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[Walliwallipaloo]

I'm trying to figure out how a random group from Australia has this much influence on 2 giant American companies. It's bizzare.

That's because they're bullshit. It is bizarre, because it's completely and totally manufactured nonsense. It reeks of it.

It's just a "those freaking puritans!" false flag. Completely political, and actually kind of embarrassing for how obvious it is. It sucks, and I hope someone can expose it.

 

[Project EVE]

Yeah, I know exactly what this crap is. This group all of a sudden comes out of nowhere - is so new that people rallying to its cause aren't even sure if they should support it - and pulls this crap? If they actually had a dog in this fight, why aren't they going after Hollywood? Pornhub?

This... lovely lady won't do that, because she and this entire "movement" belong to the same people. It's a fraud, engendered to get gamers to hate the so-called "puritan right," because the people that own her are worried they're about to lose the young generation forever.

Yes, there are action groups working on keeping the young generation from turning their backs on them. This out-of-nowhere BS is one of the many products of such tomfoolery. Bank on it.

This "movement," right down to its intentionally-irritating name is about as organic as a Monsanto orange.

Not really following. Who exactly are the people and action group you speak of? What are their motives? Why would they lose the young generation if they don't this?

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

Not really following. Who exactly are the people and action group you speak of? What are their motives? Why would they lose the young generation if they don't this?

Why do I get the feeling that you're trying to bait me?

Well, I guess I'll ask you this: who would prefer you to waste your time hating on make-believe "puritanical Christians?" And yes, the word "hate" is appropriate. Just look at the post a couple spots up above this one. Calling for people to be burned to death? Exactly. This is the point.

If you think this thing can be taken at face value, then I've got a bridge to sell you. This is 100% completely-artificial BS, and is clumsy enough that it actually looks more desperate than anything (and it makes sense why it should be desperate, considering recent events).

This is less for you, and more for those who are in danger of falling for it: this whole situation is nothing more than very timely pot-stirring. Does it seem like complete hogwash that a wingnut loony from Australia, and her out-of-nowhere (professional) "protest" group is able to bring big companies to heel in two months' time? Yeah, that's because it is. It's 100% artificial.

Gamers are (rightfully) very defensive about their favorite hobby. This is being weaponized to turn opinions against traditional Christians, and this isn't the first time. The "puritanical Christian" boogeyman has been invoked time and time again, sometimes to make a quick buck by sleazy marketers (look up Shiny's Messiah and see what I mean), and others by activists who wish to simply fragment and destabilize their political rivals. This is a case of the latter. Look at recent polls that show young people breaking away from their boomer parents in terms of who they support. This is a direct answer to that, trying to get them to hate what they ought to be supporting in their own country. Like I said, even the name of that fake-ass group is designed to be as irritating as possible.

As I said, if they truly cared, they would be whinging about Hollywood and the porn industry. And yet they do not. Because they are one and the same. It's just firestarting. If you can't convince the youths to give a shit about your politics, you have to give them something else to hate other than yourself.

TLDR: this is nothing more than an attempt to muck with the younger generation, because they're asking too many questions.

 

[pudel]

I'm trying to figure out how a random group from Australia has this much influence on 2 giant American companies. It's bizzare.

Couldnt care less about these karens. The ones who are dictating what can be sold/bought...are these payment processors. This karen group is just a welcoming distraction. Maybe they are even paid by them. "Look we had to to do it...because these karens pressured our global multibillion dollar companies soooo hard!"

 

[Jinzo Prime]

All I will say us that multi-billion dollar decisions aren't made on behest of small foreign activist groups without some serious money exchanging hands.

 

[GHound]

I'm trying to figure out how a random group from Australia has this much influence on 2 giant American companies. It's bizzare.

Shared interests lead to similar outcomes.

 

[Lokaum D+]

WTF who is buying this shit.

That is sick.

Man, why do you think steam has lots of this kind of games ? There is lots of sick ppl in this world.

 

[EntelechyFuff]

Regardless of the specific mechanisms that caused this, how did anyone not see it coming 1000 miles off?

This whole topic makes me think of the grocery store. It's ostensibly for groceries, but I can go there to buy a mop, or tissue paper, or even a book (if my entertainment standards are low enough)! It's a general purpose location, safe for all ages and has everything most people need there.

What they don't sell at the grocery store, however, are cock cages.

They're not illegal to sell or own (in my state, at least) but I am just never going to encounter a cock cage on the shelf of my hometown Harris Teeter. If I want a cock cage, I'd probably have to go to a dedicated sex shop.

Perhaps controversially, I'd say that's a good thing. No shame to fans of the cock cage, but I don't want to see that stuff when I'm out for a quick trip to the produce aisle. And kids obviously don't need to see that either.

