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- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 6 days ago:
I agree that if you completely take away their agency that it only makes the slop look more attractive but I also disagree that sentiment that “you can’t”. Technically it’s true. But that doesn’t mean we ought to give in to slop as parents. Low effort slop has been around since before AI. Find ways to teach the importance of genuine creative content and cultivate a preference for the real creative works with your children.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 6 days ago:
I can understand your viewpoint and agree with it even that Fortnite is overly engineered to sell overpriced cosmetic items to children.
I think where we differ is that one wrong (regular Fortnite skins), doesn’t excuse another, worse wrong (brainrot lootboxes and expensive mtx that can be lost)
The whole operation should be shut down, I think we agree there. Fortnite is actually the majority profiteer in this case, the “experience dev” only gets 34% of the revenue from the sale. Infuriating how hypocritical epic is after fighting apple and google over these practices only to do the same thing.
At least Apple and Google try to protect their users from this kind of thing
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 6 days ago:
We had to use a family computer in a shared space. Not a tablet or phone that could be used unmonitored. Just because it wasn’t a technical measure doing the monitoring doesn’t mean we were unmonitored.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 6 days ago:
Only whitelist content or creators you personally have vetted with apps like YouTube kids, jellyfin, etc until you can trust their own decision making. Then share an account so that you can see watch history (and hopefully your good media choices influenced their tastes as you would share an algorithm)
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 6 days ago:
Exploiting children isn’t funny. Stealing from fools is not ok. Having it be legal is not good for the health of society.
Normalizing antisocial behavior is not a good thing
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 6 days ago:
Pretty obvious what was going to happen when they decided to go the Roblox route. Fortnite and Roblox are both predatory slop. Quite frankly the developers (even if they are kids) releasing paid “experiences” (aka slop) are just as immoral and predatory.
Talk to your kids about not falling for scams like f2p monetization schemes.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
I mean if your plans were to have a simple life to do whatever you want devoid of responsibility then they definitely ruin those plans.
For the right people, plans are ok being ruined
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 1 week ago:
To be more clear, I mean when parental controls are added to an app they are almost always half baked and inserted as a marketing gimmick.
As a whole parental controls are definitely important for parents to utilize to the best of their abilities, it’s just hard to actually implement them on the application level as opposed to the network or device level.
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 1 week ago:
It really shouldn’t be that hard to make a “block all” system. And then whitelist things you want to allow on a piece meal basis. The reason such a system doesn’t exist is because it would hurt engagement and monetization numbers and these corporations won’t stop until every man woman and child has been exploited
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 1 week ago:
Epic’s is probably the best because it’s the only one that has an easy “block everything but online play” button and lets you whitelist experiences with a parental pin
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 1 week ago:
Parental Controls are a marketing gimmick.
Did you know that you can’t stop strangers on Roblox from sending your kid friend requests? And you can’t delete them from your child’s account. Just block them entirely.
On PlayStation you can’t approve communication features with just friends. If you have it turned on so they can chat in game with their cousin, then strangers can send unsolicited voice calls to them.
Children should not be on internet connected devices unless you are willing to monitor their usage 100% of the time or are willing to hope and pray you’ve taught them enough about the danger and risks (and even if you have, they aren’t developed enough to understand them anyway)
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 1 week ago:
The real end game is that you get bored and stop playing. The game doesn’t really drop much story, just vague hints and tasks to guide you somewhat towards it.
You make what you make of it and move on
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 1 week ago:
ARC Raiders is an incredibly fun game. Really exposes both the best and worst of human experiences.
When ending the night after getting gunned down by a rat camping extract I can lay awake stewing over it for seemingly half the night. When the opposite happens, and I finish on a really good raid with some high level loot, I bask in the glow for the other half of the night.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 weeks ago:
It’s innovated in that it’s an extraction shooter that has mass appeal and isn’t a total drag to play but it’s not exactly game breaking mechanics-wise.
I think it’s the multiplayer game of the year. Wouldn’t call it the most innovative game of the year
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I called Microsoft to activate windows since 2012 at the latest to activate a copy of XP SP3. I’d be surprised if they got 100 calls the last decade to activate a copy of windows legitimately. Their amount of airgapped or remote systems that run windows that can’t be activated over the internet has to be miniscule
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 weeks ago:
Play old games, I guess? Arc Raiders is one of the only new games I’ve played in a long time. Recently got an Xbox one to play the golden age cod games.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 2 weeks ago:
No Arc Raiders? Did the list stop around October 1st or something?
No Clair Obscur Expedition 33 either makes this an unserious list.
- Comment on Play and manage SNES cartridges on your PC | SN Operator 3 weeks ago:
It looks like they are also teasing a new operator adapter once the SNES Operator releases. I wish it’d be a NES operator. There basically isn’t an affordable and portable way I’ve found to dump NES cartridges. Either bulky fpga or emu consoles or an overkill project like sanni (well it’s overkill when you already can dump other formats)
My guess is it’s a genesis operator though
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 weeks ago:
Well hopefully the different forms have their ducks in a row to strip all these “features” out down the road. So glad I use LibreWolf and not Firefox proper anymore
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s that big of deal, doesn’t it just link the account to your steam/psn/xbox live? I don’t even remember making a password for the account. It’s not like you also have to log in to another worthless launcher like blizzard/ubisoft/ea games on steam. That’s where I draw the line.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Do they charge real money for worthless cosmetics in this game? You think they’d be able to afford to bring the original voice actors back in to re-record some lines for updates, if that’s the case.
Seems kind of ironic for a game that’s about capitalists fucking the earth and leaving to space while the rest of humanity is plagued by AI death machines for generations.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 5 weeks ago:
I mean some of the games were just good for their time. But then there are games like Spyro the Dragon, Ocarina of Time, Half Life, Banjo Kazooie and GameBoy Camera that hold up still as some of the best games in their genre ever. Sonic Adventure has basically never been topped by a game in its franchise since. (At least as far as 3D action games in the sonic series are concerned)
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 5 weeks ago:
Where the Freeman is Half-Life?
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 5 weeks ago:
ChatGPT might be, which is the point.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 5 weeks ago:
Wasn’t expecting to see biblical wisdom on the fediverse today
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 5 weeks ago:
United Offensive. Expansion pack to the first CoD, exclusive to PC
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 5 weeks ago:
The new MW3 was literally just an expansion pack for the new MW2 sold for full price.
Same as BO6/7. People are only willing to be milked so much. It’s why when people say what their favorite CoD is, the oldest game mentioned is Black Ops 2
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 5 weeks ago:
Why not CoD:UO? (Please play with us, most unique CoD and servers still online!)
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
What are you doing step-bro site?
- Comment on Threads alternative 1 month ago:
If you want algorithmic slip then why not just be on corporate owned platforms? The only people that want to feed you slop are those trying to harm you. The fediverse isn’t going to do that, they don’t have a motive for it.