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Payment processors shouldn’t have this kind of power, it’s insane.

That’s embarrassing. Not that that’s new lately. But yeah.

I gotcha, I get it being a kink, and you have a fair point in that public feedback helps call out the sort of things that aren’t made in good faith. I think I still like the idea of obvious hate games being taken down, but its always going to be somewhat subjective, so its hard to enforce that kind of thing without screwing over games that don’t deserve it.

Definitely not something payment processors should be in charge of lmao

Thanks for talking with me about this :)

So I think that’s all pretty fair, of course including the fact that it should all be legal too.

Does the paradox of tolerance concern you at all? The idea that if you let shitty people have a say they’ll eventually use the bit of tolerance you give them as a tool to take away tolerance of others.

Basically, in theory if you let the nazis have a political party they might win and ban all the other parties, so to keep it fair arguably you should ban them first.

Now applying that to games that are pretty obviously hate games, like the ones the other commenter mentioned, the raping women into obedience game, or a game where you kill a bunch of gay people, the implication is that those games should be banned.

I kinda just wanted your thoughts on the concept. Like for example a game where you play as a school shooter. All good?

Sorry if this is a little philosophical, I just honestly wonder where the line should be for the least amount of harm.

I’m aware, I promise you that, I’m not saying games make you violent or awful. That argument has been annoying me to hell and back my whole life. To be honest I’ve not heard the argument for video games made for porn games before, but yeah, fair. So yeah. I don’t like those specific rape/incest games, they’re kinda yuck to me, but you do you.

Out of curiosity do you think there should be a line? Where would it be? Maybe like only explicitly illegal content is ever removed? (I wanna say thats how ao3 works) Or is steam having final say your preference? What if steam decided to make changes on its own?

If I had my way, I’d just have filters and tags, and let steam manage their storefront. I might disagree on how they do it, but that’s up to them(or it should be). It just feels weird and loopholey that a payment processor is making this sort of overarching decision.

The main stuff I saw removed was related to incest and rape, not in a “it contains it” way. Somehow Corruption of Champions 2 escaped the ban hammer which makes me think those games probably took things pretty far, or were basically built to simulate assaulting people.

For reference, CoC2 is uh… Well when you lose in combat the enemy fucks you, and vice versa. It’s like a lot of fetish stuff too. So not that I know exactly what’s in the games, but I feel like you have to really be trying to outdo CoC2.

Edit: I’m not criticizing CoC2 btw, it’s fine. Its… I don’t wanna say tasteful but non con is like one of 90 things you can or cannot opt into. Idk how to put it. It’s an actual game that happens to have non con content I guess is what I mean.

There are specific games in steam’s case I’m very ok with getting removed, but at the same time its very fucked up that we’re in a situation where the world is beholden to payment processors. Ideally this would be a case where they go directly to Valve and say “hey we think you should take a look at your content policy and at these specific games” and Valve makes the call from there on where they want to draw the line.

I think my issue is practicality in testing. They have to have the print, and the printer. To test they likely need the file, modified with the same slicer settings as set originally. There are just so many factors, I have a hard time seeing them get all the required pieces, get them all in working order (especially the printer), then have the means to print the same thing in the same way. After all of that, now they have to measure some patterns and prove they’re the same across prints.

I feel like the complexity of the problem introduces more chances for false positives, or just enough of a shift in how the printer is tuned, how the file is set up, etc to make the process unreliable at best.

I guess we’ll see, but idk. A poor tool still has potential for abuse even if it doesn’t work as originally intended.

Here’s the thing. You’re not arguing against their point you’re arguing about the specific figures not being entirely accurate.

Watching you two go feral over specificity doesn’t convince anyone of anything, it just makes people hostile to talking to you because now they feel they have to hedge everything, because if not you’ll reply with

“You’re*”

And ignore the whole argument they made. Nobody wants to engage with that level of nitpicking pedantry.

Being right isn’t always worth it, because you put the other person in defense mode, show you don’t care about the spirit of the argument as much as the letter, and essentially insult the person in the process.

You’re right, you’re just shit at conversational strategy. Enjoy the fights. That’s all you’re having.

I’ve seen this before and I still don’t entirely buy it. If you’re talking about the pattern left by the nozzle rubbing the print, that will not be a reliable identifier.

Most nozzles are brass. Soft metal. It wears down and the pattern in the plastic will change. Because they wear down anybody doing regular prints is gonna replace their nozzle from time to time. New pattern in the plastic.

This is assuming they don’t change a new $2 brass nozzle, print a gun part, then toss the nozzle in the trash. Or the whole printer. My printer right now is probably $150 used at this point, if I was to sell it.

Imo this isn’t gonna do much, and for the people who would do nefarious things it will be easily avoided.

(This is ignoring changing print settings, nozzle diameter, filament type, print temp, etc)

I gotta say, I would warn anybody looking at buying it right now(on pc specifically). It runs pretty poorly, and that really hasn’t improved much over time.

Just make sure you make a dummy char real fast and make sure the actual game runs decently so you don’t hit steams 2hr refund limit during character creation.

I own it, I cleared low rank, and I uninstalled to make space for World again because I can get a rock solid 90 at 1440p in World, while Wilds gets a stuttery 50 to 60, with frame gen, and looks like ass doing it.

