CileTheSane
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 4 days ago:
The military spent funding researching astral projection. That doesn’t mean it’s a thing.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 4 days ago:
If you think people playing pretend has that strong of an effect on them you might want to avoid the Internet all together. So much stuff on here is significantly worse than Mario jumping on a turtle.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 4 days ago:
Is it? Looks like it’s getting a lot of pushback
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
You could argue that adults should be allowed to commit fake sexual abuse but its still likely not a positive for those who consume it.
Should they be allowed to commit fake physical abuse? There are a lot of “violent” video games out there as well.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
I asked that people be as passionate for things I’ve mentioned.
No, you didn’t. You’ve bombarded them with a long list of “whatabouts” that is only going to exhaust them, not move them to action.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
It’s odd how so many are quick to add their personal interpretations.
Right, it’s not like that’s what you immediately did in your first comment.
You also didn’t answer the question as to how many of those causes you called your representatives about.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
First they came for the porn…
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
gestures at the rest of the thread
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
The person who made the image had a cause they cared about and did something about it. If you care about those causes you should absolutely do the same.
Otherwise you just sound like you’re lashing out at people who are doing something about something, while you are doing nothing about anything.
By the way, how many of those causes have you called your representative about?
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
Others too
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
Oh no! All the real issues would hang been solved if only I hadn’t taken 5 whole minutes to sign a petition for SKG!
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
So you don’t have any empathy?
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
Bill Gates could say that he “spread riches among the poor”
Not if he gave $1 million to one person, then took it away and have it to someone else.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
“it’s against my religion to eat fish.”
“Okay, then don’t eat fish.”
“It’s against my religion for you to eat fish”
“Fuck off.”
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
I said spread, not share. One would not consider peanut butter spread on bread if you put it in one glob and then picked up and moved the glob somewhere else.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
Could you spread all then empathy across everyone evenly, and then increase it by about 10%?
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
So what useful action can I take to push back against this censorship?
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
So what do I, a common shlub, do to resist this? Boycott Steam and itch.io until they reinstate the games?
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 1 week ago:
Well I think you’re old enough now to learn that not everything that gets created will be in the exact format that you specifically prefer. Some things will be made with other people in mind as the target audience and if you want to enjoy it you’ll have to engage with it in a way different from your own personal preference. It’s all part of being a grown up.
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 1 week ago:
Why post it to youtube in that case?
“Why isn’t this text?”
YouTube has more accessibility and reach.
“Then why isn’t it an audio file?!?!?!”
Fucking what? You seem to just be upset that this exists in a way people will access.
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 1 week ago:
-Written in text, in a long thread full of text
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
I personally feel no need to get sponser block because:
- The sponsership is not annoying as fuck.
- I can fast forward through it.
Everything the ads do to force you to pay attention it to (like not being able to fast forward) makes it easier for ad blockers to detect and block.
Everything the ads do to demand your attention (by being annoying as fuck) drives people to block them. - Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
The turning point for me is when banner ads added sounds. I would tolerate and ignore the flashing lights and the fake “games”, but then I encountered one that any time my mouse went over top of it an emoji screamed “HELOOOOOOOOO!!!” at me and I couldn’t download an ad blocker fast enough.
It’s never enough for these assholes unless they have all of your attention all of the time.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
This is easily solved by not using 3rd parties and tracking data for ads. If the ad was just part of the page (similar to an ad in the newspaper) then ad blockers would not be able to detect them at all. A YouTuber saying “before we get started, this video is sponsored by [relevant related company]” does not get blocked by ad blockers.
However, in order to do that websites would be responsible for the ads they display. If they don’t do their due diligence they won’t be able to pass it off as “we’re not responsible for it, it’s our ad company that put it there.” They don’t want to be responsible for the ads they show, but they want you to be responsible for the ads you don’t watch.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Advertisers will always keep pushing things trying to find the limit where people will just barely tolerate it. Then when they push it too far they cry “no fair!” When people stop putting up with it.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
-sees traffic moving down the road with no accidents
“Is this Mad Max?”
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
your “example” is a bad faith gotcha based on an insane hypothetical.
This you?
you somehow think that if someone is doing 90 in a 55 and hits someone actually doing 55 that it was the normal person’s fault.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
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calls random people assholes and psychopaths with little to no provocation
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claims other people lack empathy and consideration
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- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
If you’re argument requires everyone on the road to be a psychopath you might want to reconsider it.
You also haven’t been listening, perhaps you’re too busy ranting about “psychopaths” to pay attention: I’ve already said if someone is doing the speed limit and gets hit it is the fault the person speeding. However, I’d much rather not be in an accident at all than “be right” and not the person at fault.
I’m saying nobody needs to be doing more than the speed limit.
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that’s not what you’ve been saying. You’ve been repeating “slower is safer” over and over and it was trivial to provide an example that made that argument absurd and untrue.
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that statement is making a lot of assumptions. The primary one being that the speed limit is set accurately and appropriately. Again, if some politician decided “in the name of safety” to change the speed limit on the highway to 10 would you be arguing against increasing it because “nobody needs be doing more than the speed limit”? Would the people doing 20 on the highways now be psychopaths because the sign on the side of the road changed?
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- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
You’re in the wrong argument.
Looks like you’re in the wrong argument. The person I was replying to has repeatedly been saying “going slower is safer” and that is what I replied to. It was trivially easily to provide an example where “going slower” is 1) absurd and 2) more dangerous.
If that is not their argument then they need to stop repeating it as if it is and say their actual argument.