Clbull
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- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
Just a friendly reminder that the OSA was never about safeguarding kids from seeing porn.
Are the government seriously worried about a child being exposed to Break Stuff or So What?
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
(NOTE: Any links to politician tweets in this comment are from Nitter mirrors, not direct links to Elon Musk’s nazi bar.)
The Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, pretty much called Nigel Farage a paedophile in a news network interview earlier today because he opposed the Online Safety Act, by saying he’s on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. He then went to Twitter and doubled-down on this stance, amid a lot of fury.
For context, the Online Safety Act has been used to censor and age-gate anything and everything deemed “illegal content” under Ofcom guidelines, else risk getting fined up to 10% of your annual global revenue. This includes anything related to illegal immigration and people-smuggling. Twitter had genuinely been forced to censor all coverage around anti-asylum seeker protests behind age verification requirements.
Zia Yusuf (head of Reform’s DOGE division, yes they’re ripping off Trump and Elon Musk) had this to say about the OSA on Twitter:
Britain is now a country which you can enter illegally without ID, but need photo ID to watch a protest against people entering without ID.
Let that sink in.
Labour have fucked up so catastrophically hard with how they’ve handled this legislation, that they’ve straight-up generated bipartisan sympathy for the leaders of a right-wing populist party - who are the only political force that have vowed to repeal the legislation because it is being used for mass surveillance and censorship.
If Labour don’t get rid of Keir Starmer, do a full cabinet reshuffle and reverse course, we are going to see a Reform landslide in the next election…
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
Under the guidelines imposed by payment processors which were recently clarified by itch.io, Baldur’s Gate 3 would be banned, as it contains moments of non-consensual sex and bestiality.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
The app is literally called Tea, as in “spilling the tea.”
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Did I state that? No?
You can fuck off.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Let’s say a vile, manipulative, entitled woman went on a Tinder date with a guy. He insists on splitting the bill rather than paying for her food.
She then takes to Tea and her local AWDTSG Facebook group, slanders him with false accusations that he tried to sexually assault her, then posts his Tinder, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn profiles online. Suddenly he’s being ostracized, receiving nasty messages and even loses his job. Things like this have happened before.
Men have had their lives ruined by false allegations before. But opposing the existence of these platforms is “misogyny.”
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Good advice actually. Dating apps have been monopolized and enshittified by the same two or three parent companies in recent years.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
They also said they deleted IDs once users were verified. The breach proved that to be an outright lie.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Tea is the offshoot of all those “Are We Dating The Same Guy” Facebook groups where ladies talk shit, slander and creep-shame guys they went on dates with.
Part of me wants to celebrate this breach because damn those groups are toxic a f. But also, it’s a textbook argument for why mandatory age verification laws need to be abolished. AWDTSG works as a way to keep women safe when it’s used as intended but there are too many women that will slander men with false allegations purely out of spite.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 2 weeks ago:
Coldplay is like depression in music form, but mild compared to The Fray.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 3 weeks ago:
I am inclined to believe that Krafton are completely in the right, they were not lying about Charlie’s side-hustle, after all. He is genuinely putting his time into producing three different film projects, and there is no way you are going to juggle these with the full time development of a video game sequel…
Krafton also wouldn’t put out a statement like this if it weren’t true, otherwise they’d be getting sued out of their arse.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 4 weeks ago:
AoE III was excellent. It explored new ideas and did it well. As a long time AoE fan who played all of them since the first, AoE II is massively overhyped, and AoE III is unfairly shit on.
AoE2 genuinely had a small competitive scene on Voobly and Gameranger. It was being played as a grassroots esport by dedicated fans even before the HD and DE remasters.
One of the third game’s glaring problems was how poorly balanced it was. IIRC the winning strategy was to play French (who already had overpowered cavalry), rush to the third age and use a particular tech to effectively blockade your opponent’s home city and prevent them from playing anything in their deck.
Even when AoE3’s Definitive Edition came out, fixed a lot of the balance issues and added a bunch of new civs via expansions, the damage was already done and sales were so low that Microsoft cancelled their latest expansion and halted development a few months ago.
Also they were voluntold to do Halo Wars, and they did a good job on it. It’s a good game, and it did an excellent job on console with a controller scheme, which was impressive at the time.
Played the Xbox 360 demo of Halo Wars near its initial release and wasn’t impressed. All I really remember about the game beyond that was how bad the box art looked. I mean those spartans look like they have fucking long giraffe necks.
Gamepad controls and real time strategy just don’t mix. You either make something so mechanically slow that keyboard & mouse would shit all over that control style, or have to bastardize the game mechanics so much that it’s all but fully automated. The only game I’ve seen remotely work as a gamepad RTS is Tooth and Tail.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 4 weeks ago:
And that’s pretty much what Action Palestine did.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 4 weeks ago:
I 100% believe the claim that Microsoft executives mistakenly thought they’ve just nabbed the Donkey Kong IP by acquiring Rare. Definitely seems like something some c-suite ghouls who are totally out of touch with the games industry would believe.
