DevvyTwoFive

34 UK, usually streaming Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm and 9pm UK time. ‼️NO GFX DESIGN DMS ‼️

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

@ShankMods Because unlike on the PS5, I can still play a game in my steam library even after it’s been de listed from the steam store. GOG straight up has no DRM on the games on their storefront so what you buy from there is yours to keep as far as they’re concerned.

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

Yep, there’s at least one game I bought which I know for a fact has been delisted on steam, however because i bought said game beforehand it’s still in my library.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I've got news for you, everything on the Steam store stays forever once you have bought it you have bought it.

The Playstation store shuts down after 10-15 years, deleting EVERYTHING you bought.

[God Empress of Mankind @nuhre_]

"You'll be playing GTA 6 for the next ten years! $100 is an investment!"

Meanwhile, I've been playing the same three games for the past 15 years, and I bought all of them for $1.99 during a Steam sale.

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

@nekaishi It’s genuinely so crooked

[Ameer Kotecha @Ameer_Kotecha]

This heatwave really is showing how dysfunctional our country is becoming.

We are fighting to be allowed AC.

The trains have been cancelled and/or we are being told not to use them (what, to work in our non-AC homes?)

Someone passed out on a Tube I was on - unsurprising as it is a sauna.

And now we’re being told to limit water use and being slapped with hosepipe bans because we’ve failed to build enough reservoirs.

It’s been hot for less than a week. And our national infrastructure has basically already collapsed.

Let’s treat this as a wake up call

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

“It gets hotter than that in…”

Bugger off, it doesn’t normally get this hot in the uk at all and our houses are built to keep as much heat as possible in, plus AC is nowhere near as widespread although it should be!

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Met Office has issued an “extreme heat” weather warning.

Parts of the UK are expected to reach temperatures as high as 38°C across the next few days.

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

The last sentence is the concerning bit. Digital id brought in under false pretences.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:

- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s

- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt

- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages

- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month

- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s

- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

It's not an under-16 social media ban, it's digital IDs with better marketing

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

This, this is the best worded response I can think of.

[Vicky Richter🇩🇪🇺🇸🇧🇷🇬🇧 @VickyR1chter]

The Trojan Horse of “Online Safety”

Every generation is told that freedom must be surrendered for safety. Every generation is promised that the new restrictions will be limited, reasonable, and necessary. And every generation eventually discovers that the real target was never the problem being advertised.

The latest push for a social media ban for under-16s risks becoming exactly that: a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Let’s be clear. Protecting children online is a legitimate goal. Parents are rightly concerned about predators, harmful content, addiction, bullying, and the impact social media can have on mental health. Those concerns are real.

But there is a world of difference between protecting children and building a digital surveillance system that monitors, records, and controls the online behaviour of entire families.

If governments were truly serious about child safety, the priority would be obvious: pursue the predators. Jail the groomers. Break up exploitation networks. Enforce existing laws. Punish the criminals who target children.

Instead, the modern solution increasingly appears to be regulating ordinary citizens.

History teaches a simple lesson: emergency powers rarely remain temporary. Surveillance systems rarely shrink. Bureaucracies rarely surrender authority once they acquire it.

That is why proposals involving digital parental permissions, behavioural monitoring, anonymous reporting systems, and government-linked oversight should concern anyone who values civil liberties.

The argument always begins with children.

It never ends there.

Today’s restrictions apply to teenagers. Tomorrow they apply to adults. Today’s monitoring is voluntary. Tomorrow it becomes mandatory. Today’s “harmful content” becomes tomorrow’s political disagreement.

This is the Pandora’s Box problem.

Once governments establish the principle that access to information, communication, and digital participation can be controlled in the name of safety, there is no obvious limiting principle. The boundaries expand. The definitions broaden. The exceptions multiply.

The danger is not protecting children.

The danger is allowing child protection to become the justification for a permanent system of behavioural control.

Children deserve protection from criminals.

Free societies deserve protection from governments that discover how useful fear can be.

And those are two very different conversations.

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

@TyrantVT Sweet fuck all, it’s about mass surveillance plain and simple

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

With the Gears of War E-day trailer and footage having dropped I am genuinely thinking of a gears of war series stream.

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

This right here.

[mRr3b00t @UK_Daniel_Card]

UK hacker volume is going to explode from this! plus i fear there will be an underground market in 'adults' accounts and devices being sold.

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

@JDVance His murderer has just been sentenced for life. The police have been openly condemned for their behaviour when the murder occurred. Nowak’s father asked for his son’s murder not to be politicised.
Now kindly fuck off.

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

Scumbag, absolute grifting scumbag.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

So despite Henry's dad making it clear that they "do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”, Farage uses his death in an emergency address to create division for his own gain.

An awful politician.

[Sam @SamCKx]

There's not a single person in Britain who doesn't agree that the death of Henry Nowak was a tragedy, and the way the police handled it was absolutely disgraceful.

There's only one political party, however, who want to take that family's pain and politicise it for their own benefit.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

One thing I will never understand is why people don’t want to tax billionaires more. They would still be billionaires actually. You’re not really taking anything from them, just what they’re hoarding. They’ve profited off everyone else, so shouldn’t they give back?

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

Stinks to high heaven of digital id by stealth. This is not about child safety at all and the U.K. govt are insulting our intelligence by trying to paint it as such.

[Backers | Fortnite News @BackersGamesF]

FORTNITE MAY HAVE NEW RESTRICTIONS IN THE UK.. 😭😭

The UK government is considering planning to stop children under 16 years old from chatting with strangers in Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft & Discord.

#Fortnite | Source: Sunday Times

[DevvyTwoFive @DevDevil245]

@nekaishi Nothing about this here, what are they saying he’s been banned for?