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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 134 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I always wondered about the people who were playing porn games and just letting that show on their profile. I know most of us look at porn and that's fine, but I do like some privacy. When a dude on my friend's list broadcasts he plays "Toon Tit Tapper" for 12 minutes before signing off, it's a bit of unwanted information.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Many either don't know or don't care. More of the first than the later.

But, well, I used to run a raid guild in WoW and had this one dude where you could clearly hear porn playing in the background whenever he spoke. With him I've always verged on the side of thinking he must've had some sort of fetish for having people hear he was watching porn. Some really peculiar version of exhibitionism.

[–] AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did y'all ever mention it to him or was it just a commonly accepted "Oh yeah, that's just 'Background Porn Brad' haha" type thing?

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, people were subtle like saying "can't hear you well, there's other audio coming through". At which point he'd usually turn down the volume, but you could still hear it.

But it was the fact it was persistent, across years.

And, well, he was a great tank, if watching or listening to porn during a raid is what's needed for him to do his job well, I'll let em.

But that doesn't make it any less weird and awkward.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

We call this tactic "Spank & Tank".

[–] sugarfree@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And, well, he was a great tank,

That explains it, totally normal by tank standards.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

He was using the porn audio to pull aggro

[–] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Lmao your friend is a total Chad

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 58 points 11 months ago

I spent good money on all those hentai games. I'm not hiding them.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Y'all laugh about the obvious h-game hiding but a friend of mine got bullied for a certain game he bought and played. It's actually kind of useful next time you wanna play a game someone shits on you over.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What non-lewd game would someone get bullied over?

[–] rusty@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anime games maybe? Stuff like Hyperdimension Neptunia isn't hentai, but I could definitely see someone getting bullied over it

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that's one I personally am a little shy to play (did so anyway, they have an interesting mechanic I like).

Bullying might not have been the right word, but the more problematic game was that Harry Potter game, a couple people we knew were pretty against against it at the time cause of J.K. It's water under the bridge now, but I see the desire to maybe not broadcast it.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Regular anime games tbh. If your friends are normies in any way then I could see that happening.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wow yikes, we don't use that kind of language here

blocked

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Floras fruit farm which I accidentally left running for 36 hours many many years ago. (Would've enjoyed it much more if one could queue actions, but devs said 'yeah that's not really the focus of our game' which I understand, but it was enjoyable up until it got too micro-managey. I only played it for 2 of those 36 hours.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Yep that's my reasoning too.. I got some games I've always wanted to try, but I know my friends on steam would never let me hear the end of it.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nobody tell my boyfriend this information

[–] BobVersionFour@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just to be sure we don't tell him by accident what is name and contact info again?

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

His username is Redditluver69 please make sure you don't tell him.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Does he go to different lemmy instance?

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Entire profile set to private These are not the games you are looking for. Move along.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago
[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Just click on Games when you're on someone's profile page.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Brb, I gotta go... return some video tapes.

[–] Clarke311@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

You goddamn psycho

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I have one stupid slightly lewd anime game in my library on Steam because it was literally €0.10. I got shit for ages in my first tear of college because one of my friends saw it and thought it was hilarious. Valve should have made this a feature ages ago. For me it was just something I had to laugh along with. I'd hate to be the kind of person who has a ton of those games lol.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have a couple games like that from bundles. Ultimately I just set my profile to private and hid those games from my library.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Hide this game" only hides it from yourself.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

I think it hides it from shared family library's too, which was my goal.

[–] Kyoyeou 2 points 11 months ago

Same, I have one single one I played once 6 years ago and a friend saw it, lucky it was a chill person, but I can fully see how it could be bad for a lot of people

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[–] evilsmurf@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now I can stay logged in while my idle games go brrrr....

[–] Newtra@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plural? How many idle games are we talking here?

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Usually 3, sometimes 5, other times only 1.

Potatoe Farmer, Cookie clicker, ngu idle, leaf blower simulator, and exponential idle.

[–] Newtra@pawb.social 16 points 11 months ago

Fucking finally! Now when will they let me transfer all the games I had to put on an alt account back to my main?

(Ok really it's just 1 game that I haven't played in ages. I'm not that horny. I just hate having multiple accounts as it eats up headspace)

[–] actual_patience@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago

God's Grace, I can finally unprivate my Steam.

[–] sugarfree@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Time to play the Coffin of Andy and Leyley :)

[–] corus_kt@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope steam makes a top 10 most privated games sale after this goes live, CoAL would be up there for sure

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wanna play "sex with hitler"

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to the list. For the username, not the comment.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Linux Hit Squad list?

[–] loboaureo@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I can hide some crap that plays my cousin like tabs or goat simulator...

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Are they going to create an API so that the private game data can get ingested by every third party data/stats application that I have to unhide and rehide my fucking shit every time bc they're forced to scrape my fucking profile?

[–] doctordevice@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You seem annoyed at either possibility here. Which would you prefer?

Because if they let third party scrapers access the private data without user action, it's not private and they may as well not do this at all.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right now, one must manually allow scraping and make profiles public, to share their data with a third party. If Valve would let developers use an API, this wouldn't be necessary.

Now that they're letting us hide games, the third parties will miss them, while scraping. So this seemed like the right thread to make these comments. Now, a true solution, seems more "necessary," because of this new scenario.

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The obvious solution would be to take some token as an argument to the api calls that is private to the user, which would signify a consent to share also the hidden data.

I think there already is a token like this for steam item trading, in case your profile is private?

I.e if you don’t provide that argument, share only public stuff to the caller. If you do, it’s a explicit choice by you, since you are required to provide your credentials in some form of a token.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

They're likely talking about using some of the key swapping sites. They only let you join if your profile is public so that you don't get keys for games you already have.

I had a bunch of keys to give away recently and was trying to find ways to do so in ways they wouldn't be botted away (at least not easily), but everywhere to do so either required access to my steam profile or some other process to give them away, so they might just sit with me until they expire.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

If you want anyone else to have access to your private game data, why is the game set to private in the first place?

This is a fantastic update. You can public your CSGO and TF2 stats without having to publish any anime games etc that you might have.

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