I'm fairly sure not all bad faith actors can be rooted out without huge collateral damage. However I do think we aren't doing the bare minimum. Let's take flat Earth believers as an example. The whole thing is pure dumbassery that can be very easily dismissed with knowledge dating a few centuries now. Nobody serious invites flat earthers to a discussion because it's proven knowledge by far.
When you think about it there are other areas with clear consensus where you can relate. Vaccines: proven and studied for more than a century now (Edward Jenner, 1798). There's no "other side", other point of view by now and media outfits promoting such idiocy should be punished. Hard. Politicians spewing such idiocy should lose their seats based on clear "you are putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk" argument.
Climate change: there's broad agrement among scientists that it is a thing, there's plenty of data for more than a century showing that temperatures are going nuts and we have broken record after record in extreme events both in frequency and intensity. There's no space for denialists anymore.
White supremacy/nazism: do I really need to comment on those?
I can probably dig more examples, those are pretty high profile, but I do think it's not too hard to root out the most egregious bad faith actors with little collateral damage. Science.
Doesn't solve the problem the article presents but certainly helps contain it.
Demos seem like a good idea. If the dev releases demos then the return policy can be stricter for that game (ie: less maximum play time and/or smaller return window). In the end the problem is the "one-approach-fits-all" policy.
There are some ideas that could help here both for quick games and for those long games that trick you into exceeding the 2 hour period with tons of cut scenes, it's just a matter of wanting to solve the problem I think. First, a game that averages 100+ hours (considering all players) and several Gbs of size should have a higher time limit to use the return policy. I'm fairly sure that there was a good % of buyers that acted like functioning, civilized humans and didn't return the game so, how long did they spend playing? 2 hours? then the return limit should be lower. Set up a policy where you have to wait a few days before requesting the return when the game launches and determine the minimum play time while this "return ban" is up. Say, 2 weeks of ppl playing should be enough to determine what's an average play time and then set up the max threshold. That and some input from the devs (punishable with sanctions for abusers) should help a ton. I'm sure there are other ideas that can help as well.
Well, Nintendo has burned any reason to buy stuff from them a while back in my case, this is just kicking the corpse. I wonder how many ppl they alienated by this obnoxious attitude just this time.
Yes, I agree. But it's an example ppl can understand. There's plenty of bigotry and the likes in the Christian front as well. It's just that the Taliban is one of the most extreme recent examples I could think of that has some reverberation with Americans.
"In most cases, the most companies like this see are a week of bad headlines and a few regulatory wrist slaps -- assuming U.S. regulators have the time or resources to pursue any kind of meaningful investigation at all." <<< this. We have some regulations here that say all customer service must provide records of all interactions upon request of face fines. Of course you only want these records when you run into problems. And of course when it happens they magically "lose" the records. Because the fine is so ridiculously low and without consequences for repeated offenses that it's worth for them to avoid actually paying for their mistakes.
Other examples? We had two major residue dams rupture in Mariana and Brumadinho here. When Brumadinho happened, the companies had paid virtually nothing in damages so no incentives to fix their security procedures. And to this day they haven't paid even the bare minimum to relieve the victims and families or to actually make a dent in their revenues. Tic toc when is the next disaster going to happen? It's a matter of when the nextr breach/disaster will happen, not if. And the govts are in no hurry to hold these bastards accountable.
FOSTA and all this fight against "pornography" is what you get when bigoted moralists get their way. But their appetite cannot be satisfied and we have good examples in the Muslim world. Afghanistan was a very progressive country not long ago but it took a few years of religious bigotry to have women that used to wear nice clothes and lipstick to be locked behind full body covers. All in the name of morals and some imaginary deity. I have to emphasize it took a few years, less than the amount we spent in this century, for a major kick back into Middle Ages madness. The absurd abortion thing, FOSTA... They must be fought back fiercely.
There's a reason why a large parts of infrastructure networks need to be State owned and maintained. It's glaringly obvious by now that the private sector will not spend even the bare minimum if and they will charge the absolutely maximum possible if left unregulated. 911 and emergency systems should be maintained by the govt end of the story. And public services act competition and prevent exactly what is happening in the US in many, many fronts from telecom to healthcare. But that's too communist for America.
