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Game modder & staff member @WSGF. Former managing editor of PCGamingWiki. Mostly enabling ultrawide and wider support in PC games, but also moderating places.

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Funnily, in a recent filing in the Wolfire lawsuit against Valve, Valve brought up a ruling in relation to Meta in its defense, but for some reason included that according to the Supreme Court, monopoly power requires a market share of 75%, to which […]

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market, id. at *33. With just TikTok included, Facebook’s market share was nowhere near the “guideposts” provided by caselaw for monopoly power, which the Supreme Court has suggested requires a market share of at least 75%. See id. at *37–38. Finally, while Valve suggests the Meta court found a defendant needs 75% market share to have monopoly power, (a) the Ninth Circuit disagrees, see Image Tech. Servs., Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co., 125 F.3d 1195, 1206 (9th Cir. 1997) (65% for prima facie case of market power, but less may still suffice); and (b) in any event, Valve’s share far exceeds 75%. See Dkt. 483 at 5.
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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If Hello Sunshine had an AI content disclosure, it would probably look like this. Also, there's a new trailer out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2NcnBVZ4o

#hellosunshine #gaming #ai #steam
AI Generated Content Disclosure The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: Sunshine Solutions Global firmly believes in the good of AI helping households and humanity as a whole. We are at the forefront of ethical AI use.
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Here is Santa Ragione's Horses with its black and white and other filters removed, aspect ratio changed from 4:3 to ultrawide. Of course, there is also a way to remove the pixelation of nude parts, like in its pre-release versions, but I'm not going to […]

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An ultrawide image in color, showing a tree with orange leaves, brown dirt, green grass, a gray directions sign, and a starry sky. The HUD icons include two carrots.
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Just finished my last Nightmare 4 solo run in Marvel Rivals. Beat it as every hero, unlocking all titles, which has been tedious. I hope the Zombies mode gets removed at its conclusion. I don't want to be playing it to have to get more rewards. Though […]

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A partial list of owned titles in Marvel Rivals, showing the gold Queenslayer, the purple King Land Shark, Lunar Vengeance, Wrath of Asgard, Queen of Limbo, Endless Arsenal, and the standard Undead Predator, Undead Hunter, and Undead Crusher.
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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I'm almost sure Epic uses AI for its text chat reporting update, but it has been my position for a while that the hate speech on Steam could be drastically reduced by using AI to prepare content for a human review. Otherwise it's simply impossible to […]

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TEXT REPORTING UPDATE In Game Channels and all text chats that include players under the age of 18, our systems will automatically detect and report threats of real-world violence, child endangerment, and self-harm to Epic for review. We encourage everyone to continue using Fortnite's text reporting system to report suspected violations of Epic's Community Rules. See your communication settings for more details and options.
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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After many hours of trying to beat Nightmare 4 of the Zombies mode in Marvel Rivals with strangers, I finally succeeded, but on my own. Only 100 in-game credits spent on one pack of revive tokens, as I had run out of those granted daily and couldn't […]

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A screenshot which says ACQUIRED, with Queenslayer and 1 Lantern below that. An endgame screen of the Zombies mode of Marvel Rivals. It shows the result is a Victory and that the only player is Blade, whose stats are 1,090.6m; 975; 5,118; 7. The red and blue icons have the number 3 underneath them.
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Lego Expeditions beaten, with every possible trophy unlocked. This one must be rare, as it required to play through 10 missions on Expert. It was more tedious than hard. The mode is getting removed tomorrow, but the trophies are to remain, though I'm […]

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A screenshot of the Lego Kits menu in Fortnite, showing an item called EXPERT SUPERNOVA EXPEDITION TROPHY.
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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[Real-world instances of sexist and racist messages on Discord]

In other instances, users say that women are stupid, react to an Amazon screenshot in French by asking if they can kill the French person, say that the KKK are "based" or that the good […]

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A Discord message that reads "women are stupid as fuck holy shit". A Discord reply to "crazy the price is going down more and more" that reads "French "person" :sick: can we kill this individual". A Discord reply to "my friends are mostly KKK members and they are even more open minded", which reads "Bro got some based friends? (edited)". A Discord reply to "Wait, we can't celebrate winning WW2?" that reads "no, the good guys lost", followed by a Pepe the frog emoji and a laughing "kek" emoji from another user.
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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[Discussing overtly racist messages on Discord]

For example, one of the moderators of the Discord in question routinely posts images and videos that are undeniably racist, including an image from 4chan about Indian people being smelly, a video of a […]

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A screenshot of a video of hands washing over a sink. The caption reads "Me after coming back home from the office party where Susan from HR forcibly handed me her mixed r@ce baby" A frame from a video posted on Discord. The caption says "Wash Your Hands". There is a white man and a brown boy standing behind a dog, whose paws are near the kitchen sink. An image with a comment from 4chan.
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Here is how I compared NFTs to Steam in a recent conversation related to Valve controlling the value of its games' items. The reason NFTs are more persistent is that the proof of their existence is dependent on a decentralized network, compared to […]

