Woke absolutely is a thing, tons of people self describe as woke, it just doesn’t mean what the right thinks it does. Or more accurately, it’s a word with different meanings. They’re either using it as an actual self description or specifically to annoy the rightoids. Or both.

I disagree that this will help at all. Certainly not to a degree that justifies restricting other people’s freedom. Grooming happens in small circles and doesn’t become substantially harder if teenagers can’t access nsfw channels. Predators don’t seek out adult-dominated spaces. Kids might be exposed to slightly less porn or something but they will still go to pornhub, and now an access channel where there are at least likely normal adults around that could give context id needed is restricted. Worst case they’ll be driven to fringe spaces filled with predators.

And also, people don’t just use nsfw channels for porn or questionable memes. People mark servers as 18+ for a variety of reasons, some have political discussion channels marked as nsfw to make them easier to avoid, etc.

I use discord to chat and play with friends, many servers have an nsfw channel to share things that you probably don’t want to suddenly be on your phone screen in public. It will also filter images in dms.

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s ineffective at tackling the actual problem, if anything adds appeal by making content “forbidden”. I’m certainly cancelling my cheap nitro I’ve had for a while because I’m not giving any company arbitrarily implementing identity verification any of my money.

I’ll also probably look into setting up my own matrix server later…

If they want to be spammed with gdpr takedown requests sure…

If there is an image scan then yea it’ll be a problem, otherwise rhe server being 18+ is just a setting you have no reason to turn on, and as long as you don’t write nsfw in the channel name, discord won’t know something’s an nsfw channel either.

In any case still really unlucky this happened right after you switched lol

Tbh for that use case this changes nothing, it’s a horrible change for all the usual reasons but it’s only implementing the stuff that was already the case in the UK for everyone. So age verification is needed for servers that set themselves as 18+ and for nsfw channels (and there might be some ai image scanning bs to determine if sent images are nsfw?), but for just talking to people you can supposedly still use it without age verification.

Still, it’ll probably get worse eventually.

This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that’s definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.

There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn’t use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).

Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.

They can all be shit but one can still be more shit than the other. I don’t want to lose one eye but I’d rather that than go fully blind.

Though the argument here is more that “we are the better colonizer, trust us bro” should never be taken as a reason to want a new colonizer to take over.

That’s not even artistic ability, that’s just basic tool use.

…but yea that still applies

Sadly yup. Not quite everyone the same way, but psychology is still pretty scary. Thankfully the manosphere mostly isn’t anywhere neae what actually works with their bs

It’s just her character design, she’s a genshin character (yoimiya).

Yep, and even for me while I prefer to download the game directly usually, when I need to bother with manually getting it to work, I much prefer steam and its proton integration. It’s nice that most games at least just work by running them in a random proton prefix with protontricks, but shipping them with an install script that just gives you a shortcut and installs any dependencies would be huge (actually a step up from steam). And then if galaxy runs on linux it could use that same process.

Old movies feel much worse for me, voices barely audible but sfx blow my ears out. But I also have sound from headphones, maybe that just works better with the newer mixes.

It depends on the project, I think. If you require hundreds of pieces to make the concept work (and such concepts have floated in my mind) even hiring an amateur would get pretty expensive. If it’s just small scope art (and for most games it will be) I agree, it can be relatively cheap. Though I’m still privileged in being able to afford that, some people couldn’t even really spare 200€ for a project that, statistically, is unlikely to make even half of that back.

Great way to make sure your kid gets bullied and socially excluded, resulting in lifelong trauma. Not to mention that they will then start using the internet with the media literacy of an average 70 year old and fall for everything they should’ve learned with parental guidance at a young age.

I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn’t (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don’t really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.

Not that I’ll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I’ve thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I’d need to commission more than I can afford, I’d be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.

Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I’ll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).

You… heavily overestimate a grandma with 0 technical skills.

It can be installed in 20 minutes with a youtube video by a person with 0 technical knowledge that is comfortable using a computer and doesn’t get scared seeing a terminal.

I wonder if this might not be exactly the correct approach to teach them, though. When there’s actually someone to tell them “sorry that AI answer is bullshit”, so they can learn how to use it as a ressource rather than an answer provider. Adults fail at it, but they also don’t have a teacher (and kids aren’t stupid, just inexperienced).

The comic is more what happened with brexit as well. 2 options, so we should have one person from each side represent them in discussions, right? Except this misrepresented the balance of expert opinions which was very heavily skewed towards remain, instead implying it’s about even.

It’s a hard topic to solve, but much like compromise doesn’t mean “just take the middle of the most extreme opinions”, fair news coverage doesn’t mean “present every extreme viewpoint as equally valid when the actual sentiment is clearly biased to one side”. In this case maybe limit it to “the israeli government denied it being a genocide” once or sth.

Is there anything at all surprising about teenagers using what might be their only computer outside of their phone to access porn?