Aren’t there already laws against making child porn?

WTF did I just read? Fuckin weirdos. That is uncomfortable on so many levels. Poor kid. I remain traumatised from the time I had to remove all the malware from my dad’s computer. That was twenty years ago, he’s dead now, but I still carry the abominable image of him in his wheelchair, pulling his decrepit knob to Thai ladyboys, with the dogs lined up on the sofa watching. Ignorance is bliss. Ho hum, conservatives eh?

They’re definitely bigger!

Shame I’m a fat old guy now. A few decades back I looked great in a Laura Ashley summer dress.

Looks like I’m unaware of something horrible. . ?

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TBF they sometimes hide it from public view by putting it in the bin - trashcan in the US - on bin collection day. Genius.

I think that was kinda the idea - war production meant steel was in great demand, and this seemed like a really cheap way to make ships. I wouldn’t want to try sailing one round the Caribbean, but they might have been okay in the north sea, for example. They didn’t work out though, can’t recall why but it’s not impossible that melting may have been a factor!

Lol okay, I do try to listen to recommendations like that - I’ll put it on my list. It’s a pretty long list tho!

IIRC this type of thing isn’t new - there was research into the possibility of making ships out of ice mixed with sawdust in WWII.

So, i started gaming as a kid on the Sinclair spectrum. Though I had a Tandy trs80 before that and a zx81, iirc they both had 1k ram so weren’t really able to do much other than pong. The spectrum, though, had 48k, the BBC b had 32, and they could load and save files to a cassette tape. You could do so much more with them, and on the BBC at least you could code both basic and assembly. Anyway, I really enjoyed gaming on both of them - the graphics were either 8 bit ASCII or basic line drawing, but that didn’t detract from the enjoyment. And I didn’t know that a better visual experience would ever be possible, I was just delighted that games existed.

Later on, I got more into coding and later still into stuff that wasn’t computer related. I had a PS2 for a while but didn’t use it much. Fairly recently I picked up a steam deck and have started playing games again, I’ve got a few decades worth of stuff that I missed - played bioshock for the first time a few months ago! I’m entranced by how much the experience has broadened and deepened from those early platformers on the spectrum - it’s incredible progress.

But I don’t get a lot of screen time so I’m cherry picking - a lot of my wishlist comes from recommendations on here actually.

And yeah, I’ve noticed that some of those recommendations are for games with retro style graphics. I understand that it’s maybe easier for smaller developers - but developers can surely manage 2D without that blocky 8bit look, I think they choose not to and I think it’s a fashion choice. Same goes for sound. I guess if you live long enough, your childhood stuff really does become cool again.

I’ve not played any of the games you mentioned - maybe I’m missing out, but there’s plenty of stuff I find visually pleasing, I’m unlikely ever to run out.

Otherwise, though, I’m happy - albeit slightly perplexed - to see that the pixelated look is somewhat en vogue. Maybe it’ll help the games I so enjoyed as a kid to survive and even find new audiences. It’s just not my thing, not anymore. Personally, I enjoyed games like that when they were all that was available but now my eyes have been opened, I’ve seen the future, and have no desire to go back to my pixelated past!

It’s been a while since I played deathloop but I seem to remember you can only save the game certain times, I think only when you’re in the tunnels and time has passed.

Yeah, I’d travelled to Asia, had a bunch of jobs, and left university by then. Time flies eh.

Edit - probably my age is why I can’t abide games with the pixelated retro style graphics. Having grown up with that stuff I have no desire to return to the days of terrible blocky graphics. Though it’s nice if it enables younger ppl to enjoy older games.

I mean, I’m sure these jobs exist, social media manipulation is neither new or difficult. They’re probably outsourced to India or somewhere though.

But it’s a bit of a pathetic excuse for bad managers to use to cover their failing. I think they should have some sort of evidence before they start squawking about it.

Yeah Lemmy has porn but if you want anything at all niche Reddit was better. My tastes are pretty vanilla so it’s not been a problem.

I don’t think it’s particularly hardcore myself, I’ve just been moving away from platforms as they’ve been enshittifying. I was on reddit over ten years but left over the API thing and haven’t been back. I stopped using Facebook a few years ago and haven’t missed it at all. I stopped using twitter when musk bought it, tried using mastodon for a bit but it was kinda barren so I’m on bluesky now. I still check in on mastodon occasionally. I’ll move on from these platforms too if they turn to shit. It’s easy to get caught in a kinda sunk cost thing with platforms, but really it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been there, how many Facebook friends you have, how much karma, whatever - if it turns to shit it’s time to move on, and best go early to avoid the rush!

He’s also a good writer and seven pillars of wisdom is a fascinating book.

What about stuxnet? But i guess no-one involved is looking for non violent solutions.

Maybe they’ve got Saddam’s missing WMDs. . .

Yeah I’m playing cyberpunk for the first time and really enjoying it. i don’t know how much it innovates, but I’d say it was certainly a good game.