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Quoting: LachuBut any other implementation than field in passwd is bad.

I'll quote from the article:

Quoting: Liam Dawerather than relying on self-reported ages.

Hence just having a box that says 'how old are you?' with a simple input is not good enough.

Some options for how it may actually work:

• Scan your ID card to verify (although many people in the USA apparently don't have an ID card because they don't really need it and don't want to spend the money, which to me as a Belgian is wild).


• Scan your driver's license to verify.


• Scan your birth certificate to verify.


• Input your SSN (Social Security Number).


• Submit a blood sample.


• Maybe you'll be able to request some kind of certificate from your city hall which can be scanned.


• Or perhaps something else I didn't think of.

Of course, those could be defeated by having someone else do it for you, so maybe monitors will have iris scanners and keyboards fingerprint scanners so you're constantly being verified (government of the USA, I'll take payment for my contributions to your cause in silver or Ethereum, thanks).

Having someone else do it for you is the least of our worries.
People have direct access to the checking code how do you keep them from making a mod that always says it's good to go?

Also, which wallet address(jk.)?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo if they're not selling the game at all, is it still piracy or should it properly be called "game preservation" instead?

legally it is still piracy in most of countries

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AI being used by experienced developers is one thing (maybe almost acceptable), they can usually spot mistakes and all that, but with increased use, less experienced devs will also think it's okay to use AI, but will not be able to see errors and code will start degrading. I think the idea of spaghetti code and nobody around that knows what exactly it's doing or why it's the way it is, is going to be a humongous problem beyond what it is today.

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Quoting: tmtvlScan your ID card to verify

I guarantee every device & account in the house will be registered to whoever the most tech savvy adult is & that will be that.

Why yes, I DO have 5 profiles on this Windows PC just for me. They just happen to be called Jane, John, Jimmy, Suzey & John Jr. 😝

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Had this game on my wishlist for a long time. Sounds interesting and it definitely looks amazing, but between the incomplete state, slow updates, poor communication and steep price for the package, I never could justify a purchase. Looks like it was the right call, unfortunately.

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You thought the cookie consent nonsense was silly, just wait for this insanity.

I'm a parent of 3 young kids. It's NOT that hard to keep an eye on what your kids are doing online. And it's already a nightmare to try to manage parental controls on most devices.

I'd be happy if they would stop at:

1) Force all media apps (like Smart TV apps) to allow the setting of a parent PIN + a kids profile where parents can set the age of content (like Netflix does it).

2) Social media platforms with over X users should have the ability to create a supervised account for children where parents can see their chats & approve their connections (like Kids Messenger). F*ck SnapChat & their disappearing chats.

3) Router level website filtering that doesn't suck.

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Frankly the state of parental controls is abysmal. I'm a fricking programmer & I find it all convoluted, annoying & unintuitive. And that's when it's even available.

We don't need age verification - parents will just register all users as 18+ to avoid the headaches of having a device that suddenly can't access things when you need it. Unless you're going to fingerprint ID a user everytime they log in.... this is going to be more surveillance for no benefit.

The parents who care are already doing a pretty good job.

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Quoting: MarlockSo the mechanic in PvE is that even if you only want to play solo you HAVE to play again every X time you your progress is wiped out.

So basically what I already said.

X time is long, but I have savegames in Steam that are a a couple years old and I went back to play them, so "a week" is not the same as "never" looses progress while not playing, which is what would happen if degradation only happened while actually playing.

Nope, that's still not the mechanic. Your progress stays intact, you don't lose your character, just your base deteriorates if you don't refuel the generators that power the shields or you doesn't back up the base and store it in the bank.

And even if you lose your base, you get plenty of materials to build a new one when you return 28 days later. You might not get the same amount back what you had in storage boxes, so if makes sense your store your valuables at the bank.

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Star Trek was dying the moment they shoehorned the product placement into the first reboot movie. (Gene Roddenberry was rolling in his grave.) Sure, there have been a few decent things since then, but it's just been mostly crap or not how it used to be. Sorta like Disney ruining Star Wars, I guess. Paramount's new owners are even worse than the old ones too. So I'm not expecting anything to get any better either.

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Ah, Mindustry. I always get burned on it quite fast, but still come back to it regularly. Guess it's time to dig in again.

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Quoting: emphy

It could go either way with it simply asking for people to enter their date of birth ...

The pro and anti big government politicians in the us seem to have settled on bad government as a compromise.

Silly buggers.

That's the plot twist. The politicians only campaign on anti-big government. After the campaigning is done, all the politicians are for big government. "my top down command and control government is better than your top down command and control government, totes". Vote Blue no matter who or Big Red Wave!! It's all the same; different coat of paint.

