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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    why is it so upsetting to me that Valve is actually, like, getting rid of some porny games.

    I certainly agree that several games don't belong on steam. I don't know if they got hit with it, though? But, i guess, I'm scared of VNs having to migrate away from Steam? Like, I feel that some non-violent stories about human relationship are a good thing. IDK, i'm starting to warm up to those and they're possibly going away. :(
    Valve should be cleaning house. They should have a person who's job is to try to install a game and play 30 minutes in, and if it can't do either of those tasks successfully, it gets boots anyone who bought it gets a refund.

    If during that 30 minute period the game is garbage, give them a chance to prove it isn't and move on. 3 strikes and your company is banned.

    The problem is they'd need to have specific, like, guidelines on what is and isn't garbage.

    That is very hard.
    Yes I suppose they would, but having the game install without fidling with options, and function for 30 minutes would get rid of some of the trash.

    It would be hard to be specific, but on the flip side it is a private organization and if they don't like your platform rules they can go to gog or somewhere else, I bet you can define sets of infractions and boot games. Youtube changes their rules at will and boots channels for violating their new rules, sometimes with minimal warning.

    Just because YouTube can doesn’t mean they should.
    True, but you need to be able to deal with business owners who think they are being clever for getting around requirements and sort of rules lawyering their way through. You need to have flexibility if you are booting garbo.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    money level 1: pay all bills, buy groceries and kid items, buy reasonable entertainments (movies etc), place child in appropriate daycare/school, be able to go on a few trips a year

    money level 2: all of the above plus saving some for college and retirement

    money level 3: all of the above plus ability to give lots to charity, occasionally make ridiculous purchases

    money level 4: ???
    Rockets.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Steam booting off visual novels will hopefully get the audience for ALL visual novels on to a different platform like itch.io that isn’t so afraid of dicks and boobies. And like that, all boats rise.

    I don’t like a near monopoly storefront with strong no adult content rules. It feels like moving backwards. It feels like shopping for music at a Walmart in the mid 90s, with nothing but clean rap and tons of artists hidden.

    The Cult of Valve has been something I've been side eyeing for a while. I mean, I myself have said stuff should be on Steam because I don't want to install multiple storefronts, but damn if I'm not looking long and hard at Valve's attempts to strongarm developers. As much as Steam led the charge, there should be one piece of software that allows developers and publishers to have their own storefronts on the same platform, but that is literally impossible, so I've accepted that there has to be multiple programs running like Steam and Battle.net and Oculus Home and and and...

  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Sleep wrote: »
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    So It Goes wrote: »
    money level 1: pay all bills, buy groceries and kid items, buy reasonable entertainments (movies etc), place child in appropriate daycare/school, be able to go on a few trips a year

    money level 2: all of the above plus saving some for college and retirement

    money level 3: all of the above plus ability to give lots to charity, occasionally make ridiculous purchases

    money level 4: ???

    What's under level 1 because I'm not even at level one, and between dream and I we make what some would call a great deal of money.

    3000+ dollars worth of student loan debt every month really fucks everything up.

    under level 1 is where the money you're making sure isn't making you happy because you are worrying about money a lot

    which is where probably most people are tbh

    Like that's the part about trying to say anything over X amount and you should be happy is kinda garbage. 65,000 a year ain't much when you essentially burn a third of it as tribute for angry money god's.

    Sleep on
  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    Steam booting off visual novels will hopefully get the audience for ALL visual novels on to a different platform like itch.io that isn’t so afraid of dicks and boobies. And like that, all boats rise.

    I don’t like a near monopoly storefront with strong no adult content rules. It feels like moving backwards. It feels like shopping for music at a Walmart in the mid 90s, with nothing but clean rap and tons of artists hidden.

    Itch.io is really nice, everyone should give it a look if they haven't already.

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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Sleep wrote: »
    3000+ dollars worth of student loan debt every month really fucks everything up.

    God fucking damn

    That is the sort of number that would make me want to just become a bartender or something and live in cash and accept a judgment against me

    Oh trust me, I've given it serious thought.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    Everybody is laughing at Musk again.

    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/neknzg/elon-musk-tunnel-under-la-nearing-reality
    “If you can do hundreds of tunnels and you can have many small stations woven throughout the fabric of the city, you can actually — without the city even appearing different — you could solve the transport problem,” Musk explained. He said the parking-spot-sized stations could seamlessly integrate into the city, “and it wouldn’t affect things in a bad way.”

    “Compared to an above-ground system or compared to a flying car, you don’t have to worry about bad weather. You can’t see it, hear it, feel it, you’re not dividing communities with lanes, and we think we can make this really fun,” he continued.

    Why are we laughing at this attempt to solve transportation issues? I love the idea of parking my car on a thing and having it whisked across the city. Is it feasible? Who knows, that's why he's doing a test tube.

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Steam booting off visual novels will hopefully get the audience for ALL visual novels on to a different platform like itch.io that isn’t so afraid of dicks and boobies. And like that, all boats rise.

