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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Except for Factorio, if you see a 1% discount, jump on it

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Don't support reactionaries. Go play Satisfactory instead!

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (12 children)
[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Kovarex, the maker of Factorio, is a reactionary anti-leftist. He exposed himself on reddit and has since edited or deleted his comments. Here's a thread about it with links to the original incident. https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/o34v6h/factorio_founder_rages_about_cancel_culture_after/

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kinda burying the lede to criticize his political position when he apparently supports statutory rape.

[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Say my friend made such a statement in the past and somehow.managed to grow as a person.

What should they do to communicate this?

I assume deleting the original statement is perceived as dishonesty, yes?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good to know that his "crime" was opposing censorship in some undisclosed context.

People talk about it like if he actually harms people.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 2 points 2 days ago

his "crime"

who are you quoting?

Ah yes, the undisclosed context of... shitheads being deplatformed for espousing shit ideologies. Take your "crime in quotes even though they didn't say that" and shove off.

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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are few popular topics as reactionary as online gamer drama 🙄

Sure, sure, and all those hollywood actresses really were just hard to work with. yappy hand gesture

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[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

I gave up on getting it at a discount lol. I waited 5 years

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

But I already bought it. Unless.. could I buy another Factorio?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Thank you for reminding me about the summer sale!

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

OP, presumably:

"Why don't poor people simply stop being poor? They should just ask their father for a small loan of a million dollars."

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You need at least a Billion these days.

Make.sure to set a few million aside for Charity.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Constructive criticism, honestly:

Can we not do Reddit-style one-upping replies? You've added nothing to the thread except a very low-effort quip that leads to The Price Is Right "No, no, you need a trillion!" "No, no, you need a quadrillion!" etc. that just... sap every reader's seconds of their lives away.

I'm sure you say plenty of clever and helpful things elsewhere, but I'm so over Reddit and I don't want Lemmy to be like it.

[–] Syltti@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm going to hold you hand when I tell you this...

Its too late for that.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

I'm not into defeatism but I hope it brings you joy.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

"oh sweet summer child"

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure how your original comment isnt in the same vein of Reddit style replies. You just made a quip based on a meme instead of a quip based on another comment.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

These lines are admittedly arbitrary, but I hold that I contributed at least a little.

"[your number but higher]" isn't over the bar I have for valuable contributions. It may be over yours.

[–] Jimbo@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As if anything goes more than 70% off these days

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wildly inaccurate.

There are currently 1,189 Steam games discounted at 70% or higher with a minimum of 5000 reviews, including The Witcher 3, Hearts of Iron IV, Cyberpunk 2077, and Deep Rock Galactic:

https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=70&min_rating=0&min_reviews=5000

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 4 days ago

I'm still mourning the day MS Flight Sim 2020 went on sale for 85% but they snatched it from my cart before I could purchase it and corrected it to 15%.

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