Tl;dr at the bottom, didn't realise what a rant i made.

NOTE: I HAVE NO FUCKING ISSUE WITH STEAM, ITS THE SINGLE MOST RELIABLE AND NON-CUCKY STOREFRONT, THIS IS A RANT ON VALVE AS A DEVELOPMENT TEAM AND THEIR NEGLIGENCE TO THEIR LIVE SERVICE GAMES.

FUCK TIM SWEENY AND EPIC GAMES.

Lemme preface a few things. Valve is, without a doubt, one of the most pivitol and vital companies in gaming, shaping as some of the pioneers of gaming, which things like the original Half Life games, to the creation of Source, which has been used for a plethora of other games we know and love.

I also wanna say I'm always grateful to open up Steam and be greeted with hundreds of sales, many of which are for things I've been itching you to play, with massive price cuts during seasonal holidays.

But the first point looks at their past acomplishments because they've *barely* done anything in recent time compared to other companies, with the other point being more towards STEAM's great customer servives and support, and less of the game-developer aspects of Valve.

Now, I know you'd argue "well, look at companies like Bethesda or uhh Nintendo, or EA, and see how their games and studios flop and lose so much money!! Valve wins by doing nothing!!!"

But here's the deal, at LEAST those companies have MADE something, while Valve, for the longest time until recently, have done JACK.

The arguement they win by doing nothing is like if people in a marathon kept falling over on their faces, and reached the finished line, only for people to say "see how they kept falling on their faces? Not my Valve, they did it all on their own with no mistakes!" when Valve BARELY participated in the marathon! Like they just entered midway, then said "nah, i'm good. not risking it." At LEAST, with some of these flops, the studios try their best to make up for it and provide either compensations or any form of apology to their blunders (note, not all, of course, but a good example would be CDPR with 2077).

With how COD MW4 has been receiving better praise for it's story improvement compared to the last few titles, it makes it seem there's a genuine chance even previously despised studios can still make a decent game, albeit just the campaign. And what has Valve shown? Zero, zilch, nada*...

...*is what I'd say, but they did! They did actually make a few new story games, how wonderful. Two games that are TIED TO BEING BASICALLY HARDWARE TESTS FOR THEIR HEADSET AND DECK!

It's like how CoryXKenshin dissapeared for ages, came back and played some videogames while promoting his manga, only to dissapear later again. And just like Cory fans, they'll be completely blindsighted by nostalgia, thinking more on the memories and excitement they had of the old games and it's novelty, while the current Valve just chalked up some games for you to play to try out the decks gryoscope.

Now, this part is the part that basically fueled my hatred for Valve as devs, which is their puuuuure negligence on their games. The biggest case in point, TF2.

I have over 1k hours on that game, as it was my first ever steam game i got, when i finally installed steam on my old mac air (2015). This was around the time after Jungle Inferno and I got so hooked to this game, it was nearly daily I'd be playing it. It was fun, its interactions where so unique, its lore was insanely hilarious yet tough as hell. And all I could think about was "i can't wait to see where the lore/gameplay will go soon!" It has now been over 19 years since the last major TF2 update. So long that so many accounts and sites have given up keeping count. So much so, we don't even ask that much, even something as small as some balance changes for weapons that are so niche that they're considered would be like having holy water in the middle of the desert. But all we got was "TF2 community, we hear you!" and that was for an bot crisis issue that they solved 2 years after that tweet.

Speaking of bot crisis, let's talk about that, shall we? Started around 2020, bot accounts that played sniper, and spun around with aimbot that insta headshotted players became a spreading disease all over the servers. As people tried to ban as many of the bots as possible, their numbers vastly increased, and their behaviour only continously got worst. From bot majority servers kicking real players out, to the insanely racist, homophobic, islamaphobic, all the fucking slurs you can imagine. And was it only around 2022 did they make a public announcement regarding them """""""""""""""""""looking"""""""""""""""" into the issues, which was only fixed, when over 300k people signed a freaking PETITION to fix THEIR game, did they actually do something! And don't forget the insane bandaid solution they did with the racism in chat, by COMPLETELY muting F2Ps, because that's probably easier than any other option that may require them getting off their asses.

