Sure, it’s not a high quality study. But there is only so much effort countering this baseless fear mongering deserves. This study may already be more effort than it deserves.

The fear mongering doesn’t end. Violent movies cause violent behavior. No they don’t. Violent games cause violent behavior. No they don’t, actually research show gamers are less aggressive. Now it’s sexualized games that cause harm. And every time, they don’t even really care about the research anyway.

In my experience, most first year undergraduate courses for STEM related degrees more or less match the demographics of the university itself.

I don’t know anything about other STEM fields or other countries, but where I live, most sw engineering courses don’t have above 5%. (And I guess even fewer men in the medicine field. Some fields just seem to attract specific genders, idk why.)

But yeah, dismiss reality I have seen with my own eyes as “The dog whistles! The dog whistles!” And then act surprised when no one outside your echo chamber takes you seriously.

If you have a way to make (qualified) women study software engineering and other game dev related fields, please do share. I would love that.

But you can’t fix lack of women and generally diverse people skilled in game dev during hiring. We have seen the results of trying multiple times.

Why would you need a Google account? Are you an app developer?

Ah, so people saw a signing requirement, that may or may not only be part of play protect and immediately called it a sideloading ban.

My plan is to wait and see if it even affects me in any way.

What are you talking about a ban on sideloading?

Well, yes. I just did not consider them to be the ones discriminating if it is against the law, but the government.

Putting the ridicoulous idea that governments are fair and transparent aside, payment processors need to be international. Otherwise, most countries will not be able to access services because their local payment processor is not supported by smaller websites.

However, the payment processors should be regulated with something similar to net neutrality so they can’t discriminate payments. And EU could probably launch a government run competitor to dilute their duopoly.

No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound and he at least does not pretend to be experienced Blizzard game developer.

I’m not gonna go out of my way to review bomb his game or send him messages or at him on twitter. But I am not gonna stop calling him a narcisistic idiot whenever the topic comes up. People should know. That is not harassment, that is countering misinformation, at least IMO. A meme like this is not harassment in my book either. He is a public figure.

Ah, right. Thanks.

Seems to me like names were censored in the released slack screenshots (except the CEO). Were there uncensored screenshots that I missed or that were deleted?

If they believe it to be fraudulent, they have every right to disregard it.

Without taking on liability if they are wrong and it was not fraudulent?

I mean sure, that is how some (mostly strategy and tactical) games do it, but for an FPS, figuring out where the buffer should be would be a programmers nightmare. I guess you would have to try to calculate all possible lines of sights a player could have within some buffer time (100-1000ms) and then all players that could in theory enter them… Add physics and it is practically impossible.

Also, corner hack is useful enough and it does not address aimbot. IMO the answer is some combination of human moderation and ability to play with “friends” instead of randos. E.g. you could ask people to like or dislike a player at the end of a match and try to pair players that liked each other in the past.

That does not detect things like wall hack and aim-bots that don’t modify the game state directly.

Sad. In a way, it is amazing that The Sims 3 is 15 years old now and still, no game is able to match it.

When corporations acting in their best interest also act in the consumers best interest, the system is working as it should.

Intent matters for individuals, not for societal systems like governments and corporations. Incompetent governments/corporations need to be removed just as much as evil ones.

I was concerned with this myself and planned to just add a physical card under my phone case, but I was suprised how little difference using the card normally made.

And if you care about privacy, you probably shouldn’t make your purchases using a google app.

This is mostly because when used properly, you often may not even realize you are using blockchain. For example, your browser is using a technology similar to blockchain to detect counterfeit https certificates. You probably don’t even know about it yet it helps to keep you safe. That is how it should be used.

No they are not.

Also, KeePassXC is an open-source project that saves your password database (encrypted) in a local file. So no company can stop doing business with you. I then use syncthing to sync the database to all devices without using cloud. An excellent solution for sligthly paranoid people :D