Going back to the topic of games: storefronts like Steam and Itch are essentially the "grocery store" of digital software. But unlike the grocery store, you DO see the cock cages next to the pots and pans (or "I can't believe my little sister is such a whore" next to "frog farm fables").

As purely economic engines, it makes sense for Steam to just shrug and keep it pushing, but as digital "spaces" that (increasingly) everyone and their mom shops at, there was inevitably going to be a natural question about where we stock the cock cages.

That doesn't mean banning all the "fun" stuff, but it does mean that stocking the bukkake simulators next to latest bluey game had to stop sometime.

Collective Shout endrunning this process via payment processors is unfortunately the way this shook out, but IMO gaming marketplaces would've been well served by cordoning this shit off in separate spaces like a decade ago.

 

[MayauMiao]

Hope its really coming.

 

[Aenima]

Regardless of the specific mechanisms that caused this, how did anyone not see it coming 1000 miles off?

This whole topic makes me think of the grocery store. It's ostensibly for groceries, but I can go there to buy a mop, or tissue paper, or even a book (if my entertainment standards are low enough)! It's a general purpose location, safe for all ages and has everything most people need there.

What they don't sell at the grocery store, however, are cock cages.

They're not illegal to sell or own (in my state, at least) but I am just never going to encounter a cock cage on the shelf of my hometown Harris Teeter. If I want a cock cage, I'd probably have to go to a dedicated sex shop.

Perhaps controversially, I'd say that's a good thing. No shame to fans of the cock cage, but I don't want to see that stuff when I'm out for a quick trip to the produce aisle. And kids obviously don't need to see that either.

Going back to the topic of games: storefronts like Steam and Itch are essentially the "grocery store" of digital software. But unlike the grocery store, you DO see the cock cages next to the pots and pans (or "I can't believe my little sister is such a whore" next to "frog farm fables").

As purely economic engines, it makes sense for Steam to just shrug and keep it pushing, but as digital "spaces" that (increasingly) everyone and their mom shops at, there was inevitably going to be a natural question about where we stock the cock cages.

That doesn't mean banning all the "fun" stuff, but it does mean that stocking the bukkake simulators next to latest bluey game had to stop sometime.

Collective Shout endrunning this process via payment processors is unfortunately the way this shook out, but IMO gaming marketplaces would've been well served by cordoning this shit off in separate spaces like a decade ago.

Your analogy dosent work cuz to see adult games on Steam you need to enable that option in your settings as its turned off by default. So only adults that actually want to find adult games on steam, will actually see them, not kids or anyone else that is not interested in adult only games.

 

[Pantz]

They're back at it with more games getting removed today.

https://steamdb.info/history/events/

 

[falling into hell]

They're back at it with more games getting removed today.

https://steamdb.info/history/events/

Yeah this is just the beginning. It will never end. Soon companies will start to censor their games out of fear and we won't get games like Stellar Blade any more.

 

[Peroroncino]

They're back at it with more games getting removed today.

https://steamdb.info/history/events/

Yup, like I said, the ball only started rolling. They're gonna start with the shit most people won't care too much and progress to less problematic stuff.

 

[yurinka]

You think that CCP China allows Porn payments through WeChat or Alipay? -1000 Social Credit, Comrade.

I don't know if it's the case, what I know for sure is that your friends the American "freedom" "democratical" woke/puritanist elite from the west now doesn't seem to allow it anymore to the rest of the world.

So somebody else should kick away and replace Visa, Mastercard and Paypal to provide some real freedom.

Elon seems to offer himself -he always wanted to make a western equivalent of WeChat including payments, social media monopoly, social control and so on-, but like the other American big tech companies he'll continue doing whatever the USA & Israeli goverment / military / intelligence agencies mandates them so I wouldn't expect any real change with him.

I'm ok with banning real pedo stuff -something always has been (or supossedly) made-, but I think it's serious business to censor normal NSFW / porn with adults, or games that just show CG anime waifu tits, or stuff to make nude pics using AI.

I never paid for something like that, but today these morons censor this and tomorrow they may something else that may affect me. And well, people who buy this stuff should be able to be allowed to do so.

And well, if Steam and itch.io are now going to censor NSFW then it's a good opportunity for somebody to create a NSFW PC game store to replace them.

 

[poppabk]

As I said, if they truly cared, they would be whinging about Hollywood and the porn industry. And yet they do not. Because they are one and the same. It's just firestarting. If you can't convince the youths to give a shit about your politics, you have to give them something else to hate other than yourself.

They have gone after the porn industry? And strip clubs, and Charlie Sheen and Belle Delaphine and pick up artists and t-shirts and Steam a couple of times before this.