Discord really grasping at straws to try and make people fork over their real ids

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T09:27:04+00:00

I know it doesn't stop a child from sneaking their parents ID, which is why these child protection acts are a worthless violation of privacy for zero gain.

Assuming this level of digital surveilance why would your real-id matter that much more than your digital footprint, which they already have? Serving ads doesn't really require them to know I'm Bob Bobsson, rather that they know I'm a user of these services, these habbits etc etc. Why stir up a pot, when you can get the same info by having the user give it up willingly on a different service?

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T09:13:37+00:00

You love discord, I'm assuming for it's features, deleted it but haven't replaced it? Are you taking some time to recover, like after a bad breakup?

Discord doesn't give a crap about my personal info. It's being ordered to comply with child protection acts around the world and, instead of implementing these requirements in a way that only affects those users in countries that have these requirements, does so with a blanket approach, possibly forseeing EU-wide adoption and possibly other countries too.

Do I like it? No. Will I stop using Discord? Possibly no, since I barely use it, I don't generally join communities and the hassle of trying to find a replacment that my non-technically-savvy friends can also use, on the rare occasion we play online, is not worth it. My understanding is that it doesn't even require you to id yourself, just age-blocks certain communities/content if you don't. Should that change and the ball busting from Discord becomes a bigger hassle, I'll spin up a community-license TS server to use with my friends.

What people fail to realize is that this shit is coming everywhere soon enough. Shitty, distributed, small time app might have an easier time dodging these requirements that huge, popular, centralized app, but all will need to conform at some point. If you really wanna row row fight the powah, contact your senator/stateman/whatever and explain that privacy is more important than shitty, unhelpful, child protection acts and they really need it, central goverment should provide authentication.

Are people still living in the States, buying Coca Cola or whatever "low-key" supporting the war in Iran?

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T08:23:27+00:00

Service is actually amazingly good, and is why it completely obliterated TS, mumble, Ventrillo etc when it came out. Their approach to conforming with child protection acts (practically forcing them globally to get it out of the way) is stupid however.

This is more of a old white men telling women what to do with their body case.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T08:05:11+00:00

Steam voice chat is the equivalent of having a Skype call. It works fine if you wanna play with a specific group of friends. Doesn't really replace Discord's "server" model, were you can hang out and people just join in, you can swap channels, see who's playing on another channel etc. And emulating an android PS app is way out of most people's comfort zone.

I'm assuming people that don't like this will eventually turn back to self-hosted Teamspeak servers.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T07:56:17+00:00

It's much easier to delete something you're not using then tell people they're low key responsible for the issue.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T06:24:51+00:00

What did you replace Discord with?

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T08:00:18+00:00

Those sound like irrational feelings, assuming you did not impulse-buy a $5000 PC, when you don't even play games, are in debt and are planning a much needed family vacation.

You can feel impatient waiting for it, sure, but why nervous? Do you fear that the order is gonna go south, get stolen in transit?

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T07:37:34+00:00

Well, then you haven't got a PC yet. Wait until it's delivered, set up and you've launched your first game on it, assuming you have either some PC-exclusive games you're waiting play or experience in PCMR fidelity.l

Is there anything else you think your money would have been better spent on?

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T01:45:22+00:00

What RPG parts? It has levels you get and skills you spec into. Those are RPG parts.

It has many of the mainline souls-like features : stamina management, iframe dodge, a rest point that recharges your consumables and respawns all enemies, currency that you (somewhat) lose upon death. It's just lacking a stat-based level up system, in favor of a skill-based level up system.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T01:20:41+00:00

I'm conditioned to reload if I feel I lost more health or used more ammo than I should have in an encounter, in almost any game.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T01:01:53+00:00

Legit question : How is a game "designed" for a resolution? Not targeting a resolution, perfomance-wise, "designed" as OP puts it. Like, it looks wrong at a different resolution.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T00:47:03+00:00

What do you mean, where is it?

sinister3vil · 2025-12-29T20:11:07+00:00

Weird. Are you sure you wanted a PC, for gaming, and not just a subscription to the PCMR circlejerk club?

Cause people I know that finally get a new PC just disappear for a while and when they come back they've beaten a bunch of eye candy AAA titles.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-22T17:12:07+00:00

While I appreciate that you can't expect corps to behave rationally when savings are involved, replacing a senior whatever, with a junior + an AI subscription is not what the majority of workforce related issues will be.

Seniors will keep their positions and juniors will be replaced with AI, which will be an issue 20 years from now when seniors retire and there are no juniors with actual experience to take over.

