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Wait why would they go specifically after gamers?

by ceres 4y ago

showdeadtest111 4y ago
Because gamers are the most oppressed minority.
- theplumber 4y ago
  Note to myself: Remember to tick underrepresented minority on job aplications.
- bobkazamakis 4y ago
  we live in a society
cyberlurker 4y ago
I don't think the reasons are good, but gamers often trash talk and bully each other in game. For example, Riot needed to ban people from typing “kys” in League of Legends because it means “kill your self” and they were worried about it. (Whether that is because they care about the players or their liability or both is not for me to decide)
- TulliusCicero 4y ago
  That's a very strange way of phrasing this. Obviously if you're telling random other people to go kill themselves in a game, you should be banned, same as if you start hurting racial slurs or making threats or other asshole behavior.
  - showdeadtest111 4y ago
    Maybe in some other games like animal crossing or stardew valley multiplayer. If you haven't played league before you wouldn't understand.
    - TulliusCicero 4y ago
      I have, in fact, played League before. And many other competitive online multiplayer games. Being an asshole online is unfortunately normalized among many players, which we can see from your comment.
  - cyberlurker 4y ago
    I think it’s hard to police this stuff. I could see someone sarcastically saying “kys” for forgetting to buy an item or something. Is it often used for bullying? Yea. I’m not going to draw the line at “kys”, but i don’t think it is as obvious as you make it out to be.
    - TulliusCicero 4y ago
      I don't think it should be an autoban type of scenario, where if you type it you just get banned instantly. It should be a situation where you can report it, and then an employee can see what the context is, if there's proper logging in the game.
stuu99 4y ago
Because the big media and tech companies hate computers that don't obey them. Microsoft, ibm, hp, intel and the like have been working on removing software ownership from the public purposely. They want a future where all bytes and instructions are encrypted. From 1960's to roughly the early 2000's, all computers you bought ran local software exe's in plain text , aka you could open up the .exe, .com or .dll file and reverse engineer it and restore missing functions to get older software running on newer systems. Valve, ms and the rest have been attacking us owning our own shit for over 2 decades now and they are trying to criminalize owning a general computer. MMO's were rebranded PC rpg's, so that the game industry could steal pc games and not give us the complete files for the game we were paying for to prevent piracy but they really want monopoly profits. You can find countless games who had their multiplayer networking code ripped out so game companies could disable their games remotely, that can't happen with gmaes in the 90's (quake, warcraft 1-3, starcraft 1 and diablo 1-2) because they were local applications. You got all the files and code to run the entire game locally. They want to take us back to vendor locked devices of the 60's with IBM mainsframe, the internet is one giant Personal planet sized computer toa software company and our old non hardware drm'd pc's are malfunctioning chips in their desire for monopoly profits. https://games.slashdot.org/story/22/03/25/0457243/owners-of-gran-turismo-7-locked-out-of-single-player-game-when-online-drm-servers-go-down#comments https://games.slashdot.org/story/22/03/25/0457243/owners-of-... What microsoft+ big media companies want the future to be: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Piracy is just a scapegoat the corproate world is mass dispossessing the stupid and ignoring mmo/drm loving masses. https://torrentfreak.com/esa-reports-game-piracy-file-hosting-and-cheating-sites-to-us-government-211013/ https://torrentfreak.com/esa-reports-game-piracy-file-hostin... These "pirate" claims are just pro corporate propaganda, they want to eliminate software ownership. https://torrentfreak.com/major-persistent-video-game-pirates-investigated-by-esa-220430/ https://torrentfreak.com/major-persistent-video-game-pirates... Then see down here where tifca (intel, microsoft and the rest) is them cheering the public being so stupid. AKA they know they got it in the bag from the days of ultima online and everquest in 1999, then we got steam in 2003, all those "software as a service" apps are 100% proof our species are idiots. None of these programs need to be split into two exe's and run over a network, so we're losing our privacy and control of our pc's and computing devices. So the army of lobbyists is being paid big money to ban regular pc's as they lock down the internet with new 'trusted' hardware that hardware companies in co-operating with intel and microsoft have been working on for over 20 years. https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/cs/15349/dl/DRM-TC.pdf https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/cs/15349/dl/DRM-TC.pdf
boredumb 4y ago
It's probably just a joke. But after some thinking, it could be because it's a large congregation of """unsupervised""" teenagers (that are actually being surveilled) and when/if the courts were to read a transcript from your average group of 15 year old boys competing among each other out loud, then most of western societies perpetual pearl clutchers would have an aneurism despite it being mostly harmless and only do more harm in prosecuting then protecting as far as effect on peoples lives go.

