• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      It’s not a plugin, and as far as I know it uses publicly available information.

      I just don’t understand the use case. So people look for a game they’d like to try, then go and check that list, then go back and purchase the game if it’s not on the list? Why? If they make games bad the reviews will tell you the game is bad.

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        8 months ago

        It’s perfectly reasonable for people to say “I don’t want to buy a game that Sweetbaby worked on”. It’s their choice.

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          8 months ago

          And it’s perfectly reasonable for people to ask “why don’t you want to buy a game sweetbaby worked on?”

          For example: I won’t purchase a game produced by Blizzard. If someone asked me why I wouldn’t evade the question by saying “I am free to do so, that is my choice.” I will happily tell them it’s because of how poorly they treat their employees, and how they actively make games worse to try to squeeze more money out of people. The entire point of a boycott is to inform people why this company should be boycotted.

          All this dancing around answering the very simple question of “why do you actively want to avoid purchasing a game SBI worked on” speaks volumes as to how generally unacceptable that reason must be. Makes it look like people are afraid to “say the quiet part of loud.” Why else would they not just answer the question?

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            8 months ago

            People don’t need your approval on how they spend their money. Nor do they need to justify their choices.

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              8 months ago

              True. Just be aware that when someone says “this looks like bigotry,” if the only response they get is “I don’t have to explain myself to you!” That doesn’t make it look less like bigotry.

              Any reason at all would have looked better. Or just not replying.

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                  8 months ago

                  Sure you can when their reason for not buying something is clearly bigotry.

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              8 months ago

              I think it’s always reasonable to report bigots playing stupid bigot games. The fact that the Steam Group had to delete every discussion and completely lock their discussion area to maintain compliance with Steam’s policies seems to indicate those reports were warranted.

              Racist and sexist remarks are never appropriate. Do you have specific examples you are concerned about? Or are you going to give me some vague “they are the ones saying racist things!!1!” Nonsense with nothing to back it up?