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This is digsusting. The censorship is wrong.

We wome how allow game of thrones with no problems. but harmless fantasy, albeit gross, is some how the worst thing that must be corrected?


https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valve-gets-pressured-by-payment-processors-with-a-new-rule-for-game-devs-and-various-adult-games-removed/?comment_id=281154

that is called a survalence system.

https://www.eff.org/document/age-verification-harms-users-all-ages

here is why


"Mainstream TV series such as Euphoria (depicting characters represented as children having sex) and Game of Thrones (representing characters engaged in incest) are routinely passed with MA 15+ or R 18+ ratings… But while mainstream Hollywood TV and movies can be classified quite leniently, it is no exaggeration to say that if a person enters the country with Japanese cartoons that depict exactly the same subjects as Euphoria or Game of Thrones, they stand a very real risk of being arrested….
The rush to criminalize fictional content - from AI-generated images to erotic novels - promises safety but delivers censorship, punishing creators while diverting resources from real victims. Policymakers, swayed by unproven claims that niche fantasies will "flood" the mainstream or "convert" viewers into predators, employ linguistic shifts that equate offensive art with heinous crimes. Yet, as science shows, porn consumption reflects pre-existing interests, not new ones, and banning fictional outlets will only push consumers into darker corners and obstruct harm reduction.
****The conflation of art and abuse isn't just misguided - it's harmful. With fewer than 4% of real sexual assaults leading to convictions and only 3.5% of CSAM reports investigated, survivors are sidelined as authorities pursue victimless prosecutions. Marginalized creators - often survivors themselves, along with LGBTQ+ artists, young people, and women - face censorship or prosecution for works that challenge norms, while honest discourse is stifled by stigmatizing attacks. The solution lies not in erasing uncomfortable content but in embracing nuance: prioritizing real victims, empowering creators, and trusting professionals to prevent abuse without sacrificing liberty.*****

@neolith that does not happen for guns.

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DMCA is such a cancer. There is a reason, why in a state of law, 'innocent until proven guilty' is an absolute cornerstone.
The fact that DMCA takedowns are first enacted and then verified makes them prone to abuse and we've seen time and again that more then enough people use it as a weapon.

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I don't know if there is some type of obvious algorithm that developers can use to decide when an object should be modeled with squares or triangles? Having to make these decisions during development seems like a easy way to go freaking insane. It is obvious that not everything is a square in this game, but I think it looks kinda fun.

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Yep the older I get, the more life I experience, the more I read and research the more I realize that America is not the land of the free. It is the land of the most persistent and the those with the most resources. The average American is preyed upon by corporations about 10 times a day.

1.) Century Link signed me up for $65.00 Internet for life. Then they just started charging me more and would not fix the issue. They have actually been fined by the feds for doing this in the past and they are doing it again. Thankfully Google is installing fiber on my street and they have not changed their prices in well over a decade. I will soon be saying goodbye to Centurylink, but I am one of the lucky few who will be able to.

2.) Health services are very costly for the average American family. You either have a great job or a lot of money or it hurts financially. Health insurance providers are for profit companies and they plan for it to cost us more then it does them.

3.) The cost of running a car down the road is astronomical. It isn't just the cost of the original purchase. It is the cost of the maintenance, the fuel, the insurance, the registration and the taxes.

4.) YouTubers are getting copyright strikes for playing/promoting films and music which actually falls under Fair Use, but companies have lawyers and you don't. So when you get a strike you are likely going to fold if you don't have an attorney on retainer. If YouTube is a significant income stream for you or your only income stream this is going to be potentially devastating. Some YouTubers have agreed to permanently give up monetization for certain videos to copyright holders without a fight because they can't afford to fight.

5.) Corporations have managed to twist American law to benefit them, when the law should exist to always protect the people. Corporations should always have to prove something before being able to take action. They have the resources and they are not people so the burden should always fall on them. A guy playing 14 seconds of a song and praising a band does not hurt that company in any possible way.

6.) Workers in the food industry expect customers to supplement their wages with tips. They expect this because employers are not required to properly compensate their staff because compensation with tips has actual codified laws.

Sorry to go off.

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Shoulda got the Mega Bloks license. lol

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that dont work because you can put money into your steam wallet using any payment provider, so they wont accept it eitherway.

Plus that these providers will simply refuse to do business with you if your store in any way shape or form sells these items. They are not interested in "you cannot pay with VISA to buy this", they are interested in "any store that uses VISA is not allowed to sell X".

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That is DMCA and trademark violation bait.

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The original game was a disaster.

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My thoughts on this? What exactly?

Incest? I find it repulsive, I have trouble just thinking of it. Though if the involved parties are all adult and in their mind, they can do whatever they want. And possibly not let me know about it.

