Now you might expect this to be about how Kobold Kare is currently listed under 'popular' even though the opinions of furries should be disregarded in every single context of society because seriously, look at this fucking thing. And it is, a little. But it's more about how the platform does a real shit job of separating legitimate, quality products from, well, memes.

For example, when I see that a game has 'overwhelmingly positive' reviews, it gives me pause. Maybe the game is just that universally beloved. Or. maybe content creator Whitey McMelanope featured the game on his Youtube channel and his legions of 15 to 19 year olds flocked to steam to record their assigned opinions. Reviews like "I played this game too close to my fern, now it's a cactus" really don't need to be the most prominently featured just because they're so upvoted.

As Kent Brockman said, and America regularly confirms, democracy simply doesn't work.

And that's to say nothing about games themselves that keep showing up in my feed because they're popular.

"Hey, you like shooters, would you like to play this game where you're Kyle Rittenhouse gunning down liberals? You have to understand, you're a gamer in 2022, so we kinda just assumed you're also a Nazi."

Fair, but incorrect.

There needs to be a version of Steam you can access where it's all sorted by actual quality, rather than the opinions and tastes of 20 year olds who get all of their opinions, thoughts, feelings, identities and perhaps religious affiliation from streamers. Unless Steam would just like to start organizing things by some sort of legitimacy instead of just what the dumbest people on the internet think is funny, today.