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SirViolentDeath

@sirviolentdeath.bsky.social

Owner of Steam Curator: Review Bomb Tracking / Off Topic Autistic Spreadsheet Enthusiast https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36308017-Review-Bomb-Tracking-Off-Topic/

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Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happens so much in gaming now. Yes, video games have always adopted new tech, and AI like machine learning has been a part of that. Hell, Rogue used generative algorithms in the 80s. But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.

David Dalglish@ddalglish.com · 10mo ago

Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.

Mellow_Online1@mellowonline1.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New article on @steamsentinels.bsky.social! A guest piece this week from @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social - Part one in a planned series of articles discussing Review Bombing on Steam! steamcommunity.com/groups/Senti...

Review Bombing Part 1

Hi folks, SirViolentDeath here with an interm article while our fearless leader Mellow_Online1 goes on holiday (this past week) to sample tea or some shit. This week's article will be about review bom...

steamcommunity.com

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · last yr.

Not happy about it, but I called it: the Wisconsin guy whose wife got scooped by ICE on their honeymoon still doesn't regret voting for Trump. MAGA is a cult and what we know is the worse it gets, the more cult members double down. www.salon.com/2025/03/21/i...

"I don't regret the vote": Why most Trump voters stand by him, even as he ruins their live

It's not totally hopeless: Some swing voters who backed Trump may learn their lesson

salon.com

Art Candee 🍿🥤@artcandee.bsky.social · last yr.

Senator Jeff Merkley on the backlash against Chuck Schumer for capitulating on the CR: "I think they will be hugely upset, and well-justified. You don't stop the bully by handing over your lunch money, and you don't stop an authoritarian president by giving him more power."

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last yr.

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...

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Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last yr.

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stephen A. Smith's call for the Democratic Party to clean house seems relevant today: "The Democratic Party is in a bad state right now. The whole damn thing needs to be purged. I'm dead serious. They need to go. Those strategists fire every damn one of them. Get rid of them."

Laurentide@laurentide.bsky.social · 2y ago

I just did the same and there are 37 game keys they owe me. Where's my copy of Darksiders 3, Humble? You're selling Steam keys for it right now in your store but somehow haven't been able to give me the one I paid for in over 4 years? This company is a scam.

A list of 37 games that Humble owes me keys for, purchased between 2020 and 2024.
duen / niko / miles@riolu.gay · 2y ago

humble's business model is now - when we sell you a game, we might not actually have keys available for it - if you wait a few weeks, we might send you an email saying we have keys again. better be fast, though! - if this process takes too long, we have no obligation to give you the key you bought

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Chris Glass@thechrisglass.bsky.social · 2y ago

Given how Humble Bundle lost out on charity bundles to other places, and was literally just recycling bundles this month, they're toast. I can't imagine how much the servers take to host it all, but download your library now and save your keys elsewhere. The site is officially on borrowed time.

duen / niko / miles@riolu.gay · 2y ago

it’s so weird that humble has yet to get in trouble for selling keys they dont have . some past Humble Choice months ive been waiting on keys for 3+ months. noita (purchased from the store!) took over three weeks. it took about a week to get keys for the current programming bundle.

ᴆᴀᴎᴉᴋᴀᴢᴇ@danikaze.bsky.social · 2y ago

Well, I didn't know humble bundle keys could expire or downloads become offline... If you are like me and only redeem the keys that you are actually going to play, you might have lost several (old) titles now... Better do something about it

Weasel ⛳🏌️@wildweasel486.bsky.social · 2y ago

Well I decided today was the day I would clean out my unactivated Humble Bundle keys because I *definitely* have some in there that are older than 3 years... ...thwarted by the system.

"Activate a Product on Steam There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account or Internet address. Please wait and try your product code again later."
Fergus Halliday@cvamped.bsky.social · 2y ago

Humble Bundle changed its terms of service back in December. Unused game codes now expire after 3 years and in cases where the retailer is out of stock and alternate keys are "not available", Humble says that it is "not obligated to provide them." Seems bad: www.reviews.org/au/games/hum...

Fergus Halliday@cvamped.bsky.social · 2y ago

Humble Bundle changed its terms of service back in December. Unused game codes now expire after 3 years and in cases where the retailer is out of stock and alternate keys are "not available", Humble says that it is "not obligated to provide them." Seems bad: www.reviews.org/au/games/hum...

Humble Bundle is getting worse (and everybody knows it)

Ever wonder what happened to all those games you picked up over the years through Humble Bundle? You might not like the answer.

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SirViolentDeath@sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 2y ago

Multiple Paradox Interactive games have been review bombed: Hearts_of_Iron_IV Europa_Universalis_IV Crusader_Kings_III Victoria_3 Imperator_Rome Stellaris It appears that some Chinese players are upset with Paradox Interactive over Hearts of Iron IV's depiction of historical Chinese territory.