• apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
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      22 hours ago

      I’d cheer valve on for taking a principled stance against bigotry in my country while personally grieving the loss of my steam library.

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        22 hours ago

        I doubt it’ll make a difference. Also almost all my LGBTQ friends are huge gamers. It’s an escape, and often provides online community. And I’m in a very liberal country and they still need it here. Can’t imagine the need for it in China or Russia. Whether that’s healthy is a big question, but the rug pull definitely won’t be.

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          22 hours ago

          I guess there’s an argument to be made for just stopping selling games in those regions while keeping access to existing libraries

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            13 hours ago

            That’s a looot of users they’d need to support without seeing any money from them. Might be worth it if they expect the laws to be temporary.

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          21 hours ago

          Be a good little fedi, put your money where you mouth is and get ready to sacrifice. Jesus Christ, 'waahhhhh, I’d have to start stealing my games '.

          Jesus Christ the second valve gets involved you all become spinless DNC cunts.

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            13 hours ago

            Yeah so this isn’t about me. It’s about millions of lonely kids. Plenty will learn to pirate. Many won’t. I’m sure we’d see an uptick in suicides.

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      Be a good little fedi, put your money where you mouth is and get ready to sacrifice. Jesus Christ, 'waahhhhh, I’d have to start stealing my games '.

      Jesus Christ the second valve gets involved you all become spinless DNC cunts.