So what does it do, exactly? Can it act like a NIC or something?

You can if you get it on PC and install mods to be able to.

The context here is hilarious. Makes it seem like farming simulator is some kind of super subversive, fucked up thing we shouldn’t allow children to play. lol

“What if they actually become farmers? That’s not what we want for our children is it?”

You literally just need to go into the discussion boards for trending games or check out the curation pages for groups like “DEI watch.” Guaranteed to find comments and posts of huge ASCII swastikas eventually. There’s next to no moderation for any given game’s discussion board or comments for anything related to it (workshop, screenshots, other media, etc).

Not without tearing your hair out in frustration when it constantly mishears you or doesn’t even fucking activate. I don’t know how well Alexa or Siri work in this regard, but Android’s shit fucking sucks. Never works when I need it; but somehow wakes up in the dead of night as if someone said “Hey Google” in the dead silence.

Well, not really. There was a time when it was Valve staff and volunteer moderators under their direction. But that was before their discussion forums got integrated into Steam directly and there was a bajillion games on it.

Though I am confident they could actually hire people to handle it if they wanted to. Or were forced to. Steam makes a bit of profit, I’m sure.

I’m interested in Norse mythology for stories like the time Thor had to wear a dress to get back his hammer. I bet he looked hot in that dress.

Wasn’t it co-opted by racists around 2016 or something? They also took the “OK” finger gesture from the circle game, the fuckers.

If they’re famous: From the news.

If they’re family: Other family.

If they’re friends: Hopefully other friends or their family.

If they’re a stranger: I don’t, unless their story ends up on the news or as a movie or something. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s been over 10 years. Even if he found it, what is the likelihood any data could still be retrieved from a hard drive that’s been buried in landfill for that long?

Maybe they should stop having Charlie write the notices.

Would you rather the human body just be a big truck, instead of a series of tubes?

Barnacles exist just so Valve can say “haha made you look up.”

With a name like that, they’ll be back.

Moon Man? Like the old McDonald’s commercial? How the fuck is that a hateful or extremist symbol? Because anyone who remembers it must be extreme for burgers?

Afaik, the discussion boards for individual games are not moderated by Valve staff (outside of their own titles and the general discussions not tied to any specific game), but by the developer of the game. And it pretty much is ignored by everyone outside of a few indie devs that either just believe in transparency and use the boards themselves, or because they have huge egos and act like little tyrants being the worst kind of Reddit/Discord mod. The only in-between is the automated systems that work off reports and filters.

Tell me you haven’t played the original Legend of Zelda without saying you haven’t played the original Legend of Zelda.

BOTW/TOTK are more like the very first Zelda game than any other Zelda titles.

Just like BG3 really isn’t all that different from BG1 and 2. Everyone so blown away by it saying it raised the bar must be young as fuck, because it didn’t raise the bar. It just put it back where it was in the 90’s after it fell off the post. That isn’t to say it’s not great or deserving of GOTY over TOTK, though. Ideally, they both would win for different reasons.

This game is epic and I never hear anyone talking about it.

IIRC, they basically made the fog effect less extreme due to it being a straight port and not having the same kind of fog system that the PS1 used. Didn’t make it bright and welcoming, just less scary because now you could see all the things you weren’t supposed to, like breaks in the level geometry that would have been hidden in the original version.

Maybe they have Barq’s. It’s caffeinated root beer.