That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 Aug 2021 @ 7:40am
Re:
Not sure about the word game, they offered no example of that game play. They did show parts of the gardening game & it was not animal crossing.
Their goal isn't just to fight depression, they are working to retrain a portion of the brain so they obtain longer term benefits. They are pursuing this because the medications don't seem to work as well in older patients.
In the grand scheme of things 7.5 seems rather cheap for them to define how the benefits can be tweaked given the aging population in the country.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 Aug 2021 @ 7:26am
"You have to think clear, basic, and consistently enforced federal guidelines and penalties would incentivize companies to not over-collect data and properly secure their systems."
side eyes the NSA
The main difference is I'm willing to bet on top of the nice contributions to keep elected leaders from passing laws to demand the most basic protections keep them looking away.
Anyone want to take bets that no member of Congress has to deal with the same nightmares we do when their data gets leaked in these things? That magically 1 phone call makes all of the problems for them vanish, so they just assume everyone else gets the same treatment (or thats their story & they are sticking with it because playing stupid works out so well).
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Aug 2021 @ 10:32pm
That recurring thing TAC talks about where people just slap a label on things rather than deal with them as different things.
Sex education will lead to kids having all the sex!!!
So lets teach them nothing & refuse to spend money on any program that even THINKS about mentioning condoms.
I mean it makes sure that the Maurry Show has a waiting list of guests to find out who is the daddy and destroy the myths that some men can't make girls, that being hit in the nuts as a teen doesn't make you sterile for life, and yes you can make a baby that dark.
Meanwhile (IIRC) I think it was in Colorado they gave kids easier access to the tools and education and OMG they stopped having unintended kids & the STI rates went down.
Everything new at some point has been the one thing that will turn children into demons... article about pastor decrying teddy bears as they will make little girls less girlie
The true downside of research like this is the GQP take which will use this research to PROVE that violent videogames can rewire kids into serial killers without souls.
No I don't think a 10 yr old should play Postal, but then I don't have a 10 yr old so my opinion doesn't really matter and even if I had a 10 yr old I let play Postal its my decision.
From the same crowd refusing to wear masks screaming muh rights, but insist on having the right to veto your decisions about procreation, sex, what your child can do... is the push to put clerks in jail if a child buys a rated M game.
Not all video games are bad, not all video games are good...
Just like not all Republicans are death cult supporters, but most of them lack the spine to disagree...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Aug 2021 @ 5:39pm
The system used here on TD is sort of like disemvoweling, but it recruits the community into the effort.
Community standards are followed better when the community makes them.
The message is still there if someone really wants to see it & it makes it easy to see where the line is.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Aug 2021 @ 2:13pm
Like OMG Becki.... they like lied AGAIN!
How could anyone have seen this coming, even after it happeneing every time they make a promise to get something.
Its like when Brad told me he'd just dip the tip & now I'm a mom!
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Aug 2021 @ 1:53pm
Now hear me out, I have a really simple solution...
How about they pass some laws to make sure that the ag corporations don't mistreat workers or animals then fund it with real inspectors??
I mean if there were actually penalties for companies abusing animals or using obviously sick ones they'd stop and stuff right?
Of course being everyones favorite sociopath in the alternative how about we just force Iowa's legislators to eat every recalled product until they decide that the big ag donations aren't worth the lives they are taking by cutting corners.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Aug 2021 @ 10:54pm
Re:
Having never seen for myself, he could be a giant twat but the one constant in the universe is Nintendo hates their customers.
Their most die hard fans who buy every stupid thing that hits the market with their favorite character on it make the mistake of photoshopping themselves into a pic with said character & the Nintendo lawyers show up demanding they be executed.
This twats site will be used as the poster child for the label of RomSites by the copyright cartels, ignoring that not every romsite is run by an asshole.
Nintendo could solve this I mean for less than they are spending on the tactical lawyer teams they could probably buy off anyone who was a rights hold out & own the roms free & clear.
I mean its not like they can pretend that there is no customer demand.
They could make a killing offering a legit console that could handle all the old games, hell pack the old roms onto new carts with multiple titles on each one & it'll fly off the shelves with demand for more.
