evilcultist

@evilcultist@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there could be reasons a government/people would want loot boxes to be not allowed that don’t relate to gambling and/or kids. I know there were some people that said “think of the kids!” when the discussion was going on, but my point is that there may not be direct overlap because the implementation and its effects are greater than simply disabling the ability to buy loot boxes in a particular region.

  The loot box issue is more like telling a vape company that they can sell oils as long as they don’t contain THC. This issue is more like saying, “You can sell the THC oils in any market or store, but every market and store in the country must check every item every user wants to buy for the presence of THC by to sending an image of that product to an AI that will tell you whether or not the user needs an age check to buy the item. If they do, the user cannot buy the item unless you take a photo of the user’s ID and send it to some random company that will use the photo to verify the user is allowed to use THC.”

  It’s an entirely higher level of complication and risk, so I’d excuse the “think of the kids” people that went after loot boxes in this particular case. But I’d also be curious about how much “think of the kids” overlap there is anyway.

  I didn’t mention any other cases because I didn’t know which specific issues you were referencing other than loot boxes. I wasn’t sure which social media content you were referring to, but you can imagine how I’d view it if it’s something like chat control or any other system relying on AI or age verification to control access.

  Also, the lower the taboo of the item being accessed, the more generous I am with these things. I still don’t like it, but no one is going to be ashamed if their love of loot boxes is leaked, for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when you take a break and let someone else deal with it until you’re ready again. Or focus on a different fight and let that one go. You’re irreplaceable, but your participation in that specific fight is not essential.

  I hope you can find a break. I get tired of it, too. Sometimes just not reading the news or social media for a while is enough to recharge. The news and online commentary makes it impossible to even get small breaks that would’ve been common two decades ago and the consumption of it all can be exhausting enough to prevent us from taking any other actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much it has to do with the success and subsequent loss of this operation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield

  Because it seems like a lot of countries in the west are pushing this kind of thing rover the last several years and there’s a heavy push right now. privacyguides.org/…/taylor-lorenz-on-kosa-the-scr…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not downvote but you’re asserting several things that you can’t possibly know. 1. War with China is coming. 2. It will inevitably be nuclear. 3. This is being done to prevent people from protesting when #1 & 2 occur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  None of those other things should require any sort of identity or age verification, though. In the case of loot boxes, government should be able to tell companies, “hey, you can’t sell that here”. In the case of age verification and nudity scanning there’s a whole host of issues from the fact that people don’t find loot boxes to be taboo or embarrassing to the fact that people do find nudity and porn embarrassing, to the fact that any scanning systems will false flag, to questions about who has access to the data that is submitted and how long it is stored, to how easy it could be to misuse the systems to go after disadvantaged groups (we all know LGBT content will intentionally be covered by this, whether they’re open about it or not, right?), to whether or not the system will be used for other purposes that either aren’t being said aloud or won’t be realized until after it’s implemented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every person against this sort of thing that checks out is just giving them less resistance. It sucks to have to deal with it, and it’s a constant fight, but you’re not just fighting for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This, a pen, and coffee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your Pokémon comparison reminds me of something I’ve noticed with gaming. Sometimes the game just has to hit me at the right time, regardless of nostalgia. I’ve had games that I bounced off of multiple times, then years later I decide to give it a go and get sucked in. I’m fairly sure this sometimes happens due to other factors in my life at the time (situations I’m currently experiencing, things I haven’t experienced, etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This, a pen, and coffee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, personally, these games are the closest thing on a computer to a nearly endless sandbox tabletop rpg experience. I don’t like having to do some grand “save the world” narrative that RPGs push you into, and in Skyrim I can avoid it after the intro or mod it out. Then I create characters like a tabletop RPG (I develop a backstory and where I choose to go and what I choose to do is based on the character’s personality in my mind) and essentially play it like it is a solo tabletop game where the engine takes care of a lot of the work.

  I haven’t played in years, though, because I can’t get the same level of immersion as I did when playing for 5 hours straight before having kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some just want money.

  I think this article: theverge.com/…/uk-porn-age-verification-law-mindg…

  Is about pornhub’s parent company trying to lobby in favor of this because it thought it could make money by selling age verification. I read an article saying something to that effect quite some time ago, and I think this is the article, but can’t be sure because it’s requiring a login and the archive site isn’t loading for me at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is heart?!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Barracuda would probably be in Water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scrolling to the right is also slow as hell with this.

  I stopped using the main page and started using the subscriptions page, which still has the smaller icons. I’m using YouTube a lot less, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🧠 🧠 🧠⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my most vivid memories of waking up at night, I looked down towards my feet and there was a dark, spider-shaped shadow about the size of a dachshund. I looked at it for a second, then there was a flurry of movement from its legs as it rushed up towards my face. I jumped out of bed and threw the covers at it, then hit the lights. Nothing was there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do it for utilities. A financial company should not be deciding what its users are allowed to spend their own money except within the confines of law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s Neilty Son?

  • Me
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too hot for that and I don’t think Google should control what people wear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pirate Software "Stop Killing Games" Drama⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like they could just release the server software for the online only games. I’m pretty sure people are reverse engineering it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixing broken Oblivion Remastered difficulty without mods?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  0.286x damage done, 3.5x damage taken. Doesn’t scale well at all. It would be nice if it were more granular and they had separate sliders for damage done and damage taken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrocuting their balls, apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Joan⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so his skull layout is in the shape of a crucifix? Maybe it just means he’s extra holy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Invisible weapons are all the rage these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming has a polarization problem⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  93% vs 77% doesn’t strike me as polarized. 16% difference?

  77% doesn’t even seem that bad if it’s a style of game I like. From about 2001 I used to see sci fi movies that looked interesting as long as they had at least a 25% Rotten Tomatoes score because my tastes were different.

  Is there something I’m missing? I haven’t played either game and I haven’t looked at reviews. Won’t buy KCD (no character creation) and probably will eventually buy Avowed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am from a different millenia⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  X-Files movie soundtrack had m.youtube.com/watch?v=64LNLSpFa-o&pp=ygUybmljayBj…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should have an account creation process like those old RPGs where it asks a series of questions then says, “we recommend this server: <blah>. It is <one short sentence about its content>” then has click next to proceed or click “I want to choose another server” to just get a list.

  1-hate, 5-love Do you like capitalism? Do you like tech? Do you like sports? etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App - MacRumors⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of porn is in this thumbnail!?