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But… why?

Today’s word is:

Kompromat

Is the warning about inadvertently seeing something you don’t want to see while looking into Matt Gaetz’s past?

Yeah, agreed X-Plane is behind in VR. That specific use case gives MSFS an edge.

Ah, but he’s gonna fuck everyone, so

Except that you can continue to play whatever version you want without issue. X-Plane 12 is the current, but many people are still on X-Plane 11. You can remain on old versions indefinitely – because they aren’t games as a service. They’re local installs.

As a fellow simmer, all I can say is: please try X-Plane. It needs support and is the best way to make sure the MSFS approach does not become the norm.

Games as services aren’t popular – with a particular demographic. The disconnect here might be that people who tend to play flight sims are decidedly not in the games as a service group.

One reason why I play X-Plane is to avoid this silliness with streaming everything from servers (that, plus the flight and lighting models are better).

But it is just an animation. I want to be able to actually look at the model outside of an animation, like in a Rockstar game.

Edit: a better example is how you can inspect things in Bethesda games

I actually felt it was one of the best games I’ve played in the last 10 years. I really enjoyed the story. The game is beautiful. I love the amount of immersion that is possible, especially with mods. I’ve played through it twice.

I really, really wish we could inspect weapons. One mod gets close, but it isn’t the same as a Rockstar-style weapons inspection. We don’t even get to zoom in on the models in inventory. A damned travesty because the weapons are gorgeous.

But overall, I find it hard to fault, especially given its state at launch.

And yet, my Steam Controller has outlasted 2 Dual Shocks

Still using my Steam Controller every day, with two in reserve. By far my favorite gaming controller, simply because of those touchpads. I play a lot of turn-based strategy and doing it from the couch is sublime.

If Steam Controller 2 has touchpads and does something better than SC1, I’m probably in (dependent on pricing).

Not surprised. I switched to AMD CPU and GPU about a year ago. Could not be happier. Ryzen sips power and I run mine in Eco mode (since I’m on an air cooler). Performance is still fantastic.

Oh no, please, don’t

Yes, agreed, it definitely needs moderation. But I don’t think it needs singling out (again, not saying don’t moderate).

The bigger picture is a proliferation of online extremist speech in general. And yes, Google may have done well to moderate play store reviews (anecdotally), but they certainly haven’t done well with YouTube.

But I would suggest that focusing on any one online forum / store / outlet / etc. will naturally miss an important trend, and the reasons for that trend should be understood – while concurrently doing everything possible to limit this kind of hate online.

your continued insistence that the problematic behavior is sourced from elsewhere

So you’re suggesting that Steam is the source of the extremist behavior we see across a broad spectrum of other media?

For someone literally arguing about argumentation, it sure is hard to see your point.

Then, good. I just hope they’re being tackled by order of affected users.

You literally said “what about” in your comment.

Do you legitimately think that any use of the words “what about” makes something whataboutism?

You specifically argued that the problem lay elsewhere

Again, you seem to have missed the point of the comment. I did not deny that Steam needs improvement. Things can be symptoms of larger problems, and calling that out is not whataboutism (to the contrary, the purpose of whataboutism is to suggest that there is no problem with item X – not that item X is a symptom of item Y).

Edit: clarity

It will be a toothless effort. Splitting up Google or any tech giant at anything near the scale of the Ma Bell breakup is a pipe dream in modern, corporate-owned America. It does not matter how big these companies get. They’ve already won, so the only way to get any headway is changing the game.

I think you missed the first sentence of my comment. Games have been blamed above other media for years and years and years. That is not whataboutism.

Edit: or the last sentence for that matter.

It’s almost like this kind of content on Steam is a symptom of a bigger problem.

I never suggested that Steam doesn’t need improvement. There is extremist content being posted. But it is definitely part of a larger (frankly, much more obvious) problem. Calling attention to a root cause is just not whataboutism.