(To be clear, I don't believe the company interacted with her after she was transphobic, it's not on them that she was, I only mention it because its an example of how their choice to use that poster in promotional materials resulted in transphobic actions by fans regardless of their intent)

Yeah, it wasn't the ad alone, it was the ad existing in the context of other previous shit. And then their response to the criticism amplified it.

IIRC, she also went into a bunch of transphobic shit after being called out about it.

It's pretty much saying explicitly the stuff the "Roosevelt Corollary" wasn't willing to openly state, and that was already basically a declaration that all of the Americas was rightfully the US Sphere of Influence.

This whole document is nothing but a White Nationalist manifesto.

Well not this explicitly in official government communications, plenty of individual pundits have been willing to openly say it.

Sadly, they'd rather insist that the problem is that they weren't bigoted enough, that if they had just found the exact right amount of sexism, transphobia, ableism, and racism then they would have won.

You can find plenty of games that Steam approved that were WAY more questionable in that specific area, but Steam is neither consistent nor open about its processes so there's no way to know why, if there is a reason at all, those passed while this didn't. Just once the decision is made, it's over.

The scene in question wasn't done in a sexual context, and was removed for the later builds which were submitted to other publishers, but none of that matters to Steam, they have a hardline policy that allows no appeal or resubmission.

Steam asked them for an unusually early build (they are prone to random requests with no clear reason why), and that early build has a scene where an underage teenager appears with a nude adult, so presumably they decided that crossed the line and thus as per policy can never be reconsidered.

From what adult game devs have said, this is just how Steam is in general when it comes to anything they randomly decide might possibly be considered to have underage kids in sexual situations. No appeals, no resubmissions, no disputing their decision in any way, and no clear answers.

It's so frustrating to see people who are ostensibly anti-ai uncritically endorse this unrealistic greenwashing propaganda.

The article also details the paradoxical incentives - this kind of heating infrastructure only exists in dense cities where the land for such absurdly large data centers will not be affordable.