Wolfgame

I think I bought a game a few years ago on Desura, like you mentioned it seemed to be offering titles that Steam wasn't interested in until greenlight opened up. Desura really didn't have many options to compete when its niche was filled by a more widely accepted storefront.

that sounds great on paper, if not for the fact that in numerous areas of steam since the advent of greenlight and early access numerous instances of shoddy quality control and lack of oversight have demonstrated that what ever Steams ideal scenario of overseeing these platforms it hasn't been to the benefit of the consumer. I don't trust them to police something as wide reaching as thousands of mods when they have proven to fail at similar guarantees on a much smaller scale.

modders who don't care to monetize their creation are in fear of having their free mod stolen and uploaded by a third party for profit. This system in its current form has no protection for the authors of these mods and is a slap in the face to all involved. There is no positive spin to this no matter what I read in here. This is a disaster and the preemptive dismissal of dissent on this issue by just classifying as "End of gaming, harhahar" proves how out of touch this site is becoming.

this is a terrible idea and any defense of this is pure fanboyism. Forbes has a great article on why this is such a bad idea.

Wow, I didn't expect this. Netflix has had some solid original programming, if this is done well with respect to the franchise and its fans I will check it out.

self loathing, not quite. I just see a hesitancy to accept any responsibility. I could care less about fitting into the group think on this topic, I know where I stand. I'm not bound by some connection to an ideology that prevents me from condemning Gawker just as strong as internet harassers, being bound to "outsourced" thinking is what causes situational responses to hate speech on the internet, particularly when it's a garbled response simply because of where it is coming from and not what is being said.

Day to day my opinion would probably shift between snes and n64 era, nostalgia makes it tough.

@reverendk: I was replying at you at the time cause I felt like you had highlighted some key points of past gawker history, my overall reply was largely directed at the larger narrative in the thread, sorry for confusion.

This burns me in so many ways right now and I hope i'm not the only one seeing it. We take hardline stances around here on harassment, deaththreats, misogyny and all elements that contribute to what makes gaming so inherently negative at this time. I've never seen this dismissive attitude followed by "Oh, that's just the internet being the internet" when any of those topics are involved. Yet, here we are dismissing any accountability and responsibility from Gawker because "Oh, that's just Gawker being Gawker". We need consistency, either all of it is ok or none of it is, the mental leaps to justify this only further serves to prove my point and the demonstrated hesitancy to condemn this in the strongest possible terms makes me sick.

@reverendk: We are essentially Gawker-lite, this shouldn't be a surprise. I just wish we would stop pretending we have any credibility, the hypocrisy in the air makes it difficult to breathe. Just to be clear we have people in here defending Gawker posting nazi propaganda, just because you dress it up under the guise of shit like "Better them than 4chan" doesn't make it appropriate. So if 4chan had done the same damn thing would they be afforded this fair of a shake? Would this topic live more than 30 minutes? No!, the answer is NO!. Our community needs to spend some real time reflecting on what we stand for.

If our new tolerance level for hate speech is simply negated by "not as bad as 4chan" then we have really hit a new low.