Quoting: LinasThis one should be safe to fap to. But you may want to consult a lawyer just to be on the safe side.

Always consult a lawyer before fapping. Especially if you've got a lawyer fetish. You weirdo.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: tuubiIf Valve only bans games with children in a sexual context, I don't mind at all.

But that is not the case at all. HuniePop does not contain children in sexual context. At best it has characters that may appear to be young.

I haven't played HuniePop so I'll take your word for it, but I was commenting on the whole banning games for sexual content issue in general.

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If Valve only bans games with children in a sexual context, I don't mind at all. You can fight all you want about technicalities and cultural differences and whatnot, but we won't actually lose anything worthwhile if they do. There must be other platforms for such "art". There's no good reason to make it easily accessible.

I'm not quite as vehemently opposed to (late) teens in similar situations, because as you might have noticed, teens do have sex and they do also play games. As long as it's not about something like rape fantasies or whatever, I'm okayish with it. I might not be the target audience, but I sure as hell once was, back in the day when we used to ride dinosaurs to school.

I don't mind (consensual) sex and nudity in general in my entertainment. The glorification of violence is much more of a problem.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: cprnI get the target audience is software that doesn't release on Steam at all but let's face it: most of games sooner or later does.

And they can still keep using mod.io, unless they absolutely need Steam Workshop for the Steam client integration. I don't really care if the game provides their own mod manager using some other service.

Yeah, but that's for as long as there aren't many. It kind of reminds an xkcd strip about standards. The one where they say:

Quote- Hey, there are 13 competing standards for this!
- You're right! That's awful! We should make our own that will merge all the good solutions and leave out the bad ones to make life easier for everyone around!

...

- Hey, there are 14 competing standards for this!

When each solution has its own problems and many different games use many different solutions for the same thing it's very hard to make anything consistent and inconsistencies are what frustrates the end user. That's how e.g. Microsoft and Adobe stole big chunks of their markets.

You'd have a point if Steam Workshop was a standard. And if games had any consistency in their UI designs.

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Quoting: cprnI get the target audience is software that doesn't release on Steam at all but let's face it: most of games sooner or later does.

And they can still keep using mod.io, unless they absolutely need Steam Workshop for the Steam client integration. I don't really care if the game provides their own mod manager using some other service.

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Ooh, nice! I haven't actually played all of them yet.

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Quoting: WendigoOtherwise I'd agree that it is a stupid move since developers can already see in their steam statistics how many potential Linux customers have put the game on their wish list.

Of course this won't give them reliable data, but it might affect their motivation.

Wishlists are obviously not a good way to gauge interest though. I for one won't bother adding any games to my wishlist unless they're available or soon to be released for Linux, and people who haven't manually set Linux/SteamOS as their only platform in the Steam client won't even count.

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I'm afraid to even try any of these retro racers. I loved them as a kid back when they weren't retro, but now even watching a video makes me grind my teeth at the stupid physics.

Quoting: Geppeto35@Liam: Do you have to chase some gangsters or be chased by police at some points? if so = <3

Whaaat? Am I really the only one who lost interest in the NFS series after they introduced police chases in the third installment?

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Quoting: vlademir1

Quoting: liamdaweIt seems people still get hackers and computer crackers mixed up.

I gave up that fight in the mid-00s.

I still maintain that "hacker" is simply what programmers/developers/coders now call themselves to sound cool. I can't help but feel embarrassed whenever someone uses the term to describe me. I might have come up with a dirty hack or two over the years, but that does not make me a hacker. :P

"Hacker" was a common term for people breaking into systems back in the eighties and nineties, whereas "cracker" referred to people specifically breaking software protections. (DRM in modern terms.) But I guess language evolves.

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Quoting: BOYSSSSSAkon Has Done More for Africans in One Year Than Most Charities Have Done in Decades
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/akon-africans-year-charities-decades/

As reported by Akon's charity group. :)

Seems like a successful charity project, but the article reads more like marketing than journalism.

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