Wow, you opened a can of worms for me. The Questionable Content dude currently has almost 13,000 patrons. Guy must be making 40k a month from that alone. (edit, said 50k, but that's probably high)
Trans are spooging over how deep QC is and how it helped them transition all over the place. I guess he found an audience that is willing to $$$ for shitty comics.
I remember reading QC after an old friend mentioned it to me and then after I'd read quite a few of the pages said friend then mentioned how others had likened her to the character of Faye.
Who is a dumpsterfire of a person and still possibly not the worst person in the comic.
I stopped reading when he started posting US political activism in his daily comic's notes (Anti-Trump hate, etc) . It had already long gone to garbage; it just took that to finally get me to realize it.
Okay, having finally seen everything there is to see about this. I have to say ... it's exceptionally petty on their behalf. And this backlash could be entirely avoided had they not been a leftist hivemind of skull numbingly dull halfwits who hate everything and need it changed.
What does that mean?
It's yet another episode of leftists care enough about something to change it, but when you complain they'll tell you it's so insignificant it shouldn't matter, completely contradicting their own intentional actions.
This is a reminder that leftists are intellectually dishonest, and they will use every tool in the Alinsky playbook to attempt to manipulate you, and the conversation. Never ever trust anything a leftists says about anything.
Bonus points in this case for yet again not creating anything, but forcing themselves into a situation they hate, change everything they hate, and then get hate for it ... again! This is to my memory, at least the second time they've pulled this on this game alone. Nothing is sacred to a leftist, but especially someone else's work.
PS: A good chunk of what was censored/removed was drawn by a woman. An asian woman no less.
So that's what it is. Thanks for letting me know. I thought some shenanigans were at play, but I don't use twitter so I had no idea what flavor of BS it was.
Two things. The recent 5,000 negative reviews are back at the moment on the Steam page. Second, these losers have literally not made anything besides DLC for Skullgirls since making the one, and only, game ten years ago? What the hell do they do all day?
You're probably logged in and have your preferences set to display "off-topic" reviews. If you open a private browsing window and check the steam page while logged-out, they're gone.
You'd think other developers, indie or AAA, would seriously care because all games on the market are in a competition and it means their own games are being unfairly negatively biased in comparison. "I want all the bad reviews on my game from the last year stricken from the record too, Gabe."
In fact let's just remove all negative reviews to be fair. 👍
I'm pretty sure some of those Epic exclusives bent the knee and went to Steam recently. I can't remember which games it was, but I remember seeing people trashing them in reviews for starting as Epic-exclusive.
The evidence is right here. We have a sticky in this very community chatting about what people want to buy from Valve's store, despite at least 5+ years of history banning games, strong-arming developers into self-censoring, and spiteful retaliation against users that don't have mandatory-fun-smile positivity.
(unless Epic literally bribes them away with mountains of cash, Epic literally have to do so to compensate the devs for the loss of sales)
Epic usually gets a year of exclusivity for paying the first year's projected sales figures. That's just what I've heard, but I can't remember the last time I saw a game take that deal that wasn't either garbage by a big publisher that knew it was a loss or an indy with zero confidence.
Epic's store is a joke, ma'am. Why do you think the only games to take Epic's exclusivity deal are either garbage that never would've sold on its own or indie games?
There are a few possible exceptions to that like Phoenix Point but Julian firmly shot his reputation to pieces by taking Epic's money, even though he also gave any refund asked for afterwards because he no longer needed any of the backers' cash.
The X-Com crowd was loyal enough to him up until that point they would have carried his pet project through fire but after burning them the wrong way it failed to rise even once, let alone subsequent times as per the game title might suggest.
> Reviews the changing content of the game
"oFf-ToPic ReViEw!!!!!"
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=gabe+newell
https://archive.ph/Ilnm7#selection-2971.0-2975.66
Valve also donated to SEVERAL extremist game jams.
Wow, you opened a can of worms for me. The Questionable Content dude currently has almost 13,000 patrons. Guy must be making 40k a month from that alone. (edit, said 50k, but that's probably high)
Trans are spooging over how deep QC is and how it helped them transition all over the place. I guess he found an audience that is willing to $$$ for shitty comics.
