Philocrates
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Only thing I can think of is them over moderating the ol'phrase about "drinking the Kool-Aid" in regards to being brainwashed/a cult. But who knows.
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Only thing I can think of is them over moderating the ol'phrase about "drinking the Kool-Aid" in regards to being brainwashed/a cult. But who knows.
Critters tend to be the overly sensitive sort, so something stupid I imagine. Given of course you're presenting the situation in full and as it happened.
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Critters tend to be the overly sensitive sort, so something stupid I imagine. Given of course you're presenting the situation in full and as it happened.
Either you're a gullible idiot or someone that needs their hard drives checked out. I don't know which one for sure, only you do. 4/4
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Either you're a gullible idiot or someone that needs their hard drives checked out. I don't know which one for sure, only you do. 4/4
MEANT TO JUST BE A PLACEHOLDER. RIGHT? YOU BUY THAT?
Steam: No. Go away.
Devs, now: Man Steam is just so unreasonable and didn't tell us why they removed our game. Hm? No we totally aren't trying to ride on the wave of people complaining about Steam censorship for PR/to advertise our game.
3/4
Steam: No. Go away.
Devs, now: Man Steam is just so unreasonable and didn't tell us why they removed our game. Hm? No we totally aren't trying to ride on the wave of people complaining about Steam censorship for PR/to advertise our game.
3/4
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
MEANT TO JUST BE A PLACEHOLDER. RIGHT? YOU BUY THAT?
Steam: No. Go away.
Devs, now: Man Steam is just so unreasonable and didn't tell us why they removed our game. Hm? No we totally aren't trying to ride on the wave of people complaining about Steam censorship for PR/to advertise our game.
3/4
Steam: No. Go away.
Devs, now: Man Steam is just so unreasonable and didn't tell us why they removed our game. Hm? No we totally aren't trying to ride on the wave of people complaining about Steam censorship for PR/to advertise our game.
3/4
can we have the current build of your game to play? We usually wait until closer to launch but we want to check something.
Devs: Here ya go.
Steam: *Plays it*...what the absolutely fuck, absolutely not. Banned.
Devs: Uh uh uh I MEAN I CAN TOTALLY REMOVE IT FROM THE GAME! UHHH IT WAS ALWAYS 2/?
Devs: Here ya go.
Steam: *Plays it*...what the absolutely fuck, absolutely not. Banned.
Devs: Uh uh uh I MEAN I CAN TOTALLY REMOVE IT FROM THE GAME! UHHH IT WAS ALWAYS 2/?
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
can we have the current build of your game to play? We usually wait until closer to launch but we want to check something.
Devs: Here ya go.
Steam: *Plays it*...what the absolutely fuck, absolutely not. Banned.
Devs: Uh uh uh I MEAN I CAN TOTALLY REMOVE IT FROM THE GAME! UHHH IT WAS ALWAYS 2/?
Devs: Here ya go.
Steam: *Plays it*...what the absolutely fuck, absolutely not. Banned.
Devs: Uh uh uh I MEAN I CAN TOTALLY REMOVE IT FROM THE GAME! UHHH IT WAS ALWAYS 2/?
They only removed the scene after Steam told them they weren't allowed on their store, aka after backlash, and not because of any design or editorial decision of their own.
Devs: *Put scene front and center on their store page to advertise the game*
Steam: ...uh, we don't usually do this but 1/?
Devs: *Put scene front and center on their store page to advertise the game*
Steam: ...uh, we don't usually do this but 1/?
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
They only removed the scene after Steam told them they weren't allowed on their store, aka after backlash, and not because of any design or editorial decision of their own.
Devs: *Put scene front and center on their store page to advertise the game*
Steam: ...uh, we don't usually do this but 1/?
Devs: *Put scene front and center on their store page to advertise the game*
Steam: ...uh, we don't usually do this but 1/?
They very much tried to "claim" the little girl was just a placeholder.
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
They very much tried to "claim" the little girl was just a placeholder.
"Wasn't a placeholder"
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again
Valve responds as indie horror studio accuses Steam of 'censorship' for banning its game about nude human 'Horses' (Update)
Valve told Santa Ragione its game featured child exploitation. The studio says otherwise.
www.pcgamer.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Wasn't a placeholder"
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again
friends/those you followed posted, and that was it. Then Facebook and Twitter started hard on the algorithm bullshit and forcing that stuff into your feed. YouTube wasn't far behind. And they've only pushed it further and got worse from there. 2/2
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
friends/those you followed posted, and that was it. Then Facebook and Twitter started hard on the algorithm bullshit and forcing that stuff into your feed. YouTube wasn't far behind. And they've only pushed it further and got worse from there. 2/2
"Idk where we went wrong" I mean, you mentioned it in your very post. Algorithms. Algorithms are where we went wrong. Social media while in some ways still not great, were largely okay in the early days before algorithms. Your timeline, feed, wall, etc was filled solely by what your 1/2
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"Idk where we went wrong" I mean, you mentioned it in your very post. Algorithms. Algorithms are where we went wrong. Social media while in some ways still not great, were largely okay in the early days before algorithms. Your timeline, feed, wall, etc was filled solely by what your 1/2
Man they're trying so hard with that music, but it is just impossible to make Final Bout look epic/exciting.
