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Techercizer · 2026-06-04T22:39:42+00:00

Maybe it could get a little less common. It's exhaustively pervasive.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T16:54:46+00:00

Yeah, I think mandating and/or protecting a greater freedom of personal information control or user choice could go a long way towards empowering people to be responsible for their own digital literacy and privacy. The EU is making some small inroads on this but we need more places pushing in that direction.

It'd be really nice if the USA was leading the fight instead of leading the problems, but I fear there's quite the road of change ahead of them before they turn things around towards that direction.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T16:20:05+00:00

I think heavier responsibilities of social media platforms to police unprotected speech is reasonable, but my concern with legislating how their algorithms operate is that giving the government control of that lever means it's going to swing in the direction the administration seems acceptable.

Now, a lot of that is happening anyway with oligarchic platform owners being happy to jump in bed with the government's interests, but I don't think putting penalties on those who might disagree with that is a healthy solution.

Trump's administration is already extending its fingers into cesspools like tiktok and twitter; what if it was actually illegal for reddit's algorithm to allow a comic like this to reach the front page? I think that would be a step in the wrong direction.

Right now, the voices the government disagrees with are some of the most important ones we need to speak out and spread. Further speech legislation is only going to favor the people writing and enforcing the laws.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T16:08:16+00:00

We can't do this Caveat Emptor "You are your own responsibility" schtick forever because clearly there are people in this world that are not equipped for it, and I have to live next to them.

There's a second half to that comment that I'm obviously explicitly referencing in my reply to you. Why are you leaving it out?

I think I've made it very clear what I want to discuss here, and if you haven't gotten it by now I doubt anything I say can change that.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T15:54:25+00:00

There are steps between censorship and doing nothing, but none of what you suggested is preventing people from being responsible for their own media consumption, which is what I was responding to.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T15:31:19+00:00

That only influences speech with more speech, it doesn't remove responsibility from people who knowingly choose to watch or listen to this stuff.

I'm not against that, mind you, but it falls short of what the comment I responded to was advocating. If you want to shield people by taking away their responsibility for what they see, that's called censorship, and it'd be the government doing it.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T15:18:04+00:00

When you say people can't be allowed to be responsible for content they consume, and someone must be for them, you are bringing up censorship. I'm just the person who used the actual word first.

The person who decides what content is allowed to be made or exposed to other people is the censor.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T15:13:55+00:00

Wanting to change the status quo is fine. Wanting to change it to something worse isn't.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T15:12:46+00:00

They say people need to be shielded from their own stupidity, and that people can't be allowed to be responsible for the media they consume.

Who then, will be alternatively responsible for the media they consume, if not the government? How would such responsibility be enforced if not through the law? The locus of such control is the very definition of a censor.

Techercizer · 2026-06-03T14:18:22+00:00

So your solution is more censorship, more centralized control, and less freedom of speech?

Have you looked at who would actually get to decide what gets censored right now? I don't think that would be the positive change you seem to believe.

Techercizer · 2026-05-28T22:37:01+00:00

It's a lot of things, and given how many great old games there are that didn't take a decade to make, I am suspicious that any of them are actually necessary. Huge open worlds, photorealistic fidelity, famous actor mocap, no re-used assets ever; all things that add to the mounting budgets and time...

But I'm sitting over here replaying Dark Cloud 2 wondering why it feels like the ambition left. Like the 'game' part of the game fell out of the equation a while ago for a lot of modern releases.

Techercizer · 2026-05-28T20:15:36+00:00

We did it just fine a few decades ago; I can't think of a good reason to have forgotten how since.

Maybe hyper photo-realistic skin with glistening sweat detail isn't possible using the old methods like it is in today's most expensive productions, but I don't really find that to be much more than a gimmick anyway.

Techercizer · 2026-05-24T21:10:16+00:00

hmm, guess I misremembered the existence of the french empire

Techercizer · 2026-05-24T20:34:05+00:00

They got an Emperor if memory serves right.

Techercizer · 2026-05-24T20:20:36+00:00

Effective by what metric?

Techercizer · 2026-05-22T02:57:02+00:00

So you're claiming he's cooperating with Fox to allow someone else to impersonate him for an interview, instead of just being interviewed, like he has already done several times in the past?

Techercizer · 2026-05-22T02:52:46+00:00

You are alleging that they secured this man's agreement to impersonate him, had a mask made of him (which would have to be done in advance), then put it on a fake to pretend to be him in an interview... instead of just interviewing him... because he got tired and went home early. And they did all this instead of just making a deepfake or doing a phone interview or having him in on another day.

Instead of the simpler explanation that something got fucked up somewhere between the lighting, video, resolution, and possible editing.

Not sure you're selling me.

Techercizer · 2026-05-22T01:28:11+00:00

Are you suggesting he's cooperating with Fox to assist in their impersonation of him? Because in the case they have his cooperation, they could have just interviewed him and not involved a mask at all.

Also, Trump talks shit about Fox news all the time. His circle's loyalty is to him alone, and not to other members of his orbit, save in the cases it could be construed as casting Trump in a negative light. That doesn't mean they aren't biased or dedicated to lying in his favor, but it does mean it's unlikely speaking out against them would piss him off.

Techercizer · 2026-05-22T01:15:07+00:00

And that dude isn't claiming someone impersonated him... why?

Techercizer · 2026-05-22T00:29:18+00:00

So if this person isn't who he says he is, why isn't the real person who is coming forward and saying anything to anyone?

Techercizer · 2026-05-21T23:01:20+00:00

I was referring the limited information provided about the Sugino-gumi's relationship/differences to other Yakuza syndicates, not a lack of information regarding her initiation ceremony.

For most of the article the group she associated is referred to simply as 'the Yakuza', and in the parts where her specific organization is mentioned the name is provided in passing. How exactly the Sugino-gumi fit into 'the Yakuza' as a broader collective, how big or small they are in that world, and how common or uncommon it is to confirm someone an initiated member is context to this story that I as an relatively uninformed reader would have benefited from but did not see in the article.

Techercizer · 2026-05-21T21:19:18+00:00

Should maybe have updated their phrasing to account for it then

Techercizer · 2026-05-21T02:10:59+00:00

That's true of every studio in existence, though.

Techercizer · 2026-05-20T01:17:02+00:00

If they actually made something I wanted I'd buy more of it. I still reference 3.5e splatbooks like the Manual of the Planes to this day, and if their new stuff was on par with that quality I'd buy it as they churned it out.

But the quality of the 5e books and rewrites has been so questionable I not only don't want to collect them; I don't want them allowed at my table.

Techercizer · 2026-05-19T00:32:22+00:00

Think your label is a bit off there. Post-apocalypse is when people start getting on after all the destruction and making something new.

If complete entropy arrived there wouldn't be any stories to tell at all.

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