beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

Only downside about scooting to work is that my beard gets absolutely destroyed lol. Maybe I need to start tying it up. It's about 8 inches so when it's bad, it's BAD lol.

@xianc78 it's at that point that i'm more like.... go put your game on itch instead then xD

i think you could totally have like a trump parody game without it falling into "activism." you could even do allegorical stuff.

but when it comes to someone, for instance, making a mod for BLM or AF, or showing support for a presidential candidate, or games tied to organizations such as PETA, then i think THAT ought to be classified as activism. not just random politics, but activism specifically. and no taking sides on that front, either.

also, as far as a name for the site goes, this is a little cheesy but how about "yourgame?" this has several meanings:

1) you purchased a game, it's your game, you should get to decide what you do with it (modding)

2) you are exercising your right to share your ideas, your game, without fearing that it will be taken down

3) your preferences for how you game, alluding to the filter features

idk, probably a prototype name there but i just thought of how youtube was originally, a tube for you. a tube for the people without the suits deciding what you can and can't upload pretty arbitrarily.

@picandor yeah, obviously we can't limit everything past a certain point, but i agree most people in general are extremely stupid. after working retail you come to realize that.

we have a sign we put out whenever we leave the cash register that says "please push button for service" with a big arrow pointing to the orange button on the phone in front of the sign.

i'm not even joking, half the people that see that sign have no idea what to do. my manager said "the sign only works if you speak english" and i had to tell her that, no, it's not that. EVERYONE knows what symbols look like. you'd think if there's nobody at the register but there's a sign telling you to click a button, you'd just click the button. but nooooo, they won't click it.

and the even worse part is that a line forms behind them because everybody just assumes that the first person in line knows what they're doing.

@Spingebill @xianc78 shadow-anything is in poor form imo. i'd just tag it as lgbt if it had lgbt themes in it and if the creator had a problem with that we could talk about it. one side character being a little fruity or something probably wouldn't be deserving of a tag though, i'd think it would need to be a bit more in-your-face though not quite crossing the line into preachy territory.

@picandor yeah the word "pedophile" is more or less the same as "child rapist" now in society's collective consciousness, which is why people tried to come up with "MAP" but that just sounds retarded and half those people think children can consent to sex anyway.

@picandor a real libertarian will think that an AI shouldn't impose morals on others regardless of what our own morals are

@picandor reminds me of that newer predator movie that says autism is the evolutionary future of humans

@Spingebill @Dicer @Shadowman311 PROTECTIVE SHIELD

@xianc78 Not too bad actually! I still think maybe "Activism" could be a good one to add here as well. Maybe LGBT would be better off as a user-added tag that you can mute or something, since I guess theoretically your game could feature a gay character and not necessarily be activist.

but i like this as a starting point for sure.

as far as furry goes, i can potentially see people not wanting to see furshit whatsoever, not just in a sexual way. i wonder if there is a good way to separate those two concepts in the same way as something like LGBT and Activism, like an "18+ furry" filter and a "furry" tag.

@xianc78 like i said, i'd want it to be a site everyone can use. i'd mark "LGBT" as an opt-in filter, as well as "political activism." but making it a "woke" filter is cringe... obviously nobody would upload stuff like that and it'll turn into a right-wing extremist echo chamber like everything else does online when it comes to free platforms, which is what i would ideally like to avoid.

during account setup, you could display a list of those filters and ask which ones the user wants to see, then mention they can change it at any time in their user settings.

i think an independent game or account mute feature would be great too, considering that not every filter is going to be extremely verbose. someone who opts in to the loli and gore filters might not necessarily want to see both together, so that one game that keeps popping up on their feed that features both they can have the chance to just mute and forget about.

@nobullyplz @Paulyfrog64 he could chase after you i guess? or start chasing after someone else? like, to try and light them on fire too.

but this dude doesn't even come in with a gun until after the guy's already dropped.

@PinochetsCommieCopter well, now I know where outlast whistleblower got its inspiration for Eddie Gluskin

@AngryWraith @PinochetsCommieCopter I can't help but wonder if this is part of why Disney threw out all of the EU stuff when they obtained star wars, because some of it humanized the empire.

@Spingebill @Dicer @Shadowman311 just a couple of little stories that relate to this.

I watch two streamers primarily, vargskelethor (Joel) and vinesauce (Vinny).

Joel was playing a game a couple of months ago with bugs in it that you kill and was screaming about the only good bug being a dead bug. Chat was loving it. It's crazy to think how fast discourse around that changed because I bet if he did that like a couple weeks ago, people would unironically think he was a fascist.

Vinny, last night, was talking about how despite video games being the most popular media, many people still look down on it as a lesser form of entertainment and apply standards/generalizations to it that don't exist in other kinds of media. Of course, he usually stays away from spicier takes, but I'm sure we can all kind of understand what he's getting at there. Hell, it seems like even the people making the games do that these days.

Idk, this conversation just made me think of this lol.

@milk this graph is so fucked up

@Marshall1Banana @milk I was also 100% thinking silent hill lol