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- Comment on [Eurogamer] Wardogs early access review 2 days ago:
I thought they blamed the latest vibe-coded windows patches for that and are recommending a rollback?
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure there’s plenty of important points not being considered here as we each have a goal in mind and tend to ignore what doesn’t push it along.
For example, you speak of proper regulations as if they already are the rule instead of the exception.
Our imagination can run wild as much as it wants, while reality remains fixed beyond these written words. And it isn’t optimistic in whichever direction it looks to follow.
Can things still be changed? Yes, but it’s highly unlikely. The fight happens beyond these tiny walls where better people than you and I make worse mistakes than we can imagine. Because theirs are grounded in reality and affect more than simple thoughts.
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the tits. Not all tits are created equal. Inequality among tits is at an all time high. It’s not tit for tit, but tit for tat. Great Tits for all!
Btw, i noticed you focused on the tits and not what the environment in which they are displayed represents for those displaying theirs. I admit it’s my personal opinion, but I’d say most of the women working in strip clubs don’t really do so entirely voluntarily or out of love for the profession. Would it be an exaggeration to say strip clubs are figurative slaughterhouses of young women in terms of exploitation? Perhaps. We might be thinking of different kinds of strip clubs after all…
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 2 weeks ago:
That’s nice, but here’s what you miss: neither you nor the government are supposed to be all that can be when it comes to child development.
On one side there’s government excess, but on the other there’s also parenting excess. As one person, any one parent is not qualified to give their hypothetical child the best education they would deserve or objectively decide the levels of information they would need, appropriate to their age. They simply lack the qualifications.
Your comment would be hailed by anti-vaxxers. “I know better! The government can’t force me to vaccinate my children!” Also by domestic abusers. “My daddy beat me with their belt until my bum was bleeding and i turned out just fine! I’ll be damned if the government can tell me how to raise my kid!”
Now you might say “I wouldn’t do something like that”, but what makes you more trustworthy than the government? Being their parent? There’s that one case being talked in the media which can be used as an example that parents aren’t that trustworthy with the safety of their children.
See, people who really care about kids understand that some government interference is required. That people whose profession is to ensure the wellbeing of children are required. That neither side gets to decide alone what is best for the children.
Your opinion on what is or isn’t damaging to your child isn’t enough. You aren’t trained for that. You haven’t studied for that. And the one who suffers if you’re wrong is the child who will have to live with your mistakes for the rest of their life.
Government overreach isn’t the solution. Government uninvolvement isn’t one either. A job of parents is to gather together and be a communal voice which takes the government to task and demands what is best for children.
But we don’t have that, do we? Because, as a sad fact, a lot of parents are simply inadequate. Else this kind of BS law wouldn’t even be a problem under their watch.
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 2 weeks ago:
Honestly believe what exactly? I’m not understanding your reply to my comment.
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 2 weeks ago:
So you’re telling me you have no issue with allowing your kid to go alone to a strip club, letting them see scantily clad women of dubious age dancing for the pleasure of leering men (mostly), the liberal consumption of alcohol and possibly periphenalia of the illegal and damaging sort and the occasional violence committed by and against the customers, while also leaving them in the company of uninhibited individuals not quite sound of mind?
“Sure buddy, you can go to the strip club! Just remember, only look, no touch or the bouncer gonna throw you out! And if you get into a fight with the other customers, hit them over the head with a bottle or nick ‘em in the groin! Have fun!”
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 2 weeks ago:
Back in the day there were strip clubs strewn about without much oversight. Us kids wanted to actively access them because we were curious and wanted to see the naked ladies. Do you believe we should have been granted full, unadulterated access to such establishments?
- Comment on Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessness 3 weeks ago:
Very realistic. Actual cities also hide away their homelessness problem.
- Comment on GTA 6 life simulation elements confirmed: thank god, we can turn the offensively hot Jason and Lucia into exhausted slobs like the rest of us 5 weeks ago:
What? Fat Lucia!? Woke GTA!!! … Bazillion preorders cancelled.
- Comment on The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact. Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. 1 month ago:
They use ai to scrape the website and provide a summary?
- Comment on XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the 'Xodus' project 1 month ago:
I think it’s more about gaining access to your telemetry data. All that unsold info is starting hurt profits.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did 1 month ago:
I’m probably wrong, but office 365 should be fully digital now and opening it on PC is likely just opening a browser webpage. They built a whole thing around the edge webview, so it’s all one big unhappy family you can’t be rid of.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did 1 month ago:
Default for win 11. Office 365 integrated. “Paying for it anyway, might as well use it”.
- Comment on TikTok blames ‘moderator error’ on slow response to Perez Hilton livestream 1 month ago:
TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office
Gee, I wonder why.
