what the fuck? isn’t the dark souls for retired people… just dark souls?

can’t be doing that steam.

stopping people from undercutting you by selling steam key cheaper elsewhere and avoiding steams cut, sure.

mandating price parity in other situations, no bueno. gonna lose this one probably

why do you care if there is bigoted games on steam? i have never been advertised such games on steam. the only place i learn about it is when there is some news story, let them die on the vine. they may get positive reviews, but only because the people who seek these games out buy them and get to leave a review, they are not popular.

you start trying to police that stuff, and it gets worse. and then stream starts having to decide where the line is, and what is parody, and there is no decision you can make that will be free from negative consequences

does people having multiple homes and driving up the price of housing contribute to homelessness?

what about bazzite set to immutable?

My knock off 5 hour energy gives me 20,000% of my daily dose of B12!

ah, well fair enough. though getting any headway on this problem is going to be harder then muting an airport. data centers get anything they want in the end

is this just a new form of 5g causing cancer and also mind control? you can hate data centers for reasons that can be measured on gages.

6-12 inches

people exist, plumbers exist, people named mario exist, is there a plumber that can grow twice his size, shot fireballs using a flower, can jump four times his height unassisted, or fights a giant sentient reptile that breaths fire? no.

you can argue jesus was a man, but he is not the jesus of the bible.

now you are just talking about some different guy named bob.

mario is based on a person, but mario is a fictional character

and they would need a birth date WHY? they would need to populate that information from here, WHY? especially since this was not brought into being because this was it’s use case, but because a state improperly demanded it, at the same time they are demanding other authoritarian surveillance over the populous right now? no i don’t think so. User name is more then sufficient

by your claim, the field can have any series of numbers, that there is no way to determine if it is accurate, and the law that this was done to appease is bad, as in not able to obtain its expected result. and so the data is useless.

if some api/program/government wishes to get my information, they can ask me so that i may decline. there is no use case that these fields are a benefit to the user. and as such must be wrenched out with the fervor reserved for denying a fey creature your name.

if the argument is that these entities can get my name by other means anyway, then this data is redundant and useless.

let’s also talk about that then. we need to remove that immediately

the discussion happens right now, because i said so, because others are talking about it. and the data is useless when anything can be put in, it’s not used for anything, and it can’t be verified. it fails all three tests in determining usefulness

the laws are bad, and you can push fighting for anonymity and freedom down the road because letting the camel stick its nose under the tent don’t bother anyone, and it’s too easy to just ignore…. but the laws are made for a purpose, and they will change. and uh oh, the camel has flipped the tent, you can’t fight to remove it because now systems are built around it being there. now it’s a much harder fight because we didn’t fight when it was easy.

again after seeing everything that has happened you call sounding the alarm for this as a slippery slope… i am sorry, but i question either your motives, or your foresight.

because it’s too late at that point, which is the whole point and issue!

if the field is necessary, but the data is useless, then it shouldn’t be there. if the data becomes required then it should not be there. so the result, it should not be there

with mass adoption of enshitification. and with the world in general. calling things a slippery slope fallacy is a long and losing gamble.

if the field was put in because of a law, then it’s for a reason, if the data isn’t important, or enforced, then it is useless and should not have been added.

no no no, you misunderstand, this is malice, but the reason backing it is stupid and short sighted. i mean, unless the game plan was to run off their customers like a movie troupe

i just want teamdpeak to have a better chat system. not that i think discord chat system was great. i would prefer one more forum in shape. hate having to search a living timeline for a discussion topic