Or keep pissing money into the abyss where you think if you just spend a little bit more you will finally win against those bastard consumers who will get what they wanted 1 way or another.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Aug 2021 @ 7:44pm
Your honor, this case should be dismissed.
They entered into an agreement that states they can't tell us what they used or how it works.
How are we supposed to test the veracity of this?
They might have found something, but they can't tell us how they arrived there or if they created the trail afterwards.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Aug 2021 @ 7:42pm
"Netflix's response so far has been in a few instances to try and blame the user's ISP"
How you manage to turn paying customers into ex-customers.
Trying to find all the bad VPNs is a pointless game...
They could have spent the money pushing a much more intelligent solution... fix the rats nest of global rights that leads to people who want to pay you to use a VPN because of arbitrary rules that make no sense in an interconnected world.
Imagine being the first global platform and being able to mean it.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Aug 2021 @ 7:38pm
Because even the faithful have started to figure out that banning abortion isn't actually going to happen, so they need a new banner to rally the troops under.
So they take to the same platforms they claim are silencing them to raise money from the rubes to win the war that only exists in their minds.
Something something gun registration laws blocked by convincing the rubes that if Obama had their address then he could send drones to kill them.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Aug 2021 @ 5:59pm
Re: Reward?
From my own experience.
Heroes of the Storm has loot boxes.
You can 'win' one by leveling characters & your entire account (math about total levels and such).
Sometimes the loot boxes are themed, they did a 'Mexican Wrestling' theme.
Skins for various heroes as luchadors, mounts based on the same theme.
You could purchase loot boxes with real world cash, with in game gold you purchased or won, or shards (get a duplicate item it gets turned into shards you can use to get things you don't have).
Occasionally you get an XP boost for a short period (also straight purchase available).
There is nothing in the boxes that can't be obtained via other mechanics in the game. Nothing in the boxes gives players a actual thing that lets them dominate others who haven't purchased it. (The XP boost just advances your level faster, but its not unlocking special powers & such)
Earlier someone compared them to packs of Magic the Gathering, and its very similar. You purchase (sometimes win) packs as a prize, there are x commons x uncommon 1 rare or better in each pack. Everyone has the same number of cards in their pack, but some cards are stronger/better.
The more packs you buy the more chances of getting the best cards.
That seems less fair than the HOTS loot boxes because only the xp boost gives any in game benefit & those benefits mean you can get more cosmetic upgrades but no competitive edge.
Some sketch phone games sell loot boxes in large qty.
(See also the stories about kids charging $50K on moms credit card)
In those loot boxes they often are the only way to move forward in the game without spending weeks grinding in game doing the boring things & they let you catapult you ahead of others.
Loot Box means different things but its just a label that tried to cover to many similar but sometimes very different things. Some are unbalanced and the kid who can charge the most to moms credit card will win because they bought the best others are oh hey I got a pink horse any of my characters can ride, its just like every other horse in the game just a different color I can use to match a pink skin I have for one of my characters it changes nothing about game mechanics.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Aug 2021 @ 2:36am
Re: Re:
Heh I am off-topic all the time.
It was actually sort of sweet in a twisted way when he said it.
His mental image of what one of teh gays is like developed a bunch of cracks because he had no idea I was one of teh gays. None of the people we had in common ever bothered to share that detail because it didn't matter to them. I didn't run around in drag or a thong heading to a pride parade & if someone used gay in a stupid way my response was always to tell them they could do better and they made me sad for cheaping out on insults.
Besides, I'm not really gay... its just a rumor started by all those guys who's dicks I sucked.
Something something drive a truck my whole life and I'm a trucker... but I suck 1 dick and I'm suddenly a cocksucker wtf people. Work on your labeling.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Aug 2021 @ 2:27am
Could someone please remind these assholes we have a pandemic raging across the country because they lack the will to stand up to Trump & his bootlickers?
Then maybe they could save the people about to be evicted.
Then maybe make sure our water won't kill us.
Then maybe make sure bridges won't drop pieces and kill us.
Then maybe make sure that the homeless are getting the vaccine.
