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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 minutes ago

As a long time Steam user, while I still really like Steam and think it's the more consumer friendly platform, it has devolved greatly. Especially discussion forums are nearly no different than reddit toxicity where people exhibit their worst behaviors. I miss the legitimate discussions and love for specific games. Now it's mostly complaining and complete disregard for developers being humans.

The flood of garbage games has also been fairly obvious over the last decade. Some filters on your account handle a lot of this at least for the adult ones, but not all of it. It reminds me of the Wii shovelware era, but far worse.

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 29 points 2 hours ago

Oh fuck off. The US is an unsafe place, not Steam.

[–] ParkedInReverse@lemmy.world 56 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Kinda stretching it aren't they?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

卐 Lemmy is an unsafe place 卐

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Pepe is a beloved internet meme, not a symbol of hate. Rightoid asshats need to leave pepe and doge the fuck alone. >:(

[–] oce@jlai.lu 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it came from 4chan, but it actually comes from Myspace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Wtf pepe is considered alt-right because alt-right uses them sometimes??? I hear they also use English! Maybe English needs to get banned!

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago
[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

They didn't just use it sometimes, they were using it as an intentional dog whistle, that is the difference. Part of dog whistling is choosing something that, otherwise, has had no real relationship to the thing it is being used as a dog whistle for.

[–] Darohan@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, is just using a Valknut considered a hate symbol? I was under the impression that it was a pretty common "I like Vikings/Odin/Paganism" type symbol... Same with Tyr tbh.

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The issue is that the Venn diagram of people interested in vikings/odinism and racists bigots is almost just a circle

[–] Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

This is hyperbole. A large amount of racists and bigots are into norse stuff? Maybe. Almost all people in the norse stuff are racists and bigots? High doubt, and shouldn't be allowed to be coopted anyway. Loki is one of the few ancient figures with some gender fluid markings as it is.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 points 11 minutes ago

You're right, but 100% of the people I've encountered that were REALLY into Norse stuff specifically, rather than a general interest in history, were white supremacist.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

How is the PFLP a hate symbol LMAO

[–] remi_pan@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 hours ago

Til that the gate of the Auschwitz extermination camp is an extremist or hateful symbol.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 hours ago

Old ass boomer fixating on games are evil I guess and finding it deserves more attention than places like Twitter and YouTube filled with influencers who have the captive audience of very susceptible individuals that they are molding them to their image. Maybe focus on the root cause.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

A good old crusade against videogames.

[–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 1 points 1 hour ago

"they dare to make money without us!"

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

If we're pitching microtransactions as extremist content, I'm on board.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not exactly on steam much, what tf are they taking about?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The steam social/discussion stuff is a cesspit of racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., has been for quite a while.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Well, yeah, it's a place where gamers are allowed to speak. That's what happens.

[–] shani66@ani.social -1 points 1 hour ago

It's a place where ~~anyone~~ kids can buy games, and you know that isn't allowed in America. They should be in a factory or a church!

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Literally turning america entirely into an unsafe place then threatening others for it. Are they trying to do a government take over of a shiny appealing money maker? It sure seems like they actually want the nazis everywhere else, I bet if they actually do anything they will keep the nazis if they actually exist in the first place.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

By "turning America into an unsafe place" do you mean to accuse the Democrats, one of which is behind this?

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 34 minutes ago

I don't think that even matters. There are plenty of people that would surely be best simply deleted regardless of their affiliation. The us needs a revolution at this point. canada isn't even that far behind. our former liberal party in the last while changed their name, then just fused with the conservative party. so now we are also down to two parties plus a bunch of effectively useless riffraff.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Not all democrats are progressives. It's a big tent party.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It's as if the new admin is trying really hard to find new ways to be face-eating-leopards to the gen z male faces that voted them into power.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 25 points 3 hours ago

Jesus, these comments.

  • Mark Warner is a Democrat
  • He was not up for re-election this year.
[–] SGG@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Well I mean, at least they are keeping an election promise?

Not that it's a good promise to be keeping though

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 5 points 4 hours ago