Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.
and a gobsmacking negative review of Sea of Thieves despite that 2,000 hours of playtime.
Oh damn, he’s one of those people… Sounds like the worst charge so far
I am more concerned that he logged like 3 work weeks worth of time playing “power washing simulator”
People under capitalism are so alienated from their work that they escape to something as mundane as Power Washing Simulator. Having a stable job with a modicum of satisfaction and control is a power fantasy nowadays.
People spend hundreds of hours driving transport truck simulations in traffic.
Work in HVAC, I go home and play project zomboid. My fantasy is that everyone stops needing me and I can stay inside on a Tuesday and just read and eat sphaghetti straight out of the can.
I bet your room is the perfect room temperature.
That’s particular simulator game actually has you saving the world from some sort of Alien UFO time traveler conspiracy plot though doesn’t it? It’s not quite as mundane as some other simulator games like farming or truck driving sims.
I play space truck sim. Sometimes you just wanna chill and press clunky buttons. Do some really low stakes slow shit. I’m old though.
It’s such a nice game to just chill and talk to friends
it’s supposed to connect ‘steam’ with ‘extremism’ instead of something like Twitter, Truth, or Fox to coincide with their recent ‘fact finding mission’
Absolutely, here is RFK on Sept 10 saying they cause mass shootings. (Completely ignoring the ENTIRE WORLD OUTSIDE THE US)
https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-video-games-mass-shootings-gun-violence-2127808
Also Congress has called for the leaders of discord, steam, Reddit and twitch to come and testify about extremism.
I don’t see any of the social media heads who donated to Trump’s inaugural on that list.
Steam is very much connected to extremism. Far right extremisn to be precise.
Take a look at any Steam forum and you’ll see. The reason is because Valve hardly ever hires moderators and delegates responsibility to the developer who created the game the forum is about.
I think German speaking Steam has a total of two global (i.e. paid by Valve) moderators? Not sure where I’ve heard this though.
This actually true, even though I swear it didn’t used to be like that. There are sooo many far right people on the forums and in the discussions. I was looking up a game where one of the female characters has the option to date her female friend. I went to the discussion tab to see if anyone knew what choices you had to pick to unlock it. A whole bunch of trolls calling the game “woke” and disgusting for hating an OPTIONAL story arc. Even on games like Life is Strange, which isn’t a new game and is pretty well known for having lgbtq elements, tons of far right people gay-bashing in the discussions tab.
Yup. It’s utterly ridiculous.
I remember at least one steam group dedicated to determining the “woke” rating of games
That’s unexplainable textile mill fires. Steam is connected to unexplainable textile mill fires, not
autismshit video games.
I am telling you that there is proof video games effect people. Ever notice how most people born in the 80s grew up and all became plumbers? I mean sure all the competition has driven costs down for all of us and with just a little work you can find a plumber that will do the work for free, but a lot of these plumbers can no longer support their families and are forced to live in sewers and fight turtles for food.
affect.
You affect things. Things have an effect.
Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.
You’d probably want to use a colon instead of a comma there.
Thanks. I never really got a good grasp on colon usage or the more nefarious semicolon.
:( Ah, I didn’t mean to actually criticize you lol I was just running with the anal grammar nazi comment chain pattern. You’re good, a comma works fine enough.
This is the one rule I get wrong every time
also you effect an effect
Isn’t English great?
there is proof video games effect people
Holy shit they can give birth now?
The trick to using effect/affect is to use them interchangeably and at random, then you’re bound to be right sometime. Or panic and use “impact” instead, like a coward.
Or you only ever use one spelling, to the same effect… :p
Kinda what I do, I am dyslexic and if spell check says it’s good I tend to miss that it is the wrong spelling of the word.
It’s like scone and scone. I’ll swap pronunciation mid sentence, just to throw people.
you know what we should make our own variation on the pastry and pronounce it scuhn
all the trees are square now and I’m scared to go out at night.
And the turtle with the stick is super OP compared to the rest.
But all of them have trouble swimming around dams.
I wish we lived in a time before videogames when there were no political assassinations or mass shootings.
/s <-- do I even need this?
Famous gamer John Wilkes Booth.
Brutus was way better at Halo
Not Fruit Ninja?
Lincoln ruined his killstreak and swatting wouldn’t be invented for three more years, by famous inventor Thomas “I made up the N word” Edison.
No no, you’re thinking of Charles Guiteau.
just leave it to someone who’s gonna be french but not gonna be properly french to go and french things up
wouldnt those graphs look similar though, even if just by coincidence?
It seems they did need the /s …
I mean, not really, since even its inclusion was ignored XD
If you’re suggesting that political assassinations are more common in modern times, let me introduce you to the Life Details column of the List of Roman Emperors wiki page.
The fuckheads in office are searching for stuff they can blame. It’s couldn’t possibly because he was a right wing nutjob. Oh no it must be video games! Time to start cracking down on that now!
