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Old discussion from 2017: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/1471967615868031324/

This discussion sits rent free in my head; I keep remembering this from time to time because it's just nastiness for nothing. There's nothing to be gained from preventing Cuban players from playing steam games and yet you have someone hoping they can't access it; why? No idea.

The absolute nastiness people have for random strangers who've never done them harm nor wished them harm is beyond me. Just a reminder but Cuba offered to help during the events of hurricane Katrina, which predates this nastiness by over a decade.

America needs to be shut off from the world by being placed within a giant indestructible dome.

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[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

America needs to be shut off from the world by being placed within a giant indestructible dome.

The iron dome but good

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess that was the height of fascist takeover of gamers.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Fascists really are just losers

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what if it was a commie who wants to keep the glorious Republic of Cuba free from the plague of G*ming

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

I checked through his posts; he's one of those "Oh I don't hate Japanese Assassin's creed because I hate black people, I hate it because I wanted to play a Japanese person; I hate the wokes!" kind of guy

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Steam forums are a great source of c/slop content

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Gamers deletus est

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

the least hateful gamer

[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I played a dota game with a guy from Cuba, his ping was really high so I assumed he was Peruvian (US servers are where all of Peru play lol, apparently they get better ping from it than the one in Peru because of the Andes or something.) he told me he was cuban and I said Viva m26 and he said Viva Castro.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

m26

For anyone wondering, the M26 is a motorway in Kent, England.

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Gamer moment

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

I pray that Cuba has some top tier pirating.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Been jamming with my Cuban co worker and gave him a guitar, he's gonna use it more than me. More than showing him Blowbacl season 2, showing him stuff like this has de-Gusano's the dude

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

extremely common attitude towards iranians as well.

"hey I've been playing this game for 10 years im wondering why did it suddenly start blocking us?"

"well maybe you should force your government to align with US policies so you're not sanctioned anymore have you thought about that? stop complaining crybaby smuglord "

goddamit i just want my osrs account back angery

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

With a VPN, yes, you'll be fine.

[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it's possible that Hannibal was just being a hater and not racist (i.e. "I hope I won't have to see your steam posts in the future" not "cubans shouldn't be able to use steam")

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

I checked his posts; this guy hates 'the wokes' and hates the new Japanese Assassin's creed not because he hates black people but because 'why is there a black person in Japan' and he 'wanted to play a Japanese person' (yeah, we all believe that, sure)