The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures
sp3ctr4l @ sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 9Comments 1,262Joined 4 mo. ago
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Yep.
There's the whole... apparently when Thor was essentially high school to post high school age, he managed to cajole a younger SecondLife user, who was actually decently talented at creating like clothes and custom player models...
So in SecondLife, you can actually make real money that way, you can cash out the SecondLife currency for actual realworld money.
Yeah SecondLife was actually quite a pioneer in a lot of ways, from a technical and just 'what even is a video game' standpoint, lets say uh 'eccentric' community and reputation aside.
And Thor basically convinced this other SL user, who was like 5 years younger than him... that he could make them both more money as a sort of salesman, promoter, of this other persons user made content... if they profit share.
I may have some details wrong here, but basically... Thor did basically nothing in terms of promotion, yet he made a significant chunk of change off of this other person.
Because ... SL just has basically a universal market you can list things in.
Like uh, Escape from Tarkov, or FF14's auction house or what not, fully built into the game... but even more so as it actually allows you to cash out to real world money.
its not like you'd have to do some kind of technical wizardry to enable sales, its not like Thor whipped up some kind of gray/black market system / payment processor way back when PayPal was still a fairly new idea.
Alongside that, there were allegations of basically ERP going waaay too far.
Now, this other person has I think entirely denied any kind of ERP abuse, sexual or just normal relationship abuse, says everything was fine...
But a good number of people seem to think that the essentially digital labor theft Thor did, basically amounts to its own kind of grooming, exploitation.
We investigated ourselves and everything looks peachy actually!
Yep, no need for any independent audit mr. auditor regulator man person!
=D
wtf AI in your mouse driver?
Oh yeah, totally not logging your every mouse movement, no sir, not at all!
I lack the photoshop skills, but uh
The 'plap plap GET PREGNANT' meme, but with a therapist shouting:
'accept what you can't change'
'don't blame yourself for things out of your control'
'oh, the copay is $125'
'you missed the last appointment so we charged you for not canceling in advance'
'im worried you're not taking our sessions seriously'
sorry psych professionals, there is no ethical therapy under capitalism
Wow, I hadn't even heard of that particular story of Thor being an egotistical asshat.
I'd been looking into the WoW debacle, then stumbled into other stuff, but nope, that one's new to me.
This is fucking bonkers.
I ran the math a few days ago, before this absolutely blew the fuck up, and I came to:
We'd need 11k sigs per day until July 31st.
... We're now apparently at more than double that and climbing exponentially.
Ho Lee Shit.
God DAMN has it been a while since I've seen something go actually, truly, organically viral.
Wait untill people realize that Ross Scott has had a running show, 'Freeman's Mind', going back to basically the fucking machinima days, where he just does a playthrough of all of Half Life and voices Gordon's inner thoughts.
Its still on his youtube channel!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PNZBb6b9LvDWpI-5CPYUxG1Rnm-vr9V
We are going to need another petition to get Ross an honorary title, a goddamned bust of an upraised fist in an HEV suit, clenching a crowbar, with 'For Exceptional Valor and Dutiful Service in the Defense of Video Gaming' emblazoned on its base.
Let the memes flow!
Probably not, I'm the one that's hated and shunned and gaslit by the entire family because of how easily and often I point out that they are both hypocrites and objectively wrong about nearly every single political, economic or sociological idea they have.
But I do appreciate your validation, lol!
Yeah, got two bachelors degree's simultaneously.
Managed to do it in 4 years + 1 summer quarter.
But uh yeah, I'm basically too knowledgeable for my own good, and the autism doesn't help with dealing with abusive narcissist family members.
Oh well!
I ghosted them to the point they probably think I am actually dead.
... and its just overpowered spaceheaters with concave reflector/concentrators, made of hand polished titanium for some reason, that have to be manually aimed.
As a data analyst with an Econ Degree and specialization in Econometrics:
Data and graphs and tables and lists mean nothing to anyone other than nerds, people need a narrative.
As a person who also has a Poli Sci degree:
Uh, the same, but with much more evidence.
