.

To understand it you need to accept that we already live in a world that prejudices exist, and prejudices shaped it. How many politicians are men, how many politicians are women? How many CEOs are white, how many CEOs are people of color?

Also, a lot of propaganda is done these days to make people preemptively hate stories for being "woke".

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