By the end of this month, I will upload my English translation of "Megami Tensei." However, this was done just to help the translator understand my Japanese before the official translation began. Therefore, I don’t plan to keep it up for long. I’ll upload and delete it all within this month. Please wait for the officially translated book to come out!
I've been trying to figure out how to explain why the obsession with graphical fidelity has destroyed the very concept of implication and subtlety in video game art direction, and this guy explains it perfectly as if it's a positive. oh my god bruh
You cannot have a mass rape covered up like this in one of THE first world countries for 70 odd years and expect me to believe that everyone in power deserves to be allowed anywhere near so much as a phone to share an opinion for the rest of their lives
if you look around at everything happening and your conclusion as to why people are becoming more radicalized is still some shit like “andrew tate” and “podcasters” you should be wearing a helmet 24/7
This is what the UK spyware proposal means.
There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.
When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).
The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.
Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.
Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.
The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.
The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.
@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu
Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77
The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo
This is what all the David Cage wannabes get wrong.
What makes people love David Cage games isn't the story or themes.
Its that the fail states and mistakes are funny.
I still remember when a game crashing or suffering slowdown was seen as apocalyptically awful and nearly unfathomable. Now, it's standard.
Don't downplay this crap.
Ngl, as much as I feel bad over Mimi's situation, I kind of feel vindicated whenever stuff like this pops up
It basically validate my stance that Europe is a dying continent and that the EU is responsible for it
Bonus point that it also showcase that the people supporting such actions when it comes to fictional medias are only but looking for performative actions to justify themselves into being seen as a "good guy"
They go for that easy win against people enjoy fictional content instead of going after actual criminal that do actual crimes that impact actual lives
And of course, since it is the UK in this scenario, one can only but be amazed by what their current actions when we know they have a rape gang epidemic on their hands and that they do nothing about it, instead having officers documented partaking in little girls alongside those grooming gangs
But of course, those performative activists will say nothing of it and instead support whatever big daddy government does, because politicians are sure to know better after all since they are in those high offices
Yeah, that must be how it is, after all, it's not like the biggest child exploitation case in history is right there, sitting on someone's desk with nothing being done about it, simply because of the thousands upon thousands of big names, from politicians to actors, passing by CEOs, etc, nah, that couldn't be
If we still were in the 10th century, their most loyal servant would have already poisoned them by now but I digress, what I'm trying to say is that you guys that support such action policing fictional content are enabling far worse from happening
But hey, if that label of "good guy" is good enough for you and makes you feel good about yourself, who am I to stop you, right ?
I'm sure that calling other people "pedo" and whatever else over fictional content must be very tiring to do every day anyway so you deserve that little medal for yourself, after all, you did a lot to change things for the better, right ?
... If you couldn't tell, as i'm sure you guys couldn't, that was sarcasm, you are part of the rare breed of people I would prefer not to save if given the chance, but my morals stop me from doing as such, as irredeemable as you guys might be
But still, I pray that one day, you get the wake up call needed to see that you are more akin to a collaborator in the 40's to 80's (because yes, not just the Nazi had those) than you are a "freedom fighter", a "resistant" or whatever else you feel like calling yourself
Until then, enjoy helping your government in the crafting of the real life equivalent of 1984 with your own hands, just don't say we didn't warn you when the government ends up using that to suppress you in the future
Oh, and yeah, before I leave, if you support any form of online age verification, "child online safety" law or online ID verification, you are the same kind of dumbasses as those guys and I truly can't wait for it to blow up in your faces if they come to pass