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  • asret@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.worldLemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
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    17 days ago

    Perhaps I don’t really understand - looking at the world news community on lemmy.ml rule 1 seems to be about only posting links to news articles. None of the things on the mod log screenshot look like news articles. Isn’t this the mods doing their jobs correctly?

    The OP’s situation seems completely different to this and it’s definitely a problem - what am I missing about the rule 1 stuff though?



  • Yes, just wanted to contrast the reception they got. Bethesda games don’t generally attract as much ire for the bugs. People expect them and tolerate them (to an extent). Cyberpunk 2077 was a totally broken mess according to the internet, while the Elder Scrolls are the greatest thing ever.

    I had crashes to the desktop about every 4th area transition in Oblivion and it still didn’t bother me too much, since it had just saved and took less than a minute to get back into the game.

    Some bugs - even total crashes - can still be put up with just fine.




  • asret@lemmy.ziptoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldWhy Would He Help Putin?
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    2 months ago

    You guys should really think about changing your voting system.

    Our voting uses something called a Single Transferable Vote. You can rank candidates in order of preference - last place gets eliminated and any votes they got are instead transferred to each voters’ next preference. Repeat until there’s only one left.

    It cuts out most of the stupid games and you get to see people’s positions more honestly.

    In this case it’d let people vote for an anti genocide candidate and still indicate that they’d prefer Biden over Trump.











  • Sometimes taking what seems like the right stand on an issue can deepen the harm - be careful about getting too extreme.

    For example when the whole “gamergate” thing was going on and people were like “Why can’t I just enjoy Tomb Raider?” - one side was standing up for diversity and inclusion by denouncing them as basement-dwelling incels who should self-terminate. So that naturally drove some to those right-wing assholes.

    Sometimes it takes a bit of work to change someone’s context so they can get closer to your perspective.


  • They’re just a consultancy service - hardly worth investigating. Seems that they purport to offer expertise on how a developer can improve diversity and inclusion in their products.

    Like any consultancy, whether they can actually do this and whether their clients will actually implement it effectively are another matter entirely.

    The Steam group creator seems to think either they’re garbage or that their clients’ approach to diversity and inclusion is garbage. (Or maybe they’re just some alt-right incel Nazi <insert favoured pejorative here…>)


  • This particular take that’s going around seems to be almost as stupid as Sweet Baby Inc’s attempted takedown of the Steam group.

    They’re just pointing out reality - gaming media is “woke”, if your product doesn’t check the diversity and inclusion boxes it will be criticized, “hire us to help”. They’re basically a PR firm.

    This isn’t them threatening to cause the damage, they’re not The Mob - “Say, that’s a nice game you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.”