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Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Olive Garden tonight! posted:

In space, no one can hear you gleam

:lol:

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Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

Olive Garden tonight! posted:

In space, no one can hear you gleam

Holy poo poo.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

il_cornuto posted:

Look it clearly states that he is not yet a paedophile and therefore is legally distinct from a peadophile and her body is childish so therefore this is not technically cartoon child porn. Probably.

*in extremely smug nerdy voice*

:goonsay: "Actually it's ephebophilia"

uncle w benefits
Nov 1, 2010

hi, it's me, your uncle

Palpek posted:

Games&Girls





Haha, is that an actual Xbox controller complete with the logo? Does Microsoft know about thi...holy poo poo here's a cropped part of one of the top user screenshots (featuring a sex scene):





:yikes: Valve, could you at least get pedo games off Steam? loving hell.

:lol: what is child like about her body :eyepop:

Besides, she's a anthropomorphised video game console which makes age an arbitrary construct.

Also she has the spirit of an 800 year old demon, so it's totes legal.

Jamfrost
Jul 20, 2013

I'm too busy thinkin' about my baby. Oh I ain't got time for nothin' else.
Slime TrainerS

Palpek posted:




:yikes: Valve, could you at least get pedo games off Steam? loving hell.

I'm going to have to recommend not looking at that whole screenshot. He probably did turn into a pedophile.

Hemingway To Go!
Nov 10, 2008

im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway

Reality Winner posted:

bring back SteamShots

Yeah Mr ultimate toilet has good credit for reprimanding perversion
(Actually it is back as bundle shots and he did do that huney bundle)

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

FirstAidKite posted:

IIRC the protagonist wonders during the game how old she is since she's his video game console and he's like "I guess you're technically only a few days old, huh"

why do you know this

Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

Uncle w Benefits posted:

:lol: what is child like about her body :eyepop:

Besides, she's a anthropomorphised video game console which makes age an arbitrary construct.

Also she has the spirit of an 800 year old demon, so it's totes legal.

Source your quotes.


LORD OF BOOTY posted:

why do you know this

exploded mummy posted:

I have watched Kite play this godawful game

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

why do you know this

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give


your "friend" Ceciltron

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

the real goku would never do this to someone

uncle w benefits
Nov 1, 2010

hi, it's me, your uncle

Double Punctuation posted:

Source your quotes.

What is this? What does it mean?

Zetsubou-san
Jan 28, 2015

Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎
enough of that

:toot: :black101: Because we're living in the age of barbarians! :black101: :toot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3tNwJtINjc

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Zetsubou-san posted:

enough of that

:toot: :black101: Because we're living in the age of barbarians! :black101: :toot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3tNwJtINjc

I actually have the first game- I need to give it a try :allears:

Largepotato
Jan 18, 2007

Spurd.

Zetsubou-san posted:

enough of that

:toot: :black101: Because we're living in the age of barbarians! :black101: :toot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3tNwJtINjc

Love how they both dive off the arena at 3:45.

Voyager I
Jun 29, 2012

This is how your posting feels.
🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥

Jamfrost posted:

I'm going to have to recommend not looking at that whole screenshot. He probably did turn into a pedophile.

If you are getting turned on by someone having a 'childlike' body you are already a pedophile.

Unoriginal One
Aug 5, 2008

Voyager I posted:

If you are getting turned on by someone having a 'childlike' body you are already a pedophile.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the quote in question involves the little girl in the dlc; so yeah, there's no "might" here if that's the case.

Voyager I
Jun 29, 2012

This is how your posting feels.
🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥

Unoriginal One posted:

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the quote in question involves the little girl in the dlc; so yeah, there's no "might" here if that's the case.

Think that quote and the existence of the little girl DLC takes this one from generic shameful nerd poo poo to :gas:


I'm sure it would get much worse if I actually clicked on the links.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Zetsubou-san posted:

enough of that

:toot: :black101: Because we're living in the age of barbarians! :black101: :toot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3tNwJtINjc

why is everything on steam now lovely hentai or weird real doll porn? i assume valve no longer cares?

Dark_Swordmaster
Oct 31, 2011
They have embraced a laissez-faire attitude and have the idea that if you don't like it, don't buy it or play it.

Almost every single person I've ever complained about the loving landfill that is Steam these days gives the same excuse.

The problem is that Steam is like a great store that often has great things and awesome deals that decided to let anyone come in and also sell stuff. In theory, you could get some really neat and unique gems that someone was previously selling out of their garage so you never knew about it. But the reality is that you have a bunch of homemade sex toys, barely legal ripoffs, and other downright made-with-toxic-chemicals poo poo that the cool garage guy is buried under all their poisonous dildos.

"Don't like it don't play it," doesn't really work here.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
Steam has gone from being a storefront to being a flea market.

uncle w benefits
Nov 1, 2010

hi, it's me, your uncle
Devils advocate: why not

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Because i like it when other people weed out the poo poo for me.

Dark_Swordmaster
Oct 31, 2011
That's the problem. The don't like it don't buy it argument can't really be beaten. It's technically correct, vote with your wallet and such. But it can only go so far defending such low quality and questionable content.

It's kind of like the old rear end beaded curtain at a video store. You know what's back there and you know whether or not you're interested. It's not surfaced hardly at all (barring last week's Humble Bundle with a dozen anime porn games) but neither are the actual unappreciated grems that are released alongside the deluge of low quality garbage.

