Good luck filling and winning a lawsuit against meta. They have enough money and influence that if they wanted, they could just send an email to your server hosting service and forcing them to shut you down. That, or just spend probably less than $100k to keep you in court long enough you go bankrupt. It’s a losing game… at least until more non far left socialists are running the show around the world.

Oaken Tower.

Currently only a demo.

Makes me wish everyone who plays it has their monitors explode on them.

To quote my Steam review of it:

I used to think the death penalty was cruel… then I started playing the demo for this game.

It’s another reminder why I avoid autobattlers

I was referencing the lyrics of a song. Just to cover my tracks, I also gotta say pardon my French for the song title.

My phone was sideways, so I saw a bird first and foremost. Maybe a crow. After all, some say the sound of a crow is a cry. Some say the sound of a crown is a lie.

I’m a noob when it comes to gaming on Linux, having to rely on WINE just working without any changes or Proton on Steam if there’s no Linux port. Still learning how to do more advanced things with WINE rather than just run and hope the program works.

So far I haven’t had any major issues with getting games to play, except for a couple old PC games I found on MyAbandonware that probably need some extra work to work properly. Doesn’t display correctly or play the music for either. Otherwise, my experience has been pretty good.

As for distro side of things, I don’t know, outside of SteamOS on my Steam Deck, I have no clue on what’s happening in the games sphere. I just have Steam downloaded from either my package manager or flathub and call it good there.

Oh, and I also have the native Itchio storefront program and it works just fine as long as I don’t change the language to a certain language because it’ll just cause sorts of problems ( probably due to me not having a language pack for it installed ). The one visual novel I’ve played on Itchio on my laptop worked just fine out of the box, but I assume that’s more or less thanks to the devs.

Man who invented torture nexus claims torture nexus isn’t used for torture.

You know you’ve fucked up when Valve makes a statement on the subject.

Pretty sure it would depend on the crime. Speeding slightly over the limit or jaywalking would be basically a no reaction crime because everyone does it.

Theft? Depends on what I stole and from who. A few coins go missing fromy brothers room and my parents probably aren’t gonna care as much if I tell them later ( which I never tell them ), so long as it’s not a significant amount of money. My dad would also have no leg to stand on since there have been plenty of times he’s taken stuff from our rooms without asking ( like the time he took some snacks I had stashed in my tech junk drawer in my dresser maybe a year or two ago, which I’m still salty about ).

Stealing from a store? They’d be shocked and I would definitely be punished. As to what the punishment, no clue, besides definitely returning whatever I stole to start.

Murdering someone? More than likely gonna be reported to the cops and locked away.

Piracy? Don’t get caught. They have received emails about me doing it a long time ago and just don’t want us to lose our service.

Tax or other kind of financial fraud? My dad wouldn’t approve at all and might report me if he ever figured out I was in on some type of financial fraud because he doesn’t want to get screwed over by association of being my father. No clue how my mom would react, but I don’t imagine she’d be thrilled about it either.

Illegal things like CSAM, beastiality, etcetera? Ain’t no way I wouldn’t be put in some sort of psych ward or something of the sort for such sick and dastardly material. If not straight up sent to prison because the feds get to me in this hypothetical before they find out. There’s definitely a chance I wouldn’t be part of the family if this ever happened, which I hope it never does and that if I have a midlife crisis that it’s just me buying stupid things instead. Especially since I know someone who got caught during his midlife crisis flirting online with a “minor” ( some form of either fed or law enforcement honeypot account ).

I haven’t been watching nearly as much as I used to ( which even then was only a fair amount ), so my favorite hasn’t changed in a few years. My top went from FMA ( which I’m gonna say the most heretic thing according to a subset of rabid MAL users: I like it more than Brotherhood ) to Beastars when season 1 came to netflix outside of Japan. So, that would have been around whenever that season released in maybe around February to March 2020 for us non-Japanese people.

I don’t care if it becomes legal to make this kinda content, you know as a fact she will absolutely use everything at her disposal to make it illegal again, even if that means using her fans to help.

I may not be a big fan of her or her music, but even I’m not suicidal enough to try and attack her.

Yeah, my brain had stopped working. Thanks for the help.

The fact I can hear their exact voices saying this says something.

Swift could easily get a lawsuit set up against them and most likely win, if AI nudes start getting made and sent out by average people. If she did, she’s already won the court of public perception or whatever it’s called ( drawing a blank ) because of how popular she is. I guarantee if she told people not to use grok or ex-twitter, a large of the swifties on the platform would run faster than Usain Bolt to delete their accounts.

I’m still holding out on saying dead Internet theory is inevitable. With projects like Anubis and, hell, even projects like Nepenthes ( the one that confuses the AI by sending them to garbage site pages with enough “data” to trap them ), I think it’s more than possible for us to beat the AI by creating our own web 2.5 to keep ourselves safe from the outside.

Imagine you’re a teen dealing with a serious parental abuse issue. You don’t wanna give that info up to just anyone, so you rely on forums for people that are having or have had the same type of problem. Suddenly, under the new law, you are either geoblocked from the site entirely or you must provide some form of age verification.

Your options are either get a VPN ( which could very well be being blocked soon enough ) or you could find a free speech forum on the edge of the web that doesn’t require any of that. For people with even just slightly above average tech skills, a VPN wouldn’t be that hard to get.

For the forum, I can guarantee there are gonna be people looking to make you feel welcome, only to suddenly change once you’re comfortable and start demanding illicit content. Although this probably happens a lot on big platforms like ex-twitter, you have more options to deal with the people on there. The admins/mods of free speech sites probably aren’t gonna care as much if you’re getting abused on their free speech for all forums, so long as you don’t report their site to the government.

If neither of those are a good enough answer, imagine any company responsible for all the age verification stuff. Imagine they keep all the info they collect, whether that’s the verification for adults or minors. You know they aren’t getting rid of that data because it’s worth more kept and constantly being sold than if it was being deleted. What would happen if their repository of age verification data got hacked? A matter of when, not if, they get hacked, and suddenly every single person who submitted an ID, including the IDs of minors, gets stolen and suddenly any minor in their database is now a very likely victim of ID theft and fraud before they’re even considered a legal adult.

I don’t remember my parents having many, if any, rules for games, probably because I was the final child by that point. They didn’t really have to worry too much about me getting into games too mature for me ( probably the worst I could remember when I was still little would have been Turok on n64 ), so I was fine either way.

I do remember on weekends, though, my dad specifically trying to get me, someone who doesn’t like to eat breakfast in general, to eat before I’d play games. That was around middle school when that would happen.

Anubis is a godsend, so long as A"I" companies cannot break it… and so long as we get people to switch to browsers like Mull and Ironfox.

Definitely.

Although, I don’t think I’d go for a full suit for my fursona because I’ve never imagined them naked, I’ll agree this is a good idea.

I have thought about that, but for the first one I get, if I ever get one, I’m probably gonna get one without just to make sure I can handle it. Last thing I want is to spend a ton of money on a fursuit with a ton of extras only to find my body cannot handle it, with or without fans.

I’ve played a bit of it ( haven’t finished ) and so far it’s pretty good. I totally wish I didn’t see a playthrough of their other game, Detention, around 2018, so I could go in for a completelt blind playthrough like I am for Devotion.