Trump Aides Discussed Ending Some SpaceX Contracts, but Found Most Were Vital (Wall Street Journal)
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KDE Plasma 6.5 development finally adds long-awaited rounded bottom corners to windows, new sidebar resizing behavior, and more.
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Warframe, Still A Space Ninja Game (Technically), Is Now Drawing Inspiration From World War I
Warframe, Still A Space Ninja Game (Technically), Is Now Drawing Inspiration From World War I - Aftermath
Warframe: The Old Peace's World War I influences are more than skin deep, according to creative director Rebb Ford.aftermath.site
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Where did time go..?
So much has happened since I took this beautiful snap of my gall, at almost two months old (one day short).
We've had some very happy moments, we battled the darkest of days... She always was my guiding light. She believed in me when I didn't. She showed me there was love in a world full of sadness. She gave me strength and made me feel like a better person.
The last two weeks have been hell. I've not "only" lost her, I also lost a part of myself. Of who she made me to be.
I don't know if I shared this snap before. During my time on Pixelfed, I've shared over 600 snaps of Arwen, and I don't have the spoons to go through them all. But... This cute snap, who would be angry for me showing this (again?)?
She was loved by many! Even more than I realized, as I've learned from all the replies on my posts about her passing during the last two weeks. 💜
And she is missed, more than I could ever express. 💔
I try to keep going strong, but the awesome person she saw in me? Well, that person needs time to heal, so I can hopefully be half as cool again, as she believed me to be...
Arwen, you were one special lady and you'll live on in the hearts of many. 🌈
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Fabric of Reality Begins to Unravel After Punk Band Starts Show on Time
The very fabric of space and time which holds the universe together began to unravel after punk band Torch Failure began their set at the exact time they were billed to perform.Ben Friedman (The Hard Times)
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Ex-residents of Japan's Northern Territories honor ancestors in ceremony at sea
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A passenger’s smartphone caught fire on the Yamanote Line, four passengers who escaped to the tracks were injured and transported to hospital… All lines resumed operation
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Vice: Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims [update in post text body]
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Update from the author:
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Ah, I thought it was strange for the payment processing companies to come out of nowhere.
Them being pressured by conservative prudish assholes masquerading as concerned feminists makes more sense.
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The author posted three articles involving Collective Shout. The only one that didn't get removed replaces most of the detailing on Collective Shout with narration of the now-endangered benefits of "we both roleplay as giant women who consume our viewers".
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This VTuber Just Raised Over $780 for the ACLU. After Steam’s New Content Policies? Her Anti-Censorship Message Is Urgent
Steam issued new content guidance to devs due to its payment processors. Here's how one VTuber's ACLU fundraiser shows a way forward.Ana Valens (VICE)
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From Wikipedia about NCOSE
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), previously known as Morality in Media and Operation Yorkville, is an American conservative anti-pornography organization. The group has also campaigned against sex trafficking, same-sex marriage, sex shops and sex toys, decriminalization of sex work, comprehensive sex education, and various works of literature or visual arts the organization has deemed obscene, profane or indecent. [...] The organization describes its goal as "exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation".
Doing the lords work by fucking up (lol) any discourse about sexuality.
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1. You have six shotgun shells.
2. Connect to a random person.
3. If they ask "ASL", they're a Zombie. If you have a shotgun shell left, you shoot them and use up one shell. If not, they bite you and you die.
4. Ask "What is OP?". If they give the correct answer, they're a fellow survivor, and both of you refill your shotgun shells.
comprehensive sex education
Ah yes, because if there is anything that will prevent exploitation it’s not being educated about sex.
Is Detroit: Become Human on the list of removed titles (that's where the screenshot is from).
The game does deal with themes like child and spousal abuse, and has a part with a same sex couple, so it fits these fascists' MO.
If so, ridiculous. However, I kind of hope they do go after some bigger games so people get pissed.
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Honestly valve mishandled this issue. This sounded like a solid opportunity to be like "Okay, AO and NSFW games are no longer able to be sold via third party merchants" and then disabled the ability on the payment page.
Like they already offer an ability to pay directly, just require funding to be from steam wallet, then the transaction records are only "add funds" or "wallet payment" or whatever they use for steam wallet funding. Or if it is just paypal, make it so it has to be a first(wallet) or a second(credit cards) party instead of a third party(paypal)
I was under the understanding that they cared only about their image and the fact that their service was being used to purchase those items. If that's the case, then they shouldn't have an Issue with it existing in the first place, just that people can associate their platform with those type of games. If Steam went out of their way to make it so you can't use third party(or even second party tbh) merchants with adult-only and NSFW style games, then consumers wouldn't be able to relate their service to those type of games.
If what you said is correct there, that's a massive overstep on the payment processors, but I don't think that's the case here.
For example, when visa stopped accepting advertisements on Pornhub, it was because it wasn't able to control whether or not it was being depicted next to CP, which is against its rules. They entire quote was as follows: "It is illegal, and Visa does not permit the use of our network for illegal activity. Our rules explicitly and unequivocally prohibit the use of our products to pay for content that depicts nonconsensual sexual behavior or child sexual abuse.”
If this is the same case, just disabling the payment processor's ability should more than suffice.
