JackOverlord

@JackOverlord@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a mass exodus of an entire industry is more or less the only thing could work. Other than regulation from the government, but in the past the USA hasn’t really been keen on regulating their previous “free” market.

  As to how much money goes through Steam, consider this: Where I live, most banks only give out Visa cards for free, with alternatives technically available but costing money. So, if you have a bank account in my home country and use a card to pay, it goes through Visa. I’m fairly certain that we aren’t the only country where this is the case. This poses the question: Does enough money flow through Steam for it to even be noticable compared to multiple countries worth of purchases? Maybe? Probably not though. But should enough companies simultaneously decide to stop using them, it’d at least give competitors a chance to take over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That wouldn’t work. Visa and the others don’t care what exactly someone buys on Steam. They’re saying that Valve can’t sell certain things on their store, or they will stop processing payments that go to Steam. Doesn’t matter if you pay for “points” or games directly.

  The only way to get around that would be to remove the option to pay with Visa, etc. from Steam entirely and only accept other forms of payment. This would include physical Steam gift cards that could then be bought with any payment option, but only as long as Visa, etc. don’t start threatening stores that sell those.

  Also, to your last suggestion: I don’t see how that would help. Publishers and developers need to make money somehow and if that involves Visa, etc. at all we’re back to square one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They free review count is also IP based, so for most countries that makes it a daily limit and you can just use a VPN to get around it entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google binning SMS MFA and replacing it with QR codes • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On Android you can use Google Lens or, if you don’t want to use Google products, any random QR code scanner from the Play Store.

  No idea about iPhone as I’ve never owned one, but I’d assume most QR code scanners can do that as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't sleep on Retroachievements, big competition coming to beehaw & RA soon⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I played through Dawn as a kid multiple times. It’s great. It’s what made me play Aria in the first place.

  I’ve tried Bloodstained, but another game release got in the way. Definitely need to give it another go.

  Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll check them out.

  I used RetroArch when I played Aria. Works, has support for Retroachievements built in, is cross platform, and I even got it to where I could save on mobile and have it sync to my PC and vice versa, but I don’t like the interface. I even got to the point where I could theoretically sync the saves to my modded 3DS, but only manually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't sleep on Retroachievements, big competition coming to beehaw & RA soon⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a great website. I used it a couple years ago as an excuse to finally play the predecessor to the first castlevania game I played as a child.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you use beehaw.org as a minecraft seed you get a beehive close to where you spawn. (1.21.3)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can, but just like real bees they lose their stinger when they do and die shortly thereafter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I hear someone say that something is impossible with current technology, I think about my grandma. When she was a kid, only some important people had telephones. Doctors, police, etc.

  In her lifetime we went from that to today, and, since she’s still alive, even further into the future.

  Whenever someone calls something impossible, I think about how far technology will progress in my own lifetime and I know that they’ve got no idea what they’re talking about. (Unless, like you said, it’s against the laws of physics. But sometimes even then I’m not so sure, cause it’s not like we understand those entirely. )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone also using Kagi:

  1. There’s a free tier, so you can try it out as much as you want (technically you only get 100 searches, but as with all free trials you can just make a new account)

  2. There’s a cheaper tier at $5 now, which gets you 300 searches per month. Depending on how much you use it, that might just be enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had heard about the project but thought: What is my data gonna accomplish? I didn’t really pay anything outside the Pokémon games, which they probably have thousands of duplicates of.

  The very last section is what got me. Cause there were like 1-2 games I’ve never seen anyone else play that I did play and after reading the it only takes a couple minutes, if your system is modded, I took my two moved 3DS and send my data.

  Even if there’s nothing new in there, this is a worthy cause.