Kuori [she/her]

i see. as i said, i’d still consider it drm even in a case like yours where it never gives you trouble. i find performance suffers mostly in edge cases for me but it’s often enough that i prefer to simply take steam out of the equation entirely.

Do you manually open the games’ locations and then open their executables or what?

i just keep a folder with shortcuts to the games i play on the desktop tbh, i am a bit of a slob that way. anyway this is all very no-stakes so i’m not trying to convince anyone of anything here. if you like something and it works for you then you should use it! i will continue to pirate because that’s what works best for me.

i’m away from my pc for the week but does steam not require you have it running for basically every game? even if it’s a switch devs can flip it still falls under the same category imo but i am curious and don’t know the full facts here

Why the fuck wouldn’t I buy from their store?

bc it’s functionally always-on DRM? i mean feel free to spend money how you will but there are tons of good reasons to avoid steam

sorry you had to see people being shitty about it. i really wish folks would understand that mental illness does not make you a bad person, and that our enemies are bad people because they choose to be hateful bigots, not bc they’re born with spicy brain.

for anyone curious, the owner seems to be a right-wing shithead

(see how easy that was to say without being ableist and weird about it?)

“Everyone back to the office!”

i’m saying i disagree with this approach. people have been preaching “not to feed the trolls” for decades and the internet has only gotten more bigoted and terrible. forcing those people out of any non-nazi space should be priority #1. we do this on hexbear and as a result the site culture there is significantly more welcoming to minorities than just about anywhere else on the internet. i’ve been on the internet for like 25 years now (admittedly not as long as you) and it’s the only site i have ever seen where people bandying about slurs and abusive language are not only not tolerated, but are actively rejected by the community en mass

it works. if you build it, they will come. if you ban the shitheads, good people will stay. if you don’t, you end up with 4chan.

brb learning how to be a 90s era hacker so i can make people’s heads pop like in scanners

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you’re a horrible person

this is an extremely individualized approach that leaves bigots free to spread their filth everywhere, making normal people (particularly marginalized ones) uncomfortable and at worst forcing them out of the space entirely.

bigotry should be opposed at all times in every conceivable way. unfortunately we can’t do violence to shitheads on the internet, so silencing them is the next best thing

nothing should ever be better than it was in the past. everything should continue to suck forever.

“the community” doesn’t fear covid nearly enough. as evidenced by its utterly unchecked spread

drink your own piss and die, dumbass

people who don’t uncritically swallow state dept propaganda are bad, actually

help, i keep voting against the nsa but it still exists??

another excellent reason to always wear a mask in enclosed spaces

correct, we don’t allow racism or bigotry on our instance, fashie. sorry that offends you.

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you’re literally pro-nazi and you’re complaining about us lmao