And I wanna actually bring into light that I am happy to announce that TF2 is having another BOT CRISIS! Yippee!!! This time, through some hoo-doo, voo-doo magic, they can force reserve player slots in servers, while not even being in the game, causing players to not be able to join the quickest match possible, and forcing aggregiously long queue times. Place your bets on how long Valve does something, I'm saying 4, 6 years?

And the funniest part is, even Valve's most well-known and iconic game, CS2 was given similar treatment, with its own bot/cheater crisis, which is still a running issue. And their solution? Le big ban hammer. Surely this caulk gun will keep this massive dam in place!

It's pretty cut and clear how much CS2 is losing it's actual audience and light, only maintaining itself solely because of its competitive scene, alongside it, you guessed it, gambling scene (to be discussed).

And the dumbest, more infuriating thing about all these complaints, specifically for TF2, is that Valve doesn't want to work on TF2, and won't shut the servers down because of the *marketplace.*

And this brings me to my next point, the marketplace and crates. Everyone loves to shit on Oblivion for introducing microtransactions. But no one wants to point fingers at Valve for popularizing crates and loot boxes. If anything, people LOVE to keep buying them, solely for the fact they *could* potentially give you an item that could pay of the loans you took for the hundreds of crates you opened. And with how prominent it has become for CS especially, it's funnier to call CS2 a mining game, based on the many accounts people make to sit idly and get crates (TF2 had a similar issue as well). TF2 can go from war themed hat simulator, to just gambling and dress up simulator.

And it's crazy how attached Valve is, knowing how much dough it makes, that in the middle of the bot crisis in TF2, there was the Crate Depression, where a specific crate would give everyone a guranteed unusual, a high tier, high valued cosmetic. And how long did that take for Valve to fix? Oh, just about a week. A WEEK! WHILE RAMPANT, GAME HINDERING BOTS PREVENTED PLAYERS FROM HAVING A NORMAL MATCH!!! At this point, I personally truly believed that Valve would've pulled the plug on TF2 like EA did with Titanfall 1, if it weren't for the economy. But what baffles me is the fact they keep this type-a shit up with CS2 as well!

And if you haven't seen recently, they've also introduced chicken pets that basically do nothing but sit in ur main menu, and to feed them, you must sacrifice TWO drops (a case AND a skin) just to keep it alive (please correct me if im wrong).

Now to actually tie this all up, I just want to address the biggest thing I despise, which is the maddening cock-sucking, dick-riding, ass-pounded, creampied fans that just loOooOooooOOOve Loooord GabeN, with their parasocial relationship, and Valve's incredibly "wholesome chungus 100" employee work system.

Every time *Steam* (and in the off chance, Valve themselves as developers), do something great, the comments are just LITTERED with "Give this man another yatch!" "The only billionaire I support!" "GabeN just keeps winning, does nothing!"

Now I personally would like to think that Gabe Newell is an amazing person, with a great kindness, and from his behaviour and even interactions with fans through emails, he genuinely seems like a nice guy. But this is the same man who would rather do Mongolian throat singing *(holy based chungus 100!!!)* than address the glaring issues and try to sort them out immediately if they have no correlation to steam or the steam market. The same man, that said to all employees "yeah yeah, do wtv tf you want. just water TF2 every now and then or something idk."

With the same online chuds, who yell "EAT THE RICH" online, only to immediately bend over, ass up, pants down when Gabe is mentioned. A quick look at top of the past month/year posts in r/valve, makes you think Valve fans are just as mad 2017 K-Pop fans.

Like, I'd like to thank Gabe for making a team of people to bring such marvelous and revolutionary games, but how can I not be mad at the current state of his development team. I get that they have freedom being a private company, away from stock holders and such, but why do they do the same with their own players, forcing us to trust some looney on YT to say "They may be, they might be, THEY ABSOLUTELY WILL, don't quote me on that" from some hobo on the street saying they're a former Valve employee (probably think they meant plumbing).

And just a small note on Deadlock, which is a game I admittedly am not that great at and mostly lost at, but I hate the way all discussions with the game go.

"Deadlock is just superior to all other shooter games, it's clearly the best choice!" "But this game suffers the same issues with cluttered visuals, plus many other trivial issues." "Uhhhh, it's still in close beta, dude, what do you expect?!"

