AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
Going against the parents is impopular and would make the parents vote against you in the next elections.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
Age verification is a great success I see. I feel so much sa#er now with this shit in place so kids can’t watch porn…
- Comment on They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly 5 days ago:
Let me get this straight: She moved from the US to Russia TO ESCAPE RACISM?!?!
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 6 days ago:
Alternatively, you can (probably should) decide to not upload any photo to social media.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Absolutely not, of course. I’m just hoping they try to enforce this so a shitstorm of proportions only seen in the brexit will ensue.
One thing we must acknowledge to these idiots is how much effort they put on showing the world the consequences of extremely stupid acts so the rest don’t have to do it.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
I work from office and i regularly use a vpn at work to connect remotely to devices that are not physically with me. Not to talk about companies that provide remote assistance and use them to connect to their customers devices.
Remote work is just a byproduct of vpns, but not the real reason why you use them at work.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
How many small businesses can afford such permit? Hell, I’d argue that even bigger companies will have a problem paying for that.
Also, what if I just connect to a vps overseas and set my exit point there? Will they ban vps too? This is gonna be so much fun to see from the outside
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Will the next step be banning VPS then? Because that’s what will happen: if you ban VPNs (good luck with that lol), people will just connect to a VPS in a less stupid country and exit from there.
I hope they start looking at TOR too, that should be really fun.
- Comment on Junk Store 2.0 has released 1 week ago:
It might be me, but I don’t use the downvote button as a disagree button. I reserve it for content that’s actually negative, such as spam, ai slop, insults/bigotry… If iI had to downvote every piece of content I don’t like/disagree with in lemmy, I’d pass most of my time here downvoting. You can just ignore what you disagree with.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
While I understand what you are saying, let’s not forget that the people who helped the turd get into power were not just those actively voting for him but also those who didn’t vote because “both sides!!”. That’s not “a minority of the country” but actually the majority of it.
- Comment on Junk Store 2.0 has released 1 week ago:
I think some people use downvotes as a disagree button. They don’t like the idea of paying a sub for a launcher (I too find it stupid but that’s just my opinion) and use the downvote to let the world know instead of commenting or simply ignoring the post.
Don’t take it personally, and please don’t let the downvotes discourage you! Your posts are a breeze of fresh air content in a place where most content is just links to news sites.
- Comment on Junk Store 2.0 has released 1 week ago:
They offer a sub! Ever dreamed of paying monthly to use an alternative launcher that does the same stuff than the already FOSS existing launcher? Now you can! 🤦
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 1 week ago:
39yo here. People never believe i’m more than 30yo. I don’t think it’s a problem, rather something positive because I was lucky with genetics (and also didn’t wasted myself during my 20s).
The one thing I’d tell you about finding a partner is to look for someone who makes you happy. Maybe, other than that, consider where their mind is. I know I could date women under 30 and wouldn’t look physically “weird”, but would we be at the same point when thinking about work, future, family, etc? That’s way more important than looks when it comes to age difference.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
For once I agree with the tangerine mussolini: paying for all copyrighted stuff is not doable, hence I pirate all of it.
- Comment on Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint 2 weeks ago:
Every big name in the videogames industry wants this initiative to fail, but none wants to be the one making it fail.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Damn! No wonder I wasn’t having fun with Ubisoft games lately!
I’ve been pirating their crap out whenever they made a game I wanted to try and, I rarely played past the first hour! Now I see why! Since I was pirating and everything was unlocked for free, I couldn’t enjoy the player experience of spending money in their ingame store!
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
Presses X furiously
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I will definitely trust an internet stranger with my face so they can verify that I’m not underage to access content which could, in case of being leaked, damage my reputation or even destroy my life.
DEFINITELY
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 weeks ago:
I agree. Not a good precedent. But in this case, I think there’s a silver lining in that valve is removing shovelware while retaining the capacity of selling adult games.
