USian here and I remember knowing about this for most of my life, but I never looked into its origins. I still haven't, and right now I don't care to.
But holy shit does it feel like racism must have played a role.
edit to add: I ALSO remember on and after the Jan 6 insurriot how it seemed like hundreds of those people should be going down for felony murder. Funny how that didn't happen.
It's already been pointed out how wrong and gross this is.
But for the sake of discussion let's give her the biggest possible benefit of the doubt.
So then the president of the united states was ONLY a human sex slave trafficker. Super.
unfortunately I think her handlers know that simply planting a seed of doubt will work on many in their audience.
That's one thing I love about FOSS, that the only stakeholders are the devs and the users. The goal is to make software that's good at what it does.
When it comes to any tech company's product, you not only have all the stakeholders that corrupt the end product, but you have giant teams of marketers, designers, engineers, and managers that need to constantly justify their existence and or be efficiently utilized at all times.
Honestly it's like lesser version of enshittification, the tendency of commercial products to always be changing things.
I'd say it's even more unique than a valuable competitive mistake/opportunity.
Valve has the chance to grow the brand and make a bunch of money and all the other standard goals for a company, sure. But they also have the opportunity to benefit the world in subtle but significant ways while getting richer.
A normal megacorp might not give a shit about that last part. But a company that is majority owned by one individual who is already a billionaire that looks like santa claus and presumably cares about his legacy and maybe even other people... it might just be possible!
Well, like any decent VR game there are settings to help with that. I'm pretty sure I used the teleportation movement the whole time even once I was used to it and didn't get nauseated.
Getting used to it was a huge factor on its own. Back then, I had been playing so much VR that in the flying game Ultrawings (think pilotwings for VR) I worked my way up to where I was flying the stunt plane with full FOV and no anti-nausea measures enabled.
That whole article reads like he was a reasonably intelligent person who was born into a christian family. So he's been conditioned to automatically see homosexuality as bad, and been educated in writing eloquent arguments to support his position, but he's just aware enough to not take a stand and actually say what he thinks because that would get him in trouble.
Even just considering your snippet:
I'm pretty sure there are genetic dispositions towards different kinds of sexual behaviors and patterns—just as there are genetic dispositions towards such things as alcoholism, racism, elitism, etc.
This is just an opinion and the logic seems sensible. But why make the comparison to only negative traits and vices?
A genetic predisposition towards homosexuality does not make homosexuality a 'good' or a 'right,' or even 'okay' for some people.
Stating the obvious then referring to 3rd party opinions. Doesn't seem to do much other than keep up the negative tone.
Just as with every other human behavior, a wider worldview must be used to judge the righteousness of a human action or behavior—including acting on homosexual tendencies.
Whoa, I agree! And using my view of the world and society at large I hereby judge that we need to lay the fuck off of people who act on their homosexual tendencies and focus on actual problems! I wonder if the author can say the same.
Also, I just want to point out and give a "fuck that" to the heavy focus on "choosing" and "acting" rather than simply existing. In my experience that is a very common step in the short process of dehumanizing somebody and mentally writing off their concerns and rights.
Dehumanizing somebody for a trait they were born with is obviously doable, but it is still a tougher sell for some people than dehumanizing a person for an intentional act. Even if that act didn't hurt anybody or anything.
I'll leave the whole train of thought of "how can you punish people for acting like the thing they were born as" as an exercise for the reader.
If there was one organization with the motive and resources to help develop an open phone hardware platform, Valve sure seems like a good contender.
C'mon Gabe, make a name for yourself in computer history. Secure a place in the history books next to Torvalds and Stallman rather than Gates/Jobs/Zuck types.
Make "steam compatible phone" become the new "IBM compatible PC"!
That has traffic-flipping vibes of the upgraded Agency Supercar from the game Crackdown. I like.
When I look at this announcement, the hardware is very exciting, for sure. But it is Valve's dedication to Linux that really has me smiling. I don't see three hardware devices to buy. I see two big proclamations for which the hardware is the message:
SteamOS on desktop! It seemed inevitable but it's still great to see.
STEAM VR USING LINUX AS ITS TARGET PLATFORM?!?!?
I will grant that it's very possible I buy all three pieces of the hardware, even though I like building my own PCs. I will also grant that Valve's support for linux probably would not be what it is without the enshittification of Microsoft's ecosystem. But in this world I'm gonna go ahead and accept the imperfect good news.
House of the Dying Sun is a space sim with a strategic map view in addition to piloting a fighter yourself.
It is so good in VR.
My 200 hour playthrough of Skyrim VR back in 2019 justified my headset purchase and GPU upgrade (gtx 1080, oooh, aaah) all by itself.
Yep, this right here.
For me and my brain's secret blend of eleven herbs and neurospices, I am most content when my world is small but I am intensely focused on the people/pets/things in it.
So in the physical world, I work a lot on my house and yard to make it my family's happy enriching little oasis. We're involved in the community, especially the local elementary school, which is close enough to walk my kid to. (my middle aged american mind cannot comprehend this walkability witchcraft /s... but seriously I have to drive to every other destination))
On the internet, while I do still exist in the eyes of Meta and Google -- it may NOT surprise you to learn that Facebook is the center of the internet for my corner of white conservative suburbia, including for local official organizations -- I choose to only open Lemmy when I want to just BS and read opinions online.