Identity verification, not age verification. You would have to give anyone on the internet access to your identity.

I’m just sick of seeing “age verification” plastered all over the internet when that’s not what it’s about.

But steel is heavier than feathers…

Don’t get me wrong, I definitely agree with you, but Steam is not the only place with this problem and Steam isn’t the only one with lackluster moderation for it. We literally wouldn’t be in the global political situations were in right now if it wasn’t for propaganda flooding every facet of the internet. Gamers are a minority internationally and most actual gamers think the steam forums are not even worth looking at.

I’m just saying don’t blame only blame Steam. There’s an issue with this type of shit literally everywhere and nobody in charge gives a shit.

I had this weird syncronisticity a few years back where at least once a week I’d look at the time it it’d be 4:04. I’d often say “404: Time not found” and literally nobody ever got it so I started just saying it in my head instead.

“The majority of people are against this? Nah, we’re right and this is just some kind of extremism.”

In my opinion, it’s not even meant to stop kids from using the internet. I believe it’s to collect data on people that don’t know any better or don’t care about uploading their ID or face to some mysterious server. The type of people that click “accept all” for cookies when they go to a website and those that live in the “if you don’t have anything to hide than it shouldn’t be a problem” camp. I have a friend like this that whenever I bring it up he simply does not give a single shit about his own privacy on the internet and just calls the whole thing, in his own words, a “nothingburger.”

Explaining this to the layman is honestly infuriating. They just tell you that you are overreacting and that it’s not a big deal. That if you have nothing to hide than you shouldn’t have to worry. An analogy I came up with that sometimes helps is removing all the doors in public bathrooms. If you have nothing to hide than you shouldn’t be worried, right? Are you comfortable with your mom or employer knowing your browsing habits with your ID and/or face attached to it? What about that time you posted a meme to your friends discord server making fun of Donald Trump?

It’s literally the entire internet, not just reddit. And yea that includes the Fediverse too. I’ve been noticing that a decent amount of communities on here have 1 or 2 main posters that are just bots that never have any comments. Not only that, but a lot of commenters I’ve noticed have brand new accounts that have copy/paste responses that extremely generic.

At this point it’s safer to assume everyone is a bot, honestly. Especially comments you see on political posts.

Which is weird because when you look it up, both democrat and republican voters are pissed at AIPAC and Israel’s favorability has dropped significantly. I think it’s less that they have a grip on republicans and more that they are spending millions of dollars in ads against those that don’t support AIPAC. My dad watches Fox news every morning before work and when I was a kid 9/10 of the advertisements were attack ads against Democrats or progressives

Brown water means its got more minerals which are good for ya.

I think with Trump in the US and Netanyahu in Israel bringing so much attention to far right extremism and blasting it all over the internet and showing how absolutely disgusting it can get has opened some peoples eyes. I remember seeing the election in Canada do a complete 180 after it became apparent what was happening with authoritarianism worldwide.

In my mind it’s the same idea as burning down your house to cook a burger. Yeah, you cooked the burger, but you literally destroyed everything else just to make it. Or you could just cook it on the stove.

With AI companies it seems they’d rather destroy the planet and poison the internet to a point of unusability just to make their AI models. Yeah, they’ll get their result, but they literally destroyed everything just to make it.

Personally I have nothing against AI and the practicality of it. I do, however, have a problem with AI companies destroying everything to achieve their vague goals of “the future.”

The only place I ever run into people that love AI is on the internet and old people posting “memes” on Facebook. Younger people especially hate AI.

That’s so dumb

I love it

I have nothing against Marathon. I just don’t want to pay that much money for an extraction shooter when none if my friends like extraction shooters. Not only that, I don’t have time for another microtransaction riddled online shooter. Back in the day I fell down that hole with Apex Legends and Overwatch and the live service and battle pass model takes literally all the fun out of a game. Now I’m here almost a decade later and I don’t play any of those games anymore and none of my time or money wasted for digital fun bucks can ever be recovered. The only one I still play is Overwatch but I absolutely refuse to give them money ever since they made it F2P. Any battlepass I’ve ever completed for Overwatch was completely by accident and my life is so much better without the unneeded stress of challenges and battlepass points.

This man is very representative of the fans GameStop has left over from the stock price debacle 6 years back.

Hell yeah

Hell yeah

I’m down from 228 to 220. Not really that great, but I’ll keep you posted lmao

I miss the days of being 150 lbs. I felt like I had so much energy I could run a marathon. Now I feel like a quick run could kill me. :D

This used to be my mentality in regards to work for the majority of my early twenties. Turns out pretty much every job out there will give you more work to do if you are too efficient. Eventually it reaches a point where you have too much on your plate and start getting burned out fairly quickly yet you’ve set the bar so high that anything less than maximum efficiency is considered lazy.

My new method is to work at 50%-70% efficiency while at work and I take my time on everything I’m asked to do. I’ve worked my ass off for about a decade at various jobs and was only rewarded with more work. I’ll save my efficiency for the things I actually care about in my life.

I have a coworker that is currently in the situation I was in five years ago. He’s working late every single day and barely has any time for personal business because he worked too hard at the beginning to “climb the ladder” that he’s now overworked and miserable as more things keep getting piled on top. I was talking to him the other day and he was saying that he started working on the weekends because he has so much shit he has to do.

“Ooooo, I’m so hot. Look at how hot I am, Finn.”