I mean, to be fair, if I have to extend something to meet a word minimum I naturally ramble like a bot just filling it up with pointless junk.
Why I did so much better in “business writing” at uni, they rarely gave me minimums, only the need for usable content that met the criteria for a proper answer.
Personally “I checked with Claude” invalidates anything you just said, even if it was properly researched and legitimately correct. As soon as you invoke the slopbots I lose any regard for your answer.
Sadly I see Gabe saying something that makes sense, and then Valve ignoring it to do whatever a corporate publisher demands, since it’s a private company and not forced to bow to shareholders I kinda hoped they could take a stand but it seems like the whole recommendation list lately has either been AI slop or a corporate “AAA” shovelware game that demands I run a secondary client on top of Steam to launch.
Steam has done a lot of good things, but I think they need to take a stand against the publishers. Kicking them off Steam would cost them money, but it would cost the publishers far more, and I think they could use their damn-near-monopoly status to make good changes in the insdutry by simply refusing to alow abuse of paying gamers.
It’s pretty sad that I have dozens of games that I can’t play anymore because of an “update” that broke it I was forced to install by Valve because the publisher said so. It’s why my 1500ish game library is all cracked and backed up in zip files to old mechanical hard drives (no need to pay the AI bubble premium on storage, not running the games off the HDD, I extract the archive to my SSD and play from it) now and any games I buy are form GOG with everything not sold there pirated instead.
I dumped Adobe when I tried to reinstall my Creative Suite on a new PC only to have it tell me it was “too old” and I needed to “upgrade” to Creative Cloud.
That “cloud” word had me nope right the fuck out, and it seems I dodged a bullet, as I was not involved with Adobe when they became screwed all their customers.
I have no issues with Lineage, or Graphene, the enshitification is all Google and the shady “app” shilelrs who are after your data linking everything to Google Play Services which is a fucking plague.
Android is fine, Google has gone form “Don’t be Evil” to “How can we be more evil?” and needs to be purged from all devices.
Heck, I just demanded a data deletion of an account that was a legal adult because they demanded a copy of my driver’s license to watch a music video on YouTube.
Funny that doesn’t happen when I send a bot to scrape the webm file, without the spammy annoying AI generated ads playing constantly, and run ffmpeg on it to give me a proper offline copy of said video.
Nothing Google does is needed, they are a “convenience” that is only popular because it si free and already installed on everything. Kinda like Windows, no?
Well, when I play something that I have to get on Steam I either crack it and run it with Goldberg, or I just grab a pirate copy to begin with. Despite being a “Game Industry Guardian” on my Steam profile I’ve moved to piracy if it’s not available DRM-Free.
I decided after several games were “updated” with DRM or KLAC or anti-tamper or to constantly spam Epic Games servers with EOS requests even in offline play that I require two things to pay for game:
Offline installers so I can back them up and not need to keep everything installed at all times, and no client requirment to install and play.
The ability to stay at the current version if there is an “update” that breaks things, withouth fighting the client constantly and going through hoops enabling release channels hoping it doesn;t reset at some point and change the gmae I have installed without my permission.
Most of my game, now, are from GOG. I’ve bought one DLC on Steam in the last year, but after them ignoring the “Hey, I’ll buy this again if you release on GOG” messages the next DLC (dropping next week) is coming from my favorite pirate site not Steam.
Added bonus, to that, the constant EOS and Google conections sent by the game even when I set it to “offline” mode are flippin’ insane, and they don’t happen when the Steam API is set to redirect to a local emulator.
I mean, I guess it’s good to have more thigns, but isn’t this kinda playing in to the “You will own nothing and be happy” BS?
As the one says above it is “Appeal to Authority” by adding Claude, or ChatrGPT for the more base level folks, from what I have seen.
Somehow they assume that putting that in will somehow make their words more valid, but hearing it makes me question everything, and dismiss potential valid points made alongside it.