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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate your message at the end :) One of the things I appreciate about lemmy is the conversations are not assumed adversarial like they are on most socials.

  I see what you’re saying, and I agree microtransactions deserve to burn in hell. I also realize that people have an issue with realizing an addiction, even their own, and even when they’re “aware” of it. I don’t want to point the finger at other larger societal issues as a default strategy, but we do have hard evidence from other countries where these issues get caught earlier because of public campaigns combating the stigma around such problems in tandem with the social safety net required to truly fix them.

  I don’t think gambling is good, I’m not even fully convinced that the csgo cases should persist, and my intent is not to convince you they should. My stance is purely philosophical/logical in the sense that limitations should not be placed on the public with the sole justification of protecting a subset, especially children, since it is the parents’ entire role as guardian to protect them from the hardships in life. I’m sure I’m ignoring the nuance in my stance by saying that, but the general idea is there; something being bad for some people should not be the only reason nobody can have it, and that goes for drugs, art, communication, bed times, expression, etc. I know they’re problems worth protecting the affected subsets from, but legislative blanket bans are not the correct tool.

  Glad to hear all is well, by the way. Addiction is a hell of a disease and gambling especially can have quite the blast radius. I hope you don’t see me as an enemy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good you’re consistent in your beliefs.

  I don’t believe things should be illegal only because a subset of the population cannot handle themselves. I’m sorry to hear about what happened to your brother, that really sucks and I’ve seen it first hand; I know it’s devastating and I’ve felt the anger towards the beneficiary of such products. It’s a thin line to walk, though, because what happens to the rest of the population that has no issue with it? I’ve found myself addicted to weed before, and it’s had a meaningful impact on my life going so far as to dropping out of school because I wouldn’t allow myself to drive to class while high and I had bad priorities. That, though, is not grounds for everyone else that can handle themselves responsibly to be prohibited from that. With Pokemon cards I see the same problem, I don’t think irresponsible parents are sufficient grounds for regulating what the rest of the public can and cannot do. It is the exact rationale used to require age verifications online, in the OS, and a growing number of other places. In my other comment on this thread I talk about it a bit more.

  TL;DR, I empathize with you and your brother. Having said that, the weaknesses of a few should not dictate the liberties of the whole. A much better and proven effective method would be social measures like public, free, and well-researched rehab and safety nets to prevent the effects of gambling addictions from ravaging the lives of those affected and their loved ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m getting pretty tired of the “everyone must pay the price to protect kids”

  Why are kids able to access adult sites without ID? Everyone must prove they’re an adult online to read books with adult themes. Why are kids able to use installed applications that could have some forbidden social features? Everyone must prove their age to their operating system to use an electronic device. Why are kids able to access alcohol at their homes? Adults should have to keep their legally purchased alcohol at government approved holding facilities, where they may take a drink after proving their age. Why are kids allowed to stay out after curfew? Everyone must wear a shirt with their name, address, and birthdate printed after 11pm on week nights.

  This is a new trend in law and we need to stop getting tricked into allowing it. It is the parent’s responsibility to be aware of what their child is doing and either allow or prevent it. I don’t want parents spying on their kids and think there’s an element of trust for sure, but I’d much rather have the parents spying on kids than the government and their contractors spying on EVERYONE. It’s ridiculous and infringes on rights established through rigid SCOTUS precedent including Stanley V. Georgia, and NAACP V. Alabama.

  We’re a bunch of pansies now that lick the boot with ID verifications online in red states and OS-level requirements in the blue ones. The internet and all of its offspring are not meant for children’s unsupervised use, but it isn’t the public’s responsibility to bear the burden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You drew a really strong link between what EA did and what Valve does, and that gives me the idea that you build your stance on that. EA lootboxes gave you nothing of monetary value, whereas that’s objectively untrue with valve.

  You can say that the items are virtual so they’re not really valuable, but you can say the same thing about baseball cards in a sense; they provide no tangible value, only monetary value from sentiment, which is either real and applies to virtual items equally, or it isn’t in which collectable cards are in the same camp as weapon skins.

  EA’s lootboxes gave items that could not be transferred, that’s also different from csgo boxes.

  EA’s lootboxes locked core gameplay content behind them, and went so far as to reduce the playtime of people without them because the contents of the boxes were so overpowered making them a must have. I don’t recall ever having a noticeably worse experience playing CS because I didn’t have a skin, and I’m not already $60 in on the game y’know?

  I agree that kids should not be able to buy cases unsupervised, and parents should be aware that this exists. But I also think that about pokemon and baseball and MTG cards as well, for the exact same reason.

  I know I’ve done a lot of writing, so to summarize I’m not convinced by your logic. I believe CS cases are much closer to opening a pack of cards than you’re giving them credit for, and I think they’re an entirely different product than EA’s infamous lootboxes for a number of reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve cut down on that by only giving it tasks that are reviewed automatically.

  “Spit this into a json”

  It gives me the code, I continue with my program knowing exactly what is where in the json and if I get a parsing error or something I know exactly where to look. TBH, though, for things like that I must have an error rate lower than 5%

  Ask it to configure a reverse proxy for a cors sensitive application, though, and I think I’d rather die

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. AI 100% makes me more productive and by a good bit. I used it to write a section of code today to export all the information my program gathers about a system to a json file. Woulda taken me 20 minutes but chatgpt did it in seconds.

  It also, in the same snippet, introduced a breaking change I didn’t ask for in the original code. I only copied the json part; I just happened to notice the change in the code it wrong. It added a fork bomb lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you write code?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check mate, atheists. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of science is reproducible events, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kernel modules can be installed, loaded, and run without a reboot in Linux. TPM support would just ensure that the firmware/kernel and modules loaded at boot are expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Apparently I didn’t even read the headline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  USA Jr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Natural selection at work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Homie the second character evolves into a deer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bigfuckingmistake.elf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, because the left wing is famous for the proliferation of requiring a government issued ID to use the internet in ways that make them uncomfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon witnesses excellent security⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in these meetings and you’re on the money. Insurance (the concept, not necessarily the product) is almost always the reason any time you see some stupid policy.

  When I was young and naive I thought the technologically correct way to do things was the best. In the business world that’s seldom the case, though.