Level Zero: Extraction insta-bans player on launching the game.
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Civilians are always the ones that pay the price of war.
Curiously enough, Valve themselves locked the thread pretty fast.
Source - https://steamcommunity.com/app/1456940/discussions/0/4336483797754883271/
Another thread mocking Russian players - https://steamcommunity.com/app/1456940/discussions/0/4336483797754909632/
Full Ukrainian translation request - https://steamcommunity.com/app/1456940/discussions/0/4295944142488767646/
The sanction mentality is supposed to turn Russians against Putin, but it actually unifies Russia. Good job libbies.
Russians must be thrilled “oh no, you’re going to punish us by withholding your mass brainwash propaganda media. How will I ever survive?”
It doesn't even make sense. Imagine if your teacher said "I'm going to come to your house and break one of your video games every week until your dad votes for who I want". Is that going to make you resent your dad for voting how he wants, or your teacher for being a psychopath? For almost everyone, it's the latter.
I don't know how these people think that making themselves the bad guy is supposed to get anyone on their side.
It doesn't make any sense, but you see it all the time.
There were a bunch of bicyclists protesting driver's not sharing the road a few years back where I live. They did so by blocking intersections and making a general pest of themselves.
Putting aside the fact that most people hate bicyclists because they're rude and don't follow any of the rules of the road themselves, all this did is pissed off everyone they encountered and didn't earn them any sympathy at all.
The strategy of making my problem with you a third party's problem by taking it out on them and hoping they will blame you instead of me has always been fucking retarded.
if you dress it up enough, for almost everyone it's the former. if it's some random psycho's doing, you get angry at the psycho. if it's an entire way of living and worldly system, you get angry at the victim.
just look at covid. and you don't even have to look at the insane AHH GET VACCINATED people - you can look at entirely normal people, who would get angry if you were going to a grocery store with them but refused to put on a mask. nobody gets angry at the psychopaths forcing everyone to mask up, they get angry at you for not going along to get along.
The vaccine thing at least makes sense if you assume benevolence where benevolence does not exist. There was a neutral threat there: COVID. It wasn't "us vs them", it was everyone vs nature with some disagreement within the "everyone" faction.
Here, it's literally just humans fucking over other humans because they don't like a third group of humans. Pure, obvious malice. No existential threat, no risk of harm being mitigated in any way. Benevolence can't be assumed because the actions don't follow. Non sequitur is not a benevolent thing. At best it's neutral.
Pretty easy to deal with when the West's main export is imaginary bullshit like copyright and "services".
The West defeated the USSR by being nice.
The idiot asshats running foreign policy these days decided it would be a good idea to do the opposite.
It's like you know those ornery fucks that are historically famous for tolerating any amount of pain and coming together to do whatever it takes to punish an aggressor? Lets aggro them to teach them a lesson.
GG, retards.
Seriously, be nice to Russia, leave them alone, it will probably fall apart by itself for lack of purpose.
Napoleon: "It's different this time!"
Hitler: "It's different this time!"
United States: "It's different this time!"
The cold war was a real war. We spent a lot of time and money attempting to damage Russia and her interests.
The USSR was most effectively defeated by their own KGB.
they were defeated by the clock running out on their fake and gay economic and social order, much like we're rapidly approaching ours.
All economic orders are fake and gay by design because they depend on people believing each other.
The source of that faith is the only real difference, and theirs ran out. But it wouldn't have if they had a unifying factor such as an aggressive enemy.
The point is that the populace wasn't united behind the whole apparatus and was kind of very much against it. And the apparatus itself was massively disjointed and working against itself. KGB generals wanted nice cars, soft toilet paper and jeans just as much as, if not more, than the general populace.
Had the US tried actual aggression in the 80s, the populace (as well as the KGB) would have had a unified purpose which superseded caring about having nice cars, soft toilet paper and jeans. All that is secondary to crushing the aggressor. It's a historical thing imho. Russia is pretty much defined by a model of growth against existential threats from outside aggressors. I think Siberia is pretty much the only place they took over without someone from there trying to raid their lands (and enslave their people) first and even then I don't really know.
Just as an example, the Crimean tartars burned down Moscow about 400+ years ago, which is why Crimea was some hundred+ years later conquered by Russia. Even having your capital burned down is nothing, really, in the scheme of things.
So this whole "lets scare those russkies with a couple dozen ATACMS!" is doubly retarded. You could literally wipe out all of Moscow from the face of the Earth and that will just make every single Russian determined forever to put eventual boots on the ground in Washington, like they did with Paris after Napoleon burned down Moscow.
You're viewing this through the lens of a "single USSR." Which is belied by it's own title. The union of states was already breaking apart, and as you said, aggression would have led to a unified purpose.
So.. the KGB applied that aggression against the states gaining more freedom, which unified the people against their coup, and setup Yeltsin to lead.
The deep irony of this, and the reason I put it all this way, is because Yeltsin ended up having to hand the Russian state back over to a former KGB officer.
In any case "we beat the because we were nice," even if it were kinda sorta true (it isn't), it misses the real plot. And even if it didn't, name me one country we could level with explosives and then walk away calling it "good diplomacy."
That isn't really true though, in terms of the actual population, as amply demonstrated by the referendum in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum
The lowest result was in Ukraine and Russia itself.
The USSR broke apart because the elites wanted it broken apart.
Because the elites wanted what they got (massive wealth through corruption and graft and selling of privatized state enterprises for scrap, logistics control, etc. etc. etc.).
The elites were given this possibility because the USA basically promised them the possibility and provided bank accounts to store the wealth and yachts and houses in Italy to spend it on. Which is what I call being nice.
Russian elites today were instead promised pain and suffering instead of massive additional wealth. Given the stick instead of the carrot. Russian elites are pretty much 99% behind Putin and Xi, because anything is better than being a beggar under a bunch of whimsical sanctions applied willy-nilly by a bunch of fart-sniffing retards. And also they are ornery fucks who want revenge for having their stuff taken.
The war in Ukraine could have been won by the west in three easy steps 2 years ago, by being nice:
Oh no where shall Russians get software now?
Valve sold this person a product that was intentionally sabotaged by the developer, what kind of support do they think he'd get?
Valve refusing to do anything is what I expect from a company that donates to the DNC and woke orgs, they likely have not taken action because no money was spent too.
If no money was spent on Steam, it's annoying valve is involved at all. I'm not sure when valve became the internet police. That is all.
I don't know why you'd expect Valve to not be involved. The post and impending bad PR were on Steam forums as well as the game being hostedon Steam.
I'm just saying what I think should be. The way I wish it.
It's one of the games on Nextfest, so they may have been banned after trying the demo.
in a sane world, this would be an easy antitrust win
EDIT: apparently its just a free demo, so no money stolen. just obnoxious.
Do you mean simple fraud? Because that has nothing to do with antitrust.
Steam grew big by allowing devs this nonsense.
This game is currently in a f2p open beta. I don't think they have a preorder so you couldn't even pay for it if you tried
yup, I saw that on 4chan too.
I'm sure the devs think they're really fighting the power on this one. I bet Putin is dying to get his gaming fix in and is about to call off the war because of these brave noble game devs!
He was all set to stream it with Elon on Slavtube but no... these dirty devs ruined Putin's weekend by IP banning him. Now he'll have to go back to playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R... alone.
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. "Discrimination is bad except when we do it, which is always".
Dipshit leftists.
These are the people who think you're dumb enough to fall for the "you wanna know more" propaganda from Starship Troopers. Meanwhile they are falling for it
Such patriotism... I sure hope they're developing the game from a trench in chasiv yar, and not just virtue signalling from a cozy office somewhere in the west.