- Comment on THE FINALS will be adding a new "Elytra" anti-cheat 1 month ago:
When I tried playing the game, I was surprised to find it had 3 anticheat installers in its folders. There was Easy, which ran first. They let you play a few games with it, then Denuvo popped up and you weren’t allowed to play anymore without installing that as well. And finally there was something which wasn’t really named per say, but it was just laying there, all suspicious -like. It must have been this one.
Well, fuck that.
- Comment on Any "social" games like old CODs or something like pre-2020 rust? 2 months ago:
A monster fart
- Comment on What are you all buying during the Steam summer sale? 2 months ago:
Nothing yet because I don’t decide easily, but I’m having an eye on Dragon ball XenoVerse 2, the SPAZ collection, Dungeon Siege collection and A House of many Doors.
I was also eyeing the EA 90+% discounts, but they’re EA and their apps/anticheat are a nightmare to deal with and i don’t think it’s worth the trouble.
- Comment on Waiting for GTA 6's PC release might save you dropping an extra $20 for access to some special shops, based on my wading through GTA 5's editions soup 3 months ago:
Addicts won’t care.
- Comment on Have an AMD GPU? You can build your own SteamOS Steam Machine 3 months ago:
Different instances act differently. Not every deletion goes through, both ways. So often enough what’s deleted there isn’t deleted here and the reverse.
- Comment on Have an AMD GPU? You can build your own SteamOS Steam Machine 3 months ago:
just because
- Comment on Epic Games is hiring a Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat 3 months ago:
Really? The guy who hates Linux? Colour me shocked.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols 3 months ago:
Well, according to the poor explanation given shortly after, someone did do that.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols 3 months ago:
Not saying it was like that here, but I’m giving an example for your understanding.
Two kinds of jobs are specialists, or someone who knows what they’re doing and drones, or someone who doesn’t have to know what they’re doing as long as they get things pushed their way done.
A drone doesn’t know and doesn’t care what those symbols are, they just do their job regardless of the connotations.
A specialist knows entirely what it’s all about and makes informed decisions.
Now a company can have, among other types, drones or specialists top to bottom or a random mix. So often enough there are cases where everyone just does what they’re told without wasting a single brain cell in the process, whether as drones who just do as told or as malicious compliance officers due to various constraints.
The world is large and diverse. Situations beyond our knowledge happen all the time. Which is why I’m opting for keeping an open mind. Otherwise, should anything beyond the ordinary happen to me, reality won’t matter anymore, just these fixed expectations of public opinion.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols 3 months ago:
You’re downvoted for throwing the Nazi word around like it’s cabbage. People might agree this situation was a fuckup, going full tilt on it though is an overreaction.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols 3 months ago:
In itself, the argument is sound. A lot of media is censored specifically for China or predominantly muslim-governed countries. It’s just standard corporate bootlicking.
The context makes it awkward. For example, most of Asia neither knows nor cares about nazis because it’s not who oppressed them, so I don’t seem them having an issue with it in this sense. But then again, I’m not sure of Gog’s presence in Asia…
- Comment on New No Man's Sky Update 4 months ago:
My presumption is that due to the original rocky start, the dude feels responsible and keeps churning out free updates instead of asking money for it as DLCs.
- Comment on Microsoft will reportedly invite 7% of their US workers to retire early, as the Xbox division talk up "strong cost discipline" 5 months ago:
Weird. I read somewhere else about Microsoft naming and shaming Meta for firing 10k employees… Huh.
- Comment on What is best in life? A free Conan Exiles update that completely revamps the game's graphics and more 5 months ago:
Eh. In pve, you build and explore. In pvp, you get raided while offline. Both in PvE and pvp, your thralls/minions can fall through the map on spawn and die.
Incremental crafting progression, lots of equipment/buildings dlcs and exploring a large map where almost everything wants to kill you.
It can be fun. But only in specific circumstances. Without a server to keep the world state, the offline version resets npcs, animals, materials everywhere except your base each time you load up the game. Their official servers were apparently in maintenance mode with zero admin interaction. Private servers though, if you don’t know the owners, they usually suck.
Hit or miss really. Personally, I’m thinking Dune Awakening didn’t perform as expected, so they’re trying to pump up sales on something they pretty much abandoned until recently. Or they’re operating with minimal staff…
- Comment on The shake up to Arc Raiders Expeditions may turn the extraction shooter into a week-long bloodbath, but it could pair well with the "significant changes" planned for its skill tree 5 months ago:
Last year, the constant updates were for Helldivers 2. Wonder what next year’s going to be…
- Comment on Roblox is introducing a subscription service that encourages more shady practices, is it? Sounds about right 5 months ago:
Looks like a pyramid scheme. “Get more people to subscribe and you get a cut of their subscription fee.”
Or am I missing something?