On the upside, maybe western youngsters value having a personal life they enjoy more.

But not League of Legends 🫠 Thanks anticheat

Shield Hero 🤮🤮🤮

Yep my wife and I got OLEDs a month back. It feels modern - plays most of the latest games. Not that everything needs to be Monster Hunter Wilds (which we have nice gaming PCs for).

It’s honestly been a long time since hardware has wowed me, but us playing Borderlands 2 all the way through on the couch for $5 bucks was something I’ll never forget. It felt like the way the game was meant to be played despite releasing for PCs and Consoles.

PLEASE give the Steam Deck a try if you haven’t yet and are thinking about a Switch 2.

I have bought every Nintendo handhold since the gameboy colour up to the switch, but now that I have a steam deck I don’t have a single drop of desire for the switch 2.

The deck feels incredibly liberating, especially since you are not paying $90 for games that aren’t even as fun as indies

I don’t think it’s smart to bait Christians like this. It’s like pretending you also see a schizophrenic’s worst delusions.

Why would speaking while reading affect memory at all? I guess news hosts who regurgitate teleprompter lines are all Mensa members now

Yes, both countries have serious problems. At least Americans can discuss theirs openly.

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So surprised that her neck thing popped off

Yeah, those suck a lot, too

Fuck rent, but,

Rent > Intergenerational slave labor camps

In just enough beer to survive their next shift

Never thought I would be finding common ground on a controversial topic with a guy named petrol_sniff_king but here we are

That’s just about how I feel.

Although I do wish we could take action on obviously terrible media without fearing slippery slopes to mandatory chastity cages.

I have to assume there are many non-zealot feminists who exist and are happy to see this gone. But all I see online is grumbling- it’s disturbing

I mean isn’t this the gaming concept of scrub mentality? If I believe a specific moral act outweighs a minor dishonourable act, then shouldn’t I still do that act?

Say I know someone is being beaten in a locked room. It is an important government room, and only key holders elected by the community should enter.

I think it’s justifiable to kick down the door and stop the beating, because beating people up is against my morals so much more than ensuring proper procedure.

But when if someone does that, and everyone endlessly gripes about how “passerbys should not have authority to enter the special room” instead of “well at least I’m glad someone isn’t being beaten up anymore”, then I have to wonder if most people are fine with beatings?

Terrible analogy, non-equivalent etc, but do you see what I’m saying. Because I agree with you that card companies shouldn’t set the terms of what’s acceptable - I mentioned it in my first post.

Using the card company to stop the distribution of tape material is a cheap tactic, but if preventing harm is winning, then saying it’s never justified is scrub mentality, as if beating someone by spamming hadoken doesn’t count.

Patch the game later if it’s so unfair, this is the only way to get it removed right now. The deck is stacked against activists - usually the only effective options they have are disruptive and outside the system.

Okay, devils advocate time.

What is the correct way to ban rape and anime CSAM games from Steam?

Because I don’t buy “freedom” and “none of my business” as reasonable moral positions.

I think it’s justified to want to prevent people from normalizing extreme content publicly.

I think one of the greatest moral failings of modern society is the obsession with allowing companies, rich folk, and the deranged to build systems and communities of harm because society should always be neutral for some reason.

I do agree that payment systems shouldn’t be the ultimate arbiters of what’s permissible, and general sexual content is a normal part of what it means to be human. But we should have limits.

This conversation is completely dominated by people focusing on the “censorship.” As if we don’t justifiably ban snuff or actual films of these sorts of activities.

Please think of the children? Yes, and think of the women these sorts of norms harm. Sometimes you really should care.

This conversation is always completely without nuance, as if all censorship is objectively wrong. Sex games should be legal, unless they are absurdly harmful. And yes, I realize that line is sometimes hard to draw, but we absolutely should find it.

Failing to have a reasonable way to remove something you find genuinely immoral, and defaulting to this “trick” I think is a respectable action for someone who is trying to be ethical to take, even if I don’t completely agree with all her views.

Man kids should not be able to enter strip clubs, that’s insane to me.

This is the most convincing argument for me, as I know many governments have not been putting their citizen’s interests first.

Despite the risks, I know these sorts of anonymous confirmation systems already exist, and can be implemented effectively with transparency.

Most VPN services tout “zero logs”, and many back it up with audits. We can demand the same from our government.

I’m sure drivers licenses and social security numbers made people uncomfortable too when they were rolled out, but they certainly improved our lives.

A slippery slope is a logical fallacy - we can impose just enough oversight to be helpful AND curtail overreach. We can build and verify a good system.

Also, thank you for being kind.

I think at this point it’s clear to everyone that content moderation done by humans is not viable at scale. In this sense the web is unique, and would require a more dragnet solution, like ID verification. This is done in China already to much success to limit game time for youths.

A child would be turned away at a strip club, so perhaps this is a better analogy than a bar.

Still, if a parent wanted their children to browse an unfiltered Reddit they could provide their ID, and in this way we have a similar analogy.