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[scotty ☄️✨ @major_comet]

another periodic reminder that you can find me over on tumblr at major-comet.

i greatly prefer rambling in one long post that i can easily find again rather than having to make threads that’ll be lost to the sands of time

[Vimms Lair @VimmsLair]

Last month some long planned hardware upgrades were completed. Everything's faster now though the database still gets sluggish during peak hours, so more work's needed there. More storage was also planned but the astronomical prices of SSDs have put that on hold. There's empty bays waiting for their return.

Over in the Xbox Vault all xiso files have been rebuilt using the xdvdfs library. This should fix errors in many games that extract-xiso couldn't process correctly. :)

Hope everyone has a great week!

https://t.co/BiH6X8c9zc

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[LukeCB14 🔜 GCX @LukeCB14]

🚨BREAKING🚨

A massive distortion has opened over New York City. Zohran Mamdani has deployed himself with his new solar titan build.

"It is my Destiny."

[scotty ☄️✨ @major_comet]

a burger is ground meat, that’s just a slab of fried chicken breast

[scotty ☄️✨ @major_comet]

cmon man you guys can’t make fun of americans for how crazy we are about burgers And refuse defer to our expertise on what a burger is

[Largacty3 𓅃 @largacty3]

Americans will call a chicken burger a “chicken sandwich” even though it’s clearly in a burger bun

[Zailsu 🦋 @IzailsonMoreira]

Some kind of distorted world...
#pokemon #backrooms

[Destiny Bulletin @DestinyBulletn]

Destiny Bulletin reached out to composer Michael Salvatori following the EoS announcement. Here is his message to the community:

"To the Destiny community, thank you for your kindness and support over these last 12 years.

Writing music for Destiny has been one of the best experiences of my life, and I am truly grateful to all of you who've taken this long 'Journey' with us! Eyes up Guardians!"

​You defined the soul of Destiny. Thank you for everything, Michael. 💙

[scotty ☄️✨ @major_comet]

tried to work on the gambit one tonight but kept getting matched against a fireteam that must live and breathe nothing but gambit of all things because they were insanely good

[scotty ☄️✨ @major_comet]

desperately trying to figure out which of the titles is probably gonna be the easiest to get these days. i’m still running around title-less, i gotta fix that

[Pokchoy @Pokchoy_]

A World of Distortions
#backrooms #pokemon

[Snøw @sn0wh1mb0]

Literally the most unsettling sound on earth. Shit sounds like a horror movie soundtrack.

[#1 Dredgen Bael Defender @destiny_thememe]

SWHFTT‼️‼️SUNDAY‼️‼️Interlude: Savior (1/2)

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The New York Knicks have officially won their first NBA Championship in 53 years, defeating the San Antonio Spurs.

It is the Knicks’ first NBA title since 1973.

[ReaperKnives @ReaperknivesX]

New Favorite Shaxx quote dropped.

Are you relaxed enough?

[scotty ☄️✨ @major_comet]

edge of fate had a really incredible story - maybe one of my favorites tbh - but is very much held back by how tedious all of the different mechanics get to be by the end. tentatively putting it between witch queen and shadowkeep

[scotty ☄️✨ @major_comet]

finished final shape tonight, so here’s my ranking of the destiny 2 campaigns so far. obvs not including the ones that got vaulted bc i can’t play them.

[Warlock, The Wise @WarlockTheWise]

Hell of a full circle🤍🖤

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

"Thank you for walking with me all these years."

[Sys @KnownAsSys]

Kid named Gunpowder Gamble:

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

Your computer and phone's new wallpapers have arrived.

Download the full resolution versions at https://t.co/dwPBFZTStN.

[JhonaMath @JhonaMath]

I added login to https://t.co/Z5zajKR4Qw two weeks ago, and now it has 15k users, more than 100k puzzles solved, and 50k unlimited runs.

This is crazy

I was not expecting this kind of support ❤️
#indiedev #gamedev #pokefangame #pokemonㅤㅤㅤ