So this is a thing I guess (CW: A slur but I censored it)

He's desperately trying to "diversify" his investments to shield them from the courts but thankfully he's a dumb lazy asshole so his money laundering is just direct transfers from his company to things like his dad's supplement companies that are selling the things he was prohibited from selling, holding companies set up by him with his initials for a name that were set up 48 hours before the transfer, and toadies that he has on his show and talks about moving money around with on a nationally broadcast program.

I doubt Steam's algorithm is taking politics into account. It actually tells you why a game is in your discovery queue. It's usually either tag based (Action and Adventure are very generic tags), "because it's popular", or because people it thinks are like you (probably based on the tags of the games you own and play most) like it.

pretty sure it's satire and being marketed to your... algorithmic demographic(?) because you might find it funny.

Kind of sick of steam's shit, just letting any bullshit on.

Less annoyed by them having an open back-end that any dork can load a game onto than I am that they let their algorithm get gamed to inflate the perceived popularity of this turd.

Get your house in order, gabe!

As soon as you start policing the politics of this shit, you end up with people screaming about how we need to ban Stellaris or Victoria 3 because it promotes the insidious evils of Stalin-Mao-Killed-10-Trillion-Uighur-Jews Communism. I don't begrudge services for simply not wanting to get sucked into these fights.

But one way to avoid this kind of garbage is to keep them from signal boosting their shitty content into the main feed.

Fucking monopoly capitalism.

One of the nicer things about Steam is that it's not this rigid monopolistic enterprise that demands extortionary fees to host your software and constantly pulls content because some whiney dipshits started a digital book burning movement.

That means turds like this will leak through from time to time. And what guys like Gabe are ultimately banking on is that they suck, nobody really likes them, and they never become a thorn in his side. But, again, that goes out the window when you've got Ann Coulter The Video Game showing up on the NYTs Highest Seller list because she's straw purchasing a thousand copies a week.

before the farce of a 'steam game awards', starfield had a 'mostly positive' on reviews

gamers are spineless

Not to act like pointing out hypocrisy does anything but it is a funny example of how people who aren't right wing assholes just ignore stuff like this that was clearly made to piss them off meanwhile if a game has a character that isn't a straight white male it has negative reviews before it comes out because chuds are softer than melted tootsie rolls.

Steam probably does that automatically and they didn't realize.

The idea of pricing your game at the "true American patriot number" but then adjusting it for different countries currencies fells kinda, idk, globalist?

And to be clear I mean like an actual globalist not like what Jones means when he says globalist.

I'm almost sure it's officially licensed, especially because by all accounts its complete garbage, and that's really on brand for Alex Jones.

Jones promoted it but at this point Alex Jones is a joke at his own expense.