They do.

However there are a large number of servers that utilize plugins to strip out Microsoft’s invasive chat monitoring where you can get banned from all online play for saying no no words, regardless of the rules of the actual server you’re on. There’s more nuance to it than that, but there are a lot of ways the Microsoft chat reporting system is being abused right now. There was even an exploit recently that allowed people to send fake chat message data back to Microsoft to get arbitrary users banned for things they never said. So Microsoft says “we’re doing this thing to address concerns about online content and predators” and major servers go “Microsoft you’re just making things worse”.

Additionally, there are “offline servers” that use mods to patch out all communication with Microsoft/Mojang/Minecraft systems, and various other pieces of code that attempt to enforce only paid players joining a server, ultimately allowing people to connect without having actually purchased the game.

While this politician is full of shit, I can understand the fervor. Especially if they have a Minecraft playing kid.

To give an example of the state of some of the most popular servers, there is one heavily customized server that allows for effectively any client-side mods to be run on it. It has one of the largest developed maps of any server ever, and effectively allows hacking. There are entire sub-sub-sub communities making mods just for this server to help streamers hide details of how the block textures are randomly rotated that could give away base locations. It’s absurd.

Anyway, someone recently did a massive coding project figuring out how they could back up the whole map as a regular user. They also did some data analytics on the map. One of the data points was amount of “5x5 obsidian pinwheels”, better known as swastikas.

Sure, it’s edgy internet assholes, but it’s definitely an image issue that Microsoft would love to have useful idiots like this guy paper over.

So your complaint, for posterity

More seriously, you pretty much got it. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.

It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.

A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”

It’s boring and overdone.

No shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.

More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?

This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”

Neither did the constant media and internet frenzy focusing on the stupidest aspects of their bullshit. Are we going to start talking about the two scoops of ice cream again? Look at the birdy and ignore the gutting of the board of education.

Man, I sure do love when people put words in my mouth I never said. That is one bad jacket there.

There are plenty of more recent and more relevant examples of this type of bullshit without having to go back years, and this is some of the weakest "call out"s of these stains on humanity I’ve seen in a long time.

Next time you want to masturbate about how much better you are than Trump’s useful idiots, get some better material at least.

Are we really still giving any attention to the tiki torch carrying fucks? How long ago was this shit again?

Wish my company allowed that. Everything goes to a licensed secure destruction service that literally puts them through an industrial shredder. Awesome to watch, but wasteful as all hell.

Yes. If I want to organize and dedupe what I have then I need enough storage to work on it, a lot of my storage is spinning rust 7-15 years old, and if I have the space I’m going to use it. I have family photos and a music library going back to 2005. Too many things like old games need custom fixes installed to work correctly on modern hardware, and the internet isn’t as permanent as it was cracked up to be.

There’s plenty of reasons to hold on to older data.

ONE Sievert

You’ll never develop your own skills in that type of communication, it’s incredibly obvious when someone uses LLM output in that manner, and many people consider it incredibly rude to use it that way.

We’re gonna need a bigger asteroid

Sink is right there, what’s the problem?

This is my assumption about what’s likely to occur as well. And a song about it: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Mars for the Rich

It still made by Studio Trigger and CD Project, so the only thing Netflix could bungle is the release, imo

They don’t care because that isn’t anywhere near the actual goal or point. The point is to continue moving the needle for what is considered “the norm” to remove one of the few places left where you can be anonymous/untraceable.

It’s part of a much broader push to get real identity somehow inseparably merged with our tech, so everything you do can be traced back to your real life identity because it’s all connected to it by default.

Jesus Christ this blight has been around that long?

I get that per Wikipedia, the source of these is:

In the Spring 2003 issue of the secular humanist magazine Free Inquiry, Laurence W. Britt, who is described as “a retired international businessperson, writer, and commentator” published “Fascism Anyone?”, which included a list of 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

But you have to get that a random unsourced image of white text on a black background is some real “trust me bro” Facebook shares from Grandma type shit.

Getting tired of “it’s okay when our side does it because we’re right, but we’ll clown on it when the bad people do it because they’re wrong”. Just be better.

And while I’m complaining, the source of these is a fucking editorial by someone with no actual credentials or qualifications to declare this shit. Now it’s being passed around online like it’s certifiable fact because it sounds accurate.

All of those are problems. All of those are bad. What is happening in the USA is bad. But muddying the waters by taking random bullshit like this as certified fucking fact only makes talking about shit harder, as everyone has their own set of things they think are truth, most of which have been latched on to for no reason more than “it sounds right and reinforced my beliefs”.

Grumble grumble grumble

Blu-ray drives can be expensive, but USB DVD drives are only ~$20.

I’d also expect anyone who would care about the “physical” edition of the next GTA only being a download code in the box would have a disc drive on the device they wanted to install it on.

It helped that there were used and rental markets for relatively “modern” titles that are now almost entirely non-existent.

You worked places with style guides? Did… Did you have a real testing environment that wasn’t prod too?

I got taken off a project recently for being too direct about how the rest of the team was just spray and praying entirely AI generated code with no standards or review whatsoever, and they were charging ahead like it was a race to implement features we hadn’t even discussed if we wanted/needed.

If you can’t tell me how it works, you can’t confirm that we actually need it, you can’t tell me the upstream and downstream effects (or confirm they don’t exist), and you can’t even confirm that we even want it to do the thing it only supposedly does, then we have better things to do than go on a wild goose chase trying to debug it when there’s a looming deadline for things that legitimately do not work that we need. Stop vibe coding and actually review the existing shit for fucks sake. If the requirements have never been clear, solve that instead of generating more slop. Maybe update some of the existing documentation instead of having AI wholesale hallucinate entirely new not quite right ones over and over.

Anyway, please tell me more happy development bedtime stories. I need to chase away the nightmares.