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Steam Is Down (steamstat.us)
An anonymous reader writes: The entire Steam domain seems to be down for everyone. The websites and Steam clients won't connect. No word from Steam on Twitter or Reddit about the outage. The status page of Steam as well as third-party monitoring sites have confirmed the outage. A tweet from an unofficial Steam Status page says, "100% of #Steam connection manager servers are still down."
Can't wait till Jan 20 when Trump makes Steam great again! Trump will not tolerate such abuses against truly Great American companies like Steam!
Build a great firewall and protect our inner tubes Dear Leader!
I can't play my video games like a teenager! My life is oveeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!!!!!
Hu? All my games on steam still work perfectly in offline mode. Playing factorio on Linux right now in fact :)
Steam is different... it's not your perfect ideal, but it's different from the abysmal pit we were headed for before Steam. Steam is a decent compromise between the anti-cheat and anti-piracy efforts of vendors, and the pro-consumer model apparently favored by you and others.
See, what I remember from my history is that those multiplayer games were full of cheaters and hackers, to the point where half of the game was figuring out whether your game was legitimate or not. I remember seeing casual piracy with cloned disks and hundreds of "backups" being passed around my networks. I also remember seeing the start of server-side games that lost functionality when their studio closed and their servers shut down. I remember the predictions that that would be the only effective way to combat piracy, and I remember reverse-engineering efforts claiming to ensure the longevity of games... and I remember their failures, too.
Steam is not perfect, but it is different... It mostly works.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Man, I get tired of this "neo-nazi" boogeyman. Every time you flap your yap to smear folks as being Nazis, you are doing an incredible disservice to each and every victim of the actual Nazis. Show some damn respect, for yourself, if not for anyone else.
I'm happily playing fallout 4 even though steam is down.
Or are you doing the exact same thing Steam users can do?
Apparently they cannot.
Sorry, but the ability for someone to rescind your right to play a purchased game indefinitely into the future is NOT the same as being temporarily unable to buy a game to begin with.
Once I buy the game from GOG, no server problem, remote de-activation, going-out-of-business, or other issue can prevent me from playing the game I bought. The same cannot be said of online DRM-ed games.
I'm going to have to disagree.
The groups that get the neo-Nazi label are the ones promoting Nazi propaganda, ideals, and methods. There are groups actively using the swastika symbol as an identity and using Hitler's writings as a doctrine. They advocate the same racial cleansing the old Nazis did, and the same totalitarian fascism. They get the name neo-Nazis, because they only differ by being more recent.
No, the label is not disrespectful to victims of the Nazis. Rather, what is disrespectful is to immortalize the Nazis by granting them some kind of unique status as the gods of oppression and death. By insisting that nobody today could compare to the Nazis, we further distinguish the Nazis as being something special, more powerful than mere mortal humans. In effect, declaring the Nazis as an untouchable evil would grant them status as a superior race, exactly as they wanted.
That would be disrespectful. That would undermine the victory of World War II. That would be an incredible disservice to each and every victim of the actual Nazis.
I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to continue to declare that any group that tries to act like the Nazis are neo-Nazis. I'm going to continue to treat them as humans; no more and no less. I'm going to continue to do what I can to ensure that the horrors of the Nazis are always presented as a mundane evil that got out of control, and I'm going to continue to teach that every person, everywhere, has that same capacity for evil, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or economic status. They also have the same capacity for good, and it is the active choice to work toward that good that makes someone worthy of a unique place in history.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.