Dumb fucks…
right-wing nutjob
Didn’t he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where’s this coming from?
Agreed that Steam is a really stupid place to be looking for anything of substance.
Well, maybe the fact that he left a negative review for a game he has over 2000 hours in signifies derangement on some level, if not political, lol.
Do you mean those totally legit messages that totally didn’t sound like it was a mix of someone from the 60s and cop speak? Or did he criticize somewhere else?
You’re right, every piece of evidence that doesn’t confirm your biases must be fabricated.
There’s no other possibility.
My only bias in the situation is not trusting cops, espescially Trumps justice department and Patel’s FBI.
If you look for any information outside of what the administration says and what the news repeats, you will see many people believe it was fabricated. People who are the same age as him say it doesn’t read plausible, people on the far right say it doesn’t sound like anything they have read, leftists say it sounds like no kid they have come across, people who study linguistics say it doesn’t match someone his age and the writing cadence is weird, especially someone who spent as much time online as him.
It’s just super fishy, and I would be skeptical no matter who was in charge. I think a healthy dose of skepticism is important in today’s environment. We will find out more when this comes up in court.
“I would like to remain unseen,” said the Genzer
Didn’t he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where’s this coming from?
He was an active groyper.
The Groyper War began in the fall of 2019, when Fuentes and his followers launched a social media campaign targeting Turning Point USA’s “Culture War” college tour, led by Charlie Kirk. Motivated by the firing of a Fuentes ally and other conflicts, Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights to challenge mainstream conservative figures like Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and Ben Shapiro, whom they labeled “Conservative Inc.” for deviating from their far-right views.
This is also why Ben Shapiro went into hiding shitting himself.
Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions
This is pretty much the opposite of what Robinson did, so…what are you talking about?
Also, groypers didn’t criticize Kirk because he ‘spreads too much hate’—if anything, they think he’s not extreme enough. Another direct contradiction.
I think you’re believing what you want to believe, not what the evidence points to.
I bet he played violent video games, like Among Us
“It is a cruel, evil game that teaches decit and murder. That is why I don’t let you play Clue, son.”
Because it’s saying “leftists play video games, rightists play and watch sports” without saying it. Same with the “serially online” thing.
Lol, just check out WoWs general chat to find as many right wingers as you want.
Yeah but that’s not the perception uh people that think they’re offline rightists have.
Ikr? Blog, content creation, videos, Facebook. Like they constantly are looking for everything they could possibly do online.
Or literally any fps. You dont even have to play things like CS or R6 to know, that shouting racial slurs into the voice Chat is relatively common in this games.
And lots of fps.
Would love some MAGA to say this to me. Then I whip their ass in any game or sport they want to play. Gravy Seals can get balled on.
Motivated by radical pirate ideology confirmed.
I blame Microsoft
Same.
I see. Video games cause violence. Guns had nothing to do with it. Mandatory id, facial scanning, and government reporting on all video game platforms is totally cool and justified. /s
You see, guns in video games, where nobody is hurt, are bad. Guns in reality are good.
It’s a bad example, the gun in this case was good. Would have been great if just aimed 15 cm higher.
just needed more good guys with guns, obviously. Of course, the same doesn’t work in vibeo games, because good guys don’t play them. Checkmate, antifas
I’ll give up modern gaming it failed for blizzard it’ll fail .gov
Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.
Nothing incompetent about it. Just evil this time.
They want a profile of the guy. They want to sell him as a left-wing extremist. They’ll outright lie about it if they have to–they mostly have already–but lies work better when they’re based on some level of truth.
People who play Powerwash Simulator are not to be trusted.
How DARE you! … I mean, you’re not wrong but…
Especially if more than 100 hours
His Steam profile has over 100 “Mind Blown!” Awards lmao
You can look up the tweet from the article to get the link to the Steam profile
Mind sharing it here please?
I’d rather not since there was the whole fiasco with the guy buying the shirt the killer wore having the FBI come after him. I found it by searching for the guy’s twitter handle and one of the usernames posted in the screenshot
You’re going to back off your first amendment rights because the FBI might come ask you about it?
Chat, are we cooked?
You post it then?
I don’t see anyone else fucking posting it lol. Buncha cowards right alongside me
We live in a police state now.
You haven’t seen anything yet. I mean I do not disagree it is pretty fucked now. It will become much much more so however.
I don’t really get it, they already have his account, so what’s the point?
It’s supposed to paint the “Games turn people violent” narrative, nothing else.
This dude could have 2000 hours on Animal Crossing and they’d still find a wayThat’s a shitload of time in a game that has barely any content.
Games are about having a good time. If your idea of a good time is story and completionism, then sure, what a waste of time. Some people just want to vibe, role play, or socialize.
Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.
