[–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The 'why' came as a shock to the studio. "While we strive to ship most titles submitted to us," Steam's automated response read, "we found that this title features themes, imagery, or descriptions that we won't distribute. Regardless of a developer's intentions with their product, we will not distribute content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor. While every product submitted is unique, if your product features this representation—even in a subtle way that could be defined as a 'grey area'—it will be rejected by Steam."

Nor, says Pietro, would Valve elaborate on its rejection, despite repeated requests for clear answers in the months that followed. "Did they think that the protagonist looked too young?," he ponders, "Did they think that the horses look too young? Did they think that some of the actors in the live-action sequence looked young?" In a lengthy FAQ detailing the ban, now available on its website, Santa Ragione notes all characters in Horses are "clearly older than 20 years old, as communicated by their appearance and through dialogue and documents that you will encounter in the game."

Yeah gonna have to disagree with you there chief. This is some dumbass stupid censorship. You can play games on steam where you bend people over a bar and fuck them.

Those people are also older than 20 years old. So what makes this different?

This is surely some of the fallout of MasterCard and Visa swinging their dicks around and being pouty that humans like sex and some people want to consume legal content that contains it. (Edit: actually this one point doesn't stand as he said later that this was before Valve bowed down to the financial processing overlords and did mass adult bans)

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    The way they are forcing AI on everyone and into every aspect of their browser especially when a large part of the people who use Firefox hates that shit is going to end Firefox.

    The reason you don't hear it about all those other browsers is because people have always known they don't give a fuck what the end user wants.

    Firefox used to be different. But all good things deteriorate over time. Watching it happen in real time to a browser we all use and used to love is why you see it so much posted especially in places with like minded individuals like Lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If you're in the USA I would wait until the dickhead in charge is gone or else you might wake up to find he told Taiwan to eat his ass and charge 600% tariffs on all goods coming from them.

    I mean its a joke, but how unlikely would it be really?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    It's an extremely volatile asset. I think last "bull run" cycle it lost like 40% of its top.

    But it also gained that 40% on the way up too.

    Its just a gamble. I like crypto but memecoins and the like have bastardized it into something that, in my opinion, it wasn't ever supposed to be.

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    I know it isn't specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,

    Is there a way you could use a VPN without them knowing that? Or if they outlaw them is it really just game over?

    If they made VPNs illegal I suppose stuff like TOR would follow except TOR is partly funded by the US state department and the US is one of my countries closest allies (one of the five eyes). So surely they wouldn't shut down something the US funds directly... Would they?

    I've read very very little about Gemini and other protocols like Gopher, would this be the way forward if they do this? And is that even remotely close to the security and potential anonymity you would receive from a VPN?

     

    I tried this last time and it didn't work and I went to support and got scammed on telegram. Lesson learned, but I still have like $50 worth of render I'd like to switch over to the Sol render so I can actually sell it and get out of this shit coin. Please, what do I do? Will any solana wallet work to receive it? Wtf is a wormhole? I hate projects like this that can't just keep things the way they are and instead fuck everyone with their shit "upgrades"

     

    I know I see the little button that does it automatically but I don't want to use that I want to know how to do it correctly. -Problem is, every guide says to use the .asc file. I don't have that, tails gave me a .IMG file, a .SIG file, and then I downloaded a tails-signing.key file. How do I manually verify this file with just those files?

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