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Koof_on_the_Roof, in They could be anywhere

I got two streets mixed up and sent a couple to the wrong side of town. My family asked me why I did that. I asked them why they didn’t speak up, they were literally next to me, did they think I was pranking them? The street the couple were looking for is nearly opposite our house!

atomicorange, in They could be anywhere

I got there just in time! Thanks again for your help!

Evil_Shrubbery, in They don't understand. We built these machines so that we can work more.

I mean, precisely because of that people indeed now do have fig orgies outside. Just don’t count workers as people.

urfavlaura, in They don't understand. We built these machines so that we can work more.

welcome to crapitalism

xarexyouxmadx, in And thus my subtitle requirement was born

This should be illegal. I’m so tired of having to turn the TV up to hear the dialogue and then all the sudden the loudest noise you ever heard in your life. Then you turn it down … But here’s the next dialogue where you have to turn it back up again.

It really ruins the experience for me personally

6mementomori, in This is too loud

you’re doing great! (I’m following advice)

Angry_Maple, in The current state of Twitch
@Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works avatar

I don’t get some of these comments. You can want to avoid random nudity without bring a prude or jealous.

I’d argue that a LOT of people are not interested in seeing 99.9% of the population naked, and there should be nothing wrong with that. I don’t care what they look like. Sometimes people just don’t want to look at rectums.

The mindset of “you have to be happy about unexpectedly seeing a stranger naked or you’re a prude” also doesn’t sit right with me.

I would have just stopped using twitch, personally.

TotallynotJessica, (edited )
@TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe growing up in a warm, costal area makes it more common, but young women just wear similar outfits to most feminine streamers where I’m from. They usually aren’t making a statement about it, it’s just hot outside and they don’t mind showing off. It’s normal.

Some streamers do embody the meme. Some focus cameras on their ass. However, feminine streamers aren’t the majority, and most of them aren’t even that sexual. On a whole, men have more viewers, with almost every top streamer being male.

Part of why the discourse around sexual streamers seems so prudish is that they don’t dominate on twitch. There are a few popular ones, but women don’t even dominate the site; there’s just more of them than in the past. Most feminine streamers aren’t sexual. People see what they want to see.

The only male streamer ever suspended for showing his bare chest was crossdresser. Masculinity is normalized, so femininity is othered.

Angry_Maple,
@Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works avatar

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about telling other people how to dress or what to wear. Not at all.

To be honest with you, I don’t really go on twitch. When I made my comment, I had some of my earlier experiences with lemmy on my mind. I just turned off nsfw in my app settings though.

My main reasoning was so that certain things didn’t show up when I was showing something else to family, or if a coworker saw my phone over my shoulder. There are some jobs where you really don’t want your boss to see certain things, but most other forms of slacking off are ok.

For me, it wasn’t even about anyone’s chest. It was not wanting furry porn haha. They really should have thought about this before instating it.

Now people will be upset regardless of what they do.

JeffKerman1999,

dude, i’m just saying that there other places for noon-gaming stuff and those people are invading a site that was born for videogames. but then, i’m not using twitch for quite a while now since the homepage was taken over by IRL streams. I just opened twitch.tv (not logged in) a minute ago and in the homepage there’s a dude sleeping (with the name of the stream “i’m only sleeping” wtf??), one deejay, someone cooking and a saxophonist…

that’s 4 streams out of 8 in the homepage that have nothing to do with gaming.

TotallynotJessica,
@TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world avatar

Non gaming streams have their own categories, and they certainly add value. Everyone loved the Bob Ross stream when it started, but now there’s something wrong with cooking or musicians? Some people who come for the sax player might get into games. Twitch has problems, but adding variety to their streaming platform isn’t one of them.

There aren’t less gamers on twitch because of non gamers. I don’t even think game streams have suffered much as a whole.

Icaria,

It’s the internet post-2014. If you have simply never heard of someone’s particular flavour of BDSM kink before, they take it like you’re attacking them.

Anticorp, in Let's hope it never has to come to this

You can patent a hose, just by drawing a diagram of some specific use?

QaspR, in They could be anywhere

So that’s where the bermuda triangle comes from!

iAvicenna, in They could be anywhere
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

They followed it for 2 minutes and asked again for directions

roofuskit, in The current state of Twitch
@roofuskit@lemmy.world avatar

Just a reminder that Twitch only shows you lots of booby streams if that’s what you’ve been clicking on. Much like Tik Tok and Instagram.

