wizardbeard

Most people don't want their kids eating slop all the time.

Beyond that Minecraft is a considerably old game now, especially if you got into it in the very early days. It shouldn't be surprising that there are older people paying attention to this.

I was in notch's old threads on /v/ in the very beginning back as a young teen (yes 4chan, I was totally 18 years old, pinky swear). I'm in my 30s and have a kid now who is too young to play, but I will probably introduce her at an appropriate age if she likes computer games.

I'm not raging or anything, but I'm definitely paying attention enough to know if this movie is garbage to steer my kid away from in the future.

The moment you look at even the "best" ones for more than a few seconds you start seeing lots of fun body horror.

That's the way most discussion trends right now. Blame the tech bros and investors chasing a buck for killing the term AI.

The world is a wildly different place now, and the people developing them were headed by people motivated by reasons other than extracting as much money out of the world at any cost.

This is not nearly as comparable.

Beyond that, very few people had an issue with AI as fuzzy logic and machine learning. Those techniques were already in wide use all over the place to great success.

The term has been co-opted by the generative, largely LLM folks to oversell the product they are offering as having some form of intelligence. They then pivot to marketing it as a solution to the problem of having to pay people to talk, write, or create visual or audio media.

Generally, people aren't against using AI to simulate countless permutations of motorcycle frame designs to help discover the most optimal one. They're against wholesale reduction in soft skill and art/content creation jobs by replacing people with tools that are definitively not fit to task.

Pushback against non-generative AI, such as self-driving cars, is general fatigue at being sold something not fit to task and being told that calling it out is being against a hypothetical future.

You've missed my point entirely.

Blame absolutely is fair, but people can't vote on just the best options for SS alone, ignoring everything else. Also, as seen in recent presidential races (cough cough 2016), you can have a massive contigent of voter will just effectively erased by very thin margins or technicalities. On top of all that, voters can't directly effect what the policy makers actually do in office.

My point is, it's not useful to blame such a wide and diverse swath of people. Painting with such wide brush strokes only serves to create an us vs them situation that distracts from the actual policy makers, lobbyists, and news media complex with far more direct influence over all of this. Most of those people are boomers, but all boomers are not part of those groups.

The shortsightedness is thinking that new generations are the first people to go "Hey, maybe we need to pay into SS for enough money to be there. Maybe we shouldn't waste money on proxy wars on false pretenses." plenty of Boomers were shouting this from the rooftops as this shit was happening. Your objections and concerns are not new.

Basically, please stop talking about boomers as some singular homogenous entity. Please stop thinking that the situation we now find ourselves in is caused by some sort of lack of sense from older generations instead of politicians doing what is best for them at the expense of the general populace. Please stop blaming the average populace from before your time for the choices made by politicians.

Trump should be a burning hot example that politicians actions and the peoples' will are often very disconnected.

We do have to find a way to fix this. Taking time to dunk on people just as downtrodden as us is wasted effort that could be put towards trying to fix things.

Calling it now. Next Borderlands game is going to have some referential jokes about this train wreck that are meant to be funny self-deprecation but will actually be transparent attempts as covering up how much Randy Pritchford is malding about this.

I'm honestly surprised we aren't seeing more public meltdown from him. Can only imagine what's happening behind closed doors.

What happens if my brother gets banned for cheating while playing my game?

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.

I love that they worded it as the age old ban appeal reason. Always someone's brother on their account breaking the rules.

Rough going, but it's better than having cheaters just make a rotation of child accounts they can hide behind.

That assumes that anyone can reliably be a single issue voter their whole life, and that people somehow only have to live in the reality they voted for instead of the reality of whichever politicians actually won.

It's a very beguiling idea to simply blame the current problems of the world on negligence or a lack of effort by those who came before you. On strictly personal failings. It's also incredibly short sighted to do so, and often leads to repeated mistakes.

Inb4 "then they should have tried harder to convince their friends/family! They should have protested! They should have stormed the capital in violent revolution!" Keep moving the goalposts so long as you can keep blaming the previous generations.

It's a classic trap in business for newly hired managers: Come into a new to you situation, pick out the obvious as hell problems, insist upon the most logically simple solution. Ignore the history, company politics, confounding variables, and end up making the situation worse because you never understood how things got so bad to begin with.

In complicated situations, it is a trap to think that the obvious solution just hasn't been tried or investigated because no one as smart as you has been involved yet.

Now blame where blame is absolutely due. There's plenty to go around.

That said, very little of what the powers that be do is truly new. Blaming the older generations eliminates an opportunity for us all to learn from the past, identify patterns in history, and just makes it that much easier to keep us all oppressed.

A big takeaway I've found from elderly family members is that you absolutely cannot rely on inflation increasing at a standard pace. A fortune saved up 25+ years ago does not go anywhere as far as it used to.

Anyway, to try and cut my ramble short: We can sit around feeling smug about some perverted idea of "what goes around comes around", or we can try to learn from the knowledge aand mistakes of previous generations.

We'll all be old one day.

I would hope, but I've been burned enough to not assume big companies are doing things the sensible way.

And someone in your family at some point will take a picture of your kid and put it up on whatever the social media of choice is.

This is just called actually understanding your threat model and fully evaluating the controls available to you. Basic information security.

The most secure password policy in the world doesn't matter if your users just write them down on sticky notes on their desks. Security on your end doesn't matter if you're sending the data to an insecure destination.

Same concepts apply to privacy.

This is a common thing in online discourse, and reviews. People aren't usually going around posting "Yet another day of no issues with my computer". There's no emotional motivation there.

I'll take a swing. I've had no issues with my Windows 10 desktop since I built it in 2020. None of the bloat, ads, forced updates, OneDrive pushing. None of the shit people regularly cite as problems inherent and unavoidable with Windows.

I did my research and used the proper official tools to configure it before and immediately after a fresh install. Used third party scripts and programs for messing with configuration shit as minimally as possible.

I've only had to adjust things maybe three times a year, and most of the time it's been to re-enable shit that the average user would never disable like printing or hibernation, rather than having to fix or adjust anything from an update.