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I mean, this affects queer people too. Like, our existence is deemed sexual and adult... and soon illegal too it feels like.
This affects companies across the board, including itch.io which has also been removing “adult games” from their platform. It also isn’t just restricted to games, but anything people pay for that may violate the arbitrary standards set by payment processors. So, if they start targeting LGBTQ content, it would likely force LGBTQ media content underground worldwide. That doesn’t seem like a good thing in any context.
No more rainbow capitalism because no more rainbow, yes more capitalism is not a good thing
I read someone say that getting rid of rainbow capitalism is the canary in the coal mine, because tokenization is one of the most prominent defenses against violence that the LGBTQ community has, and capitalists not doing it is a sign that they're seeing the culture shift to the point that not pandering to them is more profitable.
Target pulling all pride merch in May last year. They saw it coming
are you serious about an emote for a stuffed animal being a sign that trans people are feckless stooges
"You claim to hate capitalism, but you use an iPhone. Curious."
A few months ago this person went on a tirade about how sex is bad because it "objectifies human bodies" and apparently involves "blood and urine."
wow thats bad, she sounds like she's got questionable takes.
can u not degender her tho
I thought about how to refer to her but got hung up. "This woman" sounds weird and sexist in my head in a way I can't quite pin down.
Minorities are already more radicalized than the general population, and white people are not radicalized by minority suffering. What the fuck are you smoking?
FOH with that nazbol shit
I wanted to call out the absurdity of equating particpating in the capitalist economy
to directly and intentionally contributing to imperialism but on futher reflection, this nonsense screed is nothing more then Tailism and should be ignored as if it came from Infrared Haz himself. 
I don't think that's what's going to actually happen. In the same way that Bluesky is replacing Twitter while Mastodon comparatively languishes, whatever decentralized way of distributing games we might hope for is just going to get beat out by Epic or whatever next launcher shows up, assuming these rules don't become reified as actual laws. Creators will still just be in a situation of making a game that plays by all these rules, or languishing in obscurity. And that's assuming Steam even loses its grip, I'm not holding my breath on that. I think it's much more likely they just keep dutifully enforcing these bans, and the vast majority of people simply don't know about it or don't really care unfortunately.
all the steam competitors suck even worse than steam does and it's inconvenient to maintain multiple accounts so steam is pretty damn safe unless they go public or musk buys it.
steam competitors aren't really beneficial to end-users either. it fragments everything and is analogous to when all the netflix competitors got going and now streaming is even more of a nightmare than just paying cable was.
we should seize steam.
Leaving the rest aside, even if steam did lose some market share, it would be like Netflix losing market share: we'll go from one dominant bad platform to 6 or 8 squabbling platforms that are all even worse.
If we want to replace these dominant platforms (in any sector) we need to create a better alternative somehow, instead of hoping the market will
Counterpoint: if game distribution is consolidated under Steam, it'll make it that much easier to seize and nationalize