Please, stop teasing, my PiHole can only handle so much!
I mean yeah, technically there will be some EU member states with different guidelines (due to different id/privacy laws) where maybe yes, a few of them could theoretically maybe be pumped up by a bot.
But uh, for some thing... you'd need a fairly well done bot net to even kind of pull that off for long.
As in like, a new and convincingly distinct bot/ip to burn for each signature, that is actually an ip that makes geo sense for the person/real world address it is spoofing...
As you say: basic ip logging.
If its all coming from... a single, or small number of ips... assuming the EU is at least as competent of a server admin as I am, yeah, that's gonna look pretty fuckywucky in the logs, probably get noticed within 24 hours max.
And yes, I also seriously doubt there would not be some kind of verification of signees at at least some level, that would be initiated after all the thresholds are passed.
But its wildly innacurate to portray this as if... oh yeah any idiot vibe coder could just drill this up to whatever number after 30 minutes.
That was the way the internet worked back in 2006, or how stupid say Twitter polls are now.
Not the same level of inept incompetence going on with EU government websites.
You don't get it.
What happens if you try to just brute force guess at a bunch of possible credit card numbers and addresses and names in some kind of online store?
After maybe a couple of tries, 30 seconds or less of that... the system is rejecting your bullshit fake numbers everytime, and after enough, it auto ip bans you, sends an email to the security admin team, and your journey to getting a chat from INTERPOL or the FBI or what not has now officially begun.
This system doesn't just accept any old random bullshit you give it.
It is not a random slapdash online poll.
Its only going to count up on that total signatures count if the system actually verifies the info you put in as being consistent with an actual, real, specific person in the system.
I again repeat: You are an idiot.
And I use idiot specifically: you are not only drastically misinformed, but determined, and seem to think very dangerous actions... are not dangerous... you think very unfeasible methods... are feasible.
Its generally always the same problem with any kind of laser, maser, whatever variant of a beam of intense energy of some frequency:
They require stupendous amounts of energy, and if your platform is mobile, that means batteries.
Batteries that are big, heavy, and tend to immolate like a burning cybertruck at fucking 1800 F or what not if structurally comprimised.
We still have yet to get reliable, hardy, high energy dense batteries to a point where it doesn't either massively weigh down your platform, or require some absurdly expensive production process for a more advanced battery, because we only know how to make 'can test its properties in a lab' volumes, not 'actually industrial scale mass manufacturing' levels.
They make kinda sense on say, a naval mounted rail gun... they do not downscale to truck, tank, infantry scale.
Like you could maybe make a giant rail gun tank with current tech. Maybe.
Problem is it would be ~70% battery by mass, weigh ~250 tons, be able to fire maybe... 5, 10 times? and if basically anything pens the armor, you now have an inferno that will burn for 12 to 24 hours, likely into a slag that actually burns or digs a hole a foot or two into the ground, roughly shaped like its foot print.
ominous whirring sound that begins to climb in pitch and volume to a modulated crackle
You are an idiot.
No you cannot fill in any number you want.
This is an official EU webportal for formal citizens initiatives petitions.
Like, ok, I guess you could just spam it with a bot/script, and then INTERPOL comes after you for fucking with an official government website, potentially hundreds or thousands of counts of attempted impersonation / identity theft and lying on a government/legal document.
Like sure, go do a DDOS on I dunno, whitehouse.gov, or your US's state's unemployment assistance application web portal.
Those are approximately equivalently stupid things to do.
I repeat: You are an idiot.
Hope you can handle the legal fees for breach of patent law, OP.
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Hey yo, sup.
Yeah looks to me like you're using just a tiny fraction, just a specialized version of what we patented over a decade ago, nothing novel, nothing distinct, just a specific operating mode of our tech.
We can serve you with the lawsuit now, or we can call in a welfare check on your lifeless body within 72 hrs, your choice.
To be honest, neither did I.... and I may have accidentally replied to the wrong comment, could have sworn someone was asking 'why line go up so fast now'.
Oopsie!
Well hey, I very much appreciate more info from someone who was actually there!