I really want a good way to vocalize this to the people who think the “Pro-Woman” crowd means inherently being “Anti-Pervert”. Everything is always one or the other to these people. Meanwhile the LGBT world, as well as the furry world, is super pro-perversion.

Thus we have the worst, stupidest, loosest definition of the word “woke”, that these people live by.

Jedi: Survivor. The game maintained a high price and performs terribly on PC, so I wasn’t so interested. But the story is pretty darn good, especially for a premise of “The Empire is winning, and we’re basically spitting in the wind. What’s the point of resisting?”

I admit to falling bait to some of the cameos, but they were pretty well executed.

I got pretty annoyed at the chorus of “People only say they like it because of the Zelda title”. I hadn’t cared about Zelda for decades at that point. It was just a well-done, well-paced open world game that I found myself openly devoting dozens of hours to.

My favorite bit of that game is, after two games of developing tons of movement abilities in the air, including various forms of extra jumps…

…the final phase of the final boss literally destroys the only platform, making it so you fight the final phase of their healthbar entirely in the air, against a constant rain of projectiles.

If you don’t want your info (whether you are an adult a teen or a child) to be shared with “owners of apps that are on the Epstein list”, then don’t install those apps. There is nothing in this law requiring you to download any particular app.

Linux, as well as any decent system of security, operates via varying levels of trust. If I install a game on Steam, that does not get root access with permission to rewrite my kernel. Similarly, if I have banking info on my device, it doesn’t get to view that, or anything with my face or name. You can install and even run something without trusting it with your life.

If an app were sending this data to a third party, like palantir, then they would be in direct violation of this law.

We have seen time and time again that courts do not provide adequate protections for these types of data breaches. The law does not matter. At the most, software companies get slapped on the wrist, but more likely they get away with it, as “programming is hard, and it’s easier to just send everything”. It is far, far easier to assert that a malicious app is not submitting marketing, or “fuckability” information on your child if that device does not denote itself as a child’s device in the first place. That’s only possible if the law isn’t hammering the OS into openly exposing its own user data to anyone that asks for it.

Your last point about personal responsibility is an important one. It’s why, if you happen to be using an old insecure device running Windows XP, you can toy around on the web with it, but you should disconnect it from your personal network, and should not enter personal info on it. Any device software that is forced to keep an open “Would_President_47_Seek_To_Rape_This_User” flag, available to every application, is removing that option for personal responsibility.

A car powered by gasoline? It’ll never take off. I mean, what will you do if it runs out of gas? Start a war in the middle east?

We’re sort of past the point where anything Xbox-related is newsworthy for this community. I don’t care what patch notes are coming to China’s Playbox knockoff hardware, I don’t care what a dead console is doing in its cloud.

Does it even allow for user privacy protection? Nothing I’ve read of the bill suggests that an app could ask whether the user is of a fuckable class by its Epstein-list owners, and allow the user to block the prompt. Every other app has to ask for permission to use the camera, to write to certain directories, they can even be firewalled to prevent network access. The very idea that an OS must code in a form of user information that must be provided to any app, trusted or not, is a warped, Palantir-driven approach to (in)security.

Most practitioners of data security are aware of the severe dangers of fingerprinting users, and that is a hardline issue. Thus, in order to maintain their security practices, their only choice is to not collect this sort of info on users at any level. If they’re delivering a security product with a built-in vulnerability, they’re not delivering a security product. It’s much better to just surrender one state until it invents sanity.

Even entering DoB is imo too much of a privacy breach. In my view, they should just take the highest age bracket described, apparently 18+, and then ask that on OS installation: “Are you over the age of 18?” If the user says yes, it installs, and every app is hardcoded to receive that 18+ bracket when checking demographic. If they say no, then it simply replies that users under 18 may not install it under the laws of California.

This criticism is fixed by primaries, not the vote in the general election. This comic is criticizing the latter act. South Park is right about that one.

The other solution I go for is library media, as well as finding competing streaming services like PBS’s. Just finished Fallout season one off a borrowed DVD.

Oh no! By posting a contentious opinion in this thread, you have introduced DRAMA. And no, you don’t get to point fingers; it’s still DRAMA that you’re at fault for!

See how easy that is?

Fallout S1 reveals what would really happen.

It’s by design, and in theory meant to encourage ownership to put personal stakes in the region. In practice, of course, homes are laughably unaffordable and it’s a free bonus for the rich.

Introducing a niche, unheard indie game by a small, unknown team: The Witcher 3!

I love bikes but I hated that whenever a Cyberdemon shows up, I don’t really have a good way to circle strafe them with my bike while using my plasma rifle.

Okay.

Ukraine agreed to disarm in exchange for protection. Russia “won” that concern already. Russia broke that agreement themselves, because they care about land, not “fear”.

Take a look at the murder of Renee Good, and what ICE viewed as defensive action. “I feared for my life” are pussy words used by monsters.

I guess it boils down to biology. There is very much a built-in system to our bodies hardwired to make us care about our own offspring; and it does its job well. Trying to enforce “objective, logical benefit” onto how people behave as parents is unfortunately an uphill task. It’d be similar if you were to try to oppose an open park in a city because “Logically, it serves no functional purpose since people can take their walks on the sidewalk.”

This is a tricky subject to approach, since it can be reduced to a really hurtful or even misogynist slogan, but I’d like to see more physical comedy in media involving women. Think running into walls, smacked by a spinning plank, or depending on the cartoon believability of the media, crushed by a falling piano.

I started a longer writeup of why that’s “important” to me but before I bend over backwards to defend it I’m curious what others think.