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I remember a Steam event when being the first to obtain a profile badge, which was indicated by its timestamp, was considered valuable and allowed people to join a special invite-only group. Their badge wasn’t even visually unique in any way, but it allowed them to brag and feel a bit more special. They’d get to say “I was there at that time and I did that”, and the badge as their evidence would be independent of any screenshots that could be doctored. NFTs are like that, but more persistent.
October 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Bloodlines 2 critics reviews are not looking good, but I'm always willing to give it a chance regardless. Besides, there have been games like Terminator: Resistance that are loved by the players but not by the critics.

#gaming #bloodlines2 #worldofdarkness
A screenshot of the OpenCritic page of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, showing its Top Critic Average score being 64 based on 30 reviews, with 30% critics recommending, and 0 player ratings. The page also contains individual reviews: PC Gamer 78 / 100 Eurogamer 2 / 5 IGN 7 / 10 Game Rant 7 / 10 TheGamer 2.5 / 5 GamesRadar+ 1.5 / 5 GameSpot 7 / 10 DualShockers 5 / 10
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I'm no longer active on reddit, but there is a community I have to moderate. Apparently reddit has been rolling out an AI user summaries feature, which shows the community moderators a summary of each poster's activity even if they choose not to […]

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Summary Posts and comments focus on action/driving games like Watch Dogs, Need for Speed, and Days Gone. Mostly positive and contributing to discussions. Summaries are AI-generated and may contain inaccuracies. Is this summary helpful? Summary User frequently posts about technical issues with PC hardware and software, particularly regarding Linux and gaming setups. Also engages with humorous/nostalgic content. Summaries are AI-generated and may contain inaccuracies. Is this summary helpful?
October 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Crossplay is a powerful thing. Playing The Outlast Trials from Epic and being seamlessly matched with people playing the game via Steam and PlayStation provides a sense of unity.

#crossplay #gaming #TheOutlastTrials
A screenshot of the lobby in The Outlast Trials, showing two people in the current group, one of them with the Epic Games Store icon, and four people under QUICK INVITES, three with the Steam icon and one with the PlayStation icon.
October 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Though Steam tries to detect review bombing, there are other ways its store pages have been abused, such as by applying irrelevant tags or by marking the most unhelpful reviews as helpful, which elevates them and buries the good ones. This has been […]

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A screenshot of the description area of a Steam store page, showing Escape from Tarkov, with the popular user tags being Hentai, Sexual Content, and Psychological Horror.
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Wikipedia highlighting the date of the first Steam release on its front page today.

#wikipedia #steam #gaming
On this day September 12 1309 – Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada. 1885 – The Scottish Cup match between Arbroath and Bon Accord ended 36–0, which is still a world record for an unrigged professional association football match. 1962 – In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970 (video featured). 2003 – The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
September 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Someone on reddit making strong points in response to the negative reactions to the underwhelming rocket launch event in Fortnite OG.

#fortnite #epicgames
Ok I am genuinely getting annoyed and these comments I'm seeing all over social media about the event and as someone who was there 7 years ago, I need to say some things. this is almost an EXACT REPLICA of the FIRST EVER Fortnite event. NO ONE 7 years ago knew what was going to happen. Most of us thought it was just a rocket. NO ONE saw the rift coming. No one saw the Lazer targeting tilted coming. Keep that in mind. the future events were made to TOP this one OF COURSE ITS GOING TO LOOK WORSE IM COMPARISON THATS THE POINT! the events that came after needed to be better. And many of the OG events (minus that ice king one) were. YOU KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHY ARE YOU CALLING IT TRASH! you had 7 years to look at the OG rocket event on YouTube. You knew what the event was why are you complaining about it being mid it was spoiled 7 years ago 😭 look this is going to be my most controversial take, but this event was not for you. The events was amazing for me minus the idiots who wouldn't stop hitting us off the mountain. It was a great reminder of that faithful day 7 years ago. Not knowing what was going to happen and seeing tilted get a fake out kill. It was fun of the OGs. Not for the new kids who are used to literal alien spaceships invading or fighting galacticus with a battlebus. It was a chill event with tension that reminded us that Fortnite was not always fantastical. It started as a normal BR and then slowly became this weird scfi battle royale we call Fortnite.
July 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A user contacted Don't Nod about the mod's inactivity, but the type of that ticket was changed to Publisher Support. When I raised the issue on the publisher's Discord that currently has the Progress flag in its image, my message was removed, and I was […]

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Rhinne[XBOX] 11:39 AM @Rose That's not something we can deal with as we have no association with that server. That would be something to report to Discord and/or the game developer. Please don't post those kinds of details here.
June 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Tell Me Why, a game known for its trans representation, links to its Verified Discord server twice from its front page. Despite that, its main (or only) mod has not been active since May 2022. The lack of moderation has resulted in routine scam DMs […]

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June 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Got a crazy friend who doesn't even have many vbucks. I told her that from now on, I'm not going to tell her what I like in Fortnite, because that's expensive!

