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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I see, didn’t read the second image at first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pull an eyelash or similar, keep it between a specific page and check every time that it’s still there. If someone tampers with the journal it will fall out and they won’t realize it matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account.

  That isn’t really true, I’ve restored access to multiple game accounts before in situations where I lost access to my email, it mostly involved providing information about the account that only the person using it would know, like the names of characters on it and some other stuff. If a company can’t handle this it’s because they don’t want to pay for competent customer support workers and just rely entirely on automated systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a depressing comment section this article has

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They didn't stop to think if they should⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf currently it looks like there is only one mildly AI negative comment, and the rest are joking about absurd anatomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏹🏹🏹⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The joke is they failed to isolate the variable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand why they just put LLMs in direct control of stuff and also reading the public internet without any kind of sandboxing, you’d think this concern would be the main design problem that needs to be worked around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to see more games where the draw is novel and interesting gameplay concepts and proportionally more effort is put into that than standing out visually etc. Hopefully this brings things more in that sort of direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder that Coinbase is the company securing the assets of the majority of government sanctioned/registered crypto ETFs. If you are invested or thinking about being invested in cryptocurrency, but have doubts about the ability of Coinbase to do things in a secure, competent way, consider self custody instead of trusting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to imagine countless instances of this that we never hear about because there just isn’t anything concrete to write a news article about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this also mean that black holes are totally indestructible?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is about taxes funding the FAA, and the implied conclusion of the video isn’t that these taxes should be removed, but that they should be weighted more heavily towards private flights for the sake of fairness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but the key point is the contact with advertising customers, i.e., companies that want to engage in social media marketing. These contacts are only accessible to private individuals if they already have one or multiple successful accounts, which unfortunately only very few of those aspiring to a professional career in this field ever achieve.

  I get the impression that you also generally have to already have a successful account to be considered by agencies, which would defeat the point somewhat of it being a way to get over the initial hurdle. I watch vtubers on Twitch and from what they sometimes say about how sponsorships work, much of it is somewhat automated and gated mainly by account popularity metrics, which makes sense because why would advertisers want to pay a premium to another middleman if they didn’t have to? There was a vtuber agency that collapsed recently when it came out that they were insolvent and had been defrauding many people they worked with along with various other corruption and abuse, and given how similar scandals aren’t uncommon and the need for creators to be doing the work of building themselves up as a business regardless, makes it seem like a pretty bad deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  from whom influential financiers can choose the content and the faces to go with it and pocket the lion’s share.

  How? This kind of doesn’t make sense to me because it seems like some kind of talent manager wouldn’t have a lot to offer in terms of actually increasing someone’s chances of making it big on social media, if it’s a type of content that doesn’t require any special resources to produce and is suited to being made by one person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Props to this article for actually attempting to explain about how 3d graphics worked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am skeptical that most people saying this type of shit really have no concept of the US having freedom of religion and separation of church and state as founding values. They just believe in the rightness of propaganda and catchy ideological phrases above actual truth and reality, because they’ve been conditioned to think that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash wants you to lobby Congress instead of just employing you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the bill they are talking about and what does it do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you could look up instances of electricity usage based marijuana raids in your area, and if they list the amount of electricity used that triggered the warrant. Then pick out the smallest number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was pushshift, but it’s locked down since the API thing, there’s pullpush.io, but that seems down atm. Also there is reveddit. I think most or all of these do not store content that has been deleted by the user though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah if you do that, but since it’s free and most people redeeming this giveaway aren’t actually interested in playing all of the games, they won’t have them downloaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of this is, if later there are takedowns of these games, many people will experience them being removed from their ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The precedent setting supreme court ruling I’m thinking of is very recent, and there are other recent significant changes to law that could also be relevant. My guess is that the phone calls didn’t make the difference on their own, but rather prompted an internal conversation about legal liability given the new landscape and how they should be handling it to best avoid potential damages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if there is any possible ambiguity in the law. I’m thinking it’s possible this has something to do with the recent weakening of constitutional protections for adult content in the US, where censorship by states of somewhat arbitrarily “obscene” content can be deemed illegal. The quote in the article by Valve seems to reference the concept of offensiveness in Mastercard’s policies:

  Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand. See www.mastercard.us/content/…/mastercard-rules.pdf.

  the rule including the text:

  2. The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark.

  So what I’m reading between the lines here is, there is now doubt among the lawyers of credit card companies or the lawyers of their middlemen that these games are for sure legal, and not in violation of obscenity laws that rely on hazy standards of offensiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material | RPS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it wouldn’t be realistic to say “we accept crypto now and also are refusing to comply with credit card content policies” right away anyways, because that would just lose them all their business. The better plan would be to do what they seem to be doing; comply, while simultaneously looking to branch out with the payment options they accept, so that at some point in the future credit card companies might have less leverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material | RPS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  since Mastercard and Visa would absolutely block them if they tried it.

  They didn’t block Steam back when it accepted Bitcoin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes decisions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  various forms of explicitly engineered right wing political propaganda last I checked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hated highschool, so avoiding anything remotely like that has been my main guideline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of inevitable when automated moderation becomes the norm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/Steam.

  Hmmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the real reason credit card companies have been responsive to these groups is the potential for lawsuits that drag payment processors into them, which is a result of various shitty laws that have been passed to generally empower these sorts of regressive trolls to do so. If so petitions from the other side might not be as effective, because they can be sued for providing services to the wrong people but not so much for cutting off service.