I remember reading QC after an old friend mentioned it to me and then after I'd read quite a few of the pages said friend then mentioned how others had likened her to the character of Faye.
Who is a dumpsterfire of a person and still possibly not the worst person in the comic.
I stopped reading when he started posting US political activism in his daily comic's notes (Anti-Trump hate, etc) . It had already long gone to garbage; it just took that to finally get me to realize it.
I stopped reading when the dude retroactively edited text in comics to remove references to women wanting to be raped by a handsome man.
Anyone that bought the game should have the right to put down negative reviews for whatever reason.
Okay, having finally seen everything there is to see about this. I have to say ... it's exceptionally petty on their behalf. And this backlash could be entirely avoided had they not been a leftist hivemind of skull numbingly dull halfwits who hate everything and need it changed.
What does that mean?
It's yet another episode of leftists care enough about something to change it, but when you complain they'll tell you it's so insignificant it shouldn't matter, completely contradicting their own intentional actions.
This is a reminder that leftists are intellectually dishonest, and they will use every tool in the Alinsky playbook to attempt to manipulate you, and the conversation. Never ever trust anything a leftists says about anything.
Bonus points in this case for yet again not creating anything, but forcing themselves into a situation they hate, change everything they hate, and then get hate for it ... again! This is to my memory, at least the second time they've pulled this on this game alone. Nothing is sacred to a leftist, but especially someone else's work.
PS: A good chunk of what was censored/removed was drawn by a woman. An asian woman no less.
Fucking twatter links should be banned on this site now that unregistered access is blocked.
They can be archived. You can also use thread reader to get a longer post, and then archive that.
Agreed. Someone archived it at least.
https://archive.is/ty1dH
All I get when I click is:
Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
Is it back to being under lockdown?
So that's what it is. Thanks for letting me know. I thought some shenanigans were at play, but I don't use twitter so I had no idea what flavor of BS it was.
While I think you're correct, I believe that output was also used for deleted tweets.
Ahh, alright, thanks. I managed to resist twitter this long, so I wasn't sure if it was deleted, or just blocked from viewing.
Two things. The recent 5,000 negative reviews are back at the moment on the Steam page. Second, these losers have literally not made anything besides DLC for Skullgirls since making the one, and only, game ten years ago? What the hell do they do all day?
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Hidden%20Variable%20Studios
You're probably logged in and have your preferences set to display "off-topic" reviews. If you open a private browsing window and check the steam page while logged-out, they're gone.
Wow, you're right. How lame.
You'd think other developers, indie or AAA, would seriously care because all games on the market are in a competition and it means their own games are being unfairly negatively biased in comparison. "I want all the bad reviews on my game from the last year stricken from the record too, Gabe."
In fact let's just remove all negative reviews to be fair. 👍
I'm pretty sure some of those Epic exclusives bent the knee and went to Steam recently. I can't remember which games it was, but I remember seeing people trashing them in reviews for starting as Epic-exclusive.
The evidence is right here. We have a sticky in this very community chatting about what people want to buy from Valve's store, despite at least 5+ years of history banning games, strong-arming developers into self-censoring, and spiteful retaliation against users that don't have mandatory-fun-smile positivity.
Epic usually gets a year of exclusivity for paying the first year's projected sales figures. That's just what I've heard, but I can't remember the last time I saw a game take that deal that wasn't either garbage by a big publisher that knew it was a loss or an indy with zero confidence.
>always
>an absolute statement
Domina proves you wrong.
Epic's store is a joke, ma'am. Why do you think the only games to take Epic's exclusivity deal are either garbage that never would've sold on its own or indie games?
There are a few possible exceptions to that like Phoenix Point but Julian firmly shot his reputation to pieces by taking Epic's money, even though he also gave any refund asked for afterwards because he no longer needed any of the backers' cash.
The X-Com crowd was loyal enough to him up until that point they would have carried his pet project through fire but after burning them the wrong way it failed to rise even once, let alone subsequent times as per the game title might suggest.