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[2741.94 --> 2744.16] Who's going to use Google when you've got to sign up?
[2745.10 --> 2746.82] It's not frictionless like it is here.
[2747.12 --> 2749.64] You're not going to be able to go to a new tab, Google, search for what you want.
[2749.70 --> 2750.54] You're going to have to sign up.
[2750.82 --> 2751.82] Do you have to sign up for Baidu?
[2753.40 --> 2755.04] That's when you're going to input your phone number.
[2755.12 --> 2756.70] But everyone already did sign up for Baidu.
[2756.70 --> 2757.22] Right.
[2757.78 --> 2760.32] I don't know how much of a footprint they're going to get there.
[2760.98 --> 2761.88] Next question.
[2763.32 --> 2764.62] This is more of a statement.
[2764.82 --> 2770.16] I think that your phone number is tied to like your official government ID there.
[2771.94 --> 2772.38] Yeah.
[2772.44 --> 2773.18] So that's why this.
[2773.40 --> 2773.78] For your.
[2774.68 --> 2775.82] I'm going to butcher this.
[2775.94 --> 2776.86] I don't remember what it's called.
[2776.96 --> 2778.28] But you're like citizen standing.
[2778.90 --> 2779.34] Ah.
[2781.58 --> 2783.40] Which is like a really deep topic.
[2783.50 --> 2784.56] That's like a new thing though, right?
[2785.30 --> 2785.88] New-ish.
[2785.88 --> 2786.32] Yeah.
[2786.64 --> 2787.02] All right.
[2787.50 --> 2787.72] Yeah.
[2787.88 --> 2788.76] That's its own thing.
[2788.88 --> 2789.12] Yeah.
[2789.12 --> 2790.64] That's very much its own conversation.
[2790.80 --> 2792.38] And I'm not well-versed enough in that at all.
[2792.76 --> 2793.96] You know what I am well-versed in?
[2794.06 --> 2799.56] The first uncensored adult Steam game, which got banned in 28 countries after only coming
[2799.56 --> 2799.80] out.
[2799.88 --> 2800.42] I'm so surprised.
[2800.42 --> 2801.42] On September 14th.
[2801.42 --> 2803.58] That was fast.
[2803.72 --> 2804.12] But you know what?
[2804.28 --> 2807.30] It's still available in the US, Canada, and UK.
[2807.80 --> 2810.58] And that's a lot of the people listening right now.
[2811.50 --> 2811.92] It is.
[2812.00 --> 2815.90] And now since it's banned, we all get to talk about it and see what all the fuss is about.
[2816.02 --> 2816.94] And their sales get to go.
[2817.30 --> 2817.94] We've been.
[2818.04 --> 2818.36] Yeah.
[2818.36 --> 2819.08] That's a good point.
[2819.36 --> 2819.58] Yeah.
[2819.62 --> 2820.68] Maybe that was the whole goal.
[2821.26 --> 2825.36] We've been talking about this developing Steam conversation for quite a while now.
[2825.36 --> 2830.08] I think this is the third or fourth time it's come into the show where Steam banned a game
[2830.08 --> 2835.34] and then there became the whole topic of like, well, should they actually be the gatekeepers
[2835.34 --> 2837.20] to what games get to be on the platform?
[2837.94 --> 2840.84] Because at a certain point, you kind of stop.
[2843.10 --> 2848.58] Like when you own so much of a space, people stop seeing you as a private company and start
[2848.58 --> 2850.08] seeing you as like.
[2850.08 --> 2851.10] Like an essential service.
[2851.24 --> 2851.46] Yeah.
[2851.80 --> 2852.06] Yeah.
[2852.06 --> 2856.42] And it's not actually what happens, but people start observing your company as that.
[2856.86 --> 2860.16] It's like when Target said that they weren't going to have Grand Theft Auto on their shelves
[2860.16 --> 2860.54] anymore.
[2860.90 --> 2864.82] It's like they thought that was some kind of breach of human rights or something.
[2864.88 --> 2872.12] It's like if I open James Pizza Shop and I want to serve only ham and pineapple, I'm allowed
[2872.12 --> 2872.50] to do that.
[2872.60 --> 2873.24] It's my shop.
[2873.24 --> 2873.68] You can absolutely do that.
[2873.68 --> 2877.86] But you start to get kind of entitled and be like, no, Walmart has to have everything,
[2877.86 --> 2879.74] a completely comprehensive selection.
[2879.74 --> 2882.02] And if it doesn't, then they're just censoring.
[2882.96 --> 2889.36] And there's some validity there because consumers could just go somewhere else.
[2889.62 --> 2889.74] Right.
[2890.18 --> 2896.28] So you start being seen as an essential service and then you kind of have to act that way
[2896.28 --> 2897.50] or else people will just bail.
[2898.30 --> 2901.04] Or you don't and then hope that you make it anyways.
[2901.32 --> 2905.16] But Steam's approach was that we'll just add filters and you can just not see what you
[2905.16 --> 2905.72] don't want to see.
[2905.72 --> 2909.06] And then apparently countries are just going to ban games anyways.
[2909.34 --> 2910.94] So it doesn't really matter.
[2911.18 --> 2911.48] Yeah.
[2911.56 --> 2917.14] So the official statement from Steam, I believe, is like they do not endorse pornography or
[2917.14 --> 2918.98] erotica in games.
[2919.60 --> 2920.90] The game's still on the store.
[2921.40 --> 2921.58] Yeah.
[2922.00 --> 2926.36] But you're not going to see it unless you specifically tell Steam that you want to see
[2926.36 --> 2926.92] those things.
[2927.10 --> 2927.30] Yeah.
[2927.58 --> 2931.00] And I'm 13 and I'm on Steam and I'm just checking that box.
[2931.26 --> 2931.52] Yeah.
[2931.52 --> 2933.70] I'm sure most people are.
[2934.16 --> 2936.88] I am definitely 28 years old.
[2936.94 --> 2940.58] It's like those Flash games when you're a kid and the internet was new.
[2940.98 --> 2941.92] You're like, are you at least 18?
[2942.38 --> 2942.82] Sure.
[2943.14 --> 2944.18] It's like, what year were you born?
[2944.50 --> 2945.50] Scroll down to the 50s.
[2945.52 --> 2946.54] That's definitely old enough.
[2946.80 --> 2949.46] Dude, I used to troll and just make myself like a thousand years old.
[2949.64 --> 2953.86] Because sometimes they just pull from like a database of years, right?
[2954.04 --> 2955.08] So they wouldn't even check.
[2955.16 --> 2955.98] Input the year?
[2956.10 --> 2957.52] You're like 1676.
[2958.08 --> 2958.32] Yeah.