Then maybe deal with that pesky global warming thing.
Then maybe deal with the inequality that has flourished on their watch.
And then after a few thousand other things that citizens ACTUALLY care about you can bring up your loot box raging when we live in a utopia and loot boxes are the worst fucking thing we are facing.
In the meantime, please fuck all the way off with this bullshit.
None of you understand what the hell the internet is and isn't and you refuse to get educated because then you couldn't push these pointless demands to score points with your supporters who seem to think this matters more than human life.
Look at what you have done & try to pretend you can feel shame you worthless sacks of crap.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Aug 2021 @ 6:38pm
That weirdo with the trendy avatar keeps saying this & some people still doubt it is true.
Humans insist on putting labels on things, then cramming more & more things into them until they are useless.
Remember when YT was the internet?
How about when Google was the internet?
Or when Craigslist was the internet?
Or the hundreds of other things became the entire internet so people never had to consider things on their own, just a monolith.
DoJ arrested people for rioting, pushed to put them in jail for a very very long time, but there was not a SINGLE shred of evidence those charged had broken any laws, their lawyer said to the jury that reasonable doubt didn't matter.
Rather than hold those who actually broke the law responsible for their actions, they just scooped up who they could get & tried to make them the scapegoats.
This is happening more and more in society...
People demanding that all Muslims needed to denounce terrorism & still tried to brand them all as terrorists.
I don't remember any of the white evangelical churches being forced to denounce any of the assholes blowing up clinics (hell lots of members helped hide them from the law.)
BLM marches, a couple idiots break some windows & suddenly BLM is a terrorists group, not just the few idiots.
Sex Offender used to mean someone who abused children... now peeing in an alley can make you one.
People want easy to access labels (but only for others not themselves) because it makes everything to simple, until reality laughs as things are more complicated than the simple labels & you can't treat everything the same.
People need to accept that reality is complicated, that all people are different & just lumping them into a single mass is a disservice to those people and yourself.
TAC I like you, you're gay but your not like gay gay.
This is a paraphrase of an actual comment from someone I knew who was probably a tiny bit homophobic, but I didn't live up to the "all gays are like this" stories they had been fed about how we all are.
We all do this to a degree, our minds are built to lump things together but we really need to consider things as what they are not the label we stuffed them in.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Aug 2021 @ 6:12pm
I look forward to people managing to get another 1000 years of "free *" credit monitoring as compensation.
The only way this will ever change is if some gray hats managed to compile the breached data about members of Congress & go to town with it.
They live in this magical bubble where they pretend everyone is treated like they are, ignoring they are pampered like the CEO's are.
Imagine if MTG had to deal with the archaic system we all face when some corporation didn't actually take our privacy seriously. In between her trying to blame the Space Jews & Obama, they might actually pass some rules to actually punish these corporations who refuse to spend a single dime on securing their systems after seeing hundreds of breaches & thinking it will never happen to them.
Social security numbers were never meant to become what they are today, perhaps it is time to demand better. I mean they FINALLY took SS numbers off of medicare cards & now use a unique identifier to try and stop fraud. SS numbers are like bluetooth, it was a nice idea but don't use it for important things.
On the post: Video Games, Once Demonized, More Regularly Utilized For Positive Health Benefits
Re:
Not sure about the word game, they offered no example of that game play. They did show parts of the gardening game & it was not animal crossing.
Their goal isn't just to fight depression, they are working to retrain a portion of the brain so they obtain longer term benefits. They are pursuing this because the medications don't seem to work as well in older patients.
In the grand scheme of things 7.5 seems rather cheap for them to define how the benefits can be tweaked given the aging population in the country.
On the post: T-Mobile Confirms Major Hack, Social Security Numbers And Drivers License Data Exposed
"You have to think clear, basic, and consistently enforced federal guidelines and penalties would incentivize companies to not over-collect data and properly secure their systems."
side eyes the NSA
The main difference is I'm willing to bet on top of the nice contributions to keep elected leaders from passing laws to demand the most basic protections keep them looking away.
