'This isn't "wokeness", it's basic human rights and equality and nothing more,' he added. 'If Steam can't support free speech of LGBTQ+ people, then at the very least they should be transparent about this.'

What a bizarre response. Neither Roskomnadzor nor Valve claimed this had anything to do with "'wokeness,'" and Steam was in fact transparent about this.

I don't really get what anyone expects Valve to do here other than comply with the law. Still, I'm surprised they're even able to operate in Russia given all the sanctions.

Cut away the fluff of the article, and what they're actually saying is: interact with your community and help out your friends more. I think this is good advice for women too, it would probably be good for me.

Well, given the sanctions, this ought to be a given. I don't understand how valve can operate in Russia at all tbh.

Down with socialism??? Wtf is the problem with socialism

"Boomer shooter" is a genre of video game. As far as I know, the term is unrelated to "Baby boomer," the name of the generation.

Edit: Okay apparently it is related. Some debate exists over the etymology. I imagined it was from "boomstick" (a gun), but some people are are claiming it's from the dusk development team and a reference to a meme I'd never heard of about calling people boomers who aren't, or maybe it's from earlier and nobody can trace the etymology at all.

Valve moved into hardware long after its other ventures, so it's not surprising the hardware devs make less -- they're newer. Still, $430k/yr is an enviable salary...

Can you explain the details? I don't want to watch a tiktok.

None of these are good arguments against introducing a ban. Worst argument of all is that "we shouldn't ban it for 15 year olds because that wouldn't protect 16 year olds." Seriously? Is that intentional rage bait?

I think it's more than clear by now that algorithmic feeds are hazardous, at least without significant effort in research and safeguards which nobody seems to be doing. So yeah, I'd say: definitely ban algorithmic feeds for teenagers. Hell, ban them for everyone if you must.

Gating should be done either by ZKP (zero-knowledge proofs, which don't expose any information to any party other than "I'm at least x years old" -- look this up if this is a new concept to you) or device-side by standardizing and streamlining child safety locks.

your minions are fighting amongst themselves

Didn't realize the book ban had been reversed (save for graphic novels). Why doesn't that kind of news make it to Lemmy?

There's something of a Nash equilibrium with everyone needing a bigger and bigger truck to stay safe. These giant trucks are very unsafe for pedestrians and use up lots of unnecessary space. Reversing this trend would be great.

I never understood why anyone imagined the Disney execs were woke. So many showrunners had to work so hard and practically scheme against the execs in order to include some moticum of representation.

Iga was not the creator of castlevania. He was the creator of SotN and later games.

yikes, it's the third worst shooting by deaths in the history of the country.

this would be true if they were both 17, even.

It sounds like this is somebody who doesn't have PR. So they're not under any obligation to renew his work permit as far as I know.

Still, detaining him is completely insane. That should not be what happens to someone whose work permit is denied.

This sounds like fun. How did it go?

The red boxes distract you from the part tthat really oughtoought to be highlighted: the part where they admit they are, despite their name, actually fighting against human rights.

Notable that this is a transmasc person, which have often been thought to be safe from these changing rules.

TL;DR, although one would have expected lower quality textures and other assets,they're actually achieving this by deduplicating data which was originally duplicated to reduce loading times. They've found a way to deduplicate without affecting loading times. (Lossless compression might be involved too -- post is vague.) They'll make this the new default version of the game after ironing out the bugs.