To explain why I'm in particular not using the 'varied tools Steam has to filter out adult content'; I don't mind well-done adult content.

But Steam has been overwhelmed by cookie-cutter shovelware which someone probably spent five minutes on to write an AI prompt or something. It's been an insane influx of really bad 'games' which are just interactive pr0n movies.

Take Fenoxo's Corruption of Champions II in comparison; it's a work that people have spent years on before putting it out on Steam. It's smut, obviously, but it shows that people have done the work to create it. As opposed to the examples from the screenshot. There's actual game dynamics in it.

Not all 18+ games are low quality, but those which are were dominating the lists by their sheer volume.

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While I'm actually glad the slew of badly made pr0n on Steam gets culled as they were just everywhere in every search I've done recently, it's bad that it's due to payment processors bringing the rulehammer down and not a decision on Valve's end.
It's Valve's store and payment processors should stay the F* out of dictating what can and cannot be sold in it.
Whether PayPal or other payment processor, they are obviously playing a political game given the political climate in the US and other regions where conservative voices have decided to throw a temper tantrum.
These temper tantrums should be ignored or we'll be back in the dark ages before long.

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Happy birthday GOL! And many more, I'd say. :tongue:

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It's a shame they had to tag Denuvo on it. I avoid that stuff where possible.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPT

Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: CZiNTrPTIn my country real organ donorship is opt-out and that's right approach as well

Which country is that? Sounds like human rights violation to me.

> In the EU, most countries use an opt-out system (also known as "presumed consent") for organ donation, meaning that individuals are considered potential donors unless they have explicitly stated otherwise. Approximately 20 of the 27 EU countries operate under some form of opt-out system. This means around 74% of EU countries have opt-out laws for organ donation.

Get with the program!

You seem very agitated about this for some reason. Might want to take some distance from this.

Organ donations after someone's demise are different from telemetry taken from a system used for years and years almost 24/7 for some people.
All that data gets around on the internet via sales, hacks, etc. It could be used for targeted advertising, attack vectors for social engineering, etc.
This has consequences on a person while they are still alive, and it is in no way comparable to organ donations after they are no longer alive.

Opt-in is the only user-friendly system for telemetry gathering.

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How about no?

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I just want them to give us a printout of the BASIC code for every game we buy so we can type it out on our Commodore 64. That's proper ownership.

Wait, no, sorry, wrong decade...

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I'm probably in the minority because of a modified Pulse configuration due to certain niche uses for my audio hardware, but Pipewire introduced latency and messed with the audio piping in a way which added additional noise where I used to have a clean output. I'm not willing to risk upsetting my setup again just because Pipewire now has a 1.0. If it's a seamless transition which takes already existing configurations and merges it into the new setup without introducing latency and noise, then maybe... just maybe... I'll try it out in a year or so...

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We need to stop fining big tech companies m's. Best to fine them b's. If they don't behave with the b, threaten them with the t. Especially the big ones which hold most of the internet in a vice grip.

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Add a setting to improve compatibility with window managers that send an unfocus event before every pointer click event, e.g. openbox. This setting can be found in "Settings->Interface->Enable context menu focus compatibility mode". Enabling this setting will fix dropdown menus being unclickable on these window managers.

This was one of my biggest complaints with the new client.

The one issue I would like to see fixed is the giant amount of extra space used for UI elements compared to the older layout. There's too much space between lines of text, the headers for categories are too big, the search bar and the icons on top are too big. Everything is just bigger. I hate it.
I use the Steam Client in Small Mode for a reason; it tucks out of the way off to the side, almost like a foreground Conky, but now the library list needs to scroll down quicker when having less games installed. It's bothersome.

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