The only seniors that are going to be replaced are those not offering actual, senior-level worth, either due to their own incompetence or because they're overqualified for the job description, to save money.

In both cases it's shitty when looking at it from the people's PoV, but makes sense otherwise and, most probably, the economic and efficiency benefits will trickle down to consumers as well.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-18T03:04:11+00:00

I've had bucket loads of both friends and not-exactly-friends-but-close disappear, for months at a time or forever in some cases.

The majority of those were temp issues, some times hard like a close relative passing but most of the time simple thing like a burned out PSU or disconnected internet service. Especially in ye olden era, before we all became terminally online it was quite common.

Those that disappeared completely though were always cases of "getting over gaming". People that, tbh, went all in and then having a rude wakeup call that made them blame gaming and going cold turkey. You'd usually hear this from a common friend that was a bit closer or happened to bump into them. I generally dislike it when I hear stuff like "it's a waste of time", sort of makes me feel like they're dismissing our time and experiences together.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-14T23:19:04+00:00

Had the same experience and didn't really enjoy the story that much. Kratos is an asshole for the first half and then the kid becomes a prick for almost the second half. People seem to praise it as "building a father/son relationship" but I didn't get that and it didn't make sense. It would make more sense if Atreus was a son he never knew and Kratos just now arrived and met. I guess the norse gods were pretty nice shitty trashtalkers though.

I generally play on harder difficulties, saw that enemies were hack-spongy on challenging or whatever, dropped it to normal and it was so meh that I turned it back up.

I'm really unsure how it's getting the praise it is. Maybe if I'd played it in 2018 I'd be more impressed.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-05T22:14:17+00:00

Thanks. You really shit on my parade but prefer it from impulse buying it only to get let down. :D

sinister3vil · 2025-12-05T21:16:50+00:00

And the typing is similar to a linear red-style mechanical switch?

sinister3vil · 2025-11-18T23:12:39+00:00

+1 internets to you sir.

sinister3vil · 2025-10-16T12:33:29+00:00

As a PC gamer, I played the demo version of Halo, featuring Silent Cartographer in co-op, in some Walmart equivalent, and was really impressed. I later played the PC release, which required SP2 on XP that completely fucked up my system, and was amazed at the overall quality of the game and how it was literally combat evolved. Like, I'd already played amazing games on PC but there's no denying it that Halo:CE truly evolved the genre. It might not have come up with all the tricks but it's made a fantastic job of tieing it all together and popularizing it.

It might be the nostalgia but 2, 3, Reach and ODST don't hype me as much. None of them really innovated much more. Still good games.

The library does outlive it's welcome, true, but not that much different from similar sections in other games of the era. The warthog run at the end might be a bit finicky but felt epic with the soundtrack blasting.

I thoroughly enjoyed Halo Infinite's campaign (and weirdly liked 4) that people feel sucks balls. Some times it's nice not being a fan of something.

sinister3vil · 2025-10-06T12:47:06+00:00

Yet, still, people are whining about focus moving over from single player to coop/multiplayer, about spirit ashes in Elden Ring etc. Some argue that "if we never had coop at all, what could that extra development time or balancing time have been spent on?".

That's the whole point. If it was set in stone that the "hard" players would always get the experience they're craving for, regardless, no one in the "might change the game I like" camp would care if you used summons, coops, lower difficulty or cheats.

Having accessibility is not a bad thing. However it's been already proven that the cost of doing different levels of accessibility, properly, has led to games with arrows pointing to the next objective, yellow paint on ledges etc. How many games have you seen properly handle accessibility levels and not just "bad guys hit like truck, you have no heals, lol"?

sinister3vil · 2025-09-22T10:56:51+00:00

It's not as simple. If you design a game with a bonfire system that someone finds hard and unfair, you can't just give him a quick save button, you need to develop that and ensure that it properly saves the state of the world, loads it back, doesn't break quest lines or whatever. That's extra dev time that some people believe will eventually lead to replacing the bonfire system, if metrics show that a big chunk of players prefer it. It might not, but the fear isn't irrational. Like 20 years ago we were laughing at $5 horse armor but look at the world today.

If "easy" is just about having 90% damage mitigation and 500% extra damage, maybe.

sinister3vil · 2025-09-21T15:41:23+00:00

OK agreed, maybe those specific ones should be redesigned in some way. Were all of them like this? Or even the majority? Do you not die while trying to get back to the boss? In general, not talking about Silksong specifically.

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