    I don’t like a near monopoly storefront with strong no adult content rules. It feels like moving backwards. It feels like shopping for music at a Walmart in the mid 90s, with nothing but clean rap and tons of artists hidden.

    I get that a monopoly is bad, but i feel like there should be a space in the mainstream for smaller stories that relate to human relationship, adult themes and maybe includes some sexual content.

    I think Valve desperately needs to curate for quality, but not for content. Getting rid of boobies isn't gonna fix anything. Getting rid of game with covered boobies with the excuse that people can remove the coverings is even worse.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    I see so many not being able to even get to level 1.

    Daycare is probably a level 3 money expense for some people, to the point where they decide to just put off having kids most of the time.

    It's fucking expensive, and if you're of an income that can afford it, you get zero tax benefit from paying for it.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »


    *unless they're just lying to everyone again

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited May 2018
    Steam booting off visual novels will hopefully get the audience for ALL visual novels on to a different platform like itch.io that isn’t so afraid of dicks and boobies. And like that, all boats rise.

    I don’t like a near monopoly storefront with strong no adult content rules. It feels like moving backwards. It feels like shopping for music at a Walmart in the mid 90s, with nothing but clean rap and tons of artists hidden.

    I get that a monopoly is bad, but i feel like there should be a space in the mainstream for smaller stories that relate to human relationship, adult themes and maybe includes some sexual content.

    I think Valve desperately needs to curate for quality, but not for content. Getting rid of boobies isn't gonna fix anything. Getting rid of game with covered boobies with the excuse that people can remove the coverings is even worse.

    I think the only way for valve to wake up and realize their mistake is for another platform that does curate and does have a more permissive content policy to start stealing their lunch. For Valve to change, it’ll take them looking like a shitty, stodgy service nobody wants to use because they don’t allow any adult content in the true sense of the word.

    And if a competitor can’t succeed on that, then maybe valve was right.

    Donkey Kong on
    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    We need child pods.

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Goddammit, this is making me consider the TV in a tabletop thing again:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/8kc2g6/animated_dd_map_galleon_action_scenes_are_coming/

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    I feel like the censoring almost always comes out anti-queer in some way as well.

  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    liberals want to give people free stuff, conservatives want everyone to have a gun. let's compromise and give everyone a free bazooka

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Or is there a good picture TV that you can just lay flat on top of a table?

  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    money level 1: pay all bills, buy groceries and kid items, buy reasonable entertainments (movies etc), place child in appropriate daycare/school, be able to go on a few trips a year

    money level 2: all of the above plus saving some for college and retirement

    money level 3: all of the above plus ability to give lots to charity, occasionally make ridiculous purchases

    money level 4: ???
    Rockets.

    It is entirely the wrong time to invest in the Rockets, their value with Harden and Paul, actually looking like a threat to the Warriors last game. Should caught 'em ten years ago.

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    I feel like the censoring almost always comes out anti-queer in some way as well.

    That's what i'm most afraid of, honestly.

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Some writers need to go minimalist like Elmore leonard and just say laughed, that's it they laughed.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    Old scientists often ask at roundtables how the youth are dealing with the job crisis in science and what we plan to do (this is after they literally ruined everything for thirty years so oh how considerate that you hold all the power and are "worried"). I said something like, well I've had lots of different jobs so if I don't get into an academic position it won't be the end of the world. I've been a baker, a retail person, maybe I would start my own bakery. I was very positive about it. Everyone laughed like it was the cutest idea!

    I guess a lot of people vying for the academic track cannot ever conceive of anything but becoming an academic and balk at having a real job? I dunno.

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Kamiro wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Or is there a good picture TV that you can just lay flat on top of a table?

    I was under the impression you NEVER want to lay a TV flat. Has that changed with newer TVs?

    In my googling about TVs used for tabletop gaming, I saw an article that talked about this - the recommendation was because of the possibility of scratching the glass, and somehow just became "Never lay your TV flat". I didn't see anything about laying a tv flat damaging it otherwise, though someone more knowledgeable about HDTVs might have something to say about that.

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    Old scientists often ask at roundtables how the youth are dealing with the job crisis in science and what we plan to do (this is after they literally ruined everything for thirty years so oh how considerate that you hold all the power and are "worried"). I said something like, well I've had lots of different jobs so if I don't get into an academic position it won't be the end of the world. I've been a baker, a retail person, maybe I would start my own bakery. I was very positive about it. Everyone laughed like it was the cutest idea!

    I guess a lot of people vying for the academic track cannot ever conceive of anything but becoming an academic and balk at having a real job? I dunno.

    I think even in the face of... everything, there is a large group of people who see being an adjunct making $25,000/year until you die of an infection on your no insurance as just obviously better than not working in academia.

    Part of it is I am pretty sure just willful blindness to the opportunity costs associated with credentialing.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    wandering wrote: »
    liberals want to give people free stuff, conservatives want everyone to have a gun. let's compromise and give everyone a free bazooka

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    I don't know what that would accomplish... are you in the pocket of Big Bubble Gum, wandering?

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Hm, but I have no where to put another table, though.

