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@DUSKdev They gotta cancel every order and do it all over again but this time one per person, not two because two was two much.

Oh yeah that's right, the Steam Controller comes out today! I'm gonna go order one right now! ... Oh

@DiexoKharisma @ChazingtonYT That's because MatPat was mainly the voice for theories while the crew you're listening to now was the theory crew.

@ChazingtonYT im glad that even after matpat retired, they still are out there doing the same old bullshit he does

@chansu_moder @dqveed It's structurally like a joke, maybe not as funny but it just works as one, which is what's quite creative about it. Overall the story itself is fantastic and one of my favourite short stories I've ever read.

@chansu_moder @dqveed 7 humans are trapped with an AI that inflicts them endless pain. One day the AI sets them on an adventure and one of the people mentions there might be food somewhere. When the group arrives to find the canned food, they find out they have no can opener and start ---- eachother.

black mirror needs to create an episode so scary nobody would want to touch ai with a ten foot pole.,

@vix12mungai @LegacyKillaHD Maybe it's just nostalgia for me then but as much as I loved GTA SA, GTA 3 somewhat and GTA4, I really hated playing through GTA5, it felt like a slog, sticks and mud. Also the hyper agressive police didn't help because it would just instantly assume the player is a threat.

@DemonsMoansVA @LegacyKillaHD I heavily disagree. There’s aspects of 4 that are better but overall gameplay was more fun in 5. 4’s story blows it out of the water but it’s such a chore to play through. Repetitive mission structure, lack of open world content, mechanics taken OUT of the 3D era games, etc

A whole generation grew up without a new GTA and it shows lmao

@IntCyberDigest The UK could run a 30-60 second advert about how to literallly put restrictions on your router so kids don't access websites you don't want them to... But that wouldn't get the data from adults now, would it? Also, the fact that kids still have to scan their face is gross af.

🇬🇧 The first major assessment of the UK's Online Safety Act is out. Turns out kids are fooling the age checks by drawing moustaches on their faces. "I did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old." Mum of a 12-year-old, in a new report from Internet Matters, the UK's leading online-safety NGO. That single line tells you almost everything you need to know about how the UK's Online Safety Act is going. This is the law that: 🔴 Forced UK platforms to demand government IDs, facial scans, and credit-card checks from adults to access ordinary websites 🔴 Drove a 1,800%+ spike in VPN downloads the week the porn-site age checks went live in July 2025 🔴 Pushed millions of users into handing biometric data to private third-party verification vendors 🔴 Sits at the front of a global wave: Greece's anonymity ban, France's "VPNs are next" comments, Utah's VPN crackdown, and the EU's 27-state rollout deadline of December 2026 The headline numbers from the assessment: 🔴 46% of children say age checks are easy to bypass. Only 17% say they are difficult. 🔴 32% of children have already bypassed them in the past two months 🔴 49% of children still report experiencing harm online in the past month The bypass methods kids reported, in their own words: 🔴 Drawing on facial hair with eyebrow pencil to fool facial age estimation 🔴 Holding up a video game character's head turning during the face-scan 🔴 Submitting a video of a different person's face entirely 🔴 Using a parent's ID (often with parental consent) 🔴 Entering a fake birthday (still works on most platforms) 🔴 Using someone else's login or device 🔴 In a small minority of cases, VPNs One 12-year-old girl explained the system to researchers: "Every time I go live on TikTok, it tells me I have to be 18, but when the AI detects that I'm not 18 they ban me. But they only ban me for 10 minutes and then I can go live again." That is the entire enforcement model. A 14-year-old summed up the broader picture: "It's not practical because the more you restrict it, the more people are going to want to get past that age restriction." A 16-year-old, more bluntly: "I think it's a great idea in theory and I applaud its intentions, but I don't see how that's feasible, because kids will always find a way." Even when verification works, it works against the children. A 12-year-old boy on Roblox: "I put my face in and I got 15 when I'm 12, so I'm chatting with people older than me when I shouldn't be." A 13-year-old non-binary child: "Adults can very easily use a face they searched on the internet to trick it into thinking you're someone you're not, so there might be adults in kids' age groups trying to groom them." Recent reporting confirms exactly that. Underage Roblox accounts are now being sold online to predators precisely because they bypass the new "safety" measures. One detail in the report stops you cold. Multiple children described being unintentionally exposed through their feeds to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. A 14-year-old: "I saw it on Snapchat. I broke down into tears and then told my mum immediately." Violent content, racist content, content promoting unrealistic body types: all explicitly prohibited under the Children's Safety Codes. All still landing in feeds at scale. Parents told researchers about the day-to-day reality of trying to enforce the rules at home. A father of a 14-year-old: "What you'll find now is that the kids know more than we know in terms of how to disable [parental controls]. We've got the parental controls on, but they probably unlock them." A mother of a 13-year-old: "We do what we can, but our kids are all clever and savvy and they can get around stuff." A mother of a 12-year-old: "I can put all the checks and measures in, and I can be keeping an eye open on what she's watching, listening to, who she's chatting to. And then she could go to a house down the road and visit somebody whose parents don't care, and they've got zero checks and measures." Both children and parents expressed real concerns about handing over biometric data to verification platforms they do not trust. One father warned: "Kids don't know the difference between a genuine website and a website that isn't genuine. If all websites have facial verifications and they go on a website that is not genuine, their face and their documents could be used to do illegal stuff." The father is right. The Discord vendor breach in October 2025 already exposed roughly 70,000 government IDs uploaded purely for age verification. The EU's own age verification app was reportedly hacked within minutes of launch. The report's most uncomfortable finding sits inside the parental data. 26% of parents are not just aware their kids bypass age checks, they are actively complicit. Some logged into their child's account with their own ID to "go live" on TikTok. Others approved circumvention so their child could play a specific game. The reasoning is rarely malicious. Parents told researchers they only help when they personally judged the activity safe. But the structural problem is fatal: a verification system that treats parents as the last line of defence collapses the moment parents themselves become the bypass. Even children who follow the rules end up disadvantaged by them. A 15-year-old: "There are websites that are support websites to help with things such as eating disorders and suicide, and they've all been censored." A 12-year-old: "Before you could talk to anybody, but they added age group limits so you can only talk to people in your age group. So if my friends are younger or older than me I wouldn't be able to talk to them." The blunt instrument of age-gating breaks legitimate connection and support without measurably reducing harm.