Anyone want to take bets that no member of Congress has to deal with the same nightmares we do when their data gets leaked in these things? That magically 1 phone call makes all of the problems for them vanish, so they just assume everyone else gets the same treatment (or thats their story & they are sticking with it because playing stupid works out so well).
On the post: Video Games, Once Demonized, More Regularly Utilized For Positive Health Benefits
That recurring thing TAC talks about where people just slap a label on things rather than deal with them as different things.
Sex education will lead to kids having all the sex!!!
So lets teach them nothing & refuse to spend money on any program that even THINKS about mentioning condoms.
I mean it makes sure that the Maurry Show has a waiting list of guests to find out who is the daddy and destroy the myths that some men can't make girls, that being hit in the nuts as a teen doesn't make you sterile for life, and yes you can make a baby that dark.
Meanwhile (IIRC) I think it was in Colorado they gave kids easier access to the tools and education and OMG they stopped having unintended kids & the STI rates went down.
Everything new at some point has been the one thing that will turn children into demons... article about pastor decrying teddy bears as they will make little girls less girlie
The true downside of research like this is the GQP take which will use this research to PROVE that violent videogames can rewire kids into serial killers without souls.
No I don't think a 10 yr old should play Postal, but then I don't have a 10 yr old so my opinion doesn't really matter and even if I had a 10 yr old I let play Postal its my decision.
From the same crowd refusing to wear masks screaming muh rights, but insist on having the right to veto your decisions about procreation, sex, what your child can do... is the push to put clerks in jail if a child buys a rated M game.
Not all video games are bad, not all video games are good...
Just like not all Republicans are death cult supporters, but most of them lack the spine to disagree...
On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: BoingBoing Begins Disemvoweling The Trolls (2007)
The system used here on TD is sort of like disemvoweling, but it recruits the community into the effort.
Community standards are followed better when the community makes them.
The message is still there if someone really wants to see it & it makes it easy to see where the line is.
On the post: Judge Says Voting Machine Company Can Continue To Sue Trump's Buddies Over Bogus Election Fraud Claims
Re: Re:
I dunno, the 'faithful' still believe & are handing them cash.
They are sure any day now the court will see the truth and put Trump in office.
On the post: California Regulators Say T-Mobile Lied To Gain Sprint Merger Approval
Like OMG Becki.... they like lied AGAIN!
How could anyone have seen this coming, even after it happeneing every time they make a promise to get something.
Its like when Brad told me he'd just dip the tip & now I'm a mom!
On the post: Devin Nunes' Deposition Goes Off The Rails, As He Keeps Suing (And Actually Gets A Minor Victory In One Suit)
"You don't get to ask me questions about things that you know and I don't."
So the law, ethics, the Constitution, ......
On the post: Appeals Court Says Iowa's Ag-Gag Law Is About 50 Percent Constitutional
Now hear me out, I have a really simple solution...
How about they pass some laws to make sure that the ag corporations don't mistreat workers or animals then fund it with real inspectors??
I mean if there were actually penalties for companies abusing animals or using obviously sick ones they'd stop and stuff right?
Of course being everyones favorite sociopath in the alternative how about we just force Iowa's legislators to eat every recalled product until they decide that the big ag donations aren't worth the lives they are taking by cutting corners.
On the post: Judge Says Voting Machine Company Can Continue To Sue Trump's Buddies Over Bogus Election Fraud Claims
I mean they said they had this mountain of evidence, you'd think they would have shown some of it by now...
On the post: Court Orders Injunction Against RomUniverse To Permanently Shut Down, Destroy Nintendo ROMs
Re:
Having never seen for myself, he could be a giant twat but the one constant in the universe is Nintendo hates their customers.
Their most die hard fans who buy every stupid thing that hits the market with their favorite character on it make the mistake of photoshopping themselves into a pic with said character & the Nintendo lawyers show up demanding they be executed.
This twats site will be used as the poster child for the label of RomSites by the copyright cartels, ignoring that not every romsite is run by an asshole.
Nintendo could solve this I mean for less than they are spending on the tactical lawyer teams they could probably buy off anyone who was a rights hold out & own the roms free & clear.
I mean its not like they can pretend that there is no customer demand.