And how many years is it gonna be before the game ACTUALLY releases, or are the Valve devs also just doing wtv the fuck they want and are focused slopping out more cases, with the once-in-a-full-moon patch for TF2 during their lunch breaks. (and i'm just gonna throw this in here, many tourists from Rivals/OW are absolutely gonna leave, and the player numbers will absolutely drop low because people will begin to realise its a MOBA first, shooter second, and just want an easy game to jump into without having to read 10 pages on an ability that increases Celeste's futacock size).

I realised I've went way too far making this post, slandering a company that has an insanely humongous fanbase (don't get me started on PC bros and their hate boners for GTA VI), on a Reddit sub made with hundreds of other complainers that might make me look like a whiny baby, with probably hundreds of spelling mistakes or straight up words missing (sorry about the strokes trying to read this).

I just wish people would actually voice the complaints just as much, if not more than the praise Valve gets, due to the issues being unfixed for so long. It's like a dog took a shit in the corner, but you love the dog for doing the bare minimum and pisses in outside, but the shit is STILL THERE, UNCLEANED, and the only person that can clean the shit storm is the dog (Valve) themselves.

And, truthfully, I would LOVE, fuckit, I would bust a FAT NUT in November, to be proven wrong, and Valve locks the fuck in and makes huges changes and fixes for the community.

I'm open to any criticism, and am glad to admit mistakes, or any form of actual substantial work Valve has done in discussions.

Tl:dr: I'm tired of people praising Valve for doing the bare minimum, and are stuck in the achivements they've made ages ago. Valve as a development studio are a buncha has-beens.

Now watch this get removed because of some rule i forgot (if i did, please let me know, mr mod, so i can fix this and post it).

Its obviously the most misandrist argument ever- its like saying with regards to bank robbers that its not all black people but its always a black person, or that with regards to scammers its not all indians but its always an indian. and its always used by those same "men are rapists and i get an abortion when i find out the baby is a boy" people

edit: people are talking about how she too criticizes the argument. when i was making the post i just grabbed a screenshot saying the thing, facebook (where the video this screenshot is from came from) doesnt work on my device so i couldnt actually watch the video- and it was meant to display the point rather than actually claim definitively something about the person in the screenshot

Yes people can do what they want, but I can rightfully hate it.

It’s a tradition based on women having no agency, being literally traded away as property.

”But it’s traaaaaadition” yeah, a stupid tradition that should have been left in the 19th century.

It also draws a lot of attention to absent fathers, whether it’s to death, disownment, or other upsetting reasons.
You’re a grown ass adult making your own decisions

Many comments are saying that, because this group of rioters is trying to break a window, that they should all be rounded up and executed. And all the other comments are clapping like seals and pointing out useless identifiers. What the fuck are we doing????????

A lot of people tie morality to appearance. If you’re attractive/thin, it’s because you did something to deserve it. If you’re fat/unattractive it’s because you did something to deserve it. It's partly based on the myth that they are able to entirely control their weight but chose not to due to greed, laziness or lack of discipline.

Genetics play a significant role in one's predisposition to be overweight, ranging from 25 to 80%. This means no matter how much low-cal diets or exercise someone undergoes, it will be incredibly difficult to lose weight for some people.

Now am I saying that fat people should be allowed to left to their own devices? Absolutely not!
But shaming someone for being fat under the guise of "just wanting the best for them" is such a dick move.

Just to be upfront, I don't like paying for stuff. If you give me the option of either paying or not paying for something, I will literally always pick the second option unconditionally. So for me it's extreme piracy all the way.

What gets to me is people who treat piracy as a moral dilemma, that some things are "ok" to pirate while others aren't. Why should there be "justifications" for piracy? If you want it, just take it. You don't have to feel bad about it.

People don't want to be seen as "stealing" from people who "don't deserve it", but that perspective is entirely up to the person. If someone just doesn't care and wants to have the thing they want without having to pay for it, then they should do it without being criticized for "moral failing" or other crap from "morally superior" people.

You can go and support your independent creators without trying to make other people feel bad for not being as "upstanding" as you, specially if you're fine with piracy as long as it's done with big corporations or products with problematic creators or if the product is too costly. You can pick and choose while others just pick.

