Warframe is a super slow burn, introducing fragmentary setting elements almost organically. By the time the story quests pick up speed, you have an impressive grasp of what matters in the world. @endyd20.bsky.social is doing a great first-playthrough YouTube series that highlights the approach.

As Valve will never admit wrongdoing or their own cartoonish, well-documented inconsistency (because they'd have to re-review SO much and nobody at the company wants to do that), the only option left is to ensure Santa Ragione doesn't go bust. Which means buying games somewhere other than Steam.

i won't explicitly evoke my goofy as fuck catchphrase but there is something really insidious to me about this unheaded cultural movement towards an aesthetic of having no-one be responsible, and as a result creating and submitting to obfuscated systems of control