You're aware that something along these lines is already in place?!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall [External Link]

Thank you for the link. I had never heard of it (I also do not own a car).

Not only is there no easy way to disable it, the system is also encumbered by patents allowing some patent troll to milk cash for free. Great design.

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Seems to be an unpopular opinion but - good riddance. I'm tired of this wild west era of the internet where any platform can have anything on it and not be held responsible. Sure, no implementation will be perfect, but why not make the haram stuff a bit more difficult to access, eh? If this is what it takes to expose a few less people to traumatizing or shocking content all willy-nilly.

Now, I too, feel that the implementation of these being left to the free market is a bad idea. I want a transparent trust-free ubiquitous social service (from the government) identifying people and confirming to platform holder whether I am qualified for the content (jurisdiction & age). I will not give my ID to Google or platform partners (who mess things up completely in case of smaller platforms).

Laws such as the UK's "children safety act" give too much power and too much data to the government. The problem with that is not necessarily what happen immediately but rather what could happen in the long run.

Let's say UK introduce some form of government controlled online ID and tracing system. Amongst other things, this system is to be enforced on crypto currencies trading. It makes sense to not let teens play with high risk (sometime borderline legal) investments after all.

Skip 5 years into the future. The economy isn't doing well, mass layoffs are happening and there is a lot of unrest. The majority party then has a genius idea: let's blame it all on crypto currencies being used to manipulate the market. They promote new laws making owning crypto wallets illegal. Luckily, with all the data collected in the past 5 years they can easily fine/jail/whatever all the traitors who abused the system.

Governments should not be seen as perfect entities always acting in the best interest of everyone. Don't get me wrong, they are necessary and for the most part a huge boon to our societies. But they have their flaws, as such people must be entitled enough privacy to guarantee their freedom.

I agree. But can we expect better if the privacy-minded people, when asked for their input on these policies, are simply yelling "nooo".

I would consider myself a privacy minded person so here is an alternative, barely fleshed out idea, just to prove that other approaches are possible:

Owning an internet connection now requires a licence, just like driving a car. Obtaining said licence requires passing a test about general knowledge (identify phishing mails, what's an ip, so on) and, most importantly, your responsibility as an adult when letting children use internet (and how to protect them).

The main difference with the current laws being passed is that, in this scenario, the government is only judging your ability to do something, not tracing everything you do with it.

The analogy with driving also works in reverse to show how absurd the new laws are. What if the government suddenly started requiring all vehicle be equipped with a gps module constantly streaming its position to the authorities because "it will protect the children". Also, the police must have a duplicate of your keys, in case they need to check you haven't abducted a kid on your way to groceries (certainly they will never lose them, nor will there be any abuse, ever).

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It's disheartening how many people are raising their pitchfork against the new nexus mod owners when, in this case, they're just bound by the many anti-freedom laws being enacted all around the world.

As Liam said himself, even GoL had to make changes to accommodate the ridiculously overreaching and vague new UK laws. Including nuking the forum out of existence.

If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at your government (or at yourself if you didn't vote the last time you could).

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Not a "backroom deal" but there could hardly be less information on the actual deal.

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Gave the demo a spin. The base concept is quite good and reminds me a bit of transistor's system (which is brilliant).

However the content currently available is pretty limited and I didn't find many interesting synergies. We'll see how it matures.

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Although, to be fair in the other way, IIRC, DuckDuckGo, for example, does primarily use Bing, although not strictly so.

DDG was down when bing was down a while ago, so was yahoo and pretty much all "alternative" search engine.

Just look at recent news, with Microsoft cutting off access to Bing Search APIs on August 11 2025 as they continue to pivot to AI.

Ironically this could be a huge boon for openwebsearch. Since several search engines rely heavily on bing APIs, they will need to find an alternative. Whether intentional or not, good timing on their part.

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Pretty fun game, you can get to blindingly ridiculous levels of on screen chaos! There is a demo available if you want to try before the full release.

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It's like a mix of risk of rain 2 and evolva. Pretty fun, albeit the time limit mechanic gets rather annoying quickly I much prefer risk of rain's way of managing time.

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would Guacamelee! qualify? [...] stardew valley coop is not "necessary" but is substantial

Thank for the names, some I hadn't looked at. I wouldn't really consider overcooked or stardew as fitting, too lacking in the puzzle side. But it's a made up genre any way... (also they're good games regardless, just not scratching that specific itch for me).

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I curious if you all can pick genre you want, what will it be ?

I'd love to see more asymmetric coop puzzlers. I made that genre up, but I mean games where cooperation feel significant/necessary to overcome problems and which are not primarily revolving around violence. Examples would be portal 2, the trine games, the we were here games, it takes two/split fiction, ibb & obb and sadly can't think of many more.

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