Lootboxes are sooo 2010s though. It‘s all about season passes and general FOMO. I doubt they will correctly identify and properly regulate „addictive features“ in a way that puts an end to that but I guess we‘ll see.
Isn‘t the Reddit front page full of reposted older threads by bots anyway? That repost bot would repost reposts of other bots then. I am not sure what this would accomplish other than turning Lemmy into yet another soulless content mill.
So much for „laws that apply in the real world apply in the digital world too.“ They‘re proposing a lawless playground for corporations that will definitely get abused to damage industries, people, and attack democracy as a whole.
Hackers not being able to do frontend isn‘t surprising if you ever talked about usability with an IT person. Their deeper knowledge of the matter prevents them from thinking like an average user. They legitimately can‘t do it properly to save their lives.
Problem is Youtube is known to censor these kind of campaigns. I think they literally got caught delisting Tiny11 tutorials recently. Imagine what they‘ll do if Linux Tutorials pick up steam. Big tech is one giant illegal syndicate and politicians have invested in all of them.
I think it will pop. But oh no! Now what do we do with all these data centers equipped with endless GPU power and RAM that we are building? Oh, I know! Cloud gaming! In fact let‘s buy up even more GPUs and RAM then rent the computing power to companies Epic Games, Valve, Apple, Nvidia. Look! Microsoft is already adding it to Gamepass+++! And what‘s that? Is that Google Stadia with a steel chair?! Better be quick folks!
This is the future of mainstream gaming. I wish I was being sarcastic. It will be horrible.
I agree but we have barely seen anything of what cloud gaming will become. Platforms like Steam will introduce it too. Especially after the Steam Machine is turning out to be such a headache for them because of uncertain hardware prices. This will happen and I am very afraid a lot of users will welcome it with open arms. We could be witnessing the end of home computers right now.
I mean what makes the AfD unique in German politics is how little regional power they have despite getting 15% and more of the votes. Usually a party of that size should‘ve secured a lot more towns and cities by now but their popularity is somewhere between 10% and 30% in rare extreme cases everywhere. They‘re simply not very popular anywhere.
I think it‘s generally believed that the AfD‘s way of success (spreading fear and hate with blatant lies in social media) is their biggest weakness in the end because it evenly distributes their BS across the country and they can‘t really make any use of their rising popularity in many cases.
I mean we had elections in Germany’s most populated state of North Rhine-Westphalia this year and they couldn‘t win a single district or get a single candidate elected. This is not normal for a party with that kind of popularity. It‘s a disaster for them.
So while media keeps spreading fear for clicks, the reality is that the far right appear to be larger than they actually are. There are far more people in Germany that hate the AfD than there are supporters.
Nevertheless, being a far right extremist organization, they should be banned. This is a no-brainer. The fact that it isn‘t happening yet shows how little the current right-conservative government cares about the people. They see opportunity in having a farther right party in the parliament so they themselves look more centric in comparison.
I don‘t believe in laziness. There is no scientific proof for laziness but plenty evidence that points in the opposite direction. It‘s as ridiculous of a concept as an almighty god. Possibly even more outlandish.
Boredom is torture. Nobody is acting lazy out of choice. We simply spend our energy at unproductive things sometimes. But honestly? Isn’t that what all this circus is about in the end? That we do what we love or that we do things for others because we love them?
Show me one „lazy“ person and I‘ll tell you why they‘re not actually lazy but occupy themselves with things you or I don‘t deem important. It‘s not laziness. It never is.
I‘m realizing one of the main problems with Lemmy is that this crap isn‘t deleted by mods and downvotes are the same as upvotes in terms of being pushed to the front page it seems. We can‘t do anything against this nonsense except ignoring it.
Seems like standard procedure to higher ups in China. They did something similar to Xi Jinping‘s father when he spoke out against a violent solution for the protests. Too bad Xi learned all the wrong lesson‘s from his dad‘s political exile.
I mean you still have strict privacy rights on private communication channels. Channels that are generally not considered a public place. At least on paper.
Lootboxes are sooo 2010s though. It‘s all about season passes and general FOMO. I doubt they will correctly identify and properly regulate „addictive features“ in a way that puts an end to that but I guess we‘ll see.