Edit: I’m amused there’s so many reasons for leaving the launcher open I didn’t even think of. Personally, mine was just having a bad habit of playing Elite Dangerous until I fell asleep in the chair. Computer would go to sleep, I’d rack an extra ~16 hours before ei came back. Then I’d remember to check in the morning, cutting it down to like 7 extra hours. I probably have 100-200 racked up from before I got better sleep commitment. 2020 was an interesting time in which time itself didn’t matter for a bit. Rounding 1100 hours now.
Leave satisfactory running while you go to work, and there are full containers stacked ten high when you get home.
Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.
I’ve never left the home for an emergency and come home a week later to find geralt on his horse waiting for me to get back
Witcher is a slower burn anyway
i still need to go back and finish blood and wine, but my local library has so many fun things in it
Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.
An uncommon case, but I like to suspend the game process so I can get back into the game without wading through loading screens etc. But with Steam at least playtime tracking increases during this time so it seems like I have 100s of hours of playtime.
I remember when idling was the easiest way to get TF2 drops so someone made a map with fire at the spawn to slowly kill idlers.
Anything for hats.
I had eight separate accounts to farm drops. I don’t think it really provided any real value. At one point my backpack was worth over $200, which for a kid with no income was a lot of money. I still have some of my favorite items, even though I haven’t played TF2 in years.
I miss TF2. During COVID, I sold three of my hats for enough to buy an Index. Good stuff.
Yup, I have about 2k hours on Destiny because I’d leave the launcher open while it was updating or offline.
We played the fuck out of elite dangerous. Still do, sometimes. But during the pandemic when even the outdoors were largely shut down, and it was snowing sideways… I’m getting close to 1,100 hours too.
Glad to see another player! There’s at least 4 of us here. I still love it, but play rate dropped way down when I went back to the office with a commute. I believe I hit about 700 hours 2020-2021. The events over the last year rekindled my interest and acquired my focus. The Thargoid invasion was fun, though I didn’t do much battle. But I nabbed a few dozen base-level goid kills since surface-based air battles didn’t have swarms. There were a few lucrative community goals since then as well. I made 1.5 billion last month with a cargo haul loop where I managed top 25% (mild addiction). I’m close to handing in the current CG with exploration data, though I’m not sure what the payout really will be. Should be solid top 50% for that.
I’m not into the grind. I’m into the vibe. 1000+ hours with ~23 ships but only 4.x bil in the bank. High imp rank (got the Cutter) but still 2 ranks below unlocking the Corvette. Aside from CGs, I don’t really do any activity more than 3 play sessions in a row.
The CGs are fun! I liked playing Elite back when Void opals and Borann didn’t mean too much grind. Exploration with exobio can still net you money in a pinch, but it’s a bit less fun than core mining or wing laser mining with pirates and 400T+ in the cargo hold.
I miss the high stakes/high reward gameplay that made elite feel dangerous, when your miners needed lasers and sidewinder missiles. I’m hopeful that they will bring mining back that can make enough money to support carriers.
All that said, work towards the Corvette! It’s one of the best large ships in the game. Twin Class 4 plasma accelerators w/engineering, g5 dirty drag drives, and prismatic shields are insane. Put a multicannon on the bottom, two turretted lasers with thermal vent effects on top, and sidewinder racks on the side for long range interdictions. Having an AI pilot with a fixed laser taipan or fixed multi cannon F63 is insane for throwing power around too. Throw some SCBs on for the prismatics, and you can be in CZs or haz reses for a long time, safely.
This is true. Could have just left the title screen up so he could jump in and save 45 seconds. I never do this personally because I want an accurate hour count.
Now we know for certain that he is suffering from crazy
SoT is as much a chill game as it is competitive or grindy. I’ve probably spent a couple hundred hours in that game just fishing.
I have almost 1600 hours on Rocket League. I don’t play anymore (actually haven’t touched it in years) but it was the thrill of competition that kept me going, not the content.
I mean if you go around trolling PVP you can get a lot of time from very little.
The real content is the friends/enemies you make along the way
It’s a game with procedurally generated content, so it has infinite content. It’s also a great multiplayer co-op game, where you need to work together with friends to accomplish things.
Have you actually played the game lately? In my opinion there is no lack of content
Really depends on how you treat the game. If you’re solo PvE there’s like 100 hours. If you’re playing with friends and treating it as a PvP game, it’s essentially endless content.
How did he have time to practice his rifle skills? That’s my question.
Obviously video games train you to be master marksmen, and inject leftist ideology straight into your bloodstream to turn kids into political assassins.
I mean, I met enough shit shots who can’t figure out “if the hole in the paper is lower than where you’re aiming, aim more up” and video games kind of teach that kind of problem solving.
Depends on what games you play though. You surely aren’t learning this stuff from CS
those are 1 hit kills with massive hitboxes, right? it’s been a while.
Not really. In CS the first few shots go directly into the crosshair, but when firing continuously you have to aim downwards. So there its the other direction than in real life.
No wonder RFK jr says videogames lead to violence!