Voyajer,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

Or if you sort by view count instead of recommended

HurlingDurling,

But I like boobies

Fubarberry,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

I haven’t used twitch for years, and have only used it for esports streams back when I did use it. I’ve never watched a booby stream.

I just reinstalled the app, logged in for the first time in years, and my top recommended stream is called “2 GIRLS 1 SHOWER JUMPING JACKS” and has a topless girl in the shower painting white boxes on her arm. The game category is listed as “art”.

Fubarberry,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

I haven’t used twitch for years, and have only used it for esports streams back when I did use it. I’ve never watched a booby stream.

I just reinstalled the app, logged in for the first time in years, and my top recommended stream is called “2 GIRLS 1 SHOWER” and has a topless girl with a white bar over her boobs. The game category is listed as “art”.

Nahdahar,

Nope, it also recommends streams based on what other people watch from the channels you’re following, it’s not only based on your viewing data. Other aggregates like generally what’s popular might get thrown into the mix as well.

To test this create a fresh account, follow Asmongold & let his streams run for a while, after some time the recommendations are going to be full of booby streams.

It’s kind of a running joke at this point that if you watch him you’re going to get booby stream recommendations because his viewers are degens.

roofuskit,
@roofuskit@lemmy.world avatar

You will get occasional recommendations but they won’t fill your home page as many complain. You can. Also click the dots and tell them you’re not interested in a recommendation and then you get less of them.

icedterminal,

That’s why! Once in a while I watch one of his streams for a bit when he’s playing something new. Every single time I watch, I come back a day or two later and I have booby streamers in my suggestions. I’m not even remotely interested bc gay. I always have to remove the suggestion but it’s a losing battle. They come back. You’d think twitch would actually cater to only what you want to see.

31337, in And thus my subtitle requirement was born

I personally like high dynamic range. Most receivers, and I’m guessing most smart TVs, have some form of dynamic range compression if you don’t. Bad quality, “realistic” voice recordings are a different issue. Having a center channel speaker also helps a lot.

Zorg,
@Zorg@lemmings.world avatar

Most TVs seem to default to playing the surround audio track, which is a terrible idea when you only have stereo speakers, but I guess the TVs do it in case you decide to hook up a multi speaker system mid movie?? Choosing the down mixed stereo audio instead, makes for a much better experience for most people.

calypsopub,

Center channel speaker FTW

JimmyBigSausage, in I think dancing just isn't for me

Skip wedding. Problem solved.

starchylemming, in Utterly insane

wat

Stamets, (edited )
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

He was part of a team that created devices allowing people to play what they wanted on switch, 3DS and some other consoles. He was convicted of fraud and imprisoned for two years before being released. He still has to pay off a fine of 10 million dollars so Nintendo is garnishing his wages for the rest of his life. Which pisses me off because he’s on Disability in Canada which is barely enough to live on (trust me…) and also taxpayer funds. Not to mention that there is no way in fucking hell that his part in all of this adds up to $10 million dollars in lost revenue for Nintendo which is exactly why that fine was applied.

Edit: Apparently disability can’t be garnished. Was a slight fuck up on my end. I had misremembered something and misread something which led to that. Nonetheless, situation still massively fucked for applying a $10 million (well, 14.5 million but 10 million of that is for Nintendo) fine for a dude who made $320,000 off of the hacks. However if he did make any money outside of Disability, they would immediately be entitled to 30% of it. Fucking insane.

Transcendant,

I get that they have to protect their IP, but $14m is insane. Feels like the judge threw the book, switch, 3DS and every other console they could find at him. Does he have no right of appeal against the sentence?

When Bowser was first sentenced, Nintendo’s lawyer Ajay Singh said in a court transcript (via Axios) that the company wanted to “send a message” to other Switch hackers.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought sentencing was supposed to reflect the severity of the crime and make fair restitution? It sounds as if this sentence / restitution was massively inflated to create a deterrant, to benefit a private business. Huge fail from Nintendo imo that only makes me want to never buy one of their games or consoles again.

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

It was put through the American Legal system. There is absolutely zero reason to believe that the justice system of America actually contains any justice in the first place. Of course they sided with the international corporation to fuck over a disabled 50 year old.

Chriswild,

The American legal system has always been there to protect the capitalist class.

Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

Nuh uh, it’s also there to punish minorities for existing

garbagebagel,

That’s just a means to an end, convince a part of the working class they should fear the rest, let them fight it out, and continue capitalizing in peace.

Promethiel,
@Promethiel@lemmy.world avatar

It isn’t.

I can’t speak for all PoC but I can speak for me. It’s been screamed for the ages. Maybe not all Dragons care about ideology, but it’s the goddamn minority.