They could make a killing offering a legit console that could handle all the old games, hell pack the old roms onto new carts with multiple titles on each one & it'll fly off the shelves with demand for more.
Or keep pissing money into the abyss where you think if you just spend a little bit more you will finally win against those bastard consumers who will get what they wanted 1 way or another.
On the post: Good News: Twitter Announces An Excellent Lead For The Bluesky Decentralized Social Media Protocol Project
One hopes it happens before they /dev/null all of my data.
My hopes are not high.
On the post: Redaction Failure Shows Grayshift Is Swearing Cops To Secrecy About Its Phone-Cracking Tech
Your honor, this case should be dismissed.
They entered into an agreement that states they can't tell us what they used or how it works.
How are we supposed to test the veracity of this?
They might have found something, but they can't tell us how they arrived there or if they created the trail afterwards.
On the post: Netflix's Ramped Up War On VPNs Comes With Collateral Damage
"Netflix's response so far has been in a few instances to try and blame the user's ISP"
How you manage to turn paying customers into ex-customers.
Trying to find all the bad VPNs is a pointless game...
They could have spent the money pushing a much more intelligent solution... fix the rats nest of global rights that leads to people who want to pay you to use a VPN because of arbitrary rules that make no sense in an interconnected world.
Imagine being the first global platform and being able to mean it.
On the post: Why Is The Republican Party Obsessed With Social Media?
Because even the faithful have started to figure out that banning abortion isn't actually going to happen, so they need a new banner to rally the troops under.
So they take to the same platforms they claim are silencing them to raise money from the rubes to win the war that only exists in their minds.
Something something gun registration laws blocked by convincing the rubes that if Obama had their address then he could send drones to kill them.
On the post: 4 Dems Pushing Game Companies To Drop Loot Boxes Pointing At UK Law That Doesn't Mention Loot Boxes
Re: Reward?
From my own experience.
Heroes of the Storm has loot boxes.
You can 'win' one by leveling characters & your entire account (math about total levels and such).
Sometimes the loot boxes are themed, they did a 'Mexican Wrestling' theme.
Skins for various heroes as luchadors, mounts based on the same theme.
You could purchase loot boxes with real world cash, with in game gold you purchased or won, or shards (get a duplicate item it gets turned into shards you can use to get things you don't have).
Occasionally you get an XP boost for a short period (also straight purchase available).
There is nothing in the boxes that can't be obtained via other mechanics in the game. Nothing in the boxes gives players a actual thing that lets them dominate others who haven't purchased it. (The XP boost just advances your level faster, but its not unlocking special powers & such)
Earlier someone compared them to packs of Magic the Gathering, and its very similar. You purchase (sometimes win) packs as a prize, there are x commons x uncommon 1 rare or better in each pack. Everyone has the same number of cards in their pack, but some cards are stronger/better.
The more packs you buy the more chances of getting the best cards.
That seems less fair than the HOTS loot boxes because only the xp boost gives any in game benefit & those benefits mean you can get more cosmetic upgrades but no competitive edge.
Some sketch phone games sell loot boxes in large qty.
(See also the stories about kids charging $50K on moms credit card)
In those loot boxes they often are the only way to move forward in the game without spending weeks grinding in game doing the boring things & they let you catapult you ahead of others.
Loot Box means different things but its just a label that tried to cover to many similar but sometimes very different things. Some are unbalanced and the kid who can charge the most to moms credit card will win because they bought the best others are oh hey I got a pink horse any of my characters can ride, its just like every other horse in the game just a different color I can use to match a pink skin I have for one of my characters it changes nothing about game mechanics.
On the post: Facebook Is NOT The Internet; Stop Regulating As If It Was
Re: Re:
Heh I am off-topic all the time.
It was actually sort of sweet in a twisted way when he said it.
His mental image of what one of teh gays is like developed a bunch of cracks because he had no idea I was one of teh gays. None of the people we had in common ever bothered to share that detail because it didn't matter to them. I didn't run around in drag or a thong heading to a pride parade & if someone used gay in a stupid way my response was always to tell them they could do better and they made me sad for cheaping out on insults.
