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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by BobaFloutist »

_wf2l wrote: post #852
grumple wrote: post #783

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> The world started "burning" again with the war on Iraq / Afghanistan. If terrorists didn't kill thousands of Americans on 9/11, those wars don't happen, so you'd have to say 9/11 started it. Ironically, the world had less combat deaths worldwide than ever during those two wars (although this does a terrible job of capturing deaths caused by war, but not directly from combat): https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peac…

so basically, you're suggesting that the terrorists goal to attack the US and destabilize the globe is correct, and the terrorists won? sounds like the war shouldn't have happened, and the correct solution was not to do that

I mean I think at least a plurality of people on this website agree that the War on Iraq was a mistake. A lot of people at the time were very clear that it was a mistake.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by wavemode »

Lacerda69 wrote: post #485
wavemode wrote: post #356

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What "basic behavior" is that? Anonymously video chatting strangers on the internet? Can't you already do that in many Discord servers? Or on dozens of other apps and websites (e.g. Chatroulette)? There clearly isn't anything fundamentally illegal about the practice, or these would all be shut down.

Discord is not anonymous and chatroulette is next on the choppingblock

I don't recall sharing any details about my personal identity with Discord

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by rootsudo »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #749
rootsudo wrote: post #735

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On the flipside, is it the golden age of computing gaming or golden age of addiction? Paying $5 to be engrossed in a game for 100+ hours?

Point taken, but depending on the game it could be a better way to relax than e.g. browsing social media. I'm actually curious what people think a legitimate, cheap way to relax on a weekend or while sick is, if not gaming.

Personally, I like reading (books, magazine, foreign langauge, physical and online - library is free! Bookstores are free if you don't buy!), learning new things - going outside, cycling, sports, etc.

Many of those things can be as cheap or as expensive as you want, the last two do have some cost of entry but, it entirely depends how deep you want to go.

I enjoyed gaming as a kid, but the older I become, the less tolerant of it I am. I was the sort of kid/teen that would dive deep into JRPG's and spend time on gamefaqs.com and other forums - so don't discount me as someone that never understood gaming - but now that I'm an adult I just don't enjoy it. Maybe it's because I understand how games are made, and what meetings/background context goes into publishing a game, maybe it's just that I have less and less freetime so I don't want to be involved in a computer-esque realted software type deal. There's also the whome gamification of society and microtransactions that really draw developers into extracting money every chance, and theres also marketplaces like Xbox Game Pass that offer unlimited gaming for a set fee.

I very much think we are in a true golden age of information exchange - letters - phone calls - instant transmisison via Internet to the point where we're conversing ways to relax with the time we have. And I don't mean to be negative of your hobby. As long as you enjoy the time you spend on it - that's excellent. :) And don't think I don't game now, I have a switch that I never use with a library of games that keeps piling up - heh.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Blahah »

op00to wrote: post #702
joenot443 wrote: post #675

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And so now they’ll have to choose one of the other, even seedier bars. The kids aren’t any better off. You’ve made a poor analogy, though, since obviously it’s very trivial for a bar to validate age at the door. If such a thing were easy for Omegle to do, I’m sure they would.

If it’s trivial for a bar to validate, why not the same for a web site?

Because you can't police who is using the device at the other end. You're authenticating a client device, not a person, and that doesn't keep children any safer from abuse - if anything it means they have an incentive to keep their use of a thing secret for fear of punishment, which makes them more vulnerable.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by brailsafe »

rsynnott wrote: post #626
unsupp0rted wrote: post #416

> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery Have people always thought this (e.g. "the youth of today are lazy") or is it measurably true? I feel like it's obviously true.

Yes; moaning about both the youth of today and old people goes back, at least, millennia (though there are sometimes cultural taboos against moaning about old people which dampens that down). My pet half-serious theory is that we currently talk a lot about the dastardly millennials and boomers because senior media staff are largely genX; note that we don't hear much about genX these days. This will start to change in…

The culture of any generation is defined by the generation before it, that's why Gen Xers are the most depressingly suburban and forgotten about generation, not the boomers, because while boomers love themselves more than anyone loves themselves, nobody glamorized boomerism more than Gen Xers, who grew up with more direct exposure than younger generations; they just didn't have the same numbers.

Likewise, most of our prominent entrepreneurs are all Gen X try-hards who found fortune because of the consumption patterns that millennials adopted and were in the right place at the right time to capitalize on it. Millennial consumption patterns of course having been heavily influenced by gen xers and boomers by proxy, the few that got that good job and kept it forever are quite happy to upgrade their iPhone every year, buy TVs and cars for no reason, and move to the boonies not realizing that Gen Xers mistakenly gave up their sense of community to follow in the boomers' footsteps; they'll borrow and pay anything possible for the privilege.

Anyway, I'm already working on my Gen X material.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by devman0 »

intrasight wrote: post #746
devman0 wrote: post #339

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How do you verify someone's age anonymously? More practically, how do you do this in a framework that works globally?

> How do you verify someone's age anonymously No anonymity on social media sites. Not saying that's desirable - but it's the logical conclusion. You can run your own site anonymously. > how do you do this in a framework that works globally Lots of things work globally but are subject to local laws.

I think it's likely just to result in offshoring of site, which is a net negative, imo, for constructive regulation of these sites. I think the effort for age verification is going to turn back the clock on progress that has been made in content moderation done by the bigger sites in the US, by pushing eyeballs to less regulated sites overall.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by 4star3star »

op00to wrote: post #663
4star3star wrote: post #395

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No, dude. I was abducted, and my captors tormented me by giving me papercuts all over my body. Naturally, I feel strongly that paper should be outlawed. It would be illogical to allow for the possibility of someone else going through what I went through. Down with pulp!

You're comparing paper cuts to sexual abuse. Don't do that.

You must have misunderstood. Being kidnapped and tortured with does not mean that should be banned just because , while widely used responsibly for its intended purpose, could possibly be used maliciously.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

aardvarkr wrote: post #847
0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #651

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I think we're in a golden age of computer gaming right now. I remember what it was like when I was young: paying $30+ per game (many of which were flash-game quality, and I only learned how good the game was after I bought it), or endlessly scouring the internet for something free. Nowadays I can pay $5 on Steam, GoG, etc. for a game that will engross me for 100+ hours

What games would you recommend?

Here are various games that I really liked (trying to spread across genres a bit so you get a sense of what's out there):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/

https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri

https://store.steampowered.com/app/219740/Dont_Starve/ (would recommend going into this game as blind as possible)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/368230/Kingdom_Classic/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/107100/Bastion/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/662540/Haque/

If you like puzzles, my roommate (also an engineer) was a huge fan of https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/

Usually I try to monitor prices using a site like isthereanydeal.com and wait until it's discounted at least 50%.

A mistake I made in the past was buying games just because there was a really good sale. At a certain point, I realized that the time investment in learning new game mechanics is more important than the cash investment in buying the game. Investing your time in learning the mechanics of a mediocre-but-cheap game isn't a great way to relax.

Another strategy is to use a site like ifttt.com to get alerts for free games on the /r/GameDeals subreddit. You can accumulate a large game library for no cost at all if you're patient enough.

I always like to play on an HDMI TV with a gamepad if possible; hunching over a laptop isn't very relaxing. Almost all the games I recommended above have good gamepad support. Steam has a nifty Big Picture mode that makes it easy to browse your library with a gamepad.

Beware: Having a game library that's too large may cause decision fatigue which makes gaming less fun! :-P

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