The rule is you (the straw billionaire in this scenario) or your Robber Baron grandpappy were able to rise that way by seeing some as subhuman, and others as rubes. They still discuss phrenology and blood poisoning for fuck’s sake.

Stop assuming the bulk of The Capitalists don’t absolutely abhor the concept of other races sharing their resources. They’d happily make an all-white caste system.

They keep screaming that’s what they want.

TIMMAY,

whatever do you mean? are you suggesting that there are decades of evidence that the us justice system is a bad joke played on the minorities and/or disenfranchised, and then only functions to line/protect the pockets of the upper class and ultra-wealthy? preposterous!

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

I wish we had lemmy gold… Well this is as good as I got. Lemmy Silver.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1a7b5314-7964-4558-a4cb-97ffd8dfae1f.jpeg

Revan343,

We need a silver can of beans to give people

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar
h3mlocke,

I was hoping to see this here.

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

I like how this used to be a joke about being too cheap to pay for gold, but now that you can’t buy it anyway it’s as good as anything else.

TopRamenBinLaden,

Of course a silver figurine of Saint Lemmy exists because why not.

rottingleaf,

I’ve read Vladimir Bukovsky (the Soviet dissident), and the way he describes Soviet courts I advise you to see.

Of course that was about political cases etc, but when you’re complaining, remember that it can be worse.

TIMMAY,

k

FlickOfTheBean,

“Stop complaining, pissant, it could be worse” - most abusive situations

The “it could be worse” Olympics is the game of the complacent. You may be complacent. Are you?

rottingleaf,

In some things yes and I’m fighting it, it’s more about understanding well how your situation evaluates among possible ones.

FlickOfTheBean,

That’s fair. In that case, with that reasoning, it seems less like you’re being pessimistic and more like you’re trying to be realistic. I would caution though, reality isn’t ALL negative, though the neutrality and negativity inside of it can always be improved. Heck, even most positives in reality can often be improved.

Personally, I think the Olympics game tends to start when focus becomes too great on one specific aspect, which leads to what is essentially a one upmanship of situational comparison, but that’s all I really wanted to poke at.

Thanks for the even response! Sometimes me phrasing stuff like that starts fights even though I only want to poke a little bit. In any case, I hope your day goes well!

rottingleaf,

Sometimes me phrasing stuff like that starts fights even though I only want to poke a little bit.

Same here.

Good day to you too.

SCB,

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought sentencing was supposed to reflect the severity of the crime and make fair restitution? I

These look like punitive damages designed to dissuade others from repeating what he did.

agitatedpotato,

Nintedo lawyers are second only to Disney Lawyers. Fuck nintendo.

schmidtster,

He made far more than that selling the hack. Weird to be mad about him being fined.

rockSlayer,

Why is it weird to be mad at a multibillion dollar corporation for garnishing the wages of a disabled person’s disability benefits, simply because he was providing the means to do what you want with your device? I don’t care what the courts say. It should not be illegal to sell something that allows you to do what you want with your device. Even if that device facilitates piracy. IP isn’t real and shouldn’t exist in the first place.

schmidtster,

They can’t garnish disability benefits, they can only garnish wages.

rockSlayer,

Ok, that doesn’t make it better though.

schmidtster, (edited )

It shows people are getting mad just because someone endorsing piracy got their comeuppance instead of what actually matters.

rockSlayer,

Just to be clear, you’re ok with saddling a disabled person with $14m dollar fine to a multibillion dollar corporation, for the crime of making $300k on a device that allows you to do what you want with your device? It wasn’t specifically meant for piracy, there are several good and legitimate reasons to have full control of your device.

schmidtster,

What does the person being disabled have to do with anything?

rockSlayer, (edited )

Because he lives in the US Canada, where it’s expensive as fuck to just exist as a disabled person.

Stamets, (edited )
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

He actually lives in Canada. Your comment still applies overall as it is not feasible to live adequately on disability here but he’s not in the US.

rockSlayer,

I’m a little confused, because he served time in a US prison. How did that happen?

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

Canadians serving in US Prisons isn’t unheard of. We do have an extradition treaty to the US. Not one that I’m okay with as fuck being beholden to American laws while never stepping foot in the country. However he wasn’t even in Canada. He was in the Dominican Republic at the time that he was caught. He was extradited from there to the United States where he served 2 years before being released and repatriated back to Canada.

schmidtster, (edited )

Person is in Canada and has disability insurance as well as government benefits. Unless the articles are wrong in saying disability insurance.

