Neither racism or blackface are primarily American concepts. The specific history of blackface in America is well discussed but blackface existed well before then an is still used quite often in Central Europe, especially Russia.

Of course it doesn’t have the same meaning or impact around the world. That is literally the problem. People to whom the act is ‘nothing’ not understanding that to another group of people who are viewing their behavior, they are being deeply offensive.

It also doesn’t mean they are wrong. Just because you can’t/won’t see or understand why they are offended doesn’t negate the offense or invadate the reason they find it offensive.

Slow down Frank, we haven’t woken up in Cyberpunks dystopian timeline yet. Corporate rules do not trump national or even local laws quite yet.

Nintendo is legally in the right to make accurate and valid copyright infringement claims against people. They are not legally within their right to spam false or harrassing claims that are clearly such on their face. There are anti-SLAPP laws in place in most of the US you know.

Amazingly enough the fact that NCAA explicitly list bullshit in their media guidelines doesn’t magically make copyright law fall in line with said bullshit any more than “owner is not responsible for” notices protect people from liability lawsuits when they are actually liable for the damages involved.

I’m saying that the fact that in order to add your Steam account and include even the games you haven’t installed requires you to allow it to connect and pass information to an outside connection, despite claiming that it doesn’t use your data and only saves the ‘web authorization’ cookie that Steam would create once…

Just because someone is a parent doesn’t suddenly make them grow angel wings and become winning human beings. Sometimes they stay the same selfish, miserable, failed excuses for people that they were before they managed to bring a kid into this world.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Czechian

The horror of software made in central EU that happens to claim it doesn’t store any of your info other than web cookies yet still fails to work if you block specific outbound connections to IP networks that happen to be listed as ‘known Russian botnets’ in your firewall software. I have no issue with its country of…

https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer - Let a program do all that work. Trust me - after your library gets large enough, you don’t even want to think about trying to organize it manually.

To replicate the filtering features in GOG in Steam, look into Steam Depressurizer - https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer

The thing about Playnite is that it’s Czechian software and in at least one of the versions I used - it refused to work because it didn’t do the parsing of things like your Steam profile (so it could list games you don’t have installed but have purchased) in app but by passing it to a russian IP that was pre-blocked…

Sorry I can see how my wording came off as if I’m implying that hotsaucing was ‘preferable’ to those other methods of abuse - I was actually attempting to equate them as the same - abusive.

In all likelihood this was a case of ‘hotsaucing’ the child as punishment - as an alternative to spanking, washing their mouth out with soap, or some other abusive measure meant to ensure compliance via force.

I think it’s less that they became ‘lazy’ and more that they are less interested in game development and more interested in developing other stuff. Hence why they delved into AR and VR and Linux and streaming game boxes.

Ignore me - I somehow managed to reply to the entirely wrong comment.

I’ll point you to my comment here.

Except that Valve didn’t/doesn’t really take as large of a cut as you think since they only take a cut if you buy the game directly from their store. Any other method of purchasing the game, despite the fact that the game would still be redeemed and supported by Steam, was free and clear.

Phantom (Also known as Mob B)