ICastFist
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- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 days ago:
As long as companies can keep pumping shitty, almost entirely closed off android phones that cost less than 200 dollars for consumers (selling hardware at a loss while making up for data harvesting and sale), “linux mobile” will be just another meme along with “year of the linux desktop”
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 days ago:
When you think about it, most of the work of catching criminals (or gathering evidence) involves invasion of privacy, I guess it becomes a question of how much we’re willing to part with
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 5 days ago:
He’d probably have to have a dedicated video hosting site, not unlike GameTrailers and similars from the very early 2010s
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 6 days ago:
Gambling between two people or very small groups is mostly ok and something humans have done since cave times.
Now, because real life has profit seeking corporations in control of gambling that know and abuse all psychological tricks available to maximize profits, I don’t think allowing them to exist is good for anyone except the owners. Casinos are also perfect for money laundering, so that’s another reason to not allow them to function, although with the internet they can just pick and choose a country to exist in.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 6 days ago:
It’s happening due to a big child sexualization/adultization scandal that took forever to blow up^[While instagram itself has some “moderation”, they’ll happily turn a blind eye to anything that could hurt engagement. 10yo girls doing extremely sexual dances with pornographic music in the background? Boost that shit, look at the engagement!!! Tiktok is equally at fault for the same reason. This shit has been going for years and predates Hytalo and Felca.]. When the deputies came up with a law that was ready and just sitting in a drawer, my mind immediately went “Oh, fuck”. I still gotta read it, because it was approved recently.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 6 days ago:
From my small understanding, usenet was like several forums loosely connected to one another, many servers are used mainly for filesharing. Every time I’ve checked some servers, all of them had a paywall to create an account.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 6 days ago:
Not all bans are bad or hurt law abiding citizens. Slavery and gambling come to mind, both still exist illegally (or, in the case of gambling, semi-legally, what with the deluge of sports betting and online casinos HQd in shitty countries), but I would say them being illegal is a net positive for society.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 6 days ago:
My vote is smoke screen, lots of nasty stuff can fly under the radar with all this talk on porn, vpn and privacy rights
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 6 days ago:
Sounds like the bitchy ass dogg became the new anti-drug mascot:
“Drugs will make you so dumb you’ll get scared of children asking questions”I mean, adoption? Wuzzat??? Izzit possibl???
- Comment on Google is killing the open web 1 week ago:
It goes back before AMP, according to the article. It also briefly lists several other attempts to fuck the general web standardization in favor of whatever the fuck they want, including two I wasn’t aware: deprecating XSLT and SMIL
- Comment on monthly challenge 1 week ago:
If I get paid, fuck yeah I’m on it!
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
they’re pretty useful and neat in some contexts, also super easy, caret + brackets:
caret after a word^[and all text in the brackets goes in the footnote] - Comment on Byeeeeeee 2 weeks ago:
The horseshoe crab denied evolution, so we’ve begun to forcefully take their blood sacrifice instead
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 weeks ago:
Well, “the market” has failed, but it’ll obviously use this as an excuse to further remove regulations, especially in regards to running old power plants fueled by coal and other fossil fuels
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 weeks ago:
Of course it’s a plant, it’s 100% vegetarian!
- Comment on Debatable 2 weeks ago:
lol, kids these days and their stupid tastes, amirite?
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
I did try to get a nephew to play pokemon fire red (emulated on a tablet), he found it really boring 😅
Gotta think of another game that plays fine on a tablet and maybe isn’t as boring
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
As for games, my partner does not allow gaming at all.
Weird. Do they hate videogames in general or what? Because a number of games can teach “choices have consequences” really well. Maybe put them to play Outer Wilds, I hear it’s one hell of an experience to dive into without knowing anything
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
those Rock and Roll frogs.
Battletoads?
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
There are plenty of games up to the PS3 era that every kid would do well to play at least once. Stuff that is objectively good, that aged well, or close enough.
The problem, as I see it, is that if they get too used to mobile games, they won’t have the patience for typical console or PC games, because those, on average, aren’t dopamine dispensers and won’t be rewarding every second click or button press - more importantly, they should NOT nag the player with cash shops.
Also important: limit the amount of games available - this is valid both for current and retro games. The moment you have “all the games” at your disposal, several things kick in: analysis paralysis, appeal to familiarity (will only play what you already know or someone knows), seeing no value in the games^[If, when you were small, you only had a limited selection of games, which was common during the cartridge era, you would be very careful with choosing new games to ask your parents to buy, though renting was an option to see which ones were good or not. You had to make do with the little you had. When you got bored with one, you either looked through your collection and played something else, or did something else entirely; you never threw away a game (unless it really sucked) and you never got a new game on a whim. That is good.].
Others mentioned the social aspect, which is true as well and something they just can’t experience nowadays anymore. Minecraft and Roblox are famous because they’re easy for kids to pick and play with friends. Back in our days, we had to physically sit beside one another and play together, or pass the controller on death; we also physically lent and traded games, so the games also had value within our little social circles. While fully digital games are extremely convenient, the “scarcity” gave them a social value that they completely lack today and which I suppose boardgames now fill out (yes, you can play them online, but playing on an actual table is almost always better)
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
4 CDs of text to be read!! Though I’ll gladly replay the 2 CDs of Chrono Cross for the beautiful graphics, music and characters.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
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thanks for making me lose the game 😠
- Comment on Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK 2 weeks ago:
“Sorry, we’re too busy licensing CPU architecture for 99% of all phones to bother”
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 weeks ago:
Batman only hurts bad people when it is necessary
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- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 weeks ago:
My guess is that anyone who knows/understands batman would look at the plan and discard it immediately. He’s great at planning, but can take longer to figure something out when things don’t go according to plan or are unexpected - no wonder the joker is his nemesis, he’s too chaotic. Come to think of it, the anti-batman plan might be “call the joker”
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Or throw AI at it, because that will work super well
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
It probably reduces the chance of male workers telling them to fuck off. Or the higher ups hire those so they can sexually harass them
- Comment on Chex Quest 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 weeks ago:
Sounds more like a cold couple of minutes, but I’m not good at math
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 3 weeks ago:
Only one way to find out!
