QuentinCallaghan
@QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz
- Submitted 2 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 23 comments
- Comment on Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts 5 days ago:
If I remember right, Mastodon and the Fediverse in general isn’t included in this ban. Therefore it’s interesting to see if Australian teens somehow find the Fediverse, starting a rush of new users.
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- Comment on Malaysia says it will ban social media for under-16s from next year 2 weeks ago:
Similar discussion is happening also here in Finland. However, if something will be banned, it has to be clearly defined. What is considered “social media”? Is it platforms like Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat? Does it include messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal? Most of this discourse is also based on works of Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff and Jennifer Twente, all of which have received a fair share of criticism. There is also a considerable amount of a classic moral panic sprinkled in.
Alice Marwick, an academic that has extensively studied kids, technology and social media, was on Taylor Lorenz’s podcast earlier this year. Her organization published a report, where the following is stated:
We strongly believe that reform of social platforms and regulation of technology is needed. We need comprehensive privacy legislation, limits on data collection, interoperability, more granular individual and parental guidance tools, and advertising regulation, among other changes. Offline, young people need spaces to socialize without adults, better mental health care, and funding for parks, libraries, and extracurriculars. But rather than focusing on such solutions, KOSA and similar state bills empower parents rather than young people, do little to curb the worst abuses of technology corporations, and enable an expansion of the rhetoric that is currently used to ban books, eliminate diversity efforts in education, and limit gender affirming and reproductive care. They will eliminate important sources of information for vulnerable teenagers and wipe out anonymity on the social web. While we recognize the regulatory impulse, the forms of child safety legislation currently circulating will not solve the problems they claim to remedy.
Dr. Candice Odgers is also a vocal critic of Haidt, accusing him of cherry picking with a pre-made agenda in mind:
The cross-country comparisons, you know, they’re they’re often a starting point to see whether there might be something interesting correlationally going on, but it’s a very slippery place to start and I think you know, unless you start with the pretty clear hypothesis about what should explain those differences, if you’re just looking at trend lines and then going backwards and starting to fill in an explanation, it’s hard to follow where it goes and whether or not we’re just fitting these lines to our existing theories, but I’ll leave it.
- Comment on So next time you see a rat remember they paid for sex in their previous life. 2 weeks ago:
More sexual… become Cockroach This is hysterical.
- Comment on Game library 3 weeks ago:
And on Switch this happens every time I play Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 41 comments
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- Comment on Valve Reveals New Hardware Lineup: A Controller, Compact Gaming PC, and VR-Ready Headset 4 weeks ago:
At last, there were lots of rumours!
- Interview with Reggie Fils-Aime on Nintendo Switch 2, leadership and the console warwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th 4 weeks ago:
Dang it, I mean Ninja Gaiden Sigma, the original from 2004 was for Xbox only. I have the Master Collection.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th 4 weeks ago:
I have been going the rabbit hole of overclocking and undervolting Nintendo Switch. So the games I have been playing are Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Ninja Gaiden (2004). Thanks to overclocking, the former runs at stable 40 FPS, the latter of course doesn’t need any.
- Submitted 1 month ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on US tech firm Nvidia invests $1bn in Nokia, with sights on next-gen networks for AI 1 month ago:
In the 2000s, Nokia was full of hybris and ignored many trends, such as the iPhone, and things started to go downhill quickly after it switched to Windows Phone in 2011. Had it acted differently, it would have been successful in the phone industry. However, Nokia’s network business has been quite successful, and the dispute with Huawei that you mentioned has increased its popularity. In that sense, the Nvidia deal is a logical continuation.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 month ago:
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- Comment on TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs 1 month ago:
I have to admit that I’m not really familiar with that website. Kotaku on the other hand is a site whose links I never click, unless archived.
- ‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagakiwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Japan’s “worst game ever made” gets official sequel after 30 years. A “disrespectful breath of fresh air” amidst intensifying censorship [Hong Kong 2097]automaton-media.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
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- Comment on You just don't understand 1 month ago:
Johnny Sins has so many professions so he must be doing great regardless of the economic situation!
- Comment on Tomonobu Itagaki, Creator Of Ninja Gaiden And Dead Or Alive, Has Passed Away 1 month ago:
Their styles certainly are similar.
- Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 12th 1 month ago:
Been mostly playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The game is now a decade old, so the timing is good. Of course pirated, as I’ll never give Konami any money.
- Sonic Adventure 2 'Live And Learn' Lawsuit Dismissed, Crush 40 Musician Issues Statementwww.nintendolife.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on when the news hit too spicy 2 months ago:
“Crucify the piss weasel”