Having said my main concern about all this is, currently steam is rolling over, but as people have said previously, steam is a large company. They could just decide full stop that you can only pay for video games with a steam wallet, which will make it so you have to add the funds to your wallet ahead of time. This also will remove quite a bit of protections that consumers have when using a credit card because at that point the service is Steam providing you money for your wallet instead of Steam providing you a functional game which means that any type of argument consumers would do with chargebacks of like this game isn't functioning on my system would be immediately thrown out because steam only charged you to add funds to your wallet instead of buying a game like it currently is.
a few ways to be honest.
They already have steam wallet cards at most electronic retail stores which operate the same as gift cards
but I was thinking more along the line of the payment processor is still there, but the goods being purchased is no longer the game itself, just adding currency on, which more-or-less removes the problem all together. Payment processors are no longer being used to buy NSFW content, its being used to purchase wallet funds. So the association is no longer valid.
Alternatively they could go the Mullvad approach as well, and allow for cash, check and wire transfer over if they really wanted to. Heck honestly like what PC said, with how big they are, they could even make a low transaction fee(seller side) savings card and could probably rival the companies themselves. I know a few people that would happily switch to said card if it meant ease of access buying games.
Additionally, a mix of these could be done, at some point card companies would fold because its threatening their bottom line. I personally think if they went the steam wallet route, the companies wouldn't want to engage big stores such as walmart, as a good portion of their revenue is via the transaction fees those companies provide.
this is all hypotheticals though
Payment processors are no longer being used to buy NSFW content, its being used to purchase wallet funds. So the association is no longer valid.
You can make that argument, sure. You could also make the other argument, that their services are being associated with this content by proxy, at minimum.
I don't agree with them. I'm just pointing out what their argument is.
I also agree Valve should make an alternative. They've got the resources and the reach to do it. They could probably even get other companies to use it and take a percentage of each transaction for another revenue stream. As it is, they're losing a percentage to these companies, and now they're fucking with their business too. They should be doing everything they can to get away from them.
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HuniePop is a comedic masterpiece I will actually be upset about if it's disappeared.
This group is nuts. Wanting to ban Detroit Become Human because it depicts child abuse is completely insane. That's like solving sex trafficking by making it illegal to mention it.
I mean, their leader is literally under fire for saying the Epstein files never existed and people should just stop talking about it. Making it illegal to even mention sex trafficking is the next logical step to protect the Dear Leader, because lord knows tackling the real issues wouldn't end well for him.
It's actually a more ideologically consistent position than most reactionary groups. They want to be able to keep diddling kids while everyone shuts up about it and the queers get shoved in concentration camps. Now that's a Good Traditional Christian Nation babyyyyyy
To be honest, when this story first appeared especially with Valve being the ones to announce the censorship, I thought it was sort of a nothing burger with Valve (Gave Newell having libertarian values) being pissed that someone has control over what they can sell on their store or not.
I also personally believe in the past 5-10 years that there is so much adult content and so much gateways to adult content in non adult content spaces that I personally feel something needs to be done about it.
But after seeing the group behind it, it's basically the opposite extreme. We should be able to talk about sex and sexuality, and have media that dives into these topics without some of the extreme fetishism that is on the internet (e.g. cuckoldry, gooning).
While I feel conflicted about these games being on an extremely popular pc gaming store, the people who are trying to get it removed aren't helping - they are the problem by being so extreme in their views of sex and sexuality themselves.
without some of the extreme fetishism that is on the internet (e.g. cuckoldry, gooning)
What's wrong with those?
Rhaxapopouetl
in reply to misk • • •Warframe is an amazing game in its own right.
You should try it (it's free) just to see how they twisted all the tropes.
It's an mmo where you're alone or with 3 strangers.
You can gain xp from those strangers' kills if you're close enough.
Everything you can buy is also available for free.
Very interesting and fun game, with a truly amazing story/universe.
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in reply to Rhaxapopouetl • • •Iffff you're willing to spend many many hours grinding against artificial RNG and pretending your time has zero value.
But yeah enough patience and persistence can technically get you almost everything (I stopped after 50 warframes).
Tolstoy
in reply to Rhaxapopouetl • • •Everything gameplay related: yes
Additionally you can earn the premium currency by trading with other players.
Warframe.market and riven.market were the places to go...
Sometimes I miss the game but the tenosynovitis knows better...
Still great game, 10 out of 10, Clem, grakata
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in reply to misk • • •Okay but seriously, why are there old trenches on Tau? I can buy that the Orokin, constant assholes that they were, came to Tau along the solar rails to kill the Sentients they created and claim their new solar system. That contradicts a lot of the old lore, but makes some logical sense. They presumably have the Tenno at this point though, and they have the Infestation; why would their tactics involve trench warfare? They could virus bomb a site from orbit and then send Tenno in to annihilate anything that still moved. Trench warfare isn't really efficient, there's a reason we don't really see it anymore, and the Orokin have tech far, far beyond what we have today.
Also if this update doesn't let us finally see The Sounding of the Naga Drums I will be very sad.
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in reply to M137 • • •Personally, I just can't get back into it. I quit back in 2019 when the chat mods went fully insane and quit/fired and players were getting really toxic about Nyx pre-rework
It doesn't help that I started back when the meta was focussed on crowd control, and witb so many damage-focussed frames they've been made largely irrelevant. Plus the open world stuff and extra equipment grinds that came with them just don't click with me
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