Companies forcing censorship and morals (which can be aligned with mine in this case, but not in other cases)? Very annoying and disturbing. And dangerous as well.

I'm open to hear from any dude into police and sexual crime fight why censoring this kind of stuff would be beneficial, it's completely possible that there are good reasons that can't see.

Yet the main take away in my case, is that next time the government pushes for digital payments over physical bills, I will have to take the side of the physical bills. I always thought it would be better overall if all could be traced and reconstructed. But if private organizations can decide how people spend or spend not their digital money, physical bills all the time. Until some EU initiative blocks this shit that is (obviously it won't be a fight we take on the incest hill).

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The main difference is that LEGO minifigures have rounded heads and a block attachment point on the scalp for hats/hair. Hands are squared here too, but that's pretty subtle.

I think it's perfectly fine as it is since the focus seems to be on custom block shapes and a very fluid physics engine.

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It always feels like the ones targeted by these things are those who don't have the resources to fight back.

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@wytrabvit I'm just saying that lego minifigures look kinda cute while all the others somehow don't.

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So does that feel like a good game or am I just really a sucker for interesting art and atmosphere? Either way, wishlisted.

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@Kimyrielle: The law isn't so much weird as bought and paid for. It's the kind of thing that happens when your lawmaking process is dominated by the lobbyists of small elites. The DMCA happened at a time when you were seeing the rise of things like ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is a corporate-backed lobbying outfit that literally just writes legislation and gets US governments, typically starting at the state level, to pass their bills as is.

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Amazing. I wonder if this now really is the final final update ^^

I was about to say that in view of the 300 devs just laid off there... perhaps, but it turns out that's "just" 7% so who knows.

https://www.techinasia.com/news/sg-based-game-studio-virtuos-cuts-7-of-workforce

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<sigh>

Another game, another silly eula from entitled devs; they don't want people modding this game.

This genre is poisoned far too much for me to put up with this.

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The law is really kinda weird. If I understand the case right, some random person on the internet claiming "It's mine and my proof is because I said so!" is enough to take down a game whose developer can prove that they bought the assets in good faith. It would be really nice if at least the claimant had to produce some actual proof that the assets are actually theirs, and their first addressee of complaint had to be the asset store which allegedly sold the assets without license. Not a person who did absolutely nothing wrong.

The number of cases of games using 3rd party assets ending in legal disaster like that is mind-numbing. I think many developers don't realize what a legal minefield 3rd party assets are. From that perspective, it's kinda easy to understand why some/many small projects switched to using AI rather than 3rd party assets. AI isn't without risk either, but it's nowhere -that- bad.

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The graphics look incredible (apart from the characters/avatars, as pb notes above). Physics engine looks lovely too. There's a hint of Teardown in there, some Fall Guys, and yeah, obviously a Lego/Roblox vibe too.

Very impressive.

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person who's never really played civ sims here, HEAVY recommendation from me. the game is a banger

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Using assets downloaded from the internet in a commercial project is always a bad idea. It's too hard to trace the provenance.

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wow what a plagiarism of Miyazaki! Thankfully, he is not Nintendo XD

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@pb Are you referring to the design that LEGO bought from Kiddicraft (originally straight copied with permission) and turned into Automatic Binding Bricks? They're just blocks that fit together, and the blocky characters "fit" with the theme of the blocks themselves. Minecraft does the same, blocky characters for blocky building bricks.

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Doesn't the hit-detection just look really hard to track in this? Brotato had a little of that challenge too, but more because there was so much going on. In this, I can't even tell when the character is taking damage!!

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Did really someone ask for more or new vehicles in CP2077 O.o? *facepalm*

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As amoral as those games on the screenshot might be, the decision on whether they are allowed on Steam should only be made by the platform itself, local restrictions may come from governments or rating boards, like PEGI, ESRB or CERO. Payment processors should not be allowed to govern what people can buy with their own money. If anything, make it so that certain games can only be paid for via certain service.

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Thanks for sharing, I got Dusk + Amid Evil along with The Ascent and Hellbound :)

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Thanks @toor !
Liam we don't have time to finish Cyberpunk, it's years after release, we must accept it at this point.

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Playing it since forever, but... For me, the worst part of this game is to not have BAR (Beyond All Reason) formation tools, and the lack of proper collision between troops, bodies, etc... I HATE seeing my troops in melee all mixed together.

Can't believe that in 2025, the problem of an RTS is that it isn't more like BAR.

Good place to be in!

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Maybe I'm too hardcore lego fan, but these figures look ugly as... you get the point. I never played roblox, but from what I've seen, the figures there are even uglier. Is it really impossible to create a block character that doesn't look like absolute crap without infringing on lego's design?

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Got a lot of love for this game, after a very chilled and engaging early access gamepass run through. Got a steam copy of the game to go and see what’s changed.

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