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Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: ElectricPrismI think I can finally make some sense of this. I think that sexuality is not the thing that distinguishes the game for removal.

According to other articles on the web, some of the images in the game, though cartoon have girls that appear to be underage. Underage sex, consensual or not is in most places still illegal.

I think Valve is afraid to come out and say it outright.

As of right now, we’re sort of left clutching straws with this one. Steam’s rules and regulations on sexual content are confusing at the best of times, and there are plenty of games like The Witcher 3 which seem to get by with some fairly overt sexual content. As a best guess, it may be that these affected games feature content which could be interpreted as sexualising minors.

There’s a common theme of young looking girls that runs through these games on Steam, including some dressed as schoolgirls, and there’s certainly an argument to be made that these games are depicting young people in a sexual manner. The question though, is just how young are they meant to be? The creators can claim they're thirty years old and there's not really any way for Valve to disprove this.

http://www.game-debate.com/news/25100/steam-devs-claim-valve-asking-for-sexual-content-to-be-censored-or-games-may-be-removed [External Link]

If that's the real reason, that's very understandable but then they definitely chose the wrong moment to be coy and vague.

If that is the reason, then the need to fully explain that to the developer.

Yeah.

Although on second thought I can kinda see why they wouldn't want to send an email to someone which explicitly admits that they've been potentially distributing child-sexualizing content for years.

Unfortunately, this precaution didn't work anyway and is only backfiring now.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI think I can finally make some sense of this. I think that sexuality is not the thing that distinguishes the game for removal.

According to other articles on the web, some of the images in the game, though cartoon have girls that appear to be underage. Underage sex, consensual or not is in most places still illegal.

I think Valve is afraid to come out and say it outright.

As of right now, we’re sort of left clutching straws with this one. Steam’s rules and regulations on sexual content are confusing at the best of times, and there are plenty of games like The Witcher 3 which seem to get by with some fairly overt sexual content. As a best guess, it may be that these affected games feature content which could be interpreted as sexualising minors.

There’s a common theme of young looking girls that runs through these games on Steam, including some dressed as schoolgirls, and there’s certainly an argument to be made that these games are depicting young people in a sexual manner. The question though, is just how young are they meant to be? The creators can claim they're thirty years old and there's not really any way for Valve to disprove this.

http://www.game-debate.com/news/25100/steam-devs-claim-valve-asking-for-sexual-content-to-be-censored-or-games-may-be-removed [External Link]

If that's the real reason, that's very understandable but then they definitely chose the wrong moment to be coy and vague.

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Serious question: do those rules and guidelines actually exist? Can someone actually read them anywhere?

This [External Link] seems to still literally be it. It's arguably clear enough in itself but how it's applied seems to be another story.

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: CreakEdit: I'm wondering which engine he's using..

Completely in-house, IIRC.

Yep, it's Simon's own custom engine.

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I'm a fucking what?

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Quoting: etonbears(which is why any given "society" tries to plant its ideas of religion/politics/patriotism as early as possible)

When done without leaving any room for context, doubt or argument, it's one of the most callous and irresponsible things people do, if you ask me.

Quoting: etonbearsIn case we feel too superior about the logic/modernity of the metric system (which originates in the French revolution of 1789), consider that we all customarily use archaic measures of time (24 hrs of 60 mins of 60 seconds) and angular measure (one revolution/circle is 360 degrees of 60 minutes of 60 seconds) without a second thought. There are metric/decimal alternatives for both, but we continue to use the systems derived from the ancient Sumerian base 60 number system, some 4000 years later.:O

Well, there is some extra irony in what you're saying in that the entire metric system is built on that system of time measurement. The very meter itself is defined through the second — wiki [External Link].

I think ultimately consistency and good frames of reference are more important than the decimal base.

Also as someone doing graphics programming I use radians quite a lot. :V

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Eric the Unready is one of the funniest games I have ever played. Highly recommended.

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I very much enjoy sharing and looking at the playtime information but I certainly welcome people being able to make things more comfortable for them.

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Quoting: NolentharI'd agree that it's probably doable for a random Jane or Joe to use Linux nowadays and do pretty much everything, but it still requires a strong will and a willingness to gimp (no pun intended) your experience for the sake of your principles. It's no small feat to do that.

The idea that switching to Linux is gimping your experience is a very disagreeable one. Especially with concerns of usability in mind.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: qptain NemoAny water or monster rendering issues you can see?

These were solved with wined3d a long time ago already. Only dxvk still needs work for some of that.

Are there any issues other than performance left there?

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