games
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Visa and Mastercard have finally begun fucking with Valve
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ Gabe will unretire and make New Project 3.
That would be based lmao
And Dialga, here my take:
There are ~30 people who control Mastercard/Visa (who are at the top of the entire financial pyramid)
They have total control and enjoy fucking with
1) Things they don't like
2) People they don't like
3) Punishing entities that have crossed them
There's really not any more to it that that
It's not about image, it's not about "high risk" processing or charge backs
It's all personal
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ Its really crazy that you can just absolutely financially cuck someone because two cards decided they dont like you at all. I dont think theres any real recourse or way out of that is there?
Nope, zero
They have begun to piss off those in power though, and are likely going to be regulated or worked around in the next ~5 years
Not related to Gamers™️ or porn
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 They have begun to piss off those in power though, and are likely going to be regulated or worked around in the next ~5 years
Silver linings, I have no clue why but thats nice to hear ig.
And remember 2-3% of the global GDP goes into their pockets directly (or one of their sub-networks)
He was the first one who tested the guardrails and figured out WTF was happening
People who had been debanked before him, were usually straight criminals or were not really trying to do anything in the first place
And yeah, a lot of Uber rich people do not even do it for the wealth, it's a game of power and control
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ I know he said he owned a buisness outside of podcasting, I wonder if it directly effected and folded his company
It was a marketing company, and while it did end up getting fucked with he just sold his share and left before he brought the whole thing down
Though wierdly, the reason he was able to keep his patreon up, is because patreon got sued to take it down, and the billionaire in charge of that wanted it kept up as a fuck you to the guy who sued them
So even when he was MATCH'd, he got to keep that
I don't even think the US will be the last to root out the monopoly of the payment networks, it's such an easy way to bump the GDP and start rolling back the unsustainable debt US citizens have
Visa/MC will still exist, don't misunderstand
But the payment networks and the credit bureaus will be nationalized
So businesses can process payments without giving Visa/MC 5% of every transaction (and as a side benefit, freedom of speech protections or w/e)
Government won't start issuing consumer debt directly, but with open networks more banks can just offer their own CCs
And debit cards 100% won't be processed by Visa/MC
Will probably also speed up ACH as a side benefit
Not that that matters too much
Do we have a list of things that are getting nuked
every image I am seeing is just the shitty 3d porn game slop
I checked the only porn game I care about that I thought might be at risk (living with sister) and its fine
Maybe? If valve is "enforcing their rules" by placating them by just nuking shitty 3d slop and keeping real games
I think thats fine
the shitty 3d slop spam being on steam added nothing anyways
the actual story is less that anything has been nuked *yet* definitively
and that Valve has updated their policy, to be that payment processors get the final say
Stronghold's super nostalgic and all
but man, it really did have zero of the RTS QoL stuff
attack-move and unit groupings mostly are what stood out
not that you can't micro without them
Thursday, July 17, 2025
They made an official Fishtank game
for some reason
Racoons posted this last month, but I completely missed this
funny that they've started shilling it now
Some guy just sent me a friend request because my steam is lying and says I live in the netherlands
at least I assume thats why, because otherwise why would some guy who is not fire friend request me from the netherlands
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak at least I assume thats why, because otherwise why would some guy who is not fire friend request me from the netherlands
Its me, Fires brother Water, trade me your TF2 items pls I want to see them
Fire is already water
also I am sorry, my tf2 invetory is decimated
I sold anything of value on the market to buy steam games with years ago
since I stopped playing
I think the most valuable thing I owned was a strange huntsman, that went for 10 bucks when I sold it
no idea what it is worth now
I never had an unusuals or anything
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I sold anything of value on the market to buy steam games with years ago
I held onto all my old steam items, something about selling them seemed sad
Though, I did gamble some away
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I held onto all my old steam items, something about selling them seemed sad
Yea i have a decent amount of tf2 items that are worth a decent amount but I haven't sold. I get oddly sentimental over some virtual items
I listed most of my steam inventory cause I didn't have much worth keeping