Wait why would they go specifically after gamers?

by ceres 4y ago

Wait why would they go specifically after gamers?

showdeadtest111 4y ago

Because gamers are the most oppressed minority.

theplumber 4y ago
Note to myself: Remember to tick underrepresented minority on job aplications.
bobkazamakis 4y ago
we live in a society

cyberlurker 4y ago

I don't think the reasons are good, but gamers often trash talk and bully each other in game. For example, Riot needed to ban people from typing “kys” in League of Legends because it means “kill your self” and they were worried about it. (Whether that is because they care about the players or their liability or both is not for me to decide)

TulliusCicero 4y ago
That's a very strange way of phrasing this. Obviously if you're telling random other people to go kill themselves in a game, you should be banned, same as if you start hurting racial slurs or making threats or other asshole behavior.
- showdeadtest111 4y ago
  Maybe in some other games like animal crossing or stardew valley multiplayer. If you haven't played league before you wouldn't understand.
  - TulliusCicero 4y ago
    I have, in fact, played League before. And many other competitive online multiplayer games. Being an asshole online is unfortunately normalized among many players, which we can see from your comment.
- cyberlurker 4y ago
  I think it’s hard to police this stuff. I could see someone sarcastically saying “kys” for forgetting to buy an item or something. Is it often used for bullying? Yea. I’m not going to draw the line at “kys”, but i don’t think it is as obvious as you make it out to be.
  - TulliusCicero 4y ago
    I don't think it should be an autoban type of scenario, where if you type it you just get banned instantly. It should be a situation where you can report it, and then an employee can see what the context is, if there's proper logging in the game.

stuu99 4y ago

Because the big media and tech companies hate computers that don't obey them. Microsoft, ibm, hp, intel and the like have been working on removing software ownership from the public purposely. They want a future where all bytes and instructions are encrypted. From 1960's to roughly the early 2000's, all computers you bought ran local software exe's in plain text , aka you could open up the .exe, .com or .dll file and reverse engineer it and restore missing functions to get older software running on newer systems. Valve, ms and the rest have been attacking us owning our own shit for over 2 decades now and they are trying to criminalize owning a general computer. MMO's were rebranded PC rpg's, so that the game industry could steal pc games and not give us the complete files for the game we were paying for to prevent piracy but they really want monopoly profits. You can find countless games who had their multiplayer networking code ripped out so game companies could disable their games remotely, that can't happen with gmaes in the 90's (quake, warcraft 1-3, starcraft 1 and diablo 1-2) because they were local applications. You got all the files and code to run the entire game locally. They want to take us back to vendor locked devices of the 60's with IBM mainsframe, the internet is one giant Personal planet sized computer toa software company and our old non hardware drm'd pc's are malfunctioning chips in their desire for monopoly profits. https://games.slashdot.org/story/22/03/25/0457243/owners-of-gran-turismo-7-locked-out-of-single-player-game-when-online-drm-servers-go-down#comments https://games.slashdot.org/story/22/03/25/0457243/owners-of-... What microsoft+ big media companies want the future to be: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Piracy is just a scapegoat the corproate world is mass dispossessing the stupid and ignoring mmo/drm loving masses. https://torrentfreak.com/esa-reports-game-piracy-file-hosting-and-cheating-sites-to-us-government-211013/ https://torrentfreak.com/esa-reports-game-piracy-file-hostin... These "pirate" claims are just pro corporate propaganda, they want to eliminate software ownership. https://torrentfreak.com/major-persistent-video-game-pirates-investigated-by-esa-220430/ https://torrentfreak.com/major-persistent-video-game-pirates... Then see down here where tifca (intel, microsoft and the rest) is them cheering the public being so stupid. AKA they know they got it in the bag from the days of ultima online and everquest in 1999, then we got steam in 2003, all those "software as a service" apps are 100% proof our species are idiots. None of these programs need to be split into two exe's and run over a network, so we're losing our privacy and control of our pc's and computing devices. So the army of lobbyists is being paid big money to ban regular pc's as they lock down the internet with new 'trusted' hardware that hardware companies in co-operating with intel and microsoft have been working on for over 20 years. https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/cs/15349/dl/DRM-TC.pdf https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/cs/15349/dl/DRM-TC.pdf

boredumb 4y ago

It's probably just a joke. But after some thinking, it could be because it's a large congregation of """unsupervised""" teenagers (that are actually being surveilled) and when/if the courts were to read a transcript from your average group of 15 year old boys competing among each other out loud, then most of western societies perpetual pearl clutchers would have an aneurism despite it being mostly harmless and only do more harm in prosecuting then protecting as far as effect on peoples lives go.