Thread 718762154

Considering they're banning adults from using the internet by, I predict, 2030, what's your actual plan for being able to play vidyas when they're no longer available, and people over the age of 18 can no longer legally purchase them due to the restrictions? Personally, I just found my old PC DVD cases at my mom's house. I have Mass Effect 2 which can be installed without using EA Desktop or Steam. But then I realized, if OS is gonna comply to governments it means Windows 12 will probably scan for vidyas that are locally installed, and emulators, and put them under lockdown if the user has verified his age to be more than 18.

I'm thinking about building a Windows XP computer, and hoarding old consoles and games for them, so I can go back. Hopefully there won't come a time where the police can seize your devices because you're not allowed to game as an adult.

>>718762154 (OP)
>banning adults from using the internet
?

>>718762154 (OP)
if things are that dire, use linux. or a steam deck. or physical consoles

lmao what

>>718762154 (OP)
>thinking they will hamper in any way what's currently the most profitable entertainment and media on Earth
lel

>>718762274
profit doesn't guarantee women's safety, or childrens, and it's ruined the birth rates.

Did OP read all the news about kids being banned from most sites in bongland and think they were actually referring to adults?

>>718762154 (OP)
I will simply stop playing videogames.
It will be a sign from God telling me that I should stop with an admitedly worthless passtime.

>>718762154 (OP)
Smart steam emu and golberg.

>>718762326
You're deluded if you think profit is not the only thing that really matters to big corpos and such
They would rather release a faulty deadly product and deal with the lawsuits etc. even when they outright know shit is faulty beforehand, because it's literally more profitable to release it as is

>>718762213
OP is a technologically inept zoomer

last gpu that has drivers for windows xp was made in 2015, that shit will not last too much longer

>>718762154 (OP)
If gaming becomes too much of a chore, I'll just pick up a new hobby like reading books or something.

It's exactly the same as what I do right now, which is playing old games. In a worst case hellscape where graphics card manufacturers refuse to support non-DRM platforms, I'm not bothered at all because everything I play runs on a fucking Pentium 4.

>>718762508
And don't even mention talking about the old consoles.

>>718762213
So, Online Safety Act is just the beginning of having to register your ID to your internet use, then more and more. It tracks your "movements" on the computer, giving government access to see how much each individual uses at home doing jack shit vs going to work, or being with their family.
Then the next step is that they'll use these ID systems to force compliant behaviors first on the internet, so you're temporarily banned from sites you use too much because it's an addiction. Then this will also apply to video game platforms like Steam, using the diagnosis of "Gaming Addiction" to flag users who can then no longer play video games while the Palantir has marked them as "addicted".

After that, they'll normalize it, and the next step is to simply ban adults from going on the internet because it's "problematic for society".

At that point the only way you can realistically game anymore, is to use offline hardware like an old pc and DVDs, or consoles that don't use the internet.

That is, if it's legal at that point.

They want to decide what you're able to do with computers going forward. Only kids are allowed to view child-safe content and play games that are stupid and made for kids, until they have to be adults and serve society.

>>718762241
>use linux
Illegal and completely banned in 2030
Only russian terrorists use it
You're not a russian terrorist, are you?

>>718762610
This will never happen, the biggest internet addicts in the world are liberal women, and no laws that inconvenience them are ever passed.

I'm already out and I'm not giving my secret away or everyone else will ruin it

>>718762610
but whats the incentive, who benefits from doing that? it sounds like it would just make the cattle upset

>>718762492
>You're deluded if you think profit is not the only thing that really matters to big corpos and such
And you're deluded if you think corporations aren't just the third arm of the Government at this point. They say "Corporations are running your governments" but it's the reverse. It's governments who are running the corporations now. They're autonomous, sure, but the amount of legal government-enforced compliance they have to uphold has increased and it's slipping. The biggest companies encounter the FTC or other regulators, and the regulators answer directly to the federal state or EU governments, and those dictate what a large company is allowed to do as a platform, once it's deemed to be "too behaviorally influential". That's why Blackrock is causing all the assets it controls to comply with ESG and free-speech diminishing rules. It's why you can't be critical about indian migration on Reddit without getting an account ban for 7 days.

