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To Whom It May Deeply Concern,

I write to you not with courtesy, nor diplomacy, but with a blazing fire of indignation and righteous fury over the suffocating, authoritarian, and frankly disgusting actions of your organization. Collective Shout - an entity that masquerades as a moral guardian - has become nothing short of a censorship machine, functioning under a warped, puritanical crusade to erase anything that doesn't fit your rigid and Cherry-picked version of "appropriate" content. Your behavior is not that of a benevolent protector of society, but that of an ideological inquisition seeking to annihilate freedom of expression wherever it dares to show a shred of originality, edge, or nuance.

Let me be unequivocal - your group has no moral high ground. You do not represent "all women." You do not speak for society. And you most certainly do not speak for the millions of us who value artistic liberty, diverse storytelling, and the personal responsibility to choose what media we consume. You are not a grassroots watchdog. You are a self-appointed, unelected censorship lobby, whose behavior reeks of the same Orwellian overreach one might expect from repressive regimes.

Let’s get right to it. Your efforts to pressure Valve (Steam) and indie platforms like Itch.io into delisting and banning games - particularly ones that explore adult themes, anime-styled art, edgy humor, sexuality, or uncomfortable subject matter - are not only anti-consumer, but blatantly authoritarian. You paint all creators with the same broad brush, declaring their content harmful or exploitative, while ignoring context, nuance, genre, intent, and even satire.

Worse yet, you treat adults as if they are infants incapable of making their own decisions, demanding companies act as your moral police. You Cherry-pick games out of thousands, often misrepresenting them, weaponizing outrage, and demanding total erasure from the public sphere - not regulation, but outright obliteration.

This is not advocacy. This is ideological fascism dressed in progressive drag.

You’ve reduced a complex, multifaceted cultural medium like video games - a legitimate form of art - to a battlefield for your performative outrage and virtue signaling. Your idea of helping women or protecting children apparently includes silencing artists, crushing small developers, and bulldozing consumer agency into the dirt.

And don't even get me started on your hypocrisy. You rally against fictional content while staying suspiciously silent on real-world abuses that aren’t politically convenient or ideologically aligned. You have no issue rallying your digital pitchforks against harmless visual novels or fan-made indie games, but where is your energy when it comes to holding major corporations accountable for systemic exploitation in media, fashion, or advertising?

You see, your activism is selective, convenient, and ideologically filtered. You only care when it serves your brand. You don't protect people; you curate narratives. And you dare to insult the intelligence and autonomy of every free-thinking adult in the process.

I speak as a centrist, someone who believes in balance - in protecting the vulnerable without infantilizing society or handing over our civil liberties to mobs of moral puritans. I also speak from a mildly conservative perspective when I say: enough is enough.

You are not the solution. You are part of the problem.

You’re not just silencing perverse or extreme content (which already has laws and community moderation in place). You’re silencing weirdness, art, criticism, uncomfortable stories, and mature themes, and you're doing so under the false pretense that you are "protecting" people. The truth is, you don't trust people to think for themselves. And what’s worse - you don't want to.

And what do you think happens when organizations like yours suppress, stifle, and silence under the guise of righteousness? You drive people underground. You create resentment. You provoke backlash. You feed the very anti-feminist and anti-progressive sentiments you claim to oppose.

Congratulations. You’ve helped burn the bridge to discourse and torched it in self-congratulatory flames.

In the heart of justice and the restoration of creative freedom, I call upon your moronic organization - or any platforms you have influenced through coercion - to reverse and revoke every single action taken against affected games and developers. This includes but is not limited to: restoring delisted games, reinstating wrongfully banned creators, and issuing public apologies to the individuals and small studios you’ve dragged through the mud. The damage you've caused - reputational, financial, emotional - is not something that should be swept under the rug. You owe the global indie development community a reckoning. You must repair what you’ve broken, admit the overreach, and stand down from policing artistic expression that falls outside your moral doctrine. Otherwise, history will remember your group as a blight on creative culture - a bitter footnote in the timeline of digital censorship, authoritarian activism, and social overreach.

