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  • That’s a pretty common trope for tomboys, muscle girls and male role female characters in general.

    The kimono it self isn’t accentuated in a fashion that indicates the character is a prostitute, slut, cortisan or seductress of any sort.

    Character design short hand has been rather consistent in this regard for at least the last 30 years.

    So while I can’t speak to traditional cultural short hand. At least when it comes to games, anime and manhwa. She’s being depicted as a masculine character and or a delinquent.










  • Iv been just zipping up my steam games and removing the single dll that hooks the overlay from my games for literally over a decade and those games just work on any computer I put them on basically.

    The only steam games that it doesn’t work are ones that dev opted into the steam drm. It’s not remotely mandatory, it’s a developer choice.

    Valve gives zero fucks and steam could be entirely drm free right now if devs just choose to not use the drm option.

    Valve is a market place, they make no actual perfect or pressure towards drm or no drm. Which frankly is what it should be. The marketplace shouldn’t be forcing it’s view point on the people selling their goods there if the marketplace didnt make or help make it.

    Functionally the only difference between steam and gog is steam allows drm games. They arnt mandatory.

    Valve is the ONLY optional marketplace like this. Every other market is either no drm no matter what which is fine, or only drm which is awful.

    Seriously the majority of what steams “drm” people think of is just the fucking dll hooking into the client for the overlay, cloud, community, and market place. If you don’t need that shit you can just remove it and you have a portable game.


  • Yes? You have been able to basically since day 1 of steam. Games fall into two camps either it’s DRM enforced by the developer and your stuck with the client. And then there’s everything else.

    For everything else you can use the appid to disable the client check, or just remove the single dll that hooks the steam services. Aka the overlay and cloud.

    99% of games on steam outside of major triple A games on steam are entirely drm free. They literally just use a single dll for the steam stuff.

    Iv bene making zips of steam games iv bought for over a decade now and they still just work years later.

    And for games with mandatory drm they would have drm on gog too if they sold them there. But since they require drm gog won’t allow them.

    Valve just doesn’t actually give a single fuck about drm one way or the other. It’s there if the dev wants it but doesn’t require it at all.

    Even the whole offline check in thing is technically optional. Since that just doesn’t happen if you just remove the single dll file.




  • I wouldn’t remotely call valve the devil of drm.

    Like fuck, the majority of games on steam have no drm. It’s almost exclusively triple A games that wouldn’t be sold on gog ever because the companies making them want drm of some form. So it’s a moot point. And for the remaining games with it, it’s almost exclusively “drm” in the form of a single dll that hooks into steams client so cloud storage and the overlay can work… And it’s optional. And client side with no checks and can easily be removed.

    Out of the 1000+ games in my steam library I have less then 80 with drm, or even need the steam client running at all to launch.

    I just flat out have never understood how people think steam is some drm monster when they give so little fucks that it’s entirely and fully a developers choice.

    Like hell I just make a zip back up of my games. That’s all gog installers are after all. You download once from their servers and you just have an installer, steam is exactly the same it just auto unzips it for you. If you want a installer you can just… Make your own.