•  Sas [she/her]   ( @Sas@beehaw.org ) English
    6•57 minutes ago

    Please don’t take Clown farmers serious:

    On steam you can give awards to people, one of which is a clownface. If you receive a reward, you gain steam points which you can use to purchase profile customizations, emotes, steam startup movies and maybe more idk. So People started spamming ridiculous shit on steam to be a clown and receive those clown emotes by people taking them serious. The best move is to report them, block them and move on. They also quite often pretend to be marginalized groups to as a “bonus” make those groups look bad which kinda brings despair to me when I see people actually taking them serious and not realizing it’s all fake.

  •  HouseWolf   ( @HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) English
    47•7 hours ago

    I’m gonna hope it’s a troll.

    But some people are really weird about “owning” games. The other day I was in a call with someone who spend hours hunting through dodgy key selling sites to buy a delisted Steam game at nearly twice the price…

    And yes I told them where else they could get it but they cared more about having the game appear on their Steam list than actually playing it.

    •  Crotaro   ( @Crotaro@beehaw.org ) English
      20•6 hours ago

      Yeah. The clown award (and similar “derogatory” awards) giving the receiver Steam points is the worst thing that happened to the quality of posts/comments on the Steam forums. The first two comment pages on patchnotes of games like Helldivers 2 are almost exclusively pointfarmers doing their best to reap clown awards.

      •  Sas [she/her]   ( @Sas@beehaw.org ) English
        2•1 hour ago

        The worst part about it is that they usually pretend to be a queer person demanding queer representation in games in the most rude way possible and then people take this shit serious and take it out on actual queer people.

        •  Snot Flickerman   ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
          2•48 minutes ago

          take it out on actual queer people.

          I mean, considering how awful the kind of folks who would do such a thing are, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that’s probably the ulterior goal. Getting Steam points is just a bonus on top of helping convince other abusive right winger dipshits that queer people need to be attacked because of the fake queer people they made up.