You are free to hold your values. But you are not free to enforce them on others under threats, manipulation, or corporate pressure. We didn’t elect you. We didn’t ask for your judgment. We don’t want your crusade.

Stop harassing game platforms.

Stop treating artists as criminals.

Stop silencing those who don't think like you.

And above all else, stop pretending you’re doing this for anyone’s benefit but your own self-righteous vanity.

Because if you continue on this course, rest assured - a cultural pushback will come. You are already being viewed by many not as protectors, but as moral tyrants. And history does not remember tyrants fondly.

You have every right to exist. But you do not have the right to dictate what the rest of us can see, play, create, or enjoy.

Stay out of our libraries. Stay out of our hard drives. And for the love of liberty, stay out of our lives.

Sincerely and unapologetically,

A Centrist Who's Had Enough

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Xbox controversially raised the base price of its mainline games to $80 in an announcement a few weeks ago. Now, it seems to be backtracking. Good, I say.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that the base price of its Xbox games at retail would hit frankly staggering $80, underpinning what has been an incredibly tough year for consumers and businesses alike with regards to spiralling costs. Whether it's supply chains being impacted by arbitrary trade wars or sticky inflation from Covid quantitative easing, the market has been relatively unstable for the past few years for a variety of reasons.

In response, various businesses have put up their prices to varying degrees. Microsoft and Sony both raised the price of their Xbox and PlayStation hardware bundles over the past couple of years, and for a short while, it looked like the industry was poised to raise the base price of their mainline games to $80. It started with Nintendo's Mario Kart World hitting $79.99 at retail, and then back and forth over whether Borderlands 4 would hit $79.99 as well — it ended up being $69.99.

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#1 best thing about the Switch 2? It makes respawning in Mario Maker 2 like half a second faster. Not even joking, playing difficult levels is no longer the most frustrating thing in the world anymore.

It's crazy how few updates this game got. Really hoping there's a surprise update to the game that adds mouse controls and maybe a few new items to mess around with.

Has anyone else been playing around with Mario Maker? This is my Maker code if you want to check out anything I've made. 0XB-33C-RVF

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pretty cool stuff

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33146291

I bought a Miyoo Mini+, really loving this little thing. I've downloaded some packs of roms with the classic games, but now I'm looking for some more modern ones.

I know that people are making some new GBA games on itch.io but I don't know if other older consoles are also getting some indie love. I also saw that I can play some RPGM games using EasyRPG, so any recommendations for those would be great too.

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Ubisoft has updated its End User License Agreement, and it’s instructing its users to remove and destroy their games completely should the title be taken offline.

Essentially, the EULA has given Ubisoft free rein on its ability to stop supporting a game, writing: “You and Ubisoft may terminate this EULA at any time, for any reason. Termination by Ubisoft will be effective upon notice to you or termination of your Ubisoft account, or at the time of Ubisoft’s decision to discontinue offering and/or supporting the Product.”

Interestingly, this isn’t the only company that has the same terms in its EULA. The likes of Capcom, Sega, and even the Oblivion Remaster have the same clause in their terms and conditions, meaning the stipulation isn’t unique to Ubisoft.

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North Africa at least. And I think that because of Higg's obsession with Egypt. Dude loved him some ancient Egypt. Pharohs and whatnot. It's all over his house in DS1. He modeled his Homo Demen's outfits on Egyptian iconography. And in 2 he's covered himself in Chiral Heirogliphics.

It's the only thing he was almost as obsessed with as Sam.

And speaking of Sam. I wonder if he took all those spy shots of Sam himself or if he had a secret team of DOOMs powered shadow ninjas shadowing Sam's every step in the first game...

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Giveaway ended!

The three lucky ones are:

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

The keys will be sent to the winners via private message on lemmy.

Congrats!

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UPDATE: Since SV is on sale right now and the post got more attention than I thought it would get (the one 2 years ago got 50 total upvotes lol), I decided to up the count of SV to give away to 3 🙂

I also decided to give one out of the three copies to a comment I personally pick.

