I don’t get how games like this cost $300 million and 5 years to make. Most of the design is copy-pasted and that’s the meat of the game. They aren’t building their engines from scratch. Graphically it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Where are the resources going?
This is good news, Mark.
But, it’s also our responsibility as streamers to make this a fair and entertaining race for everyone involved.
We don’t want a Destiny 2 situation with screen hiding and muted comms that became infamous in the game’s final years. 😅
Spread the word.
My first Hot Take for COD Zombies 2028…
You can’t do an Easter Egg unless you play as a main storyline character.
You can play as operators as you please, but you’ll be restricted from doing the Easter Egg.
This is your future on Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo in a digital only age btw.
You have a couple years now to make a stand and help save the future of gaming.
You are absolutely lying to yourself if you believe otherwise.
KOSA, SCREEN, GUARD, KIDS, the Repeal of 230, Age Verification, App Store Accountability, etc. are ALL venom in the veins of American Liberty!
Oppose them all!
This bill is about digital identification. It has nothing to do with Children Safety.
They are lying to you again. I don't care if it's a REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT IF THEY ARE SUPPORTING THIS BILL THEY ARE TRYING TO PUSH DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION.
Current Status of the Identity Verification and AI Safety bills after today's Senate Committee Markup:
Kids Online Safety Act (S. 1748): Advanced unanimously out of committee by voice vote. It is now ready for consideration by the full Senate. A different version previously passed the House in June as part of a broader package, difference include the 'duty of care' provision.
SCREEN Act(S. 737): Received a 15-13 vote in favor, but it did not advance. A procedural quorum issue arose because too many supporting votes were by proxy(LOL). Senate precedent requires enough senators physically present voting yes to outnumber the no votes. It remains stalled in committee unless brought up again with sufficient in-person attendance. A related provision passed the House earlier as part of the KIDS Act package.
Youth AI Privacy Act(S. 4199): Advanced out of committee. It focuses on safe design features, disclosures, data limits, and restrictions on manipulative practices or advertising in AI chatbots used by minors.
CHATBOT Act(S. 4407): Advanced out of committee. It emphasizes family accounts, parental controls/consent, and oversight for children’s use of AI chatbots.
Children’s Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act of 2026 (S. 5171): Advanced out of committee. It directs studies and plans by federal agencies(including thr FTC and CPSC) and the National Academies on risks from AI-enabled toys/chatbots for children.
Good News:
S. 737 SCREEN Act - FAILED
Bad News:
S.1748 KOSA - PASSED
(The actual bill "Kids Online Safety Act" text delivers paperwork protections for platforms similar to what the UK has been doing. It will mandate new data collection on minors, and builds surveillance infrastructure and calls it child safety)
However its not law yet, the House and Senate have to come to an agreement soon on it. So there's still time to contact your Senator to stop this.
S. 737 SCREEN Act has only been delayed and isn't dead
Four senators want every phone and computer sold in America to demand your date of birth before it will work for you. A Linux developer has already published the script that tears it out, under his real name, with an invitation to sue him.
The bill is S. 5090, filed July 22 by Andy Kim, Cynthia Lummis, Adam Schiff, and John Barrasso. Two Democrats and two Republicans. It puts an age prompt inside the setup of every operating system in the country. A covered device is any general-purpose computer, so this reaches the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the console under your television. Accounts you already hold get swept in the day it takes effect.
Your own machine then informs on you. It hands your age bracket to every app, every app store, and every browser, and they are required to treat that signal as the primary indicator of who you are.
A browser provider under this bill is anyone who owns or maintains a browser. A man maintaining a fork in his spare time carries the same duty as Google, and the fines run $2,500 for a negligent violation and $7,500 for an intentional one, multiplied by every child affected.
Section 10 promises no government ID and no face scans. Section 3(d) then says that when a provider gets clear and convincing information that your declared age is wrong, it shall verify. It never says how. Section 4(c) makes app developers report you upstream when they decide you lied.
The brackets stop at 17 and file teenagers in with adults, while the state laws this is built to serve draw their line at 18. The federal signal cannot tell a 17 year old from a grown man. Every site under an 18+ mandate will need more than the signal. It will need your papers.
The work has already started inside your machine. On March 18 systemd merged a birthDate field into user records, citing California, Colorado, and Brazil by name. systemd runs as the init system on nearly every major distribution, so that field is sitting on Linux boxes whose owners have never heard of any of these bills. Nobody asked you. Nobody is going to.
@GrapheneOS answered in March. It will not implement age or identity verification, and if that means its phones cannot be sold in your state, so be it.
John McCardle built Ageless Linux. He declared himself in "full, knowing, and intentional noncompliance" with the California statute, cited the section number himself, and invited the lawsuit. His script makes the user the distributor. The liability scatters across every machine that runs it. There is no one man left to drag into court.
The script strips the systemd birthDate field and leaves a refusal notice where it stood. If any distribution ever ships a working age daemon, the project has already promised a replacement that answers every query with "unknown."
Artix refuses. Devuan refuses. DB48X, an open source calculator firmware, filed a legal notice saying it "does not, cannot and will not implement age verification." A calculator had to publish a legal notice. That is the reach of what these four wrote.
S. 5090 takes effect 18 months after it passes, if it passes.
The script already works. Take a copy.
if discord forces another ID check, im leaving the platform. If you make it kernel level, im just gonna rip it out by learning coding, if you try to arrest me for protecting myself, i will protect myself FURTHER. dont test me.