I’m a lot of things, but not a Velociraptor

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  • Valve is the biggest pc gaming storefront. Could they just comply and verify you in the easiest way? Certainly. But how is that going to change anything with that shitty law? In fact, by verifying you “easily”, it becomes an issue for Valve itself because in case someone breaks in and steal your data from them, who are you going to blame? The government that made the stupid law? No, probably the middle man: Valve.

    Instead, they decided to go through the tough path: Piss everyone and make it an issue for everyone in the chain. The gamer gets angry because they can’t verify without a card. The dev gets angry because they see piracy rise and when they both point at Valve, Valve can just say: Hey, it’s not my fault, ask whoever is doing this stupid law to go back.

    Change often comes from hardship, and there’s very few collectives more complacent than gamers; the only way to make them move in any way is inconveniencing them enough. This aims to do that.














  • I am autistic. I have been bullied for the whole time up until I was 18 and left my hometown.

    Normally, I always curled up and cried when being bullied.

    Except when I didn’t. And I remember those times vividly. I remember clearly having to be pulled of my bullies by 3-4 people because I wasn’t stopping and the bully was already on the floor bleeding. Every time this happened, my only thought was “it’s you or them”. And in those moments, you are never thinking about just stopping the aggression. You are thinking about eliminating the threat. I’ve always been lucky that every time this happened, there were people relatively close so they could stop me. Otherwise, I’d be telling very different stories.

    Do NOT trigger people, you never know if they are going to feel threatened and, if the lizard brain takes control, it’s gonna be a fight to death for them. You don’t want to be involved in a fight in which the other person fears for their life.