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as people say for hate speech laws: “if you aren’t wanting to show children anything sexual, then there shouldn’t be a problem. what do you wish to show kids that you think may be considered sexual?”

naturally gov overreach is a concern even for speech but that doesn’t stop people from trying to regulate speech.

I think ultimately though with the system in place mentioned, it wouldn’t completely block access to educational materials as parents could easily show that stuff to their kids if they so choose.

Personally I believe that there should be at least some attempt to protect kids from seeing adult content online. Ideally of course it’d be parental responsibility, but having some sort of system in place would be good. I think the tech around porn as it currently exists is deeply harmful, both for children and for women. I’m not against porn as a thing, but like… come on, we can’t just be spreading around videos without any sort of filters and removing it from the control of the people featured in the video.

There’s not a good technical solution for these problems just yet it seems. I think the idea of age verification on-device, and then sending an 18+ or minor flag to apps/sites/etc. would be a good solution. We already click on a “I’m 18+” button, and this is functionally the equivalent but having age verification going on completely offline. Yes, people could bypass that with technical knowhow, but the point isn’t to stop adults, it’s to largely prevent kids from seeing this stuff.

I was wondering their reasoning, here:

We have publicly supported mandatory age verification of viewers of adult content for years, but any method of age verification must preserve user privacy and safety.

Basically, they don’t disagree with mandatory verification, they just wish for it to do so in a way that doesn’t violate the privacy of adults legitimately accessing the content.

Their suggestion for this is:

The only solution that makes the internet safer, preserves user privacy, and stands to prevent children from accessing age inappropriate content is performing age verification at the device level.

Essentially, do age verification on-device, and have the device send the okay to view signal to the site. This is something websites cannot implement on their own, until device/os developers implement such. I agree this is a good solution, but I think it’ll be difficult to push tech companies to do this without further legislation.

I think it might be good to seek the EU to require tech companies to implement such a on-device feature, which will naturally roll out to all tech devices.

Edit: these quotes are from the porn company, not the court.

The type celebrating nudity in baldurs gate are usually prudes who argue for censorship, oppose nudity and sexual content, etc when it comes to Japanese games. Sane people are pointing out this obvious hypocrisy.

It contains a remix of it though by Nikki Minaj and Ice Spice. The remix is called “Barbie World” and can be found here.

You should try playing Cattails which is basically exactly that. You play as a stray cat living a regular cat life. You can hunt, socialize with other cats (some are nice, some not), etc. No humans, just cats. The start of the game you get abandoned by humans I think?

The code realize games are pretty good. Also gonna shout out Pretty Princess Party and it’s sequel Pretty Princess Magical Garden Island. They’re both on the girlier side of things but don’t get as much attention as they should.

there’s candidates running that support ranked choice voting. why not vote for them?

marianne williamson is running

the fact that people started using “breath-like” as a genre just shows botw isn’t a zelda game. if it were sufficiently similar to other zeldas, they’d say zeldalike but they don’t.

tbh it seems like nintendo is doing the opposite of that. they used to have a lot of random smaller games/ips, but it’s been feeling like they’ve been centralizing into their few core IPs and nothing else. like, we haven’t even gotten a 2d zelda on switch yet (grezzo did LA remake but that’s not really a new game).

have you not heard? style savvy was murdered by nintendo. Syn Sophia, the developers of style savvy, wanted to make a 5th game and got shut down hard by nintendo. They then did a complete ip rebrand and struggled to find a publisher, at which point marvelous stepped in. It’s called Fashion Dreamer and is planned to be a continued fashion series by syn sophia. It’s basically style savvy, in all but official ip/branding. Same dev, same goal (fashion game), etc.

Given Nintendo’s hard rejection, Style Savvy is dead for the foreseeable future. And if Fashion Dreamer does well (which it should if all style savvy fans buy it which they should if they like style savvy), Nintendo might realize it’s good to have style savvy and revive; but if that happens I sincerely doubt syn sophia will return to develop them.

tl;dr: style savvy is dead, and nintendo murdered it. a revival might happen if Fashion Dreamer (marvelous/syn sophia game) does well, but if it does revive, it almost certainly won’t be syn sophia developing it again, so not really the same.

Buy Fashion Dreamer if you like Style Savvy

a new 2d mario that’s not an nsmb title? that’s hype af honestly.

my hopes:

• more info on fashion dreamer (curious to see how nintendo responds now that the marvelous showcase happened and clarified officially)

• a comment/bit on pretty princess magical garden island which is literally releasing the day after the direct

• some other new girly/femme game would be nice, though I know nintendo is kinda shying away form that

• I’d like to see a 2d zelda too.

yup I’m very interested to see if Fashion Dreamer makes an appearance, given the corporate drama around it and the fact that it’s scheduled for a 2023 release yet we haven’t gotten a release date yet.

That’s actually not the case. Action adventure games are neither adventure games nor action games. Adventure games refer to text adventures. “action adventure” then is an adventure game, but that isn’t turn/text based (hence “action”). Similarly, an “action game” is something like pong.

It’s just an unfortunate name due to the weird history of game genres.

so it’s a simulation of a car that works a bit different from real life

or “simulation” games. like every fucking game is a simulation!

I hate when people do that. like no, just because you play a role in a game doesn’t mean it’s a rpg. though honestly genre names are so horribly named. like wtf even is an “action adventure”? aren’t most games adventures where there’s action?

>calling zelda an action-rpg
>calling zelda a jrpg

this is worse than the “a hotdog is a sandwich” thing.

you’re absolutely correct

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!