Lifeland

You ever accidentaly shave off the tips of your eyebrows and accidentaly delete your social media account you've had since middle school in one week?

[lifeland]

Hot tip! VR isn't just a way to get up into a player's face. In fact, it isn't.

[lifeland]

AAAAAAA

I FOUND THIS PICTURE AND

And I said to my mom, "You know, when I was in high school I kinda looked like this."

And she accidentally swipes when I hand the phone over

And she just goes "...like this?"

AND I SEE THIS FUCKER ON THE SCREEN

But it gets even better, once I found out the original name of the wigglytuff post

I think reddit is trying to defame me

[rudavoidish]

Y'all if you're American please email your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.

[hetrosjistin]

Call or Write Congress About H.R. 8250: Parents Decide Act - GovTrack.us

Quick and easy link to both find your congressmen/women and giving you a quick and easy way to copy / paste the message into it. You want to oppose. It's an act that will demand that all major OS makers integrate a direct forced age verification control into all OS.

[rudavoidish]

I received a comment on this that I figured would be very helpful- it's a template for communicating with your representatives. Be sure to use it for reference

Dear Representative [Name],

I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 8250 (The "Parents Decide Act"). As your constituent and a concerned citizen, I believe this bill introduces unprecedented risks to digital privacy and security.

Specifically, I am alarmed by:

SEC. 2(a)(1)(B): Requiring age verification to even use an operating system creates a mandatory "hardware lockout" that ends anonymous computing and forces users to hand over sensitive identification data to major corporations just to power on their devices.

SEC. 2(a)(3): Mandating that OS providers create a system for all app developers to access verification data is a massive security vulnerability. This effectively creates a centralized API of user identities accessible to thousands of third-party developers, many of whom may lack adequate data protection.

This bill does not protect children; it creates a centralized surveillance infrastructure at the OS level. I urge you to protect the privacy of your constituents and vote NO on H.R. 8250.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

[Your Zip Code]

[willowtree1527]

This is a hell that us down under in Australia are already living in, and it’s not even effective at what it claims to do in protecting children.

Given that, in the wake of this mandatory identification policy, my country seems to be moving to hand over its citizens biometric data, like fingerprints, Face ID files, and identification documents, over to the USA and to ICE to maintain the visa free travel (ESTA) we have, I strongly urge any US resident to send these emails, or make calls.

But if you can’t do that, the most powerful thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, anyone who can help.

My reach will likely be small, and so I don’t know if this will mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but I cannot stand to see this tracking happen to another population as it did to mine.

And if you think it won’t affect you, it will. All anonymity goes out the window when your accounts can be linked via your personal ID

I wish you all luck in preventing this act from going through.

[timeclonemike]

Been seeing videos all over Youtube about this all weekend, if somebody else didn't make this post already I was going to.

Remember to phrase your concerns in the form that your congressional reps are most likely to personally and professionally care about. Generally speaking, this means civil rights and freedom of speech for Democrats, and potential economic upheaval and national security dangers for Republicans, but some politicians defy trends or have major weak points in their support demographics, so it's worth the time to do a little research first.

Keep in mind that it's been years since KOSA was introduced and we've managed to beat it back multiple times - even a GOP majority in Congress hasn't been enough to push it through. This battle can be fought and won, if our response is loud, immediate, and constant. Consider setting yourself a reminder to call and complain regularly - I'll be making multiple phone calls tomorrow practically as soon as my rep's staffers start their work day.

[lifeland]

We really need to come up with a term for what companies like Meta are pushing for here. It's important to reframe the argument away from "age verification ", because that's not what this is about.

My nomination for the new term is "tech fudalism".

[lifeland]

Found: a bug where host players do not despawn on a client's game instance when dying problem: (underwhelming relative to expectations) Only local players were scripted to die when being told by the server they're dead, instead of the base class.

[lifeland]

You know, I don't know why there aren't more devs who use a multiplayer concept to make a singleplayer rougelike/rpg experience.

Such games work great in both multiplayer AND singleplayer, the main requirement is that you either have good bots, or another kind of enemies for single-player mode.

I guess to rephrase what I'm saying is; mechanics like unique playable characters each with a tight play style, maps designed like multiplayer maps, and fun through skill-expression rather than power progression are incredibly unused in singleplayer focused games. EDIT: One great example of this kind of game is LBX: Little Battlers eXperience. Has a multiplayer mode; but a STRONG single player mode with customizable loadout and playstyles.

[7crowsinadress]

If you’re a USAmerican and rightfully horrified by what the government is doing right now, I just want to rq share 5calls. They have a really simple tool for finding your reps and contacting them, as well as a variety of scripts for anyone not confident speaking off book. Emails can be filtered out, phone calls, voicemails, and physical letters are much harder to ignore. Calling your reps isn’t the end all be all of anti-war action, but it’s a place to start while you process what the fuck just happened.

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

[khytal]

zzz

[lifeland]

I might as well post this here so I'm not just some hot takes blog... This is an unfinished commission I did a while back. It was fun mixing skeletal and morph animation. The design isn't mine.

[lifeland]

I want to put it down for the record; I think it'd be pretty swell if vr devs started embracing concepts like a "Cinematic desktop mirror", which re renders the game world in third person for viewers outside the headset. This is because 1: VR games are hard to sell when a first person perspective cannot sell how a game "feels" when viewed on a flatscreen, and 2: VR games would probably be more popular with youtubers/streamers if the footage their audience views were more dynamic and engaging.

