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[Forever-Free Friday] Real Moon, a realism-focused lunar exploration game, using real data, developed in collaboration with JAXA, released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

No, I mean I've heard clown award farming is apparently a thing on Steam but I don't know what it's about.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Steam has ... basically, emojis that you can give people, as... basically 'awards'.

    There's a whole system of 'points' that you get when you buy a game or get an in game achievememt, you can spend those points on various flair for your steam profile...

    Or, give silly awards to people.

    So... I would guess that 'clown farming' would be intentionally trying to get as many clown-moji awards as possible.

    Why do they do this?

    ... To be the funniest clown, I suppose.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a great way to run a reliable user review system

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I mean... its not the worst way of essentially reviewing users.

    Its also not the best, lol.

    I... don't actually know that there is like... when you view another user's profile, I don't think it like, forces you to display your cumulative given 'award' counts, or is made such that anyone can always see them.

    I think... a user can choose to emphasize certain awards by picking one of... basically, their kind of 'display cabinets' on their profile, and then showcasing it in that.

    ... Its kind of ... incredibly convoluted, how everything that does, or can go into a steam profile page... how that actually works.

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