@TheIshikawaRin Translation from corpo speak: "Game runs like dogshit on PC and we ain't got time to fix that in time because of how big it got so best we can do is consoles first"

Not considering PC a part of the "core consumer" in 2026 is a wild as hell statement.

@LegacyKillaHD I feel like they spent more time making the maps than they did making sure the game is actually fun to play around with the main story. The voice acting and story are of course alright, I didn't have issues with that but gameplay wise it was just okay at best. (2/2)

@LegacyKillaHD I grew with GTA:SA and even I have to admit that GTAV was a disaster of a game that years after people discovered everything there is, they realised that it's just worse version of GTAIV. Mechanically I mean (1/2)

‼️‼️BREAKING‼️‼️ Valve ceo Gaben broke down in tears after his self-financed steam controller opened to $23 at the release of it: “Fuuuck dude this controller cost so much money I'm so fucked” What do you think will happen next?

@coah80 go ahead

@DemonsMoansVA Im stealing this and giving no credit

Gabe newell speaks on steam controllers release: "when we do make games, like half life alyx, or counter strike 2, its just to fuck with the industry; we made the valve index to shove a cock down zuckerburgs throat." Steam Frame next ⁉️

@jr_taurus62289 What's UK's response to that? "We need stricter restrictions, now everyone has to insert their ID" Which btw also backfired as children started asking for an ID of their parents. Those kids are more creative than the government.

@Green_Paraclete @Rt2Sender @OnyxBut_Better @Klay94273900 @AnimeSerbia Either you don't know what a hypothetical is, bait people to respond for 1 dollar with that blue check or you're an actual pedophile. There's no other possibility.

@Rt2Sender @OnyxBut_Better @Klay94273900 @AnimeSerbia Again, that's not what happened. That's not this situation at all.

Apparently what she actually got got for was traced porn of the actress from lazytown. Knew something was up cause you never really actually hear about people going down for this anywhere

@DreamLeaf5 They no longer say that it's a hoax, now they say are extremely nihilistic and just admit that they want people dead.

“Global warming is a hoax” 🥴

@DeathMetalV Even if its real, people don't care anymore because they need to commute to work and they can't because of gas shortage. so instead they need to walk and if they heard the news of this happening, who's gonna be shocked exactly aside from the devotees?

Gas is up so they're staging another assassination.

@HawkZxo @skylermzx the problem is with the production cost.

@skylermzx yeah even its normal price is too much should be like 40 usd/euro instead of 100

Scalping is just a word for scamming. Scalpers should honestly be arrested.

@thicc_stick_boi "but it comes with a console" Yeah, what if you want to play with two more people? then your ass is cooked.

you say that like nintendo doesn't charge $100 for joycons

@zackdfilms1 My pa taught me that trick, though he would often use a jar to smack the first.

How To Open A Stuck Pistachio 😮