Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: EikeHow about setting all games that are not getting set anything by developers/publishers to 18, the maximum restriction age? Would be far from being unpurchaseable...

I suppose that still wouldn't fulfil the requirement of accurately identifying the "kinds of content" that are not legal in Germany. Steam would have to assume that every game contains such content and hide everything by default anyway.

Age restriction and actual illegal content are independent, and to the best of my knowledge (unlike AFAIK the USA?), they do not need to state reasons for the age restriction (like alcohol, drugs, violence, whatever). So I think this would fly.

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Quoting: StellaIs this a joke or something? How can they force everyone to comply to this retroactively when many game studios are long since defunct? What the fuck? Do they have any idea how many old games would simply become unpurchaseable because of this?

How about setting all games that are not getting set anything by developers/publishers to 18, the maximum restriction age? Would be far from being unpurchaseable...

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Quoting: Cato-the-younger

Quoting: EikeYou're wrong. Feel free to read it up [External Link].

(Interestingly, they had a higher quote of participation in 1912 than in 2021, so the poor were not only allowed to vote, they actually did.)

I dont read German. Give me an English language source to verify.

That's your problem. I can. And did.
The source given is the German main legislative, Bundestag.
(I wonder if they'll invent automatic translation some day. Nah, sounds like science fiction fantasy to me.)

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerOr better yet, go read "German Electoral History: From Empire to Republic" or "Suffrage and Voting Rights in Germany: From the 19th Century to Modern times" - it talks about restricted voting rights across German states based on property ownership, income or tax contributions restricting the ability of lower class men to vote.

You seem to be talking about another period of time, or other countries. We're talking about Weimarer Republic, not some anonymous "German states".

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerThe Weimar Republic introduced universal sufferage for all citizens over 20 regardless of Gender and class. So again your argument falls apart.

Again you're talking about another period of time. That was in 1918.

I was talking - as you can easily see by only the headlines in the source I linked - about the time 1871-1918.

Again, for you convenience:
Women were discriminated against.
They were not allowed to vote, while men were allowed to vote independent of class and social status.
(And no, celebrating somebody doesn't compensate for basic rights.)

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerWhat obvious lies about women did I say? You conveniently ignore everything I wrote earlier about the celebration of women and their fertility and status. Of course you did though, as it doesnt fit your narrow narrative of the world.

I was ignoring that to you favour. Would you give up voting right for men and exchange it for being "celebrated"? I sure wouldn't. It has got nothing to do with anybody's rights, and actually, it's quite showing that you seem to think it would.

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerThe blatant lies and misrepresentation of history by the woke crowd for their own political agendas is absolutely sickening and tiring.

So sorry for facts sickening and tiring you. It's a tough life sometimes...

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Quoting: Cato-the-younger

Quoting: EikeIn my country (Germany), women weren't allowed to
* attend university 130 years ago,
* make politics 120 years ago,
* elect 110 years ago,
* decide how their own money is used in marriage 70 years ago,
* work without their husbands allowance 70 years ago.

But I guess they were celebrated, huh?

I'm still surprised by people saying such obvious lies.

And in your country (Germany), men of low socioeconomic status weren't allowed to:
[...]
*elect (see above reasons)

You're wrong. Feel free to read it up [External Link].

(Interestingly, they had a higher quote of participation in 1912 than in 2021, so the poor were not only allowed to vote, they actually did.)

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerAt least do proper research before and think about what you write before writing nonsense

Well...

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerthough if you know history females werent at all oppressed and were celebrated all throughout human history

I'm still surprised by people saying such obvious lies.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about x86_64 support? (Steam client is still 32-bit.)

To what end?

It works all fine on 64 bit,
and so many games need 32 bit support anyway.
If I were Valve, I wouldn't invest money
just to get more support questions
(about all those 32 bit games not running).

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Quoting: TheCrafters001I have a hard time believing that Nintendo will actually win the lawsuit...

I can believe that the indie devs don't have the money to get through this in the first place.
I guess it's "non-trivial" to do the legal defense on your own in patent cases.

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Quoting: Cato-the-youngerthough if you know history females werent at all oppressed and were celebrated all throughout human history

In my country (Germany), women weren't allowed to
* attend university 130 years ago,
* make politics 120 years ago,
* elect 110 years ago,
* decide how their own money is used in marriage 70 years ago,
* work without their husbands allowance 70 years ago.

But I guess they were celebrated, huh?

I'm still surprised by people saying such obvious lies.

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Quoting: coolitic"Shouldn't need a calculator" as if the conversion ratio wasn't absolutely trivial.

If it wouldn't be working, they wouldn't do it.

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21 years of Steam huh? Wow. What's your favourite Steam related memory? Mine is obviously Steam coming to Linux, and trying to get it all working. What a wild ride.

When I had installed Steam for Linux (during the beta time),
it "welcomed" me with: "unfasten your seat-belts".
(I guess I didn't have the right nvidia driver yet.)

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Quoting: grigiSo many people I work with avoid Linux like the plague. When you ask them why, they avoid the question and look to flee from the discussion.

Is there some kind of Taboo going on that we just have no clue about?

I guess it's considered difficult (which is not completely wrong) and people don't want to admit that they want to avoid difficult stuff.

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