jsomae
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- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 1 day ago:
I’ve never tried it either. It would be kind of an asshole thing to do. Torrenting only works because everyone contributes their fair share.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 1 day ago:
hm, if you set your seed ratio to 0, maybe not though
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 1 day ago:
Is this true? You actually have to seed in order to download?
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 day ago:
basically foss e2e encrypted discord. element.io
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 day ago:
element isn’t bad tbh. I’ve been using it lately, and it’s actually caught up a lot.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 2 days ago:
My area has around 3 or 4 competing ISPs.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 2 days ago:
I’m not aware of any way they can catch you with a VPN.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 2 days ago:
I think they can also catch you seeding it.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 days ago:
I don’t see how that is related to the comment you’re replying to. Discord’s policies permit 14yo’s.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 days ago:
I mean… do you use discord? Maybe we use different servers. Some of the servers I’m in definitely have younger people in them of that age. Friends of my friends are of that age on discord even. And my partner’s younger sister was on discord at that age. IDK I don’t have a research article proving that people I have personally interacted with exist, sorry.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 days ago:
idk but 14-year-olds do.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 days ago:
are 14-yo’s not minors…?
- Comment on What is this called? 4 days ago:
beautiful
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 5 days ago:
Everything deserves a finale, rather than to be cancelled. Discovery was not worth it though.
- Comment on Happy Easter from the POTUS 6 days ago:
Could not tell if this is fake or not. Saying they’re bigger than Jesus is something famous popular people do all the time.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 6 days ago:
I believe in some jurisdictions it is in some circumstances a crime, yes.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 6 days ago:
Right, it’s the fact that melee does no damage in Doom Eternal which I find aggravating. It worked just fine in 2016 as a last resort. They clearly removed its ability to deal any damage in order to force the player to engage with the flamethrower mechanic, which provides ammo (and also does no damage). It seems to me like clumsy design – it achieves the desired gameplay loop, but in the most heavy-handed way imaginable. Fun gameplay loop sure, but zero effort to justify it with what’s happening visually on screen.
I did enjoy the combat ballet though; in particular, it was fun to be always switching weapons. I just found myself often shaking my head because it’s so contrived how it’s implemented specifically. I’m sure most people didn’t care, but it did pull me out of it.
Also, I couldn’t understand the plot in Eternal whatsoever. Am I supposed to be saving Earth? It sure doesn’t feel like Doom Guy gives a damn. He’s just there to do some kind of prophecy I didn’t really find myself pulled into. In contrast, 2016 is punctuated sporadically by plot points I at least understood and felt some amount of motivation for. Take, for instance, the scene where Mr. Glados says “don’t dismantle the power generator things! They’re really expensive!” And Doom Guy is like: “IDGAF. Demons bad.” Best scene in the whole franchise if you ask me. (I’ll admit, some of the dialogue moments that lock you into a room are way too long though.)
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 1 week ago:
NGL I would love to see Nintendo give Luigi Mario a rocket launcher.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 1 week ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but as I recall, melee combat worked very differently and much more intuitively in 2016. It’s always there in case you run out of ammo.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 1 week ago:
Agreed about the story. What I didn’t like in DE was the transparently arbitrary gameplay loop. You can’t punch enemies to death anymore, and your flamethrower instead of doing damage causes… items to appear. All are obviously in service of a gameplay loop, but they are terribly contrived. I wouldn’t say I go into Doom for immersion, but c’mon.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 1 week ago:
I liked this game better than Doom Eternal
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 week ago:
If there were an entirely separate kids internet, which only kids can use (and it requires some sort of proof-of-being-a-kid to use the kids’ internet, but not the adults’ internet), what would you think of that idea? (Actual implementation would not be exactly like that of course, more like individual websites would offer kids’ versions separately.)
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
I hardly use nor see reaction gifs on discord, though the emoji UI/UX is a big deal. (I think the gif system they use has an open API though, so it could be added to other platforms…)
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
Oh, I suppose. My experience with mumble is 12 years out of date, but I recall that you generally plan to use Mumble in advance rather than contact somebody through mumble.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 week ago:
That policy is not for minors, since it permits teenagers.
It’s 100% the parents’ responsibility to ensure their kids use the internet safely.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 week ago:
no minors
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 week ago:
changing the policy would be a place to start.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
history/persistance is the problem; I don’t think anyone seriously cares about inline GIFs.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
that’s audio chat. Discord I mostly use for text.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 week ago:
Their policy allows minors to use the app; maybe it shouldn’t?