anon232

We need to go back to the days where video games come to an end. All this live service forever game bullshit is a cancer for the industry, and just incentivizes overt monetization

How is this not unconstitutional?

If you enjoyed this game, you'll really like shadow of war. It expands on a lot of the systems introduced in mordor and I really enjoy the nemesis system in that game, especially at higher difficulties.

Oh great, now gooner bait is infesting lemmy now too.

Ah yes, people escaping the shackles of the privatized web in the name of .... gooner memes.

No one's asking to ban the content, just add a tag so people who actually work in places that might not take kindly to pornographic memes have a warning.

It's a shame you're getting downvoted for a simple opinion. Clearly people still think this is reddit.

This article sucks because it basically has absolutely no information about the study itself, but I wonder if its referencing games where women seem to be portrayed as these beautiful scantily clad goddesses. Even games like fortnite have slim women with tiny waists and big asses and this sets the expectation that this is what "a real woman" looks like.

I've seen a growing trend among young gamers who seem to only want "beautiful" people in their videogames, and while sure, we all don't want abominations for main characters, the standard of what "beautiful" means to gamers these days seems to be women with large breasts, big asses, and completely fake faces like as if they had a face filter. God forbid a game create a regular looking person as the main character without facing serious backlash from terminally online chuds. Look at games like Ghost of Yotei, Witcher, and Naughty Dog's Intergalactic for examples of what reactions you get for having "normal" looking characters.

All this is to say that the way people are portrayed in media has a profound affect on what they perceive they should look/act like in the real world. We've progressed for the last few decades in trying to cut down on the sexualization of women in media, only for it to ramp right back up again in the past few years as people praise eastern countries for making "Anti woke" games.

I figured it out, I'm not sure if this is due to the suggestion from IngeniousRocks but I switched to ProtonGE 10, deleted the compat directory for RDR2 and tried again and it finally worked!

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, in addition to doing the same with the game files (just in case). Unfortunately it did not work :(

