true… but you could say that about anything, just trying new strategies

factorio, hell let loose, zomboid, skylines I

It is a visually a nice looking game, clearly put together with love. $15 is a bit much. It’s on the rails visual novel, with some interactive mini games to move the story forward.

Okay dragon fucker,

I understand your point, I do not agree with it. Phobia requires a state of mind. Phobia. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/phobia

Was steam’s actions driven by their fear/hate of transsexuals? Clearly not. Therefore this action is not an act of transphobia.

Words have meaning, the written in the dictionary for a reason, bending them for your political advantage may feel good, but it weakens your entire argument.

I’ve made it as clear as I can.

Yes it was a choice. It was not a choice based on people sexuality. You can dislike it, you can move to other platforms, you can pirate. But it wasn’t transphobic. They do not care about people’s sex organs

I think what it certainly means is they’ve looked at the analysis of how the traditional family sharing has been working. And they see lots of geographically dispersed groups sharing libraries.

I have a credible source tell me the original idea was that parents and children could share libraries. Because having multiple children and repurchasing your library multiple times is a burden for families.

I think they’ve both improved the system, by allowing games to run concurrently, and reduced the unintended usage of their household sharing program. A program that only exists by the good grace of the publishers, by not being a threat into game revenue. If you can make the argument it’s a family sharing, and they would have bought the game once anyway, then it’s not a problem to share the game.

I think they took the minimal cut that made this work, they could have done something ownerous like require everybody to upload IDs and prove a family relationship. But that wouldn’t scale, and it probably exclude lots of different odd family scenarios. This way they’re very inclusive. The only limitation is geographic pricing boundaries. They don’t want the one family member in Ukraine buying games for their distant family in the US at a discount. They are trying to do geofencing of the pricing.

Like you said, if it is a big problem for adults, they can just pirate the games. Steam’s trying to make it as convenient as possible for a household to not have to repurchase games without becoming a pirate

That just means epic is more performative, it doesn’t mean steam is transphobic

probably less so

Epic is less transphobic than steam because they never offered any game sharing, steam is more transphobic than epic because they have offered family game sharing… By extension of that logic that means … Offering an extra service like library sharing with family, is transphobic

It’s a creative way to live life. More power to you.

Which gaming service will you be moving to that supports global game sharing? Actually, what other game service supports sharing at all? I think steam is alone

Since epic doesn’t allow any game sharing, it’s epic more transphobic than steam? Or less transphobic than steam? Because they’re not taking away something they never offered

Why do you say it’s transphobic? It is not based on sexuality at all. Simply on economic regions

If you own games ABC, and you share them with family. Each one of your family members could be running game a, and then game b, and game c at the same time! The only limitation is multiple people can’t play the same game at the same time. So your entire library is available for concurrent usage.

The old classic version of steam sharing simply meant that only one person could play at a time, regardless of which game they were playing

The new family sharing is great. I am sad I cannot share it with family who lives 30 km away but in a different steam economic zone. I think on the whole it’s a net positive though

The general topic was about self-hosting. IPv6 is very useful for self-hosting,… connections.

I’ll admit there is a critical mass problem with torrenting clients, but if you’re trying to set up a wire guard tunnel with your friends, IPv6 is a absolute banger

In most environments ipv6 bypasses cgnat (because, why would you need a nat with ipv6).

Late to the party, but this is super relevant…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJS4JHYgj50

Corporations using political wars as sheilds against criticism is the major issue, totally agreed.

🤞 no third party accounts required!

Thalassophobia intensifies

now that you mention it… Micro transactions in single player games is pure evil and should be banned.

Requires 3rd-Party Account: Ubisoft Connect Launcher (Supports Linking to Steam Account)

Coming to steam was a good first step, now… Participate in the free market. This second account login for a single player game bullshit needs to stop. Come to steam and use steam, reduce friction.

Yeah, to me it’s a absolute killer feature for a travel phone. The GOS discussion around it boils down to violating the android profile security model.

E.x., im using a hotel wifi that only allows one device, or I have a esim for one phone only that doesn’t allow “tethering”.

Fair enough on the security model, but at least give me the option… Maybe with a always on notification warning. Being paternalistic about how you think the phone will be used and in which context is overstepping for infrastructure

I travel with a backup phone, and because of this I have calyxos on the backup and not gos.