[lifeland]

SWEET ZOMBIE OF THE CREW

We did it folks, we got there. Ross was ready to give up, but in just 10 days we went from around 50% to 100%. July 4th? I think July 3rd is just as important now.

[lifeland]

Misinterpreted a reddit meme about Warhammer or something, now obsessed with the he idea of a bunch of fantasy races (elves, centaurs, mermaids, etc) all being teleported to a version of earth where all the humans mysteriously left for outer space all at once. The first few chapters would focus on how these people from a typical isekai world start using and adapting to modern day tools of society.

Then the humans come back from space or whatever and are like 'wait what'

[kazenorth]

Now is a good time to buy and use physical media.

Do you have a favorite movie? Is it queer? X-rated? Do you still have your old video game CDs or cartridges? Is the book you want to read at risk of being banned?

Do you think the media you enjoy may be at risk in the coming years?

Please start buying and using physical media. CDs, cartridges, books, records, DVDs, everything. Streaming services are continually removing media and becoming more hostile, and after this election, tons of media are at risk of being outlawed entirely.

Dig out that old VHS or DVD player, get your old Wii system running, and collect that entire book series that you read as a kid. Your dad's old cassette full of divorced dad rock songs is probably lying around somewhere. If you have a favorite artist who posts their work online, buy their art book. Get something you can hold in your hands.

Use your local library if you can! They have all this and more! Most thrift shops have this stuff at an affordable price!

Plus, I can vouch that it's just more fun to have the physical copy.

If the government wanted to take this from you, they would have to come to you and rip it from your hands. Make it difficult for them to do so.

[lifeland]

You know, I should read Fahrenheit 451. I've heard a lot about it. When I was a kid, I didn't give it a chance because I wrote it off as "Books are good and those damn kids don't read enough these days." That is an incredible embarrassment for me.

Are streaming services and digital marketplaces more convenient than physical media? I think most of my peers would argue, "yes; yes they are" and they'd be largely correct. But ostensibly how correct depends on the world we live in. Is it that digital media is inherently more convenient or is the world that we live in engineered to *make* it more convenient?

As houses get larger, the physical space available to consumers to store media gets smaller. Most modern computers no longer have cd drives. There are no disk readers for phones/bluetooth-headphone compatible walkmen. Improvements and adjustments to digital goods are exclusively published through digital marketplaces. Modern video games no longer allow you to host multiplayer on your own computer.

Why do they do this? Easy. Because it allows them to double-dip on what they charge you; take away access through a digital marketplace for a while, charge you again to get the same content. But it's also to control what you see. In a digital marketplace, you have no control over what shelf you walk over to first.

I don't know much about Fahrenheit 451 yet, but I think I understand one of it's messages is "If you don't take care about what you give your attention to, eventually your ability to chose what your attention goes to is taken from you."

[freyholland]

Fellow Physical Media Warriors - if you don’t already know, there is a website called DoesItPlay that tests newer physical games to determine whether they’re genuinely playable off the disc (yay) or if they’re essentially a digital game with more steps (boo).

It’s also great if you like to thrift games, because it warns you if content is restricted to a one-time-use code.

This problem will only worsen as systems age and servers shut down. Don’t accidentally buy coasters!

[lifeland]

It's a travesty that today's children got fortnite instead of all the 00's-10's mmos. We had freedom/subscription models, their virtual world has microtransactions. And it's only one virtual world, rather than a practically INFINITE NUMBER

[pintadorartist]

H.R. 9495 is going to be voted on tomorrow, this Thursday

Find your representative here:

Call in with this phone number, which will cycle you through a list of Democrats who voted yes. Tell them to change their minds and vote no: 319-313-7674

The FFTF link will do the same thing and also has a call script:

URGENT: Tell your reps to vote NO on H.R. 9495!

Congress: Protect The Right to Dissent

Congress is considering a bill that threatens free speech under the guise of national security - and we can’t let it pass. Take action again

If you have a Dem rep, you can use this call/email script here:

"I am calling to urge my representative to vote no on H.R. 9495 . This is a dangerous bill that would give the Trump administration unilateral power to label any non-profit as terrorist supporting and shut it down without due process. I am calling on my representative to defend civil rights organizations and oppose this bill. Thank you.”

If you have a Republican representative, you can use this one here:

"I am calling to urge my representative to vote no on H.R. 9495 . This is a dangerous bill that would give the government the unilateral power to stifle free speech and our right to dissent by labeling any non-profit as terrorist supporting and shutting it down without due process. I am calling on my representative to defend civil rights organizations and oppose this bill. Thank you.”

I also urge you to fax your rep as well(Faxzero allows 5 free faxes):

Free Fax: Send Faxes Online Free

Send a fax to anywhere in the U.S. or Canada for free.

Please keep up the pressure, make your voices heard, continue to leave messages to your representatives and make sure they hear you either through voicemail, call, etc.

[lifeland]

The world was already dominated by computers by the time I was born. If capitalism wasn't afraid of a generation knowing how to make anything they want for themselves, we would be teaching simple programming in late elementary school by now.

[adragonsoulart-blog]

Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

Tell Congress: America Elects Presidents, Not Kings

The Supreme Court declared that criminal law doesn’t apply when you’re Donald Trump or any other president using the powers of the office. D

This only takes a few minutes!