• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    they popularized gambling mechanics

    Probably their biggest sin. Gab’s mega-yacht was paid for with neurodivergent teenagers sucked into anime-themed slot machines.

    That’s before you get into how modern online gaming has become this nightmare of bigotry and misogyny. Not a Valve specific problem, but one they’ve turned a blind eye to in the name of laissez-faire business.

    need i remind you, in the late 2000s/early 2010s, nintendo was the good guy.

    Well… tap the brakes there. Nintendo had a very different business model, but their Disney-eque sadistic defense of IP was its own kind of problem.