@catzilla Is your PC acting like a Fed?

@Evilgrayson said:

you can just pull up Google Maps and navigate that way

Does it go for full realism and have endless waiting on the Jubilee line for no discernible reason, and the minute you decide, "fuck it, I’m only going three stops; I can walk’ you realise the Underground map and the real people map are nowhere near as 1:1 as you were hoping?

Sir Patrick Stewart

The first and last official deaths during the construction of the Hoover Dam were a father and his son.

Walter Koenig, the Russian Crewman Chekov on ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 90

Tom Skerritt, Emmy-Winning Actor Known for Top Gun and Picket Fences, Dies at 93

Richard Riehle, Office Space and Bridesmaids star, dies at 78

@Gashlycrumb said:

@Floof I was not permitted to name a Harry Potter character “Strangely Brown.”

You’re only allowed to imply the Rowling racism.

@L.-B.-Heuschkel said:

number two is harder than number one.

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).

@Faraday said:

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

@Aria Can’t slap them, I’ve got this tricky shoulder y’see…

@junipersky said:

I’m okay with an additional step to help me out as a parent.

I’d be more okay with it if it weren’t implemented so stupidly.

And even then, we have rights to privacy just as strong as your rights to security. It’s an age-old debate between security and liberty, and in the era of rising authoritarianism, it’s hard to simply accept “help me protect the children” as justification, even if that’s a side benefit to the loss of personal liberty.

@Shygaming said:

I think people are missing the much bigger picture here.

No, most of us know that. We care about it. We also try to avoid talking about politics, it’s like the one rule we have.

@Apos And there was a really high (or seemingly high) involvement in FASHION throughout all of this.

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.

@MisterBoring It does have specific provisions relating to online games, so it’s a very big maybe.

@Aria said:

her neighbor’s sister’s pastor’s hamster

Wait, President Gerald R. Fluff died? And this is how you tell me?!

@Aria Did this revelation happen in the same way my family usually reveals big bits of our history, in that the preceeding conversation was absolutely unrelated?

@Gashlycrumb said:

Suggesting that the game hire a new staffer just to tend to players that the existing one doesn’t like seems ridiculous.

Why does it seem ridiculous to hire someone to cover an area you can’t? That’s one of the best reasons to hire someone. Whether they dislike a certain set or players, aren’t comfortable with them, or for whatever reason cannot interact with them, then the best thing to do is to engage someone who can and will do that.