On the third hand, chuds get mad about literally nothing so I imagine some of the games will be disappointingly cishet

Reverse engineering. I like it.

At risk of sounding like a bootlicker, I have to at least give credit to Steam for making an explicit exemption for trans people changing their account login names from our deadnames. Typically there's no way to change your login name, and it seems like there's probably some fucked up old spaghetti code to blame. But steam support lets you change it specifically if it is your deadname, and it seems like they go out of their way to accommodate us to do that. From what it sounds like when I talked to steam support, as a software developer my self, it sounds like a convoluted manual process that they go through solely to make trans people's lives a little better. They even ask us specifically not to widely share that they are willing to do this, presumably so cis people don't take advantage of it and ruin it for the rest of us. So good for them, honestly.

Yeah, given their actions during the George Floyd protests this is par for the course. For those not aware, some of the employees wanted the company to make a statement and donate money to appropriate charities. Others were tech-chud libertarians who of course wanted to do nothing or outright condemn the movement. The solution the higher-ups came to was to just give every employee several thousand dollars to do with as they saw fit. Want to donate to bail funds? That's just fine! Don't want to donate at all? That's okay too! Would rather just give it to atomwaffen? Go right ahead, just don't make us pick a side!

Gamergate honestly catapulted the whole thing but I'll keep saying it: I vividly remember everyone gettin mad as fuck about LoZ: Wind Waker because it wasn't Ocarina of Time: More tits and gore and I genuinely think the whole thing has its root causes in gaming starting as a hobby for rich people originally

Ask them to review your game lmao

Lol right? If we made a list of games made by fascist devs we'd be told we're "cancelling" them and taking away their free speech, but when they do it...

This is fine but they often flood the community board with bigoted content and those aren’t removed by Valve either, and they show up on everyone’s dashboard depending on configuration.

deplatforming is good actually

If you let them in you drive away the people they're hateful towards. Eventually they take over the community. The only way to stop that is to nip it in the bud.

Let them.

Let the bigots make the world worse! It's only hurting and killing trans people who cares.

personally i'm with you lemmy.ml person, I think using their reviews to find the hottest and gayest games and thanking them for consuming all this queer content like they've done a service to the gay community is a p. funny route which would probably make them quite mad

not sure why all the hexbears only focused on "let them [be a bigot]" here especially when it sounds like Valve isn't going to ban them so something like this is really the only practical recourse available other than stewing over the fact that this person should be thrown into a pit