Blisterexe
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- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t understand that the motivation is to target kids with ads and influencer content designed to push products, you’re not going to solve anything.
I 100% agree that social media companies are incentivized to make their platforms toxic to children, and that people on those platforms are motivated to exploit them, but immoral people existing is not the problem…
Kids have to have spaces to communicate with each other in order to develop healthy socialization skills.
They don’t have to use social media for that though, not only are third spaces alive and well in many places including much of France (and where I live), chat apps are 100% enough for kids to socialize.
I know that every teen where I live uses instagram to communicate with friends, but only the group/1to1 chats and stories, which are available in chat apps. The main feed(s) never show you things from your friends anyways.
I feel like you are envisioning “chat apps” to mean “text-only”
No, when I think of chat apps I think of signal and discord. Both have a ton of social features, the difference is that there isn’t an algorithm that acts as a vector for harmful bullshit or public profiles. Public rooms are still an issue, but from experience being a tween/teen on those platforms, it’s not even close to being as bad. Said bad actors do not exist in anywhere near the same capacity. Imo the harm of public chat rooms falls under the “parents can handle this” umbrella.
If it was the case that it was just individual actors on the platform causing the harm and not the structure of the platforms incentivizing said harm, then we would see more of this type of thing in real life as well.
I struggle to think of a more complete solution to the harm caused by social media to children than just banning them.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 weeks ago:
Which part do you think I’m lying about?
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 weeks ago:
Most parents either don’t know how to do that, or don’t care enough to stop their kids from using social media, despite how harmful it is for society as a whole, and especially children. Also I know from experience that parental controls can easily be bypassed by a dedicated child. Also since all their friends are on social media, a child can credibly argue that they need to use it to maintain their social life, if social media is banned for under 16’s, then children would have to communicate with normal chat apps.
A propely implemented (as in ZKP verification that gives no information to the service other than the age category) is a good thing in my opinion, because at some point some systemic problems are better served by systemic solutions.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 weeks ago:
Odds are someone would make an open source service that does the age verification that server owners could setup easily, that is, if the verification is done using franceconnect or some Zero Knowledge Proof service.
If it’s ID verfication then it would be awful.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 2 weeks ago:
said older shooters are things like doom and quake, if you played those in your early twenties when they released you’d be nearing retirement, I think it’s a fair descriptor.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it refers to the games that are like those older shooters that old people used to play, I think it works well as a term to distinguish those games from more standard shooters.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 4 weeks ago:
D:
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 4 weeks ago:
Kind of seems like reinventing the wheel to me, given that I, at least, can maintain like 50wpm on my phone. I have a hard time imagining another design that could let me type faster.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 4 weeks ago:
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did I get it right?
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
That new star wars game has a big discount, so that’s something
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Teaser 5 weeks ago:
I’m so hyped man, almost done my steel soul run and I just can’t wait for the DLC. So cool of them to make it free too
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Teaser 5 weeks ago:
wait fr? Where did you see this?
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 5 weeks ago:
true, they do release a lot of games, but given how well stuff like expedition 33 sells I think more focused, unique experiences might be a better strategy
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 5 weeks ago:
It’s funny how every group of developpers that leave ubisoft make peak afterwards, it’s almost as if ubisoft’s management was dogshit
- Comment on Hytale is sending out emails which allow people to register and reserve usernames 1 month ago:
Managed to snag “Blister” which I’m happy about.
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 1 month ago:
But also, for people who do want to use ai, google’s ai is just better. Nano banana is genuinely impressive.
- Comment on Mocked-up images of a new Steam Controller appear, as speculation rises around Valve revealing new gaming hardware this week [Eurogamer] 2 months ago:
Not op, but they have back triggers, better ergonomics (imo), nice button feel and hall effect triggers and joysticks.
Also RGB and usb dongles on some models
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 2 months ago:
If you want to make a review, I could recommend straftat, it’s a pretty simple game, but there’s enough interesting that I think it’d make for an interesting review!
- Comment on Not Commenting Is Commenting [Aftermath] 2 months ago:
How the fuck have tech and game journalists become the most outspoken critics of the trump administration in the media??
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You can skip that btw, hasn’t been necessary for a while
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 2 months ago:
I mean ideally any proposed law would go to referendum if there’s a popular enough petition for or against.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 2 months ago:
Frankly if people are petitioning the government en masse to allow babies to smoke, I think the government should at least seriously consider it. Democracy isn’t just for when Ideas are good.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 2 months ago:
You said yourself you don’t play it, but a lot of people do and don’t want it to change. If you don’t like it, you can play all those other fps games that are way more fun.
- Comment on Preserving Play: How Eden Grew Into the Switch Emulator Everyone’s Talking About (my interview with the devs) 2 months ago:
I assume they don’t mention that it’s a yuzu fork in order to not poke the bear (nintendo).
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 2 months ago:
It doesn’t even let you hide them, smh
- Comment on Fox Recap: A student-built tool that analyzes your browsing habits | The Mozilla Blog 2 months ago:
Before anyone goes “oh my god that’s awful”. It’s an extension. Just don’t install it.
- Comment on Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991) 3 months ago:
I’ve looked into it and it’s really not viable for my usecases, hope it will be soon though!
- Comment on Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991) 3 months ago:
Can’t wait for RISC-V
- Comment on Are there 3 games in the Nokori series? The secons game has a "1/3" on its title 3 months ago:
Maybe that means it’s 1/3 done?
- Comment on Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place 3 months ago:
There’s a few, not too many at the moment because most people just host a 1-person pds.
I can’t find a post I remember seeing with a bunch of them listed, but I can say that I remember that blacksky runs their own pds and relay, and it’s open signup