So to recap:

  • 1 SV Steam key each will be sent to the first and second randomly picked winner

  • 1 SV Steam key will be given to the poster of a comment I personally pick

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Hello Friends,

every year I give away a key for Stardew Valley. This is the 6th time I'm doing this. Why? Because it's an awesome game! Two years ago i did the giveaway on the Stardew Valley community here on lemmy.

To enter, just drop a top-level comment (not a comment on someone else's comment) under this post with a reason why you didn't play Stardew Valley yet. It can be a made up reason.

Your lemmy account must be older than 3 days to qualify.

From all comments that qualify, ~~one~~ two will be chosen randomly and one will be picked by me on Tuesday the 8th of July at 20:00 (8pm) CET.

Good luck 👍

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Hi mates,

I am new to linux knows very very basic linux like using it for more then year know how to sort little issues etc. I have my laptop with me having specs as following: **Hp Elitebook 840 G4 Core i5 7th Gen 8gb Ram 256 gb SSD Full Hd 1080 maybe resolution Currently using Fedora KDE Edition **

Use for basic working sometimes it gets load sometimes but still a good one.

Help me if you can install Tekken 7 or if not then tekken 3 will work for me as well.

I dont litterly know anything fully technical so kindly if you gonna tell me explain it to be with step by step detailes please and let me know each thing. It'll be great help 🤞

Note: If Tekken 7 can't be installed on fedora or need anything else to change, kindly recommend me, mostly i have used debian based systems and rest i have is fedora so if anything is nkt suitable, let me know please.

Gonna post in multiple communities to get extra help. Thank you

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8381389

Just showing vidya games to help lighten the mood in what is normally a political forum.

Goes on to show horror games.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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So, I'm trying to make sure my Steam Wishlist from 2024 (April-December) is small enough that I can play. I have about 250 hours at most (after repeatedly raising the limit).

Does anyone here have strong thoughts about any of these games that can help me decide? I'm in no rush to finish (since I'm a moderately patient gamer) but I figured some people here would have useful opinions.

Maybe one of these games has problematic developers, or maybe they're just boring.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts.

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In a response to an article written for Bloomberg by Jason Schreier investigating the ten year "development turmoil," lead level designer Brian J. Audette refutes the notion that the game was "compromised" in a post on their bluesky account.

The full post reads:

Reposting without comment except: I refute that we made a bad or compromised game. We made the best version of what we released, warts and all. I'm damn proud of it and the team. We couldn't have made a better Dragon Age, only a different one.

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I'll start, RuneScape, it used to be about adventure but now it's about efficiency. Runner up, rust, very active community, but toxic playerbase and people usually abandon when a world isn't fresh

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I've covered a lot of great indie games over the years, many games that didn't get the love they deserve. With this year's Steam Summer Sale, there's no excuse not to check out these incredible games!

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Fun fact: the ending of the 343 Guilty Spark level in halo is hundreds of feet lower than the beginning of the level, despite nearly overlapping, because there is a surprise elevator that goes down instead of up halfway through and the level never makes up the altitude.

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cross-posted from: https://buddyverse.one/post/161844

I’m on Fedora 42, running GNOME 48 (Wayland) with an RTX 4050 GPU. Trying to play Red Dead Redemption 2 via Steam using Proton Hotfix.

The game is stuck in borderless windowed mode. I can play just fine.

There’s no tag in the system.xml.

I only changed the framerate in system.xnl to 144, which works.

Tried -fullscreen in Steam launch options — does nothing.

Can’t switch to fullscreen from in-game either, there’s no option.

Not using Gamescope. Didn’t touch anything else. No VSync changes. No other launch flags.

Is there any way to force this game into actual fullscreen under Proton?

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Did you have a bad day? Are you tired of boring reality, where nothing is unexpected and you do the same things over and over? Well then, this one-time only psychedelic experience is perfect for you! Travel through a cyber utopia in Endlight!

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Team up as two quirky construction workers in this fun 2-player co-op platformer! Carry a fragile glass window through colorful levels filled with challenges...

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