LwL

It's just her character design, she's a genshin character (yoimiya).

In an ARG, no, sending emails to a mail adress that is part of the game to get automated hints is perfectly fine and fits into the game framework.

God forbid people enjoy their lives instead of trying to minmax their lifespan.

It's good to be informed when something is risky or bad for you, but people can decide what to do with their own body.

Yep, and even for me while I prefer to download the game directly usually, when I need to bother with manually getting it to work, I much prefer steam and its proton integration. It's nice that most games at least just work by running them in a random proton prefix with protontricks, but shipping them with an install script that just gives you a shortcut and installs any dependencies would be huge (actually a step up from steam). And then if galaxy runs on linux it could use that same process.

I doubt she hates the gay people, tbh. Her whole trans hatred feela very rooted in self hate and it's kinda sad how she chose the path of being an insufferable piece of shit. There was an interview where she said she should've been born a boy. She probably hates being a woman and instead of realizing that that's how transwomen feel about being amab, she thinks it means no one can possibly want to be a woman unless they want to creep on women or whatever the terf narrative is.

Old movies feel much worse for me, voices barely audible but sfx blow my ears out. But I also have sound from headphones, maybe that just works better with the newer mixes.

It depends on the project, I think. If you require hundreds of pieces to make the concept work (and such concepts have floated in my mind) even hiring an amateur would get pretty expensive. If it's just small scope art (and for most games it will be) I agree, it can be relatively cheap. Though I'm still privileged in being able to afford that, some people couldn't even really spare 200€ for a project that, statistically, is unlikely to make even half of that back.

Great way to make sure your kid gets bullied and socially excluded, resulting in lifelong trauma. Not to mention that they will then start using the internet with the media literacy of an average 70 year old and fall for everything they should've learned with parental guidance at a young age.

These days you can do that on fucking arch (from the point of "have a usable DE with internet access" onwards ofc, which is the point most distros get you out of the box). Install steam, check the setting to show windows games with proton, and it just works. At most need GEProton sometimes but I doubt that's different on SteamOS.

No doubt SteamOS is the most optimized for that experience but there really isn't a lot of friction for gaming on steam in general these days.

I think people have a hard time grasping just how off "dressing up" feels for some people. Like I recognize that I look pretty good when I do, but the farthest I've went is a dress shirt+suit jacket and that already felt like absolutely so not me. Putting pictures like that up to, essentially, advertise myself would feel extremely dishonest.

I'm guessing it's similar for you.

I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn't (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don't really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.

Not that I'll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I've thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I'd need to commission more than I can afford, I'd be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.

Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I'll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).

Earlier, it was also frequently more about "people that don't believe in the same god(s) as me" or "people that don't speak the same language as me". It's always been just the first reason to justify why the invaded are "lesser".