Advocate for user privacy and anonymity
This part about the zoom acquisition is true, but to date no sketchy things have been committed to the client repos, they’re open source
Personally I think the acquisition was to disrupt development, not to hijack it. You’re right that dev work essentially stopped at that time, outside of security fixes.
Also, it doesn’t track you, it allows you to post public proofs so you can choose to let the people you connect with verify your identify. It’s not mandatory.
Or people could stop making not gendered issues into gendered issues, like the sexist fucks they are. There’s a very specific and insidious reason the narrative has switched from “domestic violence” to “violence against women” despite women being provably more safe than men in 99% of contexts, and only a minuscule fraction of deaths by violence. It’s a sexist intentional exclusion of an entire gender, for no good reason.
But you do you!
Best I can suggest is keybase with an auto destroy message timer on conversations, so anything after a day or week is automatically wiped
Are we counting all the suicides due to the ex girlfriend’s actions, or the ones who die in situations instigated by women, like when she lies about something and the males in her family seek retribution? Those stats seem suspiciously absent from articles like these. Proxy violence is routinely ignored
If we’re going to advocate against domestic violence, we should include all its forms and not carefully gerrymander the definition
Still a minuscule fraction of its androcide rate, but don’t expect people to give a shit
Worse is how he actually thinks he’s that
I’m totally adding that back into my vocab now 😂
Wish it could sound more like Farquaad, but maybe that on its own is a good enough one. Kinda rolls off the tongue
… why post a png?
Link to the service
And then we move to steganography with cat pictures
The government being an abusive piece of shit isn’t a good enough reason to stop trying to protect yourself
So, let me get this straight.
Given a choice between evil Pinocchio (this time with international strings!) and a violently orange water balloon filled to bursting with bull’s shit, you’d chose the wooden puppet to throw at the massive human rights abuse apparatus currently fucking everyone’s data up the ass?
Let me know how that goes for you.
That particular decision was to keep them immersed in the game, and exploring.
But back to your warning label topic, what do you expect that to look like?
“E for e=mc^2”? Or “S for Seseme Street approved”?
We already have shenanigans in the rating system, this would be monumentally worse.
I am really curious what a metric for game complexity would even look like
Ok, then don’t play them. No one is forcing you.
You said BG3 was a gift, so it’s not costing you anything to not play something you don’t like.
Given what you’ve said, I would suggest avoiding anything with an RPG label anywhere.
For BG3, if you want to keep playing, you can skip the character creator. They have a dozen prebuilt options you can play without doing the detail work.
For inventory, you can ask your brother to handle it and send everything to camp.
But even with those, you’ll likely not enjoy BG3 because even the fighting mechanics are based around that type of complex decision making, making you pause all the time so that you can make those decisions.
It’s ok to tell your brother you don’t enjoy the gameplay. You don’t have to like it just because other people do.
Aren’t most gamers technically mobile gamers? Pokémon Go has a user base most PC games only dream of
Perhaps this conversation would be more constructive if you told us some of the games you do like, instead of the ones you don’t.
Because I’ll tell you right now, unless you prefer interactive novels which are only arguably games, every game is based on repetitive gameplay.
Specifically, building repetitive gameplay on top of repetitive gameplay is what makes games, games.
Like with chess. You have a repetitive “chess game” loop which has many “your turn” loops inside.
What I’m asking is how you sort it out
To address this specifically, this is what the community of the game is about. It’s why wikis are created and maintained. And so the answer would change based on which game you’re talking about and your goals in that game
For borderlands specifically, a few quick heuristics you can use is to ignore all weapons of not legendary color while in lower level areas, or to stop picking up lower tier items when you don’t need the cash, or to skip everything that isn’t a shotgun because that’s the only piece you need to update
That’s all well and good but the game often doesn’t give you the knowledge required to make those choices thoughtfully
This is a complaint. One that other commenters have addressed.
It’s often an intentional and critical part of the vision of the game and why people play
Elden Ring, specifically, hides information from the player on purpose, intending for them to discover things through experience.
It doesn’t hold your hand at all and is arguably one of the better games in the last decade, in no small part due to features you are referencing.
And what they’re saying is that those elements are fun to the people who play these games.
Weighing different priorities to choose the best or preferred option for the future is flexing some very serious psychological muscles. Developing strategies to do it well is these types of people’s version of practicing 3 point shots.
Reading you complain about it (which is fine, it doesn’t have to be your sort of game!) is like listening to someone complain about how many times they have to throw the ball in basketball. “I just wanted to dribble and dunk, what are all of these other silly elements for? They’re just getting in the way!”
If you want a really good comparison between these types of gamers and others, look at Path of Exile versus Diablo 4. Diablo took the mass-market appeal route, and de-prioritized many of the elements that more serious gamers enjoyed.
Now Path of Exile is a free to play money printing machine, and Diablo gets headlines for how poorly it’s doing. There are many detailed analysis’ online about why, and most of the reasons come down to removing the ‘complicated’ parts you’re talking about.
You think this particular issue doesn’t have full bipartisan support among the elites?
You’re delusional
You’ll have to outbid cuckerberg for enough corrupt politicians to do that, and he has a 15 year head start
And this is why having true ownership over our own devices is so important, so that they can’t force this on everyone and if they try, we just replace the root certs.
This is why “trusted computing” has been pushed for so long, to remove control from the user specifically to enable bullshit like this