And this justifies the continued harassment of thousands of innocent people, total contempt for the Constitution all seasoned with lots of abuse of power for how many years? One per dead person? Oh and let's not forget the USA was largely responsible for creating Al-Qaeda and there were intelligence warns that were ignored that could have prevented 9/11 and, guess what, DHS and ICE were not the ones responsible for the intelligence work.
There was some noise a while back when some Japanese company patented Brazilian flora. "Ah, products based on Brazillian plants?" you ask. And I answer "No, they patented the goddamn plant. More than one time. I'm certain there must be some article from TD on this but I'm too lazy to search. Still... What the heck.
Yet more evidence that racism is pervasive in the US government. Unless action is taken on this evidence including but not limited to making the public servants that allowed this to move ahead and the ones that ordered it accountable nothing will change.
It is interesting to see that despite all the violence against BLM protesters, both physical and legal, the movement did not lose traction. These guys, girls and all have my respect.
Considering it can be weaponized in many ways other than governments using it for censorship and the "for the children" mantra is often used by people that couldn't care less about the children or civil rights (ie: the Trump horde, dictators around the world etc) this will be very ugly to watch. Thanks Apple. And if I didn't already have enough reasons not to use Apple products now I have one that's probably worth all possible reasons multiplied by a few orders of magnitude.
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I'm fairly sure not all bad faith actors can be rooted out without huge collateral damage. However I do think we aren't doing the bare minimum. Let's take flat Earth believers as an example. The whole thing is pure dumbassery that can be very easily dismissed with knowledge dating a few centuries now. Nobody serious invites flat earthers to a discussion because it's proven knowledge by far.
When you think about it there are other areas with clear consensus where you can relate. Vaccines: proven and studied for more than a century now (Edward Jenner, 1798). There's no "other side", other point of view by now and media outfits promoting such idiocy should be punished. Hard. Politicians spewing such idiocy should lose their seats based on clear "you are putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk" argument.
Climate change: there's broad agrement among scientists that it is a thing, there's plenty of data for more than a century showing that temperatures are going nuts and we have broken record after record in extreme events both in frequency and intensity. There's no space for denialists anymore.
White supremacy/nazism: do I really need to comment on those?
I can probably dig more examples, those are pretty high profile, but I do think it's not too hard to root out the most egregious bad faith actors with little collateral damage. Science.
Doesn't solve the problem the article presents but certainly helps contain it.
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Demos seem like a good idea. If the dev releases demos then the return policy can be stricter for that game (ie: less maximum play time and/or smaller return window). In the end the problem is the "one-approach-fits-all" policy.
On the post: Indie Game Dev Decides To Leave Industry Due To Steam Returns On Short Game
There are some ideas that could help here both for quick games and for those long games that trick you into exceeding the 2 hour period with tons of cut scenes, it's just a matter of wanting to solve the problem I think. First, a game that averages 100+ hours (considering all players) and several Gbs of size should have a higher time limit to use the return policy. I'm fairly sure that there was a good % of buyers that acted like functioning, civilized humans and didn't return the game so, how long did they spend playing? 2 hours? then the return limit should be lower. Set up a policy where you have to wait a few days before requesting the return when the game launches and determine the minimum play time while this "return ban" is up. Say, 2 weeks of ppl playing should be enough to determine what's an average play time and then set up the max threshold. That and some input from the devs (punishable with sanctions for abusers) should help a ton. I'm sure there are other ideas that can help as well.
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The sense of anonymity online environment provides only brings out or amplify what one already have inside.
On the post: Nintendo Shuts Down Another 'Smash' Tournament Due To Mod Use, With No Piracy As A Concern
Well, Nintendo has burned any reason to buy stuff from them a while back in my case, this is just kicking the corpse. I wonder how many ppl they alienated by this obnoxious attitude just this time.
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Republicans behave like a mafia.
On the post: eBay's FOSTA-Inspired Ban On 'Adult Content' Is Erasing LGBTQ History
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Also, I do know that the problem isn't the religion per se but rather a bunch of bigots that follow said religion.
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Yes, I agree. But it's an example ppl can understand. There's plenty of bigotry and the likes in the Christian front as well. It's just that the Taliban is one of the most extreme recent examples I could think of that has some reverberation with Americans.
