ICastFist

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram publish graphic porn ads disguised as fake make-up tutorials.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  the 40-minute ads

  40 fucking minutes???

  In the ads, the first frame, used as the default thumbnail on the platform, was of the make-up instructor. During the period of up to a minute where the ad displayed hardcore porn, the instructor appeared again every 15 frames, intermixed with the porn. Once the hardcore porn ad finished, a slowed-down version of the actual make-up tutorial played for approximately 40 minutes, until the end.

  Oh, so that’s how it worked.

  They highlight the challenges the social media giant faces as it comes up against unscrupulous advertisers on its platforms.

  Pffffft, there’s no “challenge”, facebook gets money either way. The only challenge is for the people who use fb and insta for whatever reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ feature calls businesses on your behalf to inquire about services, pricing.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh great, exactly what every small shop is asking for: AI clients that will never show up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragonsweeper is a free, neat and nifty RPG take on a venerable PC puzzler⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, this is a nifty game, I like it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dino Crisis-esque horror Code Violet won't be coming to PC because the risk of "vulgar" mods isn't worth the "extra money"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, my first reaction was “fucking bullshit”, because no way that’s a real reason.

  Then I followed to this linked kotaku piece about Judgement game series, which talks about how Johnny’s, one of the biggest model/talent agencies in Japan, is worse than Nintendo in its “image protection”.

  So, while “we do not want anyone modding vulgar versions of the main character as well as other characters in the game” is still fucking bullshit, it might not actually come straight from the developer. If the game does relatively well, expect people to r34 the hell out of the characters anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky Head Claims Team Isn't Close To Being Done With Game's Content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish they’d make proc-genned interiors for certain planetary buildings, or at least create slightly different architectures. Every abandoned research station, every small outpost, every trade outpost, everything everywhere in the galaxy is exactly the same. Even the ruins you can excavate once in a while are always the same sandrock, tilted walkways with some chests

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIGHT OF MOTIRAM takes Horizon Zero Dawn and turns it into a co-op survival game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No dates anywhere yet. It looks cool as hell, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you’re talking about google, of course no humans are involved anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough, as Minetest/Luanti is written in Lua, it should be easy-ish, in theory, to import some of the simpler roblox games.

  Then again, good luck bringing people from Java Minecraft or Roblox over to a FOSS alternative. “Nobody’s there”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question, can we, common folk, make a motion or something for the Internet Archive to become some sort of Cultural World Heritage, protected by the UN?

  Actually, would that even be helpful in the first place? I have this naive notion that doing so would give it more protection and funding, so anyone that knows better please correct me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I did it. I finally did it. After all these years, all the time I spent searching, I found the last known fully offline build for Graal classic.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The part of player created content sounds more like Second Life or VR Chat, but 2D. Or a 2D Roblox, minus the evil corpo behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is getting closer to launching an Instagram rival⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought you could already “share” texts in tiktok? You can DM and comment on videos. Besides, tiktok and instagram are already each other’s rivals, vying to keep people trapped there with infinite short videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, if only those people that kept shouting at every opportunity how terrible these “smart” devices were had been listened to shouted louder, maybe people would be aware. But alas, everyone nobody could’ve seen that coming, it’s truly a surprise.

  we are left with the remains of a dream unfulfilled and electronics that respond to the whims, fancies, and ever-changing business decisions of corporations

  Reads straight out of !aboringdystopia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game] Suicide Squad Update Makes Game Unplayable on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  13k peak at launch, steady 500-700 for the past few weeks. This update is also the first time the game got over 1k players since february 22

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playtron plans to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based OS for gaming⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of note, Playtron’s CEO is Kirt McMaster, the asshole who destroyed CyanogenMod for profit. Ars Technica’s comment section isn’t holding any punches on how unlikely this is to even become a finished product, much less something actually competitive against Steam Deck