Still don’t see how it’s relevant to the story about being fined. Would be the same story for anyone disability or not.

rockSlayer,

OP corrected me, and I edited my comment to reflect the correction. Still don’t see how it’s weird to be upset about a company fining the everliving fuck out of a private citizen because the company is anti-ownership.

schmidtster, (edited )

Because this group actively endorsed and profited from piracy. They made it a job instead of a hobby. Don’t profit from it, that’s like the one thing you don’t do, and they did it.

Not really a private citizen anymore at that point if you’re making a business.

rockSlayer,

Ok, so Nintendo should sue the group/company he was a part of and not the individual. The device was for hacking/modding. The fact that pirates used it too is incidental. Nintendo ships games in which you can’t even play 4/5 of the game due to a game breaking bug. The only way to access the rest of the game is to mod your ds to get past the bug. There’s also software preservation aspects so we don’t lose our digital history.

Honestly, fuck Nintendo. You don’t own software even if you buy it, so I’d argue that it’s not theft to use software without paying. But I digress.

beefcat,
@beefcat@lemmy.world avatar

disability benefits can’t be garnished. i think it’s ok to be mad at people for spreading misinformation even if they themselves are fighting a just cause. lies like this help nobody.

rottingleaf, (edited )

IP isn’t real and shouldn’t exist in the first place.

This. They’ve made up a dubious analogy between owning physical items and knowledge, and make the “burn the witch” act when you point out that it’s unsatisfactory to make laws, and there are plenty of people running around who haven’t ever made anything in their lives which would be impeded by IP, so they just support it.

I know a few people who’ve made IP-worthy things, sometimes published (small-issue), the pattern is that they are against IP (while for them I’d understand having emotional reasons to support it).

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

Nah, what’s weird is for you to openly lie and make shit up for no reason.

He made $320,000 over a 7 year period.

Source.

schmidtster,

The group made far more than that, and of course he would downplay the amount himself to make his portion look less.

They sold millions of copies of a hardware for over $50. The group made mint and there was 3 of them.

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

So you have no sources other than what you think?

Yeah I’m going to stick with the documents that were shown in legal proceedings, thanks.

schmidtster, (edited )

It’s how court cases shake down, especially with plea deals. And what court documents for one thing? Nothing in your links show court documents, just a blurp that also agrees with what I stated.

If you think he made that little with the hack, I don’t know what to say. You also seem to think they can garnish disability benefits, you’re mad over nothing and the wrong things.

But of course you’ll be upvoted since yay piracy! Nothing to do with the actual issue.

Empricorn,
Stamets, (edited )
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

So… again… you have no sources other than what you think? Either offer sources that back up your claims or stop making comments that are immediately proven false.

I also did believe that they could because I misread something. That’s on me and has been edited. Next time I would also recommend trying to correct someone by acting like an adult instead of whatever this behavior is. Sorry about the mistake but you really could have addressed that with a very different attitude.

Lastly, the actual issue is a misrepresentation on how much lost revenue Nintendo gained from this man. Piracy is a factor. It is not the driving force.

pewpew,
@pewpew@feddit.it avatar

Idk but Fuck Nintendo anyway

schmidtster, (edited )

They profited heavily from and endorsed not just protective piracy, they aren’t innocent, far from it. What they did was actively harmful to the community as a whole as well.

Don’t make a career out of a hobby, that’s why they got burned so hard.

sukhmel,

Could you elaborate on “harmful to the community” part? It was mentioned in another thread that they could brick the device, but I couldn’t find any details, for now at least

Stamets, (edited )
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    The group made millions.

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  • JustAManOnAToilet,

    I’ve heard of thin skinned mods but this is Reddit level. Be better.

    aniki,

    Better than what? Go fuck yourself.

    Surp,
    @Surp@lemmy.world avatar

    Schmidster is a Nintendo corpo cuck just permanently ban em

    aniki,

    If the lay-flat movement ever needed a figurehead…

    GraniteM,
    AlexisFR,
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    Why are pirates not protecting themselves properly? Or why are they not operating frome countries where they can’t get caught?

    rockSlayer, in Utterly insane

    I hope Garry becomes a monk that makes no wage. At that point there’s literally no point in continuing waged work

    Coskii, (edited )
    @Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    He was interviewed/was the topic of a Darknet Dairies Podcast. It’s his side of the story as well as some of the facts around the case. Don’t know how accurate it is, but it is interesting all the same.

    Episode 136

    Lev_Astov,
    @Lev_Astov@lemmy.world avatar

    At this point, I’m pretty sure I’d just fake my own death.

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