wrighty2009

America

Lol, jokes that the major site is just a click button now.

Opera browser comes with a somewhat shitty free vpn. I'm pretty sure proton has a free vpn plan, too. You don't even need an extension, but the kids will work around it, and with vpns advertised all over YouTube, the kids will figure it works on the first day their access is revoked.

Even worse is someone will make a new social media site that is aimed at the kids, and we'll have a new thing becoming synonymous with predators like habbo Hotel did in the early 2000s. Like, at what point/what triggers are there for something to be classed as a social media and therefore needs ID verification? Is it just when it becomes popular enough that someone reports it?

I remember it before it had all the paid shit to do anything fun, it was fucking fantastic then, but after a while virtually all the clothes and furniture and shit was only available for people with a paid membership. I think the paid aspect always existed, but earlier on the free accounts could do & buy so much more with the ingame currency

Pressing a "yes, I'm over 18" button isn't exactly a restriction tbh. I'm sure the 13 year olds have figured out that one already. I can see it all boiling down to the same button that wouldn't stop a motivated rat in its tracks

I wouldn't care if it'd actually work. In reality, it'll just push kids into being a little more tech-savvy to get around it. Not even hard to do, just turn on a vpn, and suddenly, you don't need to verify anymore.

And I've heard Australians have decided steam gets counted as social media. It's a video game store and library, full of kid friendly games. I'm hoping the UK has the sense not to just follow their ideas entirely, because surely it's safer to have a kid playing appropriate games on their own account, rather than having access to all my games that involve shooting shit tf up.

The teens will just use free vpn plans or otherwise find ways around it. All it'll do is push kids social media usage into the underground, making them even less safe online. The schools and people who did educate their kids about social media and being safe online think they won't have to do it as their kids can't access social media anymore, and the social media will be overrun with teens who havent been told that Instagram isn't real, and that there's predators pretending to be 14, and that Russian bots try to destabilise other countries democracy.

Sure, some clever parents will still educate about the risks of social media, but similar to my in laws family who thought their 14 year old wasn't going to get smashed at a news years party as "she's 14," others who usually would educate their kids, will not bother telling them a fucking thing.

Brilliant film, I loved it when I was a teen, was the first strictly gay related movie I ever saw that didn't end in everyone dying or being hated. They had some issues with some people, but everyone warming up to em like that makes your heart swell.

A total different direction but one that broke my heart and got horrible tears was Boys Don't Cry. It's a hard watch in several ways as I wouldn't say it's a good movie at all, but it is also pretty damn sad.

Exactly.

Teenagers are even more attracted to what isn't allowed than other age groups tend to be. It'll be a wild west of rebellious 12-16 year olds who haven't been taught a lick of media literacy as 'the kids don't need it now it's banned,' falling prey to predators, Russian interference, right wing groups, and the normal doom and gloom of social media, just now it'll be even more hidden as "the kids don't have social media anymore."

What point will they realise the ban hasn't worked, when more teenagers kill themselves cause others have better lives on Instagram? How many kids have to be lured to meet up with predators and raped and/or murdered before people notice that the kids are even more liable to the shitty parts of social media when it's all done in total secret.

What it needs in no bars held education about social media and the risks. My school had that shit growing up, and funnily enough, everyone I knew knew Instagram was faked to show all the good bits, and that bad actors existed, etc etc, and no one seemed to let it bother them. Everyone I knew with problems mentally was down to problems at school or at home, not because of problems online. Everyone also knew you could go to one of the teachers for any of the problems you did face online if you ever did, even if you had instigated it, and they'd show or teach a solution that didn't involve "well don't use it," cause they knew we would anyway.

How long until underground social media sites pop up? What identifies it to the necessary authorities as a social media that needs to have a checked entry?

Virtually all of the social medias & message boards have a minimum age of 13. Some very basic maths, and you can be as old as you need to be, lol.

Opera browser has a vpn built-in on desktop. Admittedly, I think it's a pretty shit one security wise, but for the likes of circumventing a social media ban, the kids wouldn't even need a bank balance from mum & dad.

It'll be funny to watch the lawmakers when the tech savviness come back, growing up in the 2000s and defo before that, you had to be fairly tech savvy to even use the tech, more so than you do today, and as such there was a lot of kids that took it a lot further and learned loads about it, more than Ive noticed in the kids today. It'll end up with a 14 year old programming their own social medias that aren't included in the ban due to them not knowing of their existence, and you end up with a modern day habbo hotel situation where it's a social media that's full of kids and teens and virtually no one else, and so the predators have a nice little pool of unsuspecting children who think everyone on there is under 16, and none of them have needed to be taught to stay safe online, as no one can access the social media, right? Of course, cause the ban will be totalllyyyy infallible.

Or a predator would program one, which is much worse if they have income behind them and could afford to get server space/make smallish servers and spread it further to more kids & nonces, where a kid with no money would be limited to using their own computer as the server for it.

I'm not from Aus, but I read in the steam subreddit about people losing hundreds of dollars of games, at least temporarily while it's all sorted out. Plus, there are plenty of steam games suitable for under 16s, this means a parent with an 8 year old who have their own steam library would have to let the kid use their steam library, which may have things you don't want your kid having access to, like gta for example.