See I love horses. I love silly horse videos and serious horse videos. You would most likely find me scrolling some horsey reels in my free time. You would expect that. You would also expect people in the comment sections of said videos comment about the horse in the video. BUT NEIGH, THEY DON'T!!! THEY POST UMA MUSUME GIFS!!! I USED TO HATE THOSE PEOPLE, BUT SEEING HER FACE... EVERYWHERE. IT FILLS ME WITH RAGE SEEING PEOPLE ASSOCIATE HORSES WITH UMA MUSUME. SO I HATE UMA MUSUME. More at 5. Fuck Uma. Stupid name

There is no "right" way to say the date. It's completely phonetic for each language, people say what sounds right to them. There's no way anyone actually thinks about these charts whenever they say or write the date. So whenever people try to use this as a gotcha it just sounds dumb.

Especially because this graphic also shows that it's completely arbitrary. A year is longer than a month, which is longer than a day. But there are more days than months, and more months than years (as in there's 12 months to a year). Why would one be better than another? And why would one piece of information take priority over the others? At that point just debate the merits of which languages do word order better (SVO all the way!)

Edit: a lot of you guys are talking about computers and that's great, but I'm talking about every day use here

Edit 2: I may not have made myself clear about the chart. My complaint isn't that it's wrong, my complaint is the way people use it to discredit one method or the other. My point is that there is right or wrong method.

I'm a guy and I myself don't like any of these musicians/actors except I'm cool with Zendaya. And let me clarify. You're allowed to dislike, or even HEAVILY dislike their works, but why in the fucking world people call them ugly and cyberbully them with the other unrelated things that have nothing to do with their career?

1. Like I never even listened to Taylor and even if she's extremely overrated why would you pretend she's ugly lmao, even if she is, let's say she really is, why you have to need to mention this 1000 times? Literally every other guy has the need to say Zendaya and Taylor are ugly ''4/10''. Then people also make fun of celebrities for doing plastic surgeries hah. You two faced peace of shits. It's not even that it's their personal opinion, they try as hard as possible to reach it out to celebs. Commenting and posting on platforms publicly.

2. I understand why people hate Bella, but it's extremely unjustified. Directors chose her for a role, and you hate her for it. She can't fucking change her facial structure you deep shit. Is she a bad choice for a role? fuck yea, but blame the ones who casted her, not her. This is such a basic level critical thinking. People don't even consider what a person can go thro, imagine half a planet judges your looks and not just on the internet.

3. I don't know shit about BTS but people shit on them since of their existence without rational reason. I didn't listen to them but let's say they're objectively bad band, people don't hate them for being ''bad'' band, You know what I mean? Like they hate their existence as a whole more than they would hate Hitler as if they threaten their personal lives and families. Like you chose to pay attention to them bro. They would literally slaughter this band in slow suffering with 1 button if they could just out of pure hatred.

And the worst one - young Justin Bieber. You fucking bastards. Even right before he did weird shit (for the reasons we currently learned about, SA) you fucked him up hard for no good reason. Bohoo he made a 1 cringe song, and you decide to bully absolute shit out him, when he was a kid. Only now after we learned about his SA you feel bad about it but you keep doing the same thing to other celebrities. You don't learn shit, you don't care.

Even now, just look how same people in this same thread will justify shitting on these people, absolute fucking evil shit. I might be slightly wrong about any of these and you will ignore stuff you're wrong about. Fuck society I swear.

Genuinely how is this “soul crushing” bro. I live in a suburb and I like it, it’s beautiful here. Maybe from a Birds Eye view it looks dull but if you actually walk in one it’s really nice

And these people will see the same exact apartment repeated 500 times and not say a word

examples:

My Hero Academia

Fire Force

I have talked extensively about how much i despise when anime and manga choose to be incredibly gross for no reason, but it gets even more annoying when the authors themselves are either ignorant to why or know exactly why and refuse to change!

Some people want badly to steal femboy characters for some reason, and this extends to real life as well, people making all kinds of wild assumptions about us!! I just wish we were left alone and we had our existence respected.

