It’s not water and any person who vapes and claims otherwise is an ignorant tard. But think of this, do you believe cells would survive being submerged or otherwise exposed to clean filtered H2O for 90 minutes straight? Some cells would die from simple clean water too, so I don’t know how much can really be said based…

Still wouldn’t give you a leg to stand on. The study is bunk. It would be like running a study exposing cells to clean pure H2O for 90 minutes straight and reporting that some cells were weak and some died. Well no shit, suffocate and flood the cells through direct exposure to a foreign substance and that’ll happen.

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So what you’re saying is you’re whining over a non-issue. Got it. If you’re referring to trollish content, Valve said in their statement that ILLEGAL and TROLLY content would not be allowed.

And yet there are many films, critically claimed nonetheless, which contain language and actions that cross those lines. Your stance, apparently, is that controversial, hateful language and content should be outright banned. That’s not how it works. If it did work that way, Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t have a single…

First of all, who in their right mind aimlessly browses the Steam store? There are categories and filters. Use them. You’re not going to suddenly have to sift through an unending pile of trash games. The market will dictate what games are good and not, and the best content will rise to the top and be treated…

The percentage of people who mindlessly browse the Steam store without any filtering is comparable to the percentage of individuals who purchased and to this day still use SteamBox hardware. (read: Essentially 0).

Let me clarify, “increase in visibility of shootings”. The occurrence rate is lower, but it is more visible.

Nice try, but absolutely not. Increases in suicides, shootings, poor race relations, divisive politics, and other tragedies long predate the Trump administration.

There are societal norms, however, there’s grey area that varies on an individual basis. Just because most people would find something offensive does not mean it should be hidden from view for all.

This isn’t just about crap games published with trading cards for the sole purpose of making money. This is about games that Steam has previously prevented access to because it was deemed to be too offensive or controversial for their liking. I’d much prefer an open game store where I as the consumer have access to a…

The fact that Valve made the move forward towards freedom of choice, allowing the paying public to decide what to buy speaks volumes. Allow the market to police itself as far as what is and isn’t offensive and what is and isn’t worth our hard earned money. The only thing that has the potential to be a problem is the…

We live in a society, yet what is right for a group is not necessarily right for the individual. The individual should have the freedom of choice rather than the choice being made for them. Just because it is possible to classify a group by nationality, race, gender, or any other multitude of parameters does not…

It’s a good thing because now you and many others can learn how to be an adult and deal with things that are subjectively offensive. Life is full of opinions that one or another may disagree with and it is ludicrous to expect big brother to filter things for you and decide what should be hidden from view to protect…

Maybe the current censored content, but more explicit content may still be absent since PayPal is a payment option.

Point 1 is questionable since Steam has a partnership with PayPal. I’d be quite surprised if Steam dropped PayPal to be able to accept payment for adult games/content.

Valve has so much money via Steam, there’s literally no incentive for them to put in the effort to develop HL3. Especially not when the hype has been blown to proportions that far exceed those of Duke Nukem Forever. Even if DNF had been a shining masterpiece it would have fallen short of the hype train.

If someone needs tools to filter content because they can’t handle seeing it, they probably shouldn’t be using Steam. If results appear in your suggestion lineup that don’t interest you, there’s a way to indicate you don’t want to see that content. What more can you expect?

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Fantastic! Valve is a storefront looking to make money. They should simply allow developers and their games, controversial or not, to try and sell their wares and let the market decide what sells.