Besides, I'm not really gay... its just a rumor started by all those guys who's dicks I sucked.
Something something drive a truck my whole life and I'm a trucker... but I suck 1 dick and I'm suddenly a cocksucker wtf people. Work on your labeling.
On the post: 4 Dems Pushing Game Companies To Drop Loot Boxes Pointing At UK Law That Doesn't Mention Loot Boxes
Could someone please remind these assholes we have a pandemic raging across the country because they lack the will to stand up to Trump & his bootlickers?
Then maybe they could save the people about to be evicted.
Then maybe make sure our water won't kill us.
Then maybe make sure bridges won't drop pieces and kill us.
Then maybe make sure that the homeless are getting the vaccine.
Then maybe deal with that pesky global warming thing.
Then maybe deal with the inequality that has flourished on their watch.
And then after a few thousand other things that citizens ACTUALLY care about you can bring up your loot box raging when we live in a utopia and loot boxes are the worst fucking thing we are facing.
In the meantime, please fuck all the way off with this bullshit.
None of you understand what the hell the internet is and isn't and you refuse to get educated because then you couldn't push these pointless demands to score points with your supporters who seem to think this matters more than human life.
Look at what you have done & try to pretend you can feel shame you worthless sacks of crap.
On the post: Facebook Is NOT The Internet; Stop Regulating As If It Was
That weirdo with the trendy avatar keeps saying this & some people still doubt it is true.
Humans insist on putting labels on things, then cramming more & more things into them until they are useless.
Remember when YT was the internet?
How about when Google was the internet?
Or when Craigslist was the internet?
Or the hundreds of other things became the entire internet so people never had to consider things on their own, just a monolith.
DoJ arrested people for rioting, pushed to put them in jail for a very very long time, but there was not a SINGLE shred of evidence those charged had broken any laws, their lawyer said to the jury that reasonable doubt didn't matter.
Rather than hold those who actually broke the law responsible for their actions, they just scooped up who they could get & tried to make them the scapegoats.
This is happening more and more in society...
People demanding that all Muslims needed to denounce terrorism & still tried to brand them all as terrorists.
I don't remember any of the white evangelical churches being forced to denounce any of the assholes blowing up clinics (hell lots of members helped hide them from the law.)
BLM marches, a couple idiots break some windows & suddenly BLM is a terrorists group, not just the few idiots.
Sex Offender used to mean someone who abused children... now peeing in an alley can make you one.
People want easy to access labels (but only for others not themselves) because it makes everything to simple, until reality laughs as things are more complicated than the simple labels & you can't treat everything the same.
People need to accept that reality is complicated, that all people are different & just lumping them into a single mass is a disservice to those people and yourself.
TAC I like you, you're gay but your not like gay gay.
This is a paraphrase of an actual comment from someone I knew who was probably a tiny bit homophobic, but I didn't live up to the "all gays are like this" stories they had been fed about how we all are.
We all do this to a degree, our minds are built to lump things together but we really need to consider things as what they are not the label we stuffed them in.
On the post: Dominion Sues Newsmax, OAN, And The Head Of Overstock.Com For Election-Related Defamation
Re:
picture of Dave Chapell as Rick James
Cocaine!! It's a hell of a drug.
On the post: T-Mobile Investigating 100 Million Subscriber Data Breach
I look forward to people managing to get another 1000 years of "free *" credit monitoring as compensation.
The only way this will ever change is if some gray hats managed to compile the breached data about members of Congress & go to town with it.
They live in this magical bubble where they pretend everyone is treated like they are, ignoring they are pampered like the CEO's are.
Imagine if MTG had to deal with the archaic system we all face when some corporation didn't actually take our privacy seriously. In between her trying to blame the Space Jews & Obama, they might actually pass some rules to actually punish these corporations who refuse to spend a single dime on securing their systems after seeing hundreds of breaches & thinking it will never happen to them.
Social security numbers were never meant to become what they are today, perhaps it is time to demand better. I mean they FINALLY took SS numbers off of medicare cards & now use a unique identifier to try and stop fraud. SS numbers are like bluetooth, it was a nice idea but don't use it for important things.
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