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- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 7 hours ago:
Cali is a hit or miss, the Cali privacy reg has been so watered down compared to the GDPR it feels like the ad industry got it in to prevent future harsher regulations.
- Comment on Palworld will not change to free to play model, dev claims [VGC] 18 hours ago:
How can this GaaS thing be sooo profitable and also such bad press that even mentioning it results in a “sorry we didn’t mean that” article?
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 20 hours ago:
It seems the EU is moving on this issue with their usual tectonic speed.
dailywrap.ca/video-game-giants-face-eu-scrutiny-o…
Let’s hope they also hit with their usual tectonic force.
- Comment on An Ubisoft investor wants to dethrone Ubisoft's founders so Ubisoft can lay more developers off 5 days ago:
Investors are also terminally stupid,
Also, they are mostly bots.
- Comment on Redirect to prevent back button 6 days ago:
They also get paid off of this, the advertiser pays for those impressions.
Advertisers can’t switch because they can’t not be present on big platforms. The whole ad industry is just companies scamming each other and the consumer.
- Comment on Redirect to prevent back button 6 days ago:
News websites get revenue via ads. This makes people load the same page again, loading the ads again.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold 1 week ago:
Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.
- Comment on Anon wants to go to Nuuk 1 week ago:
We went on holiday in Iceland, the place where we slept one night had the nearest gas station 160 km away, the nearest grocery store at more than 300 km. I loved it for a few weeks, but I would not move there.
Better not forget the eggs.
- Comment on Stupid ass star 2 weeks ago:
I’m happy at least the Sun has time to rest at night, it would be so hard to keep shining all day
- Comment on Veggitale facts 2 weeks ago:
I would just like to point out that it can still get so, so much worse.
- Comment on Greedfall 2 developers call a strike over working conditions, lack of gender equality and parity, and “global mismanagement” 2 weeks ago:
Ironic for the name of the game
- Comment on YouTube Survey 2 weeks ago:
Outsourced to Asia, and you get phone pranks the quality of Jian Yang from Silicon Valley.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 weeks ago:
Jobs disappeared, most people got other jobs, some better, most worse and the unluckiest starved.
What happened is that people started to stay longer in school, agricultural labour withered, and with it, kids having to work the fields at a very young age. People became more educated, resulting in more democratic societies, more equality, and a higher standard of living.
This was not because of the machine looms and steam engines, but because greedy fucks used them to put people in a position where they had no choice but to push back, and that labour action created unions, five-day work weeks, 8-hour days, paid time off for sickness and leisure, and pretty much everything we take for granted.
- Comment on What are some good flight simulator games? 3 weeks ago:
DCS has combat oriented stuff but I don’t know if it has actual missions to use the weapons.
DCS literally stands for Digital Combat Simulator, it’s a combat sim all right. The thing though is that it has a very high difficulty curve, and it’s more of a thinking game than an action one, you spend minutes setting up ground attack shots and even dogfighting is more about thinking and energy retention and stuff instead of twitchy reflex stuff.
The free DCS module is actually a pretty good one to start with, but mind the difficulty curve. While Ace Combat is like “missile incoming, turn sharp to dodge”, DCS is “boom - you’re dead”. At least in the campaign, set up the plane to drop flares constantly and stay above 4000.
- Comment on U.K. might follow Europe in fining employers who message staff after-hours 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, why would my boss even have my phone number? There are corpo comm systems for corpo business.
In some companies I’ve worked at, it was even illegal to text each other outside said corpo systems. It made a lot of things clean and easy.
- Comment on U.K. might follow Europe in fining employers who message staff after-hours 3 weeks ago:
In a lot of places that would let you claim overtime pay for all that time.
- Comment on The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell 3 weeks ago:
Nah, we should have different days off, duh. Let me have Wednesdays off, some peeps can have Fridays.
Actually, I would prefer to have weekdays off instead of weekends, easier to focus with less people at work.
- Comment on We now know that Borderlands 4 is a Borderlands game with 4 at the end, coming 2025 3 weeks ago:
It already is, that movie was worse than not making it.
- Comment on Perspective 3 weeks ago:
Some countries use YYYY MM DD which is also sane.
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes [BBC] 4 weeks ago:
“I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.
"This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.
What game is this even? I mean, why would any game need a graphic rape scene? Who is this going to sell to?
Don’t video games outside of Japan try to avoid getting AO rated any more?
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 4 weeks ago:
It’s a mixed bag. Some ads are bundled and filtered, but most actually rely on external requests to ad exchanges. What happens mostly is that when there is an ad spot in the page you downloaded, that is in fact a generic request to an ad broker to send an ad instead of a specific ad. That then starts a real time bidding process inside multiple broker networks to find the most expensive (for the advertiser) ad they can show you based on your tracking information and demographics.
And that’s for every ad spot. It’s insanely intricate and frankly wasteful.
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 5 weeks ago:
At this point, using Firefox and an ad blocker does more for the climate than paper straws or recycling.
Even with ad blocking, half of consumer internet traffic is ads. Google is contributing to increasing this ratio, where most traffic on the internet will be stuff the client did not request, contributing more to climate change than Bitcoin - not that this makes crypto look better, they are just a useful milestone to compare to with the press they get.
And this doesn’t include the idiotic AI shit they do.
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 5 weeks ago:
same logic
That’s the point, it isn’t. The good old version was built on logic where the browser would send the downloaded webpage to the extension, and uBO could weed out ads and trackers, and give you the sanitized version. uBOL works completely differently, as it has to ask the browser to clean it out, but the browser will ultimately decide what to actually do, and there are already limitations that impact ad blocking, as the browser won’t accept enough changes to block all the different kinds of shit that comes through.
The other big difference in logic is distribution, uBO relies on outside blocklists to keep up with Google changing Youtube several times a day to keep sending you malware, in the new system, this is not allowed, so it’s on Google to approve a new blocklist as fast as they do their changes - they won’t.
It’s going to be less capable, it’s going to be exactly as capable as Google wants. It might as well be named the Google Ad Blocker if only that didn’t discount the insane work the uBO team does to keep up with Google’s shit.
- Comment on Climate Change Warriers 5 weeks ago:
The French hate the French, so we should be like the French
- Comment on Russia legalizes Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining 5 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you are sarcastic
- Comment on Introducing you to the next Bond 5 weeks ago:
Bond… Jusuf Bond.
- Comment on Oregonian driving 5 weeks ago:
Weaving is not moving properly though either. Speeding and weaving through traffic is public endangerment where I live. We have a very good road safety record as well.
- Comment on Oregonian driving 5 weeks ago:
I assume that’s the law pretty much everywhere. That said, most of my troubles have been with people who speed by a lot and weave through traffic. Slower cars are less of a problem because while it might be the same speed difference, I see them much better and they usually don’t switch lanes erratically.
That said, I like traffic where I live now, because speeding 15% will get your license suspended, 30% will get you into jail. Traffic tends to be speedy, but coherent, everyone drives around the limit.
- Comment on Oregonian driving 5 weeks ago:
Ok, so hear me out, what if instead of treating it as a race, fight or other expression of competition, we would just treat driving as a way to get from point A to point B? Speeding on a highway is a great example of diminishing returns coupled with high risk, so why not just enjoy the ride and sit back for a moment?
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 5 weeks ago:
Not almost monopoly.
Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,
- the US govt