mango7283

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by mango7283 14d ago
An apt analogy to me was the one I read that using AI to write is like using a forklift to lift weights at the gym - the point isn't that the weights need to be moved, it's to exercise your body.
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by mango7283 14d ago
The title is mentioned to bait people who don't know that everyone and thier grandmother is a VP at banks into thinking she was a senior executive rather than a senior IC/lead/middle manager.
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by mango7283 5mo ago
He's still the CEO of Novartis
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by mango7283 7mo ago
The Americans had to occupy and place both Japan and West Germany under their military rule afterwards to make it stick, that's not a comparison
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by mango7283 11mo ago
Be that as it may, the workhorse combat aircraft of most NATO air forces and the USAF itself is the F-16, a single-engine fighter, and its nominal replacement, the F-35 is also single engine. You can try to make your point by comparing thos
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by mango7283 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_v._Texas Lest we forget. Sure in the end people rallied to him but it sure must have sucked. But yeah. Texas.
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by mango7283 1y ago
Because it's a critically acclaimed movie that will draw defenders if it's banned now. If the activists went all in right away they'll lose and they know it Same deal with GTA and GOT
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by mango7283 1y ago
I think a practical problem with this is that even if you offer this tech you will inevitably get groups of parents insisting the government use this power enforce their values on the other parents as a matter of course. We see this already
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by mango7283 1y ago
Yeah, but not yet from Steam. Anyway the point is, people keep bringing up "why don't they go after GTA and GOT instead of fringe eroge" so, yeah, one - they have but it was a partial success at best - they aren't ready
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by mango7283 1y ago
"It was a worldwide phenomenon and hundreds of millions of people probably watched it." - this is what explains why GOT is not the one getting taken down. Collective Shout is picking battles it can win.
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by mango7283 1y ago
I think what that tells you is that there are still limits to what collective shout is able to do, hence why GTA is still for sale but the fringe porn games aren't
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by mango7283 1y ago
You answered your own question - if you go after shows with the popularity of game of thrones or games with the popularity of grand theft auto you will fail. They have picked their battle.
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by mango7283 1y ago
I said this on the other thread, it's obvious they don't yet have the clout to go after big titles like GoT or GTA yet, and it would be a losing strategy for them to do so. Hence why they are going after battles they can win first
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by mango7283 1y ago
Half the time I see parents on HN crow about how they've blocked their kids access to social media and screens. I'm not sure where they will stand on porn. Would be interesting to see
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by mango7283 1y ago
If you think they should delist it then by all means, raise a petition or bring it to their attention. Perhaps the activist group simply has not had the resources to target this particular title yet. You already know VISA and/or Master
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by mango7283 1y ago
Replying here since we hit the nesting limit. Thanks for understanding. I'm still looking at the thread and see people bringing up other titles that haven't been banned as if that's a gotcha and it just baffles me. Like what
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by mango7283 1y ago
Well this is exactly how it should work for any cause. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding. I'm saying the fact that they've succeeded in getting some games removed while others of the same type still exist or that other similar
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by mango7283 1y ago
They're saying that if things have come to the point that activists can successfully pressure a AAA title like BG3 to be delisted from steam, then they'll worry. What do BG3 and the title in question have in common? "incest&q
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by mango7283 1y ago
1) Why haven't they banned porn game X when they banned porn game Y? -> it's just a matter of time, they've already established that they can pressure to get game x banned, they'll get to game y eventually - also, not
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by mango7283 1y ago
Sure, but GTA is still on steam.
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by mango7283 1y ago
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Steam-Payment-providers-force-V... Please explain. "In 2020, following a complaint from the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein Media Authority, Valve blocked all titles that were lab
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by mango7283 1y ago
From heise "In 2020, following a complaint from the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein Media Authority, Valve blocked all titles that were labeled as “adult” and did not have an age rating. To be able to offer them, the US company would h
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by mango7283 1y ago
Ah sorry I meant elsewhere in the thread
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by mango7283 1y ago
As I pointed out earlier, it's also valid that they are savvy enough to pick their battles and divide and conquer - you can't take down a critical mainstream success like GOT or GTA, but you can go after fringe games with content
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by mango7283 1y ago
It's possible he means people saying steam should not delist anything due to pressure from activists are tacitly condoning sketchy lolicon games.
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by mango7283 1y ago
The fact of the matter is you will find more people willing to publicly bat for GOT than you will find people willing to bat for an "indie incest non-con game". And it's not like GOT has not received criticism for its conten
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by mango7283 1y ago
I think the matter here is the activists are being strategic now and chipping away by targeting very specific content to get delisted. As you rightly said, most people are not going to sign their name to defend a incest/non-con fringe
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by mango7283 1y ago
I looked this up, they still accept visa. So not quite the same
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by mango7283 1y ago
You say this like they haven't already tried.
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by mango7283 1y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c056nle2drno China would never! /s

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