Australia’s plug isn’t bad, in fact, it’s one of the best.

• The angled blade pins ensure polarity will always be the same.
• The ground pin is longer than the live pins, meaning it’ll always make contact first, and last when you pull it out.
• The Earth pin is located on the bottom, meaning when you pull down on it, or if something drops on the plug, it’ll pull away the live pins first.
• also:

Idle games like cookie clicker exploit this to a shocking degree.

Ironically, cookie clicker is actually a parody of idle games, and once you get far enough, there is genuine strategy (assuming you enjoy doing math).

Still doesn’t change the fact the objective is to make number go up

Even Furthermore…

Wanna censor it? Good fucking idea /s

Shoving that shit into the shadows doesn’t make it go away, it just makes it untraceable, unmoderated, and unaccountable.

If you care even remotely about preventing harm, you don’t force taboo communities off the grid. You keep them where they can be seen, tracked, and contained… preferably behind legal firewalls, age gates, and content filters.

If you push them into the dark web… then congratulations… you’ve just built a Petri dish for escalation, radicalization, and actual predation.

Furthermore…

Their decision to target the payment processors - not the developers, or itch.io, or steam, is some of the most cowardly and authoritarian things I’ve ever seen in the gaming space.

It’s economic coercion; a playbook used by religious bigots and authoritarians for decades. Financial censorship by proxy. IMO: they should fuck off.

Collective Shout claim it’s about harm reduction, but then push an agenda that functionally amounts to moral panic.

Their approach is identical in logic to the “GTA causes school shootings” hysteria: loud, pearl-clutching, and utterly unmoored from data.

If Collective Shout want to argue these games cause harm, then show us the harm. Not correlation. Not outrage. Not hypothetical downstream consequences. Show causation. Peer-reviewed. Reproducible.

Otherwise, they’re just moralizing bullies using the banking system as a cudgel.

On top of this, they might actually be harming their own cause. The catharsis hypothesis poses that sexual fantasy enactment might reduce risk of real world harm.

The logic is simple: suppressing a compulsion doesn’t eliminate it. It just bottles up until it explodes. Redirect it into a safe outlet, and it becomes manageable.

The only reason this research isn’t cited more often is because it’s politically radioactive. Nobody wants to admit that it’s better to let a gooners jerk off, than to escalate under repression.

The burden of proof SHOULD be on Collective Shout to provide a reasonable argument which supports their claim that censorship will reduce real world harm.

Current working theory in psychology: it doesn’t. Emerging theory suggests: they’re shooting themselves (and potential rape victims) in the foot.

The real solution to real-world harm involves empathy, autonomy and education.

JESUS CHRIST MARIE! THEY’RE MINERALS!

Lol.

Last week there was a hoax about his death

What timing.

The bat?

“You’ll still be able to access your content”

Yeah, until they release a new version of the launcher, or underlying framework, which prevents the old app to run, locking people out of the content they paid for.

Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.

“Yeah, sure, I see no problems with that. Alternatively, I could just boost your characters to max level if you would like?”

This right here, is the insult you were looking for.

The answers for this kind of fucked up lay in paradoxes.

For example:

If Trump was just 10% better, he would seem far worse.

What do I mean? Every single day is some new shit we need to digest, yet we hadn’t even spent the time to fully digest the last ridiculous shit he said. If we actually had time to process everything then he would appear far worse.

I havent played 3 personally, but I’ve heard the story is kinda botched because its so inconsistent, and the pacing is fucked.

With 1 and 2 you had the anime-bullshit layered between the disney-bullshit.

Apparently with 3, it goes:

anime-bullshit > (disney-bullshit * worlds) > heavy anime-bullshit with loads of exposition.

This is such a terrible take.

Of course AAA and AA mean something in the gaming industry! I’m hardly going to power my controller with a fucking 9V am I?

This is Art

Its simply a matter of harm mitigation.

It simply isnt fair to the rest of society to place people who actively seek harm onto others, back on the street.

I think this is less of a case of ‘dont keep them in prison for the rest of their lives’ and more of a ‘we should improve prison conditions’ type of argument.

Sure, but I wouldn’t exactly categorize speeding as an ‘evil’ act - just reckless.

But then there are malicious crimes. These kinds of crimes are driven by motivations which regularly transcend punishment.

I remember listening to an episode of hardcore history about capital punishment, it detailed public executions throughout the ages, and the takeaway is this:

You could literally publicly rip people limb from limb with horses and rope, people are still going to steal, assault, and rape.

If seeing someone getting skinned alive isn’t enough of a deterrent, I don’t know why prison would be.

The classic example is email; Imagine if you could only email people on Outlook, from another Outlook account. It’s intuitive how shitty that would be, but for some reason we give social media a free pass for doing exactly this.

The benefits are (analogously):

• if you notice Yahoo users send you a lot of spam, you just block all of Yahoo. Sure, you might miss something important, but that’s their fault for using Yahoo.
• if some dickhead like The Zucc releases a new email service (Threads) then maybe your email service (instance) will do you a favor and block them (defederate).
• pedos and bigots look for instances which is known for hosting shady shit, effectively acting as a containment barrier (most instances defederate these by default). Would never see that happen on Twitter (thank you Elon! /s).
• if an instance crashes, that sucks. But there are many others hosting federated content, so Lemmy will never be ‘down’.