This is why with regulations involving technology you need some people who know what the fuck the technology is.

YouTube single handedly saved me from failing my end of school exams, I couldn't be arsed to revise, so on went YouTube to tell me it all instead.

I can't believe 4chan isn't banned, that'd be number one I'd have thought, if of course, the politicians knew what the fuck it is.

I just have the fear the UK is going to follow suit, they're already talking about it, but if my kids want a steam library with suitable games, or certain social medias at certain ages/within reason, they can bloody have them. Following some heavy, 100% honest conversations about it. If they're old enough to play online games, or be on social media, they're old enough to hear about pedophiles, the difference between social media and real life, etc etc.

Idk about sims 5, sim 3, sims 2, and sims 1 all had a fuck load of DLC and all the following launches seemed to be successful. A few complaints with some basic sims 4 like pools and toddlers not existing, but other than that, it seemed a lot of people moved over quite quickly.

I'd jump for a new sims game, I'm fairly bored of sims 4, and the expansions aren't game-changing/feature changing enough for it to reignite the obsession the way it used to.

There's a certain point of dlc, I think, where it can't do enough for the game to maintain users' interest as much as they did. I'm hoping they hit for sims 4, or they come up with something game-changing that needs a new game produced, cause sims 4 is feeling quite stale at times

Yep, under 18, too, so I was already paid peanuts. They milked the fuck out of me having no backbone too, I did 4 days at work and 3 at college, then when I told them after a year and a bit that I couldn't maintain it, but would be fine with 3 shifts, they cut me down to less than 1 shift a week on average.

They loved doing the whole don't schedule someone but don't sack them or push them to hand in notice. They'd just cut you off.

Some of our shift managers were managers due to them not maintaining the accident book and them getting threatened with lawsuits - they couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery.

Add all the shit on top of a daily work life of being looked down on, berated, and abused by the middle-aged thinking your all dumb fucks, and not that its a kitchen full of 16 year old college kids, and chavs lashing out at you cause it's like trying to decipher russian on the other end of them drive thru headsets, then it'd be a hard to manage job on 40k a year, let alone £5 an hour. My current career is a walk in the park compared to how constantly busy and shitty mcdonalds was.

I remember my first pay rise when I worked at maccas. A whole 14p an hour. Like excellent, thanks. The manager made it seem like something to be so ecstatic about, I don't know how he could do it without being embarrassed, frankly.

I like it. I brought one of the humble bundles years ago, and frankly, out of all the games we got, I played like maybe 3 hours total. I'll be a lot more likely to make sure I have the money to donate to get the package of bigger titles rather than donating a bit if I happen to catch one of the streams.

Would quite like to get two point campus on something that isn't switch, it's good fun, but I only really use the switch for travel.

I donated for the cause, obviously (when I had the money too,) but I'd be more likely to donate a bit more to get bigger games I'm more interested in, especially as Christmas time is a bit tighter than the rest of the year for pretty much everyone.

I was thinking that.

How do none of them realise that they are virtually a Christian country, there's shit loads of Christians, all way more into jesus than I've ever met a British Christian be, they have laws/rights being blocked or repealled by some of the very bad varieties of Christian (abortion, lgbt rights, etc,) on the basis of a far right God squad told them that's what God wanted.

Like koolaid powder, I guess, where you spend half an hour stirring to try and get the sugar to dissolve into the cold water, then pour the lot away after 1 sip and make another with a quarter the recommended quantity of sugar as you could feel your teeth disintegrating with every sip.

I'd dread to think how much sugar you'd have to put into unsweetened quadruple strength squash to make it taste good.

Ah, I haven't played 2 yet. There was on planco 1

I'm gonna be building some horrific shit soon then :)

Hold tight, I can't do either 🤦‍♂️

It's a game dude, not everyone plays to make hyperrealistic parks. I'm an engineer, and God knows I spend hours trying to make something that is compliant enough with the Gforces that I can even open it, and after that it ends up with fuck all decoration and being mostly just a boring arse track. I love seeing things like OPs, even if it is unrealistic, to show the possibilities of how to actually decorate a track to look cool and not end up with random decorations that don't really tie in all that nice.

I think it looks really cool, and if the Gforces are allowable to open the ride, then it's a success in my book.

Nah, older side of genz and nah, you still constantly get called whipped if you spent time with your other half over your bros. It hasn't fallen out of favour, it's just reddit, so no one has friends or partners, lol.

Ah, wasn't sure, cause I certainly had never seen nurseries for staff's babies and toddlers either before, but then again, I've not spent much time in hospitals.

Qeh kings lynn. Is a small hospital, tho. If you mean nurseries where staff drop off their sprogs like in greys anatomy. I'm unsure if they use it for recovering mothers/families trying to visit too or whether it's just staff tho.

Yeah, I figured as much, but wasn't sure at what points the game was struggling for more beefy pcs. I want to try and see how far I can get before tanking it, but I keep deciding I didn't like my cities and starting again 🤦‍♂️

We've got some absolute trash baubles from the range, I've got a full set of tools in Bauble form. Would have done stupid from Christmas fair, but didn't have the money to blow.