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[–] [email protected] 218 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

wonder if it's going to rat someone out by saying something along the lines of

A member of your Steam Family already owns Horny Hentai Ladies: Stupidly huge dongs GOTY

[–] pro_grammer 125 points 6 months ago (2 children)

this will only increase the family bonding.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hey stepsis, wanna play some horny fuck friends later this evening?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sir this is a Wendy's.. and I'm stuck in the dryer

[–] Tja 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why does this Wendy's have a dryer?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It seemed like the next logical step after the fryer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is an anime that is basically this

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oreimo(My little sister can't be this cute)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Oh, thanks! That's gross, I'll stay away from that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

I’m sure Rep. Mike Johnson and his son are thrilled.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You can put those games as private

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm still not 100% trusting that. Any time a dev comes up with a new feature like this one, they might forget to implement a check if the game is privated (or do the check and mess up properly hiding it).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Exactly. This is like someone I knew who was a CSR blowing off steam at difficult customers by hitting mute and cussing them out. Like you realize that mechanisms fail all the time, right? This dude wouldn't entertain the idea that a mute button could fail. I tried.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I did that when I worked customer support. The only way I could retain the little bit of sanity I had left. But to be honest, we were so understaffed that even if I slipped, they wouldn't have fired me. There was one guy who was so angry with a customer that he wrote their number down, and then over his break called the customer with his private phone to argue with them. Still didn't get fired, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol holy shit. I'm sure it's a very frustrating job at times. This guy was a parent and needed his job. I don't think they would've had all that much trouble replacing him

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

In my case, the only reason they'd fire people is if they refused to work overtime, hah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

damn, i had exactly this happen to me.

i'm very happy to be a) not working with costumers anymore and b) much more chill than i was 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

ah, right. that's a thing.

Goes to show how little I have needed it (or how little shame I have) :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Doesn't that still dhow up on your last 3 active games list?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You'd notice that when you join their steam family because it would show up in your library

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I keep seeing people talking about sexual games on steam. I've yet to see one. I'm sure they exist .. but how common are they? Do people actually play those? Even if I wanted to do so, I would instantly assume because it's on steam there's a chance my friends could see me playing it no matter my settings, and that would be a no-go. It's just awkward.

It'd be like jerking off with the shades open because "well no one is supposed to be in my backyard". Okay but what if some kids are there to get their ball or something? You have to assume unexpected things will happen in life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's fairly common, see a lot of them on the top selling games too

[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If Steam or Valve ever goes public and IPOs, I'm gonna fucking kill myself.

They seem to be the only ones who aren't like going through an enshitification cycle right now.

[–] pro_grammer 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It all comes down to who succeedes Gabe after his stepping down.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago

Good guy steam

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago

This world really does not deserve Valve

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And this boys is why we choose to give money to valve, and as a bonus steam sales are amazing. Valve really knows how to keep a steady income of profit and just dont fck with what works

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Valve knows when they have it good and not be greedy. They are essentially a monopoly but choose not to abuse it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

valve makes more money by being decent company than many others combined who actively try to exploit users.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

This is the kind of thing that makes poeple love valve

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Good guy steam. Their family sharing beta is currently a game changer for people like me whose friends have diverse gaming interests and thus, we can try out each other’s games without the need to buy them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How do you get isthereanydeal inside steam?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I believe it's the decky plugin for SteamOS

https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-plugin-database/pull/605

I might be wrong, hut this is at least a way to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's the Augmented Steam extension for your browser of choice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Has the Steam Family update launched yet? The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time. I feel like last I saw it was in beta.

Was also wondering if anyone has a good sense on how they're policing Family Libraries. Does it work to share with close friends or am I going to want to be sure I'm sharing only with household members?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can opt into the Family Sharing beta and get the features. You can only join one family per year so choose wisely as they say.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time.

That should never have been a limitation in the first place. If I have two games installed outside of Steam there's nothing stopping me from playing both at the same time, so WTF does Valve think ever justified it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Agreed it was a chincy restriction. I'm glad they're righting that with the new Family Sharing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the beta with my wife and cousin. It works great so far. I was able to try out dragons dogma 2 from the cousins account, remember why I hated dd1, and promptly un-installed it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

something tell me the publishers are not gonna be happy about this and will try to sabotage it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They cant do shit. What are they going to do? Stop releasing on the biggest platform?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I appreciate this, and now I'm just waiting for it to show me family library games when browsing the store. I have games on my wishlist that another family member owns. A flag that says "family library" would be appreciated - similar to "in library" and "on wishlist."

  • I don't see it when I browse the store on my steam deck or the mobile app. Unsure if it would show this to me on the desktop app.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago
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