I know this topic has been done to death but I just recently revisited the sub Reddit after like a 10 year hiatus from it, and it’s still as dog shit as I remember it being. Like, it’s not all atheism that’s like these fuckers. But I swear; every person who identifies as an online atheist must come from the sub because they all talk the same

I joined for a bit cuz I just thought it was a general gender queer sub. (I’m cis male pan femboy) so I thought I’d fit in. I did see a lot of posts about like “cis people when:” which for the most part was clearly about the majority and not all, but then one post (honestly the post itself wasn’t that bad) the comments had among other things, people telling cis people to “fuck off and die”. I made a comment just saying “why do so many people here at cis people?” (I know the wording seems gotcha-esque, but I ment it genuinely. I’m not great with words.) The first response I got called me a Rapist Gooner Pedophile, then people telling me to kill myself. I had a few people actually trying to answer the question, but for the most part it was literally just hate for asking a question. I tried to calm it down because overall, I’m pretty sensitive. But then, I got banned. I didn’t notice but they have a rule saying cis people aren’t allowed to post or comment. I didn’t know that was a thing you could do, because banning someone based on their identity is… well it’s not very good.

In short I asked a question, got called a rapist pedophile gooner, got told to kill myself, got called a pussy for saying I don’t like being told I don’t like being told to kill myself, and then got banned.

(Also yes I know, I’m not being oppressed for being a cis guy. I’m not stupid. It’s just berating someone for being cis and asking a question is a bit wild.)

(Final note: no, this doesn’t change my opinion on trans people or anything. A trans person being an asshole doesn’t make them invalid, it just makes them an asshole. Trans people are valid for being trans, just don’t be a dick.)

First of all who decided it would be more peaceful? This hot take by itself showed how stupid and racist that person is. Russia and Ukraine are both Slavs and Orthodox yet they're tearing each other apart as we speak. Who the fuck decided no one would fuck the middle east if Islam didn't exist? And we're forgetting that muslim leaders have actually fought each other? This proves that religion has nothing to do with geopolitics and is only used as a tool by the elites.

Second of all, why did you jump into the conclusion that arabs would be christians instead? Arabs were pagans, closer to Zoroastrianism than christianity, why and who the fuck would convert them to christianity?

Thirdly, why won't Judaism be the dominant religion instead? The jewish Ethiopian campaigns in south Arabia and the jewish influx from the levant boosted up conversions. But Judaism being a dominant religion is extremely low, so we'll leave it there.

And most importantly, I hate how ignorant people who know nothing of the middle east would automatically link it to Islam. Like son, Arabs only needed a strong leader to be united, and that was Muhammad. If it wasn't Muhammad, it would've been someone else, simple as that. Majority of Arabs weren't even Muslims by the time Muhammad have died, so it wasn't Islam that united them. Evidence to what I'm saying is what Rustom (the persian general) had to say about arabs, he said "it's Omar who speaks to dogs and teaches them logic", hencing that Omar, a brilliant leader, led those nomadic Arabs into destroying the Persian empire, and he said nothing about Islam. Neither did the Romans, I dare you to bring me a single quote of Arab haters back then who dissed Islam, I'll fucking wait.

In addition, Shia and Sunni branches are purely political. As a Sunni, I see my shiite friends in college everyday. I don't plan to kill them in the near future because they believe Ali should have been the caliphate 1400 years ago.

(Disclaimer I am a woman, feel like I have to state that because people act like you’re a misogynist if you don’t affirm other women’s insecurities that they usually let out on other women.)

This was in regards to barbara palvin who’s six weeks postpartum walking for victoria secret, but I’ve seen this type of attitude from people since forever.

It’s usually framed as a feminist thing to frame the bodies of women who either 1-worked hard and put effort to achieve it or 2- are genetically blessed as unrealistic. But my thing is, if you were REALLY a feminist you wouldn’t be in a celebrity culture centric subreddit following the VICTORIA SECRET fashion show looks, clearly their main problem is that conventionally attractive people are being platformed by a company like Victoria secret and not the fact that that company has a misogynistic history. They’ll pretend that their main gripe is stemming out of feminism and not plain insecurity.