PS. Sabrina's new album art is worthy of discussing, though it may be a good idea to wait […]

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A gift screen in Fortnite, showing "_ sent you a gift!", which contains the Sabrina Carpenter bundle including her "Tour-ready Sabrina Carpenter" pink outfit, its Lego version, her mic stand, dance emotes for Taste and Please, Please, the Please, Please song itself, a special contrail, pink purse, mic stand pickaxe and backpack.
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The Red Thread Games team has been nothing but awesome since I got to interact with them. For the latest Dustborn update, they kindly included my other name on the in-game posters, as a way to say thanks for countering the hate from people who felt the […]

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The Dustborn protagonist, Pax, looking at a wall in Chicago. Among the Missing Persons posters containing references to people like the game's composer, Simon Poole, there is a poster with the following text: October 20th THE SUPPORTERS 8 PM LIVE IN CHICAGO ONE SPECIAL NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE HOLDINGSIX OLIVIA VESPERA JEDISSA ROZZI ROXX BUGFRAGGED LUMI - BENBANDU - ELLIE - DENNIS ALEXIS IAM MITCHELL - PALTRAX - PRAHANORMAL JOEF - ALIENDAWG - GORKSTER - STITREK ANDREW BLACKLEDGE The Bad Lands 1548B N DAMEN AVE
June 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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As one would expect, the Black Voices in Gaming showcase is full of comments like the one attached - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tvZCy8vPtg

#racism #gaming #SummerGameFest
A YouTube comment by jabronilifestyle, posted one day ago, that says: "IGN making it super easy to know what companies to avoid. THANKS IGN!" The comment has nine likes and two replies.
June 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Today in Marvel Rivals, I had a team mate whose name was Emofemboy, and one other team mate was excited about that, but when I tried to comment, the game wouldn't let me type "femboy", claiming it's inappropriate content. So much for Pride Month!

#marvelrivals #gaming #lgbtq #marvel
A screenshot of the Marvel Rivals text chat area, with femboy entered into the Team chat and the game reacting to that with a red box that reads "Text contains inappropriate content".
June 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Going by reddit, this is an unpopular opinion, but the new battle pass in Fortnite is full of fab skins! I like Synthwave and Morgan Myst the most, but the other fem outfits are great as well! Robin from DC is also a welcome addition.

#fortnite #epicgames #gaming
The character on the left, Morgan Myst, has a gothic-punk look, pale skin, short black hair with red highlights and blunt bangs. The outfit is also black with red accents, revealing one shoulder. The character wears smoky eye makeup and red lipstick. The character on the right, Synthwave, has a retrowave or sci-fi style, brown skin, pink and purple hair styled in two buns. The character wears headphones and a white long sleeve crop top with pastel blue and pink accents.
June 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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On the other hand, the Take-Two ToS were last updated in February, but few noticed until they were told to care. It's also obvious, and it was recently confirmed by a Borderlands Discord moderator, that the ToS are generic for all games, including GTA […]

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A screenshot of a Discord message that reads: We have seen a lot of concern about the take 2 TOS lately, a lot of the claims about this are simply incorrect. Firstly you can go back and see the TOS is practically the same as the old one, the reason people have been prompted in game is now this is the first update since 2k bought gearbox. On spying, most of the clauses are about basic account info or other information you WILLINGLY give to them. IE if you purchase something and put down a billing or shipping address they have to have the permission to store that information. The rest is about general marketing survelance about seeing what 2k games people play.On modding and anticheat, there is nothing in the TOS about a kernel level anti cheat, then it explicitly states modding to illegally access content (which is piracy) or effecting the gameplay of other players which is not relevant to borderlands, this TOS applies to all games and statements like those are about games like GTA online, not singleplayer games. No modders have gotten in trouble and historically gearbox has maintained a neutral stance on borderlands modding.The games have not been updated to add any kernel level anti cheat or spyware. This is all an unfortunate case of lying and fearmongering.
June 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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The new Sabrina Carpenter experience in Fortnite was arguably the game's best music experience, featuring fully choreographed moves to four full-length tracks. It focused strictly on dancing rather than shooting, jumping or driving around. It was still […]

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The Fortnite version of Sabrina Carpenter sitting on stage while singing in a silver microphone in her hand. She's wearing a sparkly pink outfit with silver accents and silver high platform boots decorated with pink hearts.
May 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM