r/SocialistGaming

All Good Things is a mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two, inspired by Marc Laidlaw's Epistle 3. From the maker of Deep Down and Deeper Down, Jim Partridge, in association with BBP. Coming to the Steam Workshop this year.

ModDB Page: https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-all-good-things

I couldn't really think of a more appropriate place to post this. I was unfortunately introduced yesterday to the reality that Steam allows loli/shota porn games on its platform as long as the pornographic content isn't in the main game but downloaded off-site in the form of a patch.

The game I saw in my discovery queue yesterday was about grooming a young girl that's been abandoned by her parents and is sent to live with you. Basically a homeless child under your care. Per the descriptions, you gradually wear down her defenses until you can sexually abuse her and make her your pregnant child bride. To say it's disgusting would be a massive understatement.

Steam apparently allows it because anything sexual has been stripped from the steam release and has to be downloaded off the dev's Discord.

I understand that Steam is legally in the clear here because of that stupid workaround, but I'm sure if enough attention is brought to this they would have to act and remove this type of game, effectively banning the "off-site porn patch" workaround for highly inappropriate and/or illegal content.

Thoughts?

edit: This didn't go over too well, but I'll at least try to answer a few common questions and add relevant details.

1. The patch is optional content: When you download the game off other platforms, it comes with all the illegal content that was removed for the Steam release. So this is not a case of an optional patch adding unintended content: the game sold on Steam is an incomplete version of the intended CSAM simulator that is restored to full functionality with the patch.

2. You can filter content you don't like on Steam: I don't like that this content is available at all but even if I agreed with the notion of just filtering your own games recommendations, this wouldn't suffice. The game is not age-restricted on Steam. A child with a Steam account could have this game advertised to them.

3. Why won't you name the game? Concerns about giving it free publicity, mostly. I wasn't looking to start a mass reporting campaign because that's a temporary fix to a larger problem. But if you insist on verifying the veracity of my claims and reporting it, it's called Raising a happy neet. Just... don't fucking buy it. Someone who finances the production of this type of trash should find no allies among socialists.

Basically this is my conundrum. Ranni's ending seems to be kind of cannon, kind of similar to the age of dark endings from dark souls. She is often seen as a revolutionary, she wants to bring about a completely new order unlike anything that has been here before, restore free will and cool stuff like that.

However. Isn't this a little suspicious - the "anyone can do what they want" ending being championed by such a powerful entity as ranni, who has also been involved in some shady shit. Just asking : would an era of "free will without interference" benefit all the denizens of the lands between or just the few of the most powerful? But it's just an idea, maybe she's cool idk - I trust her and she seems legit, however i have been imagining the age of stars as something of a revolution but sometimes couldn't help but feel it sounds a little "libertarian".

Which brings me to the goldmask ending. It seems bad since he is a religious cleric who is part of the golden order who I do NOT like, as they are colonialist and imperialist. However what gives him credibility in my eyes is that he is disavowed by the orthodox religious fanatic Corhyn. Goldmask seems to be doing his own thing trying to actually study and understand what's wrong with the status quo and then gives you the rune to fix it. Now we could discuss his role in the golden order - is he a guy living in solitude just studying? Is he like a high ranking figure in the golden order? Idk. But goldmask doesn't want to abolish the order (state power) altogether. He wants to fix what's wrong so the denizens of the lands between aren't victim to constant meddling of the gods.

So I'm confused - I'd appreciate your takes on this, I like ranni and her undeniably revolutionary approach, however I can't help but feel that goldmask's "keep the state but prevent the powerful from meddling" might be more leftist than Ranni's "everyone including the most powerful can do what they want".

As per the other endings.

Feel free to discuss the dung eater if you want - I've seen people argue over whether the curse he gives everyone is actually bad a hurtful or if everyone just becomes omen, which would just eliminate racism against the omen I guess. I don't think the dung eaters ending even comes close to good or socialist, but if anyone has a cool hot take feel free.

Frenzied flame is out of the equation entirely.

I don't really know what to make of Fia's ending so looking forward to your ideas.

So my questions are:

Is Ranni's or Goldmask's ending more socialist?

How do you understand the impact of Fia's ending on the world?

Do you have some fun dung eater apologia to spew? If you do, please do so.

Hey yall,

I'm the creator of the short-film (aka machinima) 'RED DEAD LIBERATION'.

Here's the plot :

In this alternative Red Dead world, Arthur Mainwaring, the son of welsh socialist Sam Mainwaring, decide to try his luck in Saint-Denis after years of doubts working the mines in Annesburg.
Even in the toughest of times, he find camaraderie to unite and attempt to live free.

Red Dead Liberation is an exploration on how anyone can become a revolutionary who fight against the systems of oppression and how the social revolution is built.

I spent more than 200 hours crafting the script, learning mods, recording, failing, editing, choosing the right music, voice acting, etc.

This short film, in my opinion, could resonate with a lot of yall.

If you like that type of work, I plan on making more leftist gaming content on video games that have a lot of revolutionary/socialist potential :
- Anno 1800
- GTA : San Andreas
- Frost Punk
- FC 2026/2027
- Stardew Valley
- The Outer Worlds
- Total War : Three Kingdoms
- 1979 Revolution : Black Friday
- Minecraft

I'm organizing a spreadsheet of dozens of different companies invested in gaming, along with their issues (companies as columns, issues to be checked as rows). I plan on sharing a relatively complete sheet, along with whatever citations I can get, on a later date, so I'm asking here.

One prevalent issue is companies owning others, be it partial or being a subsidiary. Outside of citations, should I have the multiple be distinct "issues," possibly divided by share percentages, or have it be a single issue?

Edit: punctuation