    Hurgh, I think using a projector is my best bet.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Or is there a good picture TV that you can just lay flat on top of a table?
    I just use a projector setup.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Bazzoka Joe.

  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Kamiro wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Or is there a good picture TV that you can just lay flat on top of a table?

    I was under the impression you NEVER want to lay a TV flat. Has that changed with newer TVs?

    In my googling about TVs used for tabletop gaming, I saw an article that talked about this - the recommendation was because of the possibility of scratching the glass, and somehow just became "Never lay your TV flat". I didn't see anything about laying a tv flat damaging it otherwise, though someone more knowledgeable about HDTVs might have something to say about that.

    It falls under the same principal as why people dont lay mirrors flat most of the time. If it is sufficiently large its just glass after all. Add to that TVs are typically weighed to be standing.

    What most people do with tabletop gaming is take the screen out of the packaging and anchor it to a custom housing to support it.

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    I mean I am a rich guy and I am thrilled about it and I need zero more money. It's not universal, any family making 250k without unusual medical expenses is choosing to be stressed about money

    Family--maybe not. College costs are really weird for the ~200K bracket (who is also maybe still paying off ridiculous loans from med school/law school), because they can't get financial aid but also they cannot easily pay for the type of college they might have attended in the past, let alone for multiple kids at the same time. Obviously sending your kid to your alma mater is a choice but it's still stressful and people are allowed to be stressed about it.

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i just noticed the deadpool 2 tagline is "From the studio that killed Wolverine" and i am ded

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Old scientists often ask at roundtables how the youth are dealing with the job crisis in science and what we plan to do (this is after they literally ruined everything for thirty years so oh how considerate that you hold all the power and are "worried"). I said something like, well I've had lots of different jobs so if I don't get into an academic position it won't be the end of the world. I've been a baker, a retail person, maybe I would start my own bakery. I was very positive about it. Everyone laughed like it was the cutest idea!

    I guess a lot of people vying for the academic track cannot ever conceive of anything but becoming an academic and balk at having a real job? I dunno.

    it me
    actually it's really helpful my dad is a defense contractor who noped out of academia after one year so that always struck me as a thing that one could do for money while holding a PhD
    if my parents had been academics I'd have been in a very weird place mentally

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    So, the TV tabletop idea requires me to buy an HDTV and then have a custom table built around it. That's expensive.

    A projector mounted to the ceiling is cheap and will do.

    Are there any concerns about mounting a projector to the ceiling facing downwards?

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    Old scientists often ask at roundtables how the youth are dealing with the job crisis in science and what we plan to do (this is after they literally ruined everything for thirty years so oh how considerate that you hold all the power and are "worried"). I said something like, well I've had lots of different jobs so if I don't get into an academic position it won't be the end of the world. I've been a baker, a retail person, maybe I would start my own bakery. I was very positive about it. Everyone laughed like it was the cutest idea!

    I guess a lot of people vying for the academic track cannot ever conceive of anything but becoming an academic and balk at having a real job? I dunno.

    I think even in the face of... everything, there is a large group of people who see being an adjunct making $25,000/year until you die of an infection on your no insurance as just obviously better than not working in academia.

    Part of it is I am pretty sure just willful blindness to the opportunity costs associated with credentialing.
    Hoo boy yeah. I would take any job over adjuncting? It is just pure labor exploitation. I feel bad for adjuncts. Terribly. But also like....get ....another....job?

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    i just noticed the deadpool 2 tagline is "From the studio that killed Wolverine" and i am ded

    are you Wolverine?

    That would explain your long life.

  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    correction: earlier today one of my posts stated that performers used to be dragged off stage by canes. However, they were actually dragged off stage by crooks. I apologize for this error.

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    when i worked in a warehouse we never laid the tvs flat


    just kidding we threw them at great force from tractor trailer all the way to shelves and then also into peoples cars

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    wandering wrote: »
    correction: earlier today one of my posts stated that performers used to be dragged off stage by canes. However, they were actually dragged off stage by crooks. I apologize for this error.

    thank you

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Old scientists often ask at roundtables how the youth are dealing with the job crisis in science and what we plan to do (this is after they literally ruined everything for thirty years so oh how considerate that you hold all the power and are "worried"). I said something like, well I've had lots of different jobs so if I don't get into an academic position it won't be the end of the world. I've been a baker, a retail person, maybe I would start my own bakery. I was very positive about it. Everyone laughed like it was the cutest idea!

    I guess a lot of people vying for the academic track cannot ever conceive of anything but becoming an academic and balk at having a real job? I dunno.

    I think even in the face of... everything, there is a large group of people who see being an adjunct making $25,000/year until you die of an infection on your no insurance as just obviously better than not working in academia.

    Part of it is I am pretty sure just willful blindness to the opportunity costs associated with credentialing.

    Being an academic, for many in the sector, is an intrinsic part of their identity. Losing that, even voluntarily, feels like failing.

    I am super guilty of this. I've been doing consistent 60-80 hour weeks during this term and the idea of leaving seems unspeakable to me.

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