It's the Government's agenda, and the next step in that, is to use the regulators and thus the corporate giants to force adults to leave their computers unless it's a work PC used at a workplace.

>>718762803
>but whats the incentive
It becomes slightly less of a hassle for your government to track everything you're doing online, and they don't have to spend 2 seconds asking your ISP for your address. Yes, that's what this whole thing is about, global erasure of freedoms so a retard doesn't have to send an email.

>>718762154 (OP)
I have a large collection of physical games, including physical copies of PC games, as well as a lot of older games for N64 PS2 etc. on top of that I have a large collection of roms for those platforms and on top of that I have a large collection of abandonware, I also have multiple PC just sitting around that I can use if I need a backup, I'm mostly interested in building a small portable PC with a built in monitor, or somehow acquiring an X86 tablet that's dockable.

>>718762610
It's funny that this sounds more plausible than governments actually cracking down on all those fucking muhammads on welfare

I'll just play Magic and Pokemon.

>>718763126
>It's funny that this sounds more plausible than governments actually cracking down on all those fucking muhammads on welfare
The problem with government heads is that they can't comprehend that not everybody is a normie. They think the non-normie base of society only makes up less than 10%. They don't know we're close to surpassing the majority.

>>718762913
>deliberately destroys perfected global pacification system two centuries in the making to lower friction between friendly institutions involved in the management and operation of that system
i dont think youve thought this through, i think you're parroting things you read online.

>>718762768
They sure acted inconvenienced when roe v wade got overturned

>>718762803
The internet made information too easy for the masses to access. They want you to not be able to get anything meaningful out of it so you won’t get any silly ideas, hence AI slop flooding out actual content.

>>718763419
>perfected global pacification system
Did you miss the last couple of years where it turned against the head of the beast that created it? Israel's public opinion has never been lower.

>>718762154 (OP)
Dumb zoomers deserve it for using steam

>>718763419
>i dont think youve thought this through, i think you're parroting things you read online.
No, he's right. Weren't you willing to play FFVII Redditbirth? And weren't you willing to climb up those yellow splashes of paint? Didn't you play Monster Hunter Wild as one in 13 million at launch week?
That's what this is. They want to remove options for everyone, and instead you just have to do what the computer has told you to do, including being unable to go where you want without feeling like you've been compelled to do so.

>>718762154 (OP)
Oh no, guess I'll just replay the thousands of games i have available offline

if you take away the distraction the masses cattle will start noticing things you don't want them too, you are so naive and innocent

>>718763526
>>718763632
so you think its some sort of gambit or wager that they'll be able to cut off the dopamine drip in exchange for improved docility? idk bro, they're glassing palestine in real time and the only pushback is lame sitdown protests that are basically just police round-ups.

i just dont get why autists think you'd fuck with the videodrome when it's working so effectively to funnel retards directly to jail

>>718763694
But video games are making us notice things, such as DEI, and the fact that it's mandated through governments around the world, setting the Governance rules for the big asset managers.

And it's because we've noticed their last ditch effort is to fully restrict and criminalize certain behaviors, so that like in the UK, if you say the wrong thing you'll get police visits. That will just be expanded to video games soon. If you sit down and play a game while being in NEET mode, they'll come and knock.

>>718763694
The internet is how the masses COMMUNICATE that noticing. It's very easy to kill a small community of people who notice, it's very hard to kill the viral spread of an idea.

>>718763819
How did you send this reply if 4cuck is banned in UK lol

real skitzo Fridays
Yeah you gotta "plan" for all the contingencies in case "they" start moving against you... lmao

>>718762154 (OP)
I 1, pray to God, and 2. endeavor to create my own things.
>>718762610
That sounds absurd. What's infinitely more realistic is that the will roll out the literal beast system or something very much like it, and we will be in a full blown survailance state that everyone permitted to by their continued use of the technology.