Although Valve should be the one setting the rules here. And the rule should be that games portraying borderline (or even outright illegal) situations, such as incest, should be banned from the store.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 weeks ago:
Checks the list of removed games
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Krafton plan to delay Subnautica 2 and deny the studio a $250 million bonus 3 weeks ago:
Wow, sounds like one of those games that you should absolutely pirate instead of buying.
- Comment on Just.....why? 4 weeks ago:
My toothbrush is as dumb as it comes. The only smart thing it does is charging itself when I put it in its charger base. And that should be the standard.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 5 weeks ago:
With a little delay (sorry, life kept me busy enough so I couldn’t read this before), I just finished reading. I gotta say this was a rollercoaster.
I love the news parts, as always, since you manage to get a whole week of news compressed in a single article (and without the clickbait ads) that feels fresh and nice to read.
But knowing the kind of ordeal you are dealing with is heartbreaking. First and foremost, your health comes first. If you need to take a pause from this, you don’t have to apologize, it’s the right thing to do so go ahead and do it. I’m really sorry to hear about all you are going through, I hope you get to feel better soon!! Best wishes from an user who is clearly human!
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 1 month ago:
Tbf, I hope nintendo keeps going this route and punishing more and more its customers. After all, if you keep supporting a company that hates you so much, you deserve what you get.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 1 month ago:
As a general rule, if a corpo is against something the EU does, it means your government should do it too because it’s a good thing.
- Comment on As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys 1 month ago:
Whatever could go wrong?
A kitchen toy that tells the kid to prepare a pizza using glue mixed with the mozzarella?
- Comment on Organised crime and murder: top Inter and AC Milan ultras imprisoned 1 month ago:
As an accused, it’s your choice to go with this or the traditional process. And there are advantages for you if you decide to go with it instead of the traditional process: for example, if you are condemned, the sentence will be 1/3 shorter.
This is chosen by the accused when the evidence against them is so clear that they know they will be surely condemned.
It’s a win-win situation because the justice system saves time and money and the accused gets a shorter sentence.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 month ago:
Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It’s basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 1 month ago:
Oh that’s so kind of you to say! I have to say, I’ve been pretty down about it all, but writing this up made me so very happy. I really love Lemmy for how easy it is to share these long-form posts :)
Happy to read this (the part about writing this making you happy I mean!!).
Lemmy is great for sharing long posts, much like reddit was before the enshitification. It’s good to see long elaborated posts here among all the memes and other low effort content. And in the case of your posts, they are also a nice read in my mornings because of all the possitivity and joy you can feel when reading them. You really pour a lot of that in your posts and it feels!
Sounds wonderful, I’m looking this up now! It sure sounds weird, but the longer the gaming industry runs and ruins great things, these odd little different ones just make me happy!
I love “'weird” or unconventional games. And right now, it’s the indie world that provides these gems. In an industry that looks for the short-term profit like the “mainstream” videogame one, they rarely innovate anymore. They just pick a formula that works and copy it until they find a more profitable one, so innovation now happens mostly in the indie world, giving birth to games as odd as this one, a yo-yo player bat that goes around a city beating corpo suits to recover a monopoly! You won’t see EA making this kind of game, ever.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 1 month ago:
I was waiting for this post, thank you! Since I discovered this “series” I’ve been hooked. It’s nice to read some long content in a non clickbaity way (that seems to be the norm in the industry nowadays).
I’m really sorry about your nerve damage and hope you recover as soon as possible!
As for what I’ve been playing, right now I’m going through Blasphemous 2 (i loved the first one too) and a nice surprise: Pippistrello and the cursed yo-yo. A zelda-like adventure in which you play as a bat with a yo-yo fighting industry magnates to help your aunt recover the monopoly on energy she built to keep a grip on the city (I know! The setting is original, to say the least).
The gameplay makes you think of 2d zelda games, but the yo-yo makes combat (and even movement) a completely different thing of other games, I suggest you to try the demo!!