• uralsolo
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      10 months ago

      deleted by creator

      • aes@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        they break the mould sometimes, the shit they've done for the open source community way helped hawk Linux and libre software to semi-competant-with-tech fuckheads who like playing video games

        and yes Richard Stallman is one of you except he eats foot fungus, is a paedophile apologist, and despite all of this made markedly fucking huge contributions to this world

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      Well I expected them to be more creative. This is just “games about money which is epic”

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    that well-known economic structure called capitalism

    Gaben is one of the deities in the reddit-logo pantheon so of course he has to present shit in that insufferably smug condescending way smuglord

  • MorelaakIsBack [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    mega hyper cringe, causing runaway cringeflation, crashing the cringe markets and dropping society into a cringe depression

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Like when Tsar Nicholas II posted cringe and lost subscriber soviet-chad

  • Flinch [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    capitalism is when currency, and the more currency there is the more capitalismer it is

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    He's a libertarian billionaire lmao of course he has shit takes. This is still better than during the George Floyd protests when lower-level employees wanted to make a pro-BLM statement and he shut it down in favor of "neutrality".

    • Grebgreb [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Literally :steamfront:, why is this the first time I'm hearing about this?

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Yeah idk you'd think the story would take off, but gamer-gulag gonna gamer-gulag, I guess. I only heard about it because I'm subbed to an indie gaming news youtube channel because the people involved already made boardgame content I like. They're decent, if a bit lib.

        The segment in question

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      He instead gave everyone $10k and suggested they give it to social justice orgs but it wasn’t mandatory

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I mean yeah but that's just giving money to bigots/libertarians who will at best do nothing and at worst result in them donating money to far-right causes. If he cared they'd have Valve give the money out directly.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Oh boy, I hope The Tenants is included in this!

    Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    redemption if the cover art is just a bunch ofporky-scared-flipped porky-point but we all know that's not gonna happen

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      lmao, is that a new emoji? What's the code for it?

      edit: nvm, it's porky-point porky-point

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    11 months ago

    also sorry to be that guy but we know that gabe newell, the ceo of the company, does not directly dictate the theming and marketing copy of sale events, right?

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      I imagine he got a memo about it and approved it in the middle of his Dota 2 sessions at work

  • Lurkerino [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    I have loved playing strategy games and economic simulators since childhood, they built my understanding of resources and economies, but I always felt strage how the population and workers didnt matter.

    Playing tropico 4 I made a communist paradise, and now Im playing workers and resources soviet republic.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Far be it from me to defend a billionaire, but primitive collection as a style of game seems innocuous enough to me. This would be games like lemonade stand simulator, right? Your harvest moon and Dave the Diver to some extent.