Shame cuz I love monster hunter.

Yeah I can’t fuckin print consistent prints on purpose, good fuckin luck doing some kind of forensic analysis about it.

I’m so glad I accidentally over planted tomato seeds now. I’ll have to give some extras to our neighbors, we really only have a little patio to put stuff on or the apartment flips out.

In theory eventually any earth we lived on would be lost to tectonic plate movements and it would be like we were never here. And then the sun explodes so…

Depends on the time period honestly. Biggest signs are gonna be massive buildings or infrastructure projects. I wonder how long voyager will last just drifting?

Shockingly I don’t believe the guy who runs a torture prison claiming he didn’t do torture in his torture prison.

Hilariously she looks more like the cat version of J. Jonah Jameson to me :3

I gotcha, well if you have any other questions I’m glad to answer as best I can :) I hope it does help tho. I haven’t been in the hospital for a while so maybe my advice isn’t great but if you’re interested:

Depression for me felt like a narrowing of perspective. At that moment everything was how I felt right then. It was how I always felt and how I would always feel. Essentially I felt like life had always been awful, and would always be awful, because it was awful right then. Everybody is different and has different reasons they’re struggling, so I’m not trying to make blanket claims too much, but I think it’s safe to say that change in life is inevitable. Sometimes the best we can do is hang on and wait for the next change.

I’ve been in a psych ward before, albeit around 5 years ago and in a different state. To preface, I don’t want to freak you out, just want you to have an informed choice.

I’ll not sugarcoat it, it’s meant to do one thing. Keep you alive. Everything is built around doing that at a low cost. Your insurance may or may not cover a stay. If you’re voluntary they’ll probably still bill you. Involuntary can depend on the circumstances but they usually still bill your insurance. Apply for financial aid if you can.

Stay time will depend on the state, but for me in Idaho, it was usually one of two options. Suicidal people or people with shorter term issues like a bipolar episode will spend about a week in a short term ward. Not much to do. Shared Tv room, some books. You will not keep clothes with strings, belts, etc. no phone. They will likely not give you any meds you don’t have an active prescription for. Because it’s meant to be short term, and meant to keep you alive long enough to stabilize, they will probably want to try new or different doses of meds while you stay. They can try things faster than you could at home because you’re essentially monitored 24/7.

They will likely search you. It’ll usually only be initially in a room with a couple people (more than 1 is for accountability’s sakes, if they don’t have another person by default I believe you can ask for another person in the room).

Longer term stays usually require some kind of court hearing where you’d go to state and that’s pretty hard to do. The state hospitals are usually pretty busy and so you really only go there if you can’t care for yourself at all, or you’re so actively suicidal that you’re still like planning things out after a week or two. Even if you’re on the path to state that can take a couple weeks at a short time term place and feeling better will get you out quick in that case.

You might see your doc once on the day you arrive and again once a week. You mostly interact with nurses or nurse assistants. All the staff I interacted with over quite a few visits were decent people who wanted to help. I know that isn’t true of everyone, they’re human after all, but I think most of them do want to help.

They aren’t going to have many options to shave, at the short term facility I’ve been to you could ask but it was kinda a pain and it had to be approved and yes you’d be supervised with a razor. This depends place to place tho.

Transphobia is a real issue and yes I did experience some. Staff aren’t trained for trans people specifically but they do see a lot of us. Lets say I met a lot of trans people in the psych hospital. Mostly suicidal. Imagine that. Staff can be hit or miss with name and pronouns, especially if you haven’t changed name or anything. Usually a reminder is enough, if not mention it to a head nurse or even your doc. Most places will accommodate changing name where they can, it’ll vary from place to place.

If somebody is a jerk to you, transphobia or otherwise, ideally staff will step in. Anytime anyone was shitty and I mentioned it they separated us where they could, and that usually resolved things. That will depend on how much space the facility has too. Staff was never outright transphobic. At worst they were ignorant and when I mentioned a preference or frustration they fixed it as possible.

Food was pretty fine. I’d describe it as a step above school cafeteria depending on the place. They accomodate allergies pretty well, and usually have some kind of option. So like burger or sandwich or chicken, but the burger option is always there, and they have like chips and sides and stuff, and cycle the chicken or sandwich options.

The biggest thing I’ll say is that they exist to do one thing. Keep you alive, get you stable, get you out. So it will probably feel like a lot of lost privileges and rights, and a ton of scary meds or changes. They aren’t trying to torment you, but because they deal with everything from suicidal to drug addicted to completely out of touch with reality, you’re essentially given the trust level of a toddler. No sharps, no strings, no doors, no locks, no electronics, etc. It sucks, but it does the job(short term). A week is long enough to try new meds, or restart old ones. Long enough for a manic episode to fade, or a suicidal phase to pass. You still come back and have to put the pieces back together afterwards, but if you simply need a place to fall to pieces for a week, it lets you.

TLDR: (sorry im horribly disorganized)

• They likely won’t let you do DIY HRT inside but I don’t have personal experience there.
• Some places let you shave, likely supervised.
• In my experience I was only searched initially when I first went in.
• For me, staff was at worst ignorant and changed when I asked, some patients were bleh, but staff separated us where they could.
• Food was fine, not amazing, they did have some choices and they catered to allergies pretty well from what I saw, always had some alternatives.

Sometimes…