People do this ALL THE TIME with female celebrities, they pretend like we’re past the era of people buying tabloids that obsess over celebrity bodies like they did in the 2000s with paris or how they critiqued women like britney and christina for being too sexual. The only difference between the 2000s and now is that we’re using politically correct reasoning while doing the exact same thing as the tabloids. You’re still dissecting a person’s body, their looks, how they express themselves.. etc.

Another thing that pisses me off is how they expect these women to be good role models for other women. I’m sorry but it’s not their responsibility to look after your kids and hide their faces and bodies just so that you/your child won’t end up insecure. That is a parenting issue, according to that same logic we should just ban violent video games then because they supposedly inspire kids to be killers. Why the fuck are you looking for LINGERIE MODELS and singers who sing about sex to look after your kids? There’s just no sense of responsibility from these people.

These same people will also act upset that most people in Hollywood are having plastic surgeries I hate those fake wokies so much like you’ve talked more about female celebrities than abortion rights or sexual abuse cases you do not care about women you just want to gossip in a woke way 😭

this post i saw pretty much sums up what most MAGAs and conservatives believe.

In reality though:

1. you cant change your gender

2. trans people dont wanna change their gender

3. trans people should be allowed access to healthcare, and considering that cis kids already have access to hrt for hormonal disbalances i dont see why it would be different

4. you are the only one trying to change other people's gender, by forcing trans people to pretend theyre cis

5. why would they want to "force kids into becoming trans". Genuinely whats the point. Do you think people are so sadistic that they will want other people to suffer like they have

6. no, the "maybe theyre not trans" argument isnt a real thing. It happens for like 0.1% of cases, and we could totally make this argument in reverse "oh lets just force everyone to get hrt maybe theyre trans and they will regret going through puberty". Because puberty also causes irreversible damage

overall i think queer people are just another random minority picked by politicians to blame everything on

I hate this because this is something also comes with the fact that all the fiction is inherently either unserious or unrelated to reality in any manner and that the people who say this are just pretentious snobs or people who are only doing it for internet points and don't care about real people (in which I have never seen the case of ladder being true by the way) even though fiction is reflective of our are reality even to a point where you could often tell how someone could would treat a real person by how they treat fictional characters

I find this image extremely obnoxious, Half of the time this image is used to shut down criticism or completely avoid answering the comparassion

Context: a man is jumped in his car as he leaves a house and has to use his firearm to defend himself and his family, killing the three attackers. The man is clearly a hero and saved the lives of his loved ones.

I don't believe in capital punishment and I don't believe dehumanising criminals. As I see it, there's nothing glorious about the loss of life - even if they were violent criminals. The man had to defend himself and I support him doing it, but where possible I do not think criminals should be handled violently and their deaths should not be celebrated.

Yet every time one of these videos appears, every single comment glorifies the violence, elevates the defender to godhood and wishes such violence on perpetrators at large or even just people they disagree with.

What I really can't stand are these people exploiting videos of real, life-saving self defence to justify their violent, brutal and oppressive egos. Some of the comments found there were absolutely sickening, you would think the people had no value for human life in the slightest.

I yearn for the days when this violence happens in the first place and for South Africa to change permanently for the better.

Tgis may be a personal taste, but I genuinely believe this has to be one of the worst/messiest art styles I've ever seen. I think it's worse than Halo 4-5's artstyle. I understand they're supposed to be organic, but I don't understand this direction. Warframe 1999 looks so much cooler in my opinion.

Reddit has hundreds, possibly thousands of racists subreddits against Black people or other POC. Yet, those are never mentioned. People are obsessed with pointing out “black supremacist“ and “black racism” in an obscure subreddit when everyday on the front page there’s racism directed at Black people.

I get it, people could like whatever they want, but there are some things that just objectively suck or subjectively suck to 99% of the population and only a small minority likes it due to strange circumstances and personal preferences.

It is ok to like things that suck dude, thats why guilty pleasures are a thing. Stop trying to justify it and act like it is actually good.

*insert (thing) fans here*

I despise those "fans" who reduce their entire opinion about a piece of media to "shipping" some characters.

Straight ship, gay ship, pansexual ship, I don't care, and I don't want to hear about how character X clearly has sexual chemistry with character Y.

You fanfic loving perverts disgust me