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Man they're trying so hard with that music, but it is just impossible to make Final Bout look epic/exciting.
Almost as if there aren't children in that game.
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Almost as if there aren't children in that game.
I mean it's 100% why I didn't buy the Persona 3 remake at launch, and still haven't. I know their bullshit. In a year or two there will be a re-release with the Answer DLC included along with other new stuff. They've yoinked that rug one too many times to be trusted.
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I mean it's 100% why I didn't buy the Persona 3 remake at launch, and still haven't. I know their bullshit. In a year or two there will be a re-release with the Answer DLC included along with other new stuff. They've yoinked that rug one too many times to be trusted.
They need to hurry up and get to finishing it. I'm impatient!
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
They need to hurry up and get to finishing it. I'm impatient!
"It's important to the narrative that the little girl ride around on the back of the naked person in BDSM horse gear. Wait, officers, why are you cuffing me?"
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"It's important to the narrative that the little girl ride around on the back of the naked person in BDSM horse gear. Wait, officers, why are you cuffing me?"
It in fact changes a lot. Namely in showing how little you know of the situation and how irrelevant your opinion is. Shoo.
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
It in fact changes a lot. Namely in showing how little you know of the situation and how irrelevant your opinion is. Shoo.
Simple. Because if they complained about being censored and Steam refusing to sell their game, but they didn't mention said scene to try and get ahead of it and attempt to excuse it, then they'd look all the worse once Steam responded and brought it up.
atte.pt
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Simple. Because if they complained about being censored and Steam refusing to sell their game, but they didn't mention said scene to try and get ahead of it and attempt to excuse it, then they'd look all the worse once Steam responded and brought it up.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again?
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again?
Valve responds as indie horror studio accuses Steam of 'censorship' for banning its game about nude human 'Horses' (Update)
Valve told Santa Ragione its game featured child exploitation. The studio says otherwise.
www.pcgamer.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again?
"It's important to note," he said, "that the daughter model from the initial submission was 100% placeholder from the start." At the time, Santa Ragione had only completed character art for the game's protagonists.
Would you like to try again?
Yep, and Steam wasn't having it and buying their nonsense. But they want to ride the "Steam censored me" train to get more attention.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Yep, and Steam wasn't having it and buying their nonsense. But they want to ride the "Steam censored me" train to get more attention.
Exactly this. They're being disingenuous and using it to gain attention. It was somehow a "placeholder" but it was 1. Shown on the store page(What first caught Steams attention) 2. Was a situation where the meta context is typically involving a child(Dad taking a daughter for a pony ride).
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Exactly this. They're being disingenuous and using it to gain attention. It was somehow a "placeholder" but it was 1. Shown on the store page(What first caught Steams attention) 2. Was a situation where the meta context is typically involving a child(Dad taking a daughter for a pony ride).
So them acting like it was always meant to be a placeholder and Steam is being unreasonable in blocking their weirdo game is just them being disingenuous. 2/2
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
So them acting like it was always meant to be a placeholder and Steam is being unreasonable in blocking their weirdo game is just them being disingenuous. 2/2
And they're playing dumb about it, acting as if it wasn't explained to them and more egregiously that it was a placeholder. It was on the store page. It was a situation where it being a child makes sense in the real world situation it'd be mimicking(A dad taking his daughter for a pony ride). 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
And they're playing dumb about it, acting as if it wasn't explained to them and more egregiously that it was a placeholder. It was on the store page. It was a situation where it being a child makes sense in the real world situation it'd be mimicking(A dad taking his daughter for a pony ride). 1/2
on the store page too, thus catching Valves attention. Playing stupid about it does nothing for you. 2/2
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
on the store page too, thus catching Valves attention. Playing stupid about it does nothing for you. 2/2
I mean, maybe don't put a child in your weird porn game? "It was a placeholder!" Weird that said child "placeholder" lasted for so long and was put in a scenario that would really only make meta contextual sense for a child(Aka going for a "pony ride" led by their dad). Weird that it was shown 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I mean, maybe don't put a child in your weird porn game? "It was a placeholder!" Weird that said child "placeholder" lasted for so long and was put in a scenario that would really only make meta contextual sense for a child(Aka going for a "pony ride" led by their dad). Weird that it was shown 1/2
Remember when they'd show stuff like this for the community and it wasn't locked behind a paywall? Remember when they left Geek and Sundry because of Alpha and them trying to make them lock stuff behind a paywall and they made a whole big point about never wanting to do that? Because I do.
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Remember when they'd show stuff like this for the community and it wasn't locked behind a paywall? Remember when they left Geek and Sundry because of Alpha and them trying to make them lock stuff behind a paywall and they made a whole big point about never wanting to do that? Because I do.