Sailing the high seas has been a breath of fresh air. It's nice to have greater ownership over my software than the rubes who pay for theirs, lol. And it's cheaper!

[–] 79luca79@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

same here lol and i dont play much anymore

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Just buy future games from GOG. No need to delete Steam or already made purchases.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not really on the table, my kid would kill me in my sleep. Just going to move forward towards other things.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your kid would kill you, if you bought a game on GOG? 😅

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If I deleted steam

[–] 79luca79@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

yes that i will do. if its not available then there this particular other way...

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (41 children)

I'm still gonna use American stuff that's good if they keep DEI. brb checking up on Steam.

Edit: it's not looking good tbh I think I'll switch to GOG / physical media as much as feasible.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Report your findings

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They seem to have a track record of lukewarm responses to social issues, lax content moderation, and a combo of flat corporate hierarchy and a complete lack of diversity in their team that have made it difficult to lead any efforts to improve the situation.

My read is that Gabe is not evil, just a comfortable old guy who, like many comfortable old (white) guys, has bought into the myth of the great meritocracy as a self serving narrative, which is really just a post-hoc mythology of success in most cases imo.

I'm reading deeply into a lot of skimmed clues, so all of the foregoing is subject to revision if I see anything compelling in the opposite direction.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Valve has deep libertarian roots unfortunately

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I knew I smelled something.

Well hell, I hope Gabe eventually meets enough libertarians to become disgusted with himself. Penn Gillette recently did, so there's always hope.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 1 day ago

Penn was an actual libertarian, not an american-style one. when listening to the things he actually believes, rather than the label he used to ascribe to those beliefs, that is very clear. the reason he turned away from the label itself was that he realized he wanted nothing to do with the people using the label because he didn't share their beliefs.

it's probably better if gabe never meets a single one of those guys.

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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Presuming you can't get a game on GoG (which is European), check if the game is still from Europe.

Bit of a compromise, but this is for the people who can't give up on Steam.