This game made me realize what a cure for writer’s block it can be to just zone out and write a few paragraphs of clothing or weapon description prose.
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RE: Arx
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RE: AI Megathread
Saw this article and thought of this thread.
Which made me think: If rising token costs eventually push the average person off of using AI, how much would we actually have to worry about AI being involved in this hobby?
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RE: Age Verification & Games
Steam recently began complying with Australian legislop and requiring age verification to view adult materials. Their ID of choice? A credit card. Not a debit card, not an ID card, but a credit card. The Reserve Bank of Australia reports that only 18% of adults under 30 in Australia own a credit card (Livermore et al., 2023, p. 21).
and they’re so easy to circumvent that they do virtually nothing to keep kids out of spaces they shouldn’t be in.
Especially with Firefox and other browsers just straight-up having a VPN button to push, for free (with limits, but c’mon), right there. Even the least technologically interested child will learn that pushing that button gives you access to The Good Stuff.
Livermore, T., Mulqueeney, J., Nguyen, T., & Watson, B. (2023). The evolution of consumer payments in Australia: Results from the 2022 Consumer Payments Survey (Research Discussion Paper No. 2023-08). Reserve Bank of Australia. https://doi.org/10.47688/rdp2023-08
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RE: RL Peeves
@Aria Can’t slap them, I’ve got this tricky shoulder y’see…
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RE: RL Peeves
I don’t know if this is entirely an RL peeve, since it has crossover, but I just saw a question on r/AskHistorians that frames MUing as something that happened in the Distant Past. Things I have personally done shouldn’t exist in the same conversational context as Alexander the fucking Generally Alright.
“In the late 1900s…”
I’m not going to slap you, but I am going to think about it with great relish.
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RE: Arx
literally one of my favorite things was reading what everyone was wearing.
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RE: Arx
short, elevator-pitch style summary of what this game was about
So many minigames, you dont even know.
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RE: Age Verification & Games
I have protections on my kid’s device. I check it. I’m in the room with her.
She was still able to google sexually explicit material.
The only way to keep kids safe 100% is to keep them off altogether and, in my opinion, will only make them MORE vulnerable when they are older and the behaviors are explicit.
I’m okay with an additional step to help me out as a parent.
This might be veering off-topic, but I think I’d be a lot more OK with a minor googling literotica than I would be with them engaging in erotica with adults in a glorified chat server, where exchanging off-game contact details to further discuss the content is common.