Also, I’m not sure how much of Rare’s downfall was due to Microsoft’s mismanagement or their core talent leaving to form other studios. Maybe a bit of both.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, Age of Empires III was bad, and the last project Ensemble was working on before they got shuttered was a Halo MMO.
Also, Robot Entertainment (the studio that rose from the ashes of Ensemble) were the initial developers of Age of Empires Online, which was P2W slop that 90% of players couldn’t run because Games For Windows LIVE was a buggy crock of shit. And since then they’ve released nothing but Orcs Must Die games.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 4 weeks ago:
Eighteen months ago, I was an advocate for Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard, because I didn’t think anybody could have done a worse job than Bobby Kotick.
Phil Spencer has proven me wrong. This arsehole tried to shut down Tango Gameworks after they literally shadowdropped a critically acclaimed GOTY contender.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 4 weeks ago:
I’m more shocked it hasn’t already happened to Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain or Just Stop Oil.
But I guess blockading motorways and rocking up to art museums dressed like extras from a Wham music video and defacing paintings makes you less of a threat than wanting Netanyahu to stop his genocide of the Palestinian people.
- Comment on Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined 5 weeks ago:
Yup.
Best kart/racer combination in the game is genuinely one of the Bowser ones, due to having the lowest acceleration and highest top speed in the game.
- Comment on Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined 5 weeks ago:
I’ll add some context, as I actually own a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World.
The game is full of “intermission tracks”, where the next race starts at the previous track and you effectively drive to the next track for the first two laps, then complete a single lap of the destination track.
Many people voted Random in online multiplayer instead of picking one of the three interconnecting tracks, because the intermission tracks frankly suck for the most part, and are just straight-line roads. By picking Random, the game would actually pick a completely different course and you’d do a standard 3-lap race, like you would by selecting the course in Time Trial mode.
At least that’s what used to happen, before the latest patch… Now, random actually picks one of the three interconnecting courses, and no longer picks a random course.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 2 months ago:
I’m not a programmer (last time I seriously dabbled into coding was building a website for an A Level Computing project) and I have never personally posted on StackOverflow. In fact, the only StackExchange site I’ve ever been part of was EpicAdvice, a short-lived offshoot that was for World of Warcraft specific questions. But I do have a sibling with a computer science and software engineering background which is how I became aware of the site in the first place.
This isn’t my personal criticism of the site, it’s me echoing the sentiment of the many who have complained about the community across the web.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 2 months ago:
Maybe StackOverflow is dying because its community is full of incredibly toxic, passive-aggressive and hostile basement dwellers who will berate, downvote and lock the threads of anybody who dares ask a programming question.
ChatGPT hammered the final nail in the site’s coffin because it’s now become a tool where you can ask specific programming questions and likely get an answer that isn’t “use the search bar you fucking dipshit. Question closed as off-topic.”
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 months ago:
So they’re wilfully ignoring the EU’s Digital Markets Act and a court-ordered injunction that prevents them from punishing developers for trying to circumvent the use of the App Store for in-app purchases, after one of their execs was caught lying under oath and potentially facing criminal repercussions.
I’m not the biggest fan of Epic Games, but I really want to see this backfire spectacularly. Apple’s business practices are so bad that it makes me want to see Tim Sweeney kick Tim Cook’s ass in court.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 3 months ago:
Aren’t there ways to treat the asbestos and prevent the fibers from becoming airborne and posing a serious risk?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
MRW I get a suspicious message from Nicole, the Fediverse Chick
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 4 months ago:
Ever since Spez took over, Reddit have been incredibly heavy-handed when it comes to enforcing their rules against inciting or glorifying violence, even if such a comment is directed towards people that are objectively hated, like nazis, pedophiles and child murderers. To that I’m not even remotely surprised that you got banned.
Even posting that Nazis deserve to be punched in the face can get you a permanent ban from Reddit…
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 months ago:
Spez has gone so far beyond being a mere cuck. He’s a goddamn cuckasauras.
- Comment on I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay? 5 months ago:
I don’t think you’ll want to risk prison time, especially when you risk being locked up alongside MS-13 gang members.
Trump has agreed a deal with Nayib Bukele that will effectively allow him to deport illegal immigrants of any nationality to El Salvador and transfer US prisoners to their facilities.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
And based on the deal Trump is doing with Bukele, there’s a chance you could end up getting thrown into an El Salvadorian prison and locked up with MS-13 gangbangers.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 6 months ago:
Goodbye and thanks for all the
fishshit, Trudeau - Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 6 months ago:
I hope LegalEagle takes them to the fucking cleaners and sets a precedent for scumbag companies like these who pull off affiliate hijacking and data harvesting.