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"TRX" just makes me think of the RAM truck that put Ford and their Raptor in their place. lol

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So, it's basically abandonware now.. I know that's not legally correct, but in my eyes that's free game then. And that really sucks, the developers at Dramatic Labs deserved that revenue from what I can tell. Never knew it existed until I saw this article, but it looks like a damn solid Star Trek game.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo if they're not selling the game at all, is it still piracy or should it properly be called "game preservation" instead?

Nobody will judge you for preserving a game ;-)

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they probably can't announce that they will have to remove the game due to licensing issues, those contracts are full of small lines... the brand owners do not want to be blamed of anything... so they did the big promotion, so any fan could buy it one last time and when it is announced is already too late

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Just a heads up on availability: yesterday i noticed that they had some steam decks in their refurbished section available here in germany (so i guess its for all the EU area).
I was unlucky, and i tried over an hour to get one, but checkout failed (probably because someone else was faster every time!). Keep an eye out if you want one, perhaps there will be another batch coming and you are luckier than me. I want an OLED...

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"Hey boys, please everyone get on board this beautiful new ship! Yes, all of you! Mark, Elon, Jeff, Donnie, you get the best seats! The launch will be GREAT! And the name of the ship? Ark Fleet Ship B. Enjoy the ride.

Man. When you finally find out that Neuromancer was unrealistic optimistic, it kinda hurts.

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Quoting: LachuBut any other implementation than field in passwd is bad.

I'll quote from the article:

Quoting: Liam Dawerather than relying on self-reported ages.

Hence just having a box that says 'how old are you?' with a simple input is not good enough.

Some options for how it may actually work:

• Scan your ID card to verify (although many people in the USA apparently don't have an ID card because they don't really need it and don't want to spend the money, which to me as a Belgian is wild).


• Scan your driver's license to verify.


• Scan your birth certificate to verify.


• Input your SSN (Social Security Number).


• Submit a blood sample.


• Maybe you'll be able to request some kind of certificate from your city hall which can be scanned.


• Or perhaps something else I didn't think of.

Of course, those could be defeated by having someone else do it for you, so maybe monitors will have iris scanners and keyboards fingerprint scanners so you're constantly being verified (government of the USA, I'll take payment for my contributions to your cause in silver or Ethereum, thanks).

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Quoting: vic-bayThere are bad achievements, like "kill 50000 wolves", but overall it can be a good tool for powering up replayability.

Don't say that, I'm about to get, "do 1000 kickflips" tonight.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: tfkThis is not the job of a government. This is the job of the parents.

And the article mentions a "parents decide act", which I could theoretically get behind.

I have noticed that for at least the last 25 years, government bills in the US always have titles that are pretty much the opposite of their actual function. So whenever you hear a "something or other" act and the something or other seems like a good thing, you know the actual substance of the bill is going to be rancid.

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So if they're not selling the game at all, is it still piracy or should it properly be called "game preservation" instead?

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TR3 is possibly my fav one ever, I'm happy this project exists. I remember one evening cycling to a nearby town as a kid just to buy a copy.

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The game is really promising so far. And the performance is excellent if you consider it just launched into early access. Really looking forward to more updates. Also i didnt know that the Dev planned to make a Linux version as well. With that in mind if the game looks interesting to someone it should be a no brainer to buy & support this game/dev.

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At a 5 dollars pricetag is basically an extended demo experience and I'm fine with that. What they were building was a overambitious sure, this was not unsuspected. But maybe because of that I still think it is worth to the try even as it is, specially if it's on the backlog. It was already a good experience playing solo.

Audio and visual direction is topnotch. Not allowing mods (at the time it was being actively developed) to keep those standards might have been a shoot in the foot. Being always connected into one of varying small servers with a handful of players might have been another. Being able to see other travelers (PCs) as rare and speak to them/ band using only gestures and emotes was novel but it might not helped getting traction. And a small developer maintaining such infrastructure is sure to bleed $.

A pitty game world won't grow (without mods stepping in), but the experience was unique already even as it is. Worth a try just for that.

But true EA, like Kickstarter is always a risk. Unless you're wanting to help the devs or playtest, better always wait for 1.0 specially for cases such as this were the project dies / gets sunsets (even if gracefully) because of this.

Unrelated, will this be the same fate as Nightingale? (see some recurring patterns here)

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This all began way back when we started making digital goods palatable and accessible to normies.

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Oh, well. I guess that makes it abandonware...

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Yeah there was a 80% sale followed by this *kthxbai* announcement. Total dick move. 😡

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Wait, it's already gone? No prior warning or anything? What hellish behavior on the part of the publisher.

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The internet is a series of tubes. We're making sure the children are directed into the right tube.

/s

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I hate changelogs like that. They are so vague as to be meaningless. Rather than coating it with virtuous-sounding jargon, just say, "We changed some code!" It's probably more accurate, anyway.

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When you read this news post, the game is already gone. Poof.

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