Truth be told, as much as I hate them and think they're garbage, the porn games are a niche and sell. A lot are incredibly low quality, but they're honest in their own right. My biggest complaint are the things lowering the marketplace bar. Asset flips, games asking for money off the books for achievements, the ten thousand achievement games, all the poo poo that actually is questionable and should be moderated against as scams literally have no consequence to taking advantage of and further breaking the system.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

Asset flips, games asking for money off the books for achievements, the ten thousand achievement games, all the poo poo that actually is questionable and should be moderated against as scams literally have no consequence to taking advantage of and further breaking the system.

all this is one thing but otoh isn't it hard sometimes to discern between what's just an amateurish labor of love that took years to complete and something that was slapped together in a few months in rmxp or gamemaker? like for instance part of me can't tell if minherino adventures is a weird south american asset flip or my kindred spirit's outsider art

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

That's the problem. The don't like it don't buy it argument can't really be beaten. It's technically correct, vote with your wallet and such. But it can only go so far defending such low quality and questionable content.

It's kind of like the old rear end beaded curtain at a video store. You know what's back there and you know whether or not you're interested. It's not surfaced hardly at all (barring last week's Humble Bundle with a dozen anime porn games) but neither are the actual unappreciated grems that are released alongside the deluge of low quality garbage.

Truth be told, as much as I hate them and think they're garbage, the porn games are a niche and sell. A lot are incredibly low quality, but they're honest in their own right. My biggest complaint are the things lowering the marketplace bar. Asset flips, games asking for money off the books for achievements, the ten thousand achievement games, all the poo poo that actually is questionable and should be moderated against as scams literally have no consequence to taking advantage of and further breaking the system.

How many 10,000 achievement games are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Tales of Maj'eyal and that's only 1600 and I believe it was done out of spit by the dev.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Wamdoodle posted:

How many 10,000 achievement games are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Tales of Maj'eyal and that's only 1600 and I believe it was done out of spit by the dev.

there are a lot of trash games with a billion million cheevos. like you think tome is a lot? gently caress no tome is tame. watch, who was it jim sterling's? video of that my little joy pony game, where you get a different achievement called "pony" every single loving time you click anything. like the bottom right corner of his video is just a stream of vertically-moving achievement pings that say PONY

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Wamdoodle posted:

How many 10,000 achievement games are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Tales of Maj'eyal and that's only 1600 and I believe it was done out of spit by the dev.

I always thought tome was just laziness; just copied all the achievements he already had and whoops it turns out that a large but not unreasonable 200 achievements times 2 permadeath options times four difficulty levels is 1600.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Wamdoodle posted:

How many 10,000 achievement games are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Tales of Maj'eyal and that's only 1600 and I believe it was done out of spit by the dev.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

:eyepop: well, tbh I didn't bother doing any type of research into this.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


It got so bad that Valve actually called those games "game-shaped objects" in an official statement which I find hilarious. They're basically games existing only to serve the meta-layer of playing a game - achievements, Steam cards, smilies and cutting out the useless middleman - you know, the actual game part. We're living in some weird times.

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Wamdoodle posted:

:eyepop: well, tbh I didn't bother doing any type of research into this.

Yeah, there's even a game (or as Palpek pointed out, 'game-shaped object') called Achievement Hunter.

Honestly, I don't mind porn games being sold on Steam, anime-themed or otherwise. If someone wants to put in the effort for their porn, then by all means, do so, and as long as there's as much hard work out into the game as there is put into playing it, then no prob. We are all grownups here after all.

But stuff like Achievement Hunter, Fidget Spinner Simulation and the like only serve to clog up the Steam marketplace and shove otherwise deserving games off the front page. Is there some way I can report these things to Valve?

Dark_Swordmaster
Oct 31, 2011

CommissarMega posted:

Is there some way I can report these things to Valve?

In a way they'll look at or care about? No. But yes.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Someone's probably getting some enjoyment of these or they wouldn't be getting made, right?

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

I can believe the developers of a game-shaped object get lots of enjoyment out of any money they generate and that that's reason enough for them to be made in spades. I can't believe anybody enjoys them for their own sakes though.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

The ones who buy them presumably do... or is there some secondary use for steam achiements that I'm missing that would make this exploitable?

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Palpek posted:

It got so bad that Valve actually called those games "game-shaped objects" in an official statement which I find hilarious. They're basically games existing only to serve the meta-layer of playing a game - achievements, Steam cards, smilies and cutting out the useless middleman - you know, the actual game part. We're living in some weird times.

other then running steam and pumping out the occasional update for dota2 or tf2. what the gently caress does valve even do. half life is dead as is left 4 dead and i doubt they will make any new IPs.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Dapper_Swindler posted:

other then running steam and pumping out the occasional update for dota2 or tf2. what the gently caress does valve even do. half life is dead as is left 4 dead and i doubt they will make any new IPs.

they have 3 (three!) new VR games in making.

coming soon in 2024.

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

Dapper_Swindler posted:

other then running steam and pumping out the occasional update for dota2 or tf2. what the gently caress does valve even do. half life is dead as is left 4 dead and i doubt they will make any new IPs.

"Running Steam" isn't exactly a minor thing. It's probably more than enough to keep one company busy and in the black.

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Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS
I don't know if they've even got anyone left who can write story or code games these days. Do they even license out the HL2 engine any more?

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