Here's the full log from the socialclub.log file

[00000000] Fri Sep 26 17:00:13 2025
[00000000] Rockstar Games Social Club SDK: x64 RELEASE
[00000000] 
[00000000] Settings:
[00000000]  Offline Only Mode: false
[00000000]  Launcher Mode: false
[00000000]  Running title: rdr2
[00000000]  Platform: Steam
[00000000]  Steam user: Anon232
[00000000]  Environment: prod
[00000000]  Language: English
[00000000] 
[00000000] Network initialized
[00000000]  Presence Supported: 0
[00000000]  Friends Supported: 1
[00000000]  Connection State Change Supported: 1
[00000000]  Achievements Supported: 1
[00000000]  Autologin/Transfer Supported: 1
[00000000] 
[00000000] RAGE initialized
[00000000] Social Club Directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\
[00000000] Social Club CEF Directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\
[00000000] Root Data Directory: C:\users\steamuser\Documents\Rockstar Games\
[00000000] Applying discord ID override: 643897785271189524
[00000000] Insufficient title metadata for initializing Discord
[00000000] Initialized discord using client ID: 643897785271189524, title ID: rdr2
[00000000] File System Initialized
[00000000] 
[00000000] Command Line Arguments:
[00000000] 	 -skipPatcherCheck
[00000000] 	 -steamLocation
[00000000] 	 Z:\run\media\system\BTRFS_4TB_NVME\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2
[00000000] 	 -enableCrashpad
[00000000] 	 -useSteam
[00000000] 	 -steamAppId=1174180
[00000000] 	 -scCommerceProvider=4
[00000000] 	 -fromRGL
[00000000] 	 -scDiscordClientId=643897785271189524
[00000000] 	 -rglLanguage=en-US
[00000000] 
[00000000] Version Info: 2.4.0.118
[00000000] JSON Interface initialized
[00000000] Internet manager initialized
[00000000] Social Club Data initialized
[00000003] Metadata initialized
[00000003] Achievement Manager initialized
[00000003] Player Manager initialized
[00000003] Gamer Pic Manager initialized
[00000018] Profile Manager initialized
[00000018] Presence Manager initialized
[00000018] Using commerce provider: 4
[00000018] Commerce Manager initialized
[00000018] Task Manager initialized
[00000018] Telemetry Manager initialized
[00000018] Network interface initialized
[00000018] Cloud Saves interface initialized
[00000019] Multi-Factor Authentication initialized
[00000019] Profanity filter initialized
[00000019] Game Intent Manager initialized
[00000021] Game/Launcher IPC initialized: 0
[00000021] Validating CEF directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\
[00000021] Validating SDK directory: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\
[00000161] Validating Social Club dependency versions: 
[00000161]  Social Club DLL (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\socialclub.dll) - 2.4.0.118
[00000161]  Social Club Helper (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\SocialClubHelper.exe) - 2.4.0.118
[00000161]  Chromium Embedded Framework (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\libcef.dll) - 109.1.18.0
[00000161]  Vulkan Renderer Layer (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\SocialClubVulkanLayer.dll) - 2.4.0.118
[00000161]  D3D12 Renderer DLL (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\SocialClubD3D12Renderer.dll) - 2.4.0.118
[00000161]  RGSC-Query Version: 0.0.0-development
[00000161] SDK fully initialized
[00000161] 
[00000172] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER'
[00001529] UpdateConnectionState :: Connection state changed from offline to online
[00001529] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_gameinst_0 (remoteProcessId 388)
[00001645] Browser available
[00001645] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_IPC'
[00001654] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER_WINDOW'
[00002240] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'LOADING'
[00002240] RgscUi::LoadUrl() called with url 'https://scui.rockstargames.com/desktop'
[00002241] CreateIpcChannel returning channel name: rgsc_ipc_760_channel_0
[00002243] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAITING_FOR_PAGE_LOAD'
[00002622] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_0 (remoteProcessId 2444)
[00002622] OnChannelError() - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_0
[00002622] Connection to UI renderer lost!
[00002622] UI renderer disconnected
[00002736] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'FAILED'
[00002736] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER'
[00002801] Browser available
[00002801] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_IPC'
[00003177] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAIT_BROWSER_WINDOW'
[00003243] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'LOADING'
[00003243] RgscUi::LoadUrl() called with url 'https://scui.rockstargames.com/desktop'
[00003244] CreateIpcChannel returning channel name: rgsc_ipc_760_channel_1
[00003246] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAITING_FOR_PAGE_LOAD'
[00003578] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_1 (remoteProcessId 2544)
[00003611] OnChannelError() - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_1
[00003611] Connection to UI renderer lost!
[00003611] UI renderer disconnected
[00003613] UI renderer terminated
[00063299] [WARNING] Timed out loading Social Club UI
[00063299] [ERROR] Failed to load social club UI, falling back to offline site
[00063299] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'LOADING'
[00063299] RgscUi::LoadUrl() called with url 'C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\UI\default.html'
[00063299] CreateIpcChannel returning channel name: rgsc_ipc_760_channel_2
[00063302] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'WAITING_FOR_PAGE_LOAD'
[00063600] OnChannelConnected - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_2 (remoteProcessId 2744)
[00063667] OnChannelError() - rgsc_ipc_760_channel_2
[00063667] Connection to UI renderer lost!
[00063667] UI renderer disconnected
[00063669] UI renderer terminated
[00123336] [WARNING] Timed out loading Social Club UI
[00123336] [ERROR] Failed to load both the online and offline sites.
[00123336] Social Club UI - Entering State: 'FAILED'
[00254237] Shutting down...

If you use AMD, the performance overlay on windows shows whether framegen is active or not.

Yeah I'm not sure about that either. I came from lemm.ee as well and it was always working fine there. I don't recall if lemm.ee did the image proxy thing like lemmy.zip appears to do though.

you need to adjust your store content settings to hide these games. Adult games are hidden by default so you must have enabled it. You can filter out adult games and not see these things.