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Yeah I know, it's another absurd. But the Taliban is inside the US as well. Metaphorically speaking.
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Let us imagine if it was a Mexican border agent shooting an American. And there is a precedent now.
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I wasn't very clear: Mariana happened a few years before Brumadinho.
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"In most cases, the most companies like this see are a week of bad headlines and a few regulatory wrist slaps -- assuming U.S. regulators have the time or resources to pursue any kind of meaningful investigation at all." <<< this. We have some regulations here that say all customer service must provide records of all interactions upon request of face fines. Of course you only want these records when you run into problems. And of course when it happens they magically "lose" the records. Because the fine is so ridiculously low and without consequences for repeated offenses that it's worth for them to avoid actually paying for their mistakes.
Other examples? We had two major residue dams rupture in Mariana and Brumadinho here. When Brumadinho happened, the companies had paid virtually nothing in damages so no incentives to fix their security procedures. And to this day they haven't paid even the bare minimum to relieve the victims and families or to actually make a dent in their revenues. Tic toc when is the next disaster going to happen? It's a matter of when the nextr breach/disaster will happen, not if. And the govts are in no hurry to hold these bastards accountable.
On the post: eBay's FOSTA-Inspired Ban On 'Adult Content' Is Erasing LGBTQ History
FOSTA and all this fight against "pornography" is what you get when bigoted moralists get their way. But their appetite cannot be satisfied and we have good examples in the Muslim world. Afghanistan was a very progressive country not long ago but it took a few years of religious bigotry to have women that used to wear nice clothes and lipstick to be locked behind full body covers. All in the name of morals and some imaginary deity. I have to emphasize it took a few years, less than the amount we spent in this century, for a major kick back into Middle Ages madness. The absurd abortion thing, FOSTA... They must be fought back fiercely.
On the post: AT&T's 911, Cellular Networks Face Plant In Wake Of Hurricane Ida
Profit
There's a reason why a large parts of infrastructure networks need to be State owned and maintained. It's glaringly obvious by now that the private sector will not spend even the bare minimum if and they will charge the absolutely maximum possible if left unregulated. 911 and emergency systems should be maintained by the govt end of the story. And public services act competition and prevent exactly what is happening in the US in many, many fronts from telecom to healthcare. But that's too communist for America.
On the post: Man Who Was Ejected From The United States After Appearing In A Film Critical Of ICE Asks Court To Roll Back Removal
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And this justifies the continued harassment of thousands of innocent people, total contempt for the Constitution all seasoned with lots of abuse of power for how many years? One per dead person? Oh and let's not forget the USA was largely responsible for creating Al-Qaeda and there were intelligence warns that were ignored that could have prevented 9/11 and, guess what, DHS and ICE were not the ones responsible for the intelligence work.
On the post: PSA: Universal Music Group Has Copyrighted The Moon. That is All.
There was some noise a while back when some Japanese company patented Brazilian flora. "Ah, products based on Brazillian plants?" you ask. And I answer "No, they patented the goddamn plant. More than one time. I'm certain there must be some article from TD on this but I'm too lazy to search. Still... What the heck.
https://jus.com.br/artigos/37567/biopirataria-o-cupuacu
https://acervo.socioambiental.org/acer vo/noticias/japoneses-registram-patente-da-acerola
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Bigotry is very hard to argue with.
On the post: Report Shows DOJ Engaged In Selective Prosecution To Maximize Punishment For 'Black Lives Matter' Protesters
Racism
Yet more evidence that racism is pervasive in the US government. Unless action is taken on this evidence including but not limited to making the public servants that allowed this to move ahead and the ones that ordered it accountable nothing will change.
It is interesting to see that despite all the violence against BLM protesters, both physical and legal, the movement did not lose traction. These guys, girls and all have my respect.
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There has been the damaged trust. Plenty of sex workers already abandoned ship to alternatives. Win?
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Considering it can be weaponized in many ways other than governments using it for censorship and the "for the children" mantra is often used by people that couldn't care less about the children or civil rights (ie: the Trump horde, dictators around the world etc) this will be very ugly to watch. Thanks Apple. And if I didn't already have enough reasons not to use Apple products now I have one that's probably worth all possible reasons multiplied by a few orders of magnitude.
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