A bunch of drunken sailors who spend money irresponsibly?

So… pirates?

We’ve done it. We’ve finally found the Olympic Gold Medalist for Mental Gymnastics.

Congratulations.

The real biggest thing you can do for the environment would be reducing the global human population.

Humans do not produce anything for the environment, the mere existence of humans automatically causes harm to the environment. Humans take from the environment but give nothing useful back. If humans were deleted from the Earth, the environment would not be negatively effected. Even the most “environmentally friendly” human still damages their local environment by being alive.

But you know, killing people is pretty illegal basically everywhere, and extremely unethical in many, many ways. Unethical Pro Tips I guess? Please nobody actually do this.

I mean, any person that tries to learn history from video games or movies alone is pretty dumb. In order for it to be entertaining, artistic liberties often need to be taken which usuaally means the final product is not historically accurate. The thing with Assassin’s Creed games is that where history was involved, in the past they tried to be as accurate to real life as possible. The layouts of cities, the appearance and roles of real historic characters, etc. In more recent years they have tossed that out the window, but historic accuracy on elements not related to the assassin storyline was something Assassin’s Creed prided itself on.

Even still, most only have a single text screen at the very beginning that just says “this is a work of fiction.” I don’t know that I would call that emphasis, but it is present. I also haven’t tried this mod myself, but I don’t see that it would be portraying itself as real events unless it says “this is based on real events.” I have always assumed that video games are a work of fiction, even if they are based on real events. If I wanted to learn more about the real events, I would do research on my own.

I suppose at the end of the day more context is needed. Did Valve contact the mod author prior to takedown to request a change in the mod description to add a “work of fiction” tag and the author refused? If Valve just straight up removed it without even contacting the author, I think that is not good.

I am concerned that censorship might become greater with this action. What other governments will say to Valve “remove X or Y game/mod because it is offensive or portrays real life characters or events improperly?” Ideally none, but still. I don’t exactly agree with the context of this mod and entirely understand why it would be offensive, but at the same time I think that a mod author or game developer should be free to create whatever they want, without fear of censorship removing their work.

EDIT:

Valve has denied reports its pulled a controversial mod from Steam around the world at the request of the South Korean government, saying the mod was only blocked in South Korea and only because it broke local laws. The mod’s author is said to be behind its global removal.

EDIT: This was important information I was not privy to when I originally made this comment. This makes more sense and is completely understandable.

Original comment below:

I feel like this opens the door to banning any “alternative history” setting for a game or mod on Steam.

For example, if someone wanted to make a mod about WWII but aliens invaded Earth and the Allies and Axis decided to make an agreement to become allies to repel the alien invasion, how would that be different from this? That would effectively make Nazis “good guys” in that alternative historical setting. Obviously, that is something that never happened in real history, but if someone is interested in real historical events, it should be on them to do their research, not a video game developer or a mod author.

Unless there is specific context where a government is pointing to this mod saying that’s “how it really happened,” would not a disclaimer saying that the events in the game are not based on reality and set in an alternative timeline be sufficient?

This site is fake, it doesn’t have Dead By Daylight at the absolute top of dark pattern design, and says DBD Mobile (now shut down) is only -1.43?

Also, why would anyone need an account for this? Isn’t this just a database? What, does it have a linked forum?

Is that the NetEase one? I thought they renegotiated with NetEase?

You would have to weigh disk rot vs hard disk mechanical component failure.

Tariffs would likely have very tiny influence on this statistic since most video game spending nowadays is digital, and digital products are protected from tariffs since tariffs are only attached to physical goods.

VOID originally split from the original publisher of the game because they “didn’t want to compromise their vision of the game.”

Well, apparently that has changed now that console money is on the table. They’re completely disregarding what they stood for before and are trudging ahead with compromising their vision of the game.

A lot of devs got picked up by Vintage Story, no?

Don’t read or share an article just because it aligns with your world view.

My guy, this is actually impossible for the average Lemmy user. Unrealistic expectations, sheesh.

Its crazy to me that even after all these years, gaming media is still using Xbox/Microsoft as a punching bag. I guarantee that this opinion piece wouldnt have been written if Nintendo or Sony were doing the same levels of layoffs. Instead just a few softball articles would be made before going back to the regular clickbait slop basically all of the media giants create.

Physical copies are almost always cheaper, especially if you buy used. You cannot currently buy used digital games, and the sales they go on are rarely lower than their physical copy counterparts.

I remember about a month after Destiny 1 launched the Rise of Iron expansion, I went to buy my brother the digital edition on Xbox 360 and it was like $100 USD, but there was a disx only used copy on ebay for $7. You can guess which copy I went with lol.

That is true. To be fair, Duke is already dead. But now he will be even deader.

You should put in the title that this is only for Linux.

“We all did it and we are fine!”

Its not about addiction. Its about people that are affected by something not knowing or intentionally ignoring that they are. Is it possible that they have no effects? Sure, but the liklihood is very incredibly tiny.

I just used Gambling Addiction as an example because I thought it would be obvious and not go over people’s heads. I guess either I expected too much or my point is proven, or both.

I’ll be real, this has the same energy as:

“Gambling Addiction? I’ve been gambling for 20 years and I’m still not addicted.”

And while yes, a person could theoretically be a gambler for 20 years and not be addicted, the likelihood of that happening is very incredibly tiny.

Ah great. Duke’s dead.

Tencent foaming at the mouth right now