>>718763930
I actually believe the online noticing is less effective than IRL private noticing. I had to quit my NEET position recently, and I've spoken to people that made me aware of some things happening in society I never noticed before. And it's common sense with a lot of them. Some 47 year olds telling me a lot of old secrets that they just know from circles of people, and how badly we're fucked in the west.

It reminds me of back in 2011 when I was talking about Mists of Pandaria and my high school friend just said "Dude... it's literally being made to pander to China." Nobody said that on Reddit. Nobody said that on 4chan.

>>718763819
Which part of DEI are you against

>>718764106
Everybody said that, you're just retarded.

>>718763946
There's many bongs in here. It wasn't banned. The UK is literally sending fines to them daily, because they haven't lived up to the rules of the Online Safety Act (rape videos and loli threads in other subreddits)

They can't shut it down because the UK doesn't govern it. But they can transnationally sanction it, and they're doing that. In 2026 the EU will begin their version of this, and then life is gonna get very expensive for "Moot" (but it's actually just CIA lmao)

And then Kids Online Safety Act will pass, and then the US will simply put a Cease and Desist on this site.

>>718764116
I hate DEI because it forces diversity and equality independently of the thoughts and feelings of who is working on a video game.
I don't hate diversity in itself. I just hate DEI, because it forces compliance, and often results in something that feels like government propaganda.

>>718764106
Ooh how vague and mysterious, this makes me interested in your cool opinions and I admire your intellect and savvy investigation skills. Your instincts must be finely honest to form clever insights.

>>718764349
Wanna know more? I literally met a hacker who tracked Reddit posters on the Darkweb, and located them in Iran. He's exposing the fact that governments are paid out of pure desperation, by the countries that try to destroy us.

>>718764489
Wow, you are like Fox Mulder. The truth is still out there.

>>718762154 (OP)
Spent 10k over the last two months collecting physical media at resellers and thrift stores. Im ready. Got externals, thumb drives and cdrw backups upon backups.

>>718762154 (OP)
I'll work on my hobbies. I don't need internet for my PCs to work.
Current PC hardware will be good for the next 15 years.
Might buy a new one around 2035, will see how things develop.

>>718762154 (OP)
we'll always have TPB. Always.

>>718762154 (OP)
Just don't use windows. And move out of or rebel against your nanny state.

>>718762154 (OP)
I barely play them now, and when I do, it's old shit. Every year at these trade shows for the last nearly 10 years, it was increasingly girlboss and sassy black women with attitude, but now that all that shit bombed and the USAID money has dried up, it's all dollar store dark fantasy Fromslop. The only shit on the horizon that even vaguely piques my interest is Silent Hill f, Cronos, and Resident Evil 9.

I couldn't give a shit less about Switch 2 because it feels like Nintendo is creatively spinning out in the mud, and overcharging everyone for the privilege to replay the same shit that they've been making over and over again for the last 25 years.

I'm about to go buy a new shower head, and that's actually got me more excited than any upcoming games.

>>718764489
>Reddit posters on the Darkweb

Ill just replay old stuff.
Hell, not even replay, there's so much stuff I've never played. Like metroid prime and Grandia

>>718763509
That was not a new law getting passed.

>>718762154 (OP)
Listen close and listen hard

>>718762154 (OP)
i will hoard (right now i am doing the same with different types of media) old games by then and stop using the modern internet, only use sites who deosn't need ID check

they are trying so hard to ban the internet literally just so Israel can wipe out gaza without repercussions. not because of child pronography or the dark Web. they doing it to protect jews from consequences

>>718768950
This has been in the works for decades

>schizo thread again
There's been so many lately.

>>718769320
I've been wondering just when did schizos arrive here anyway? I wasn't here before 2013

>>718769320
>>718769692
OP here. You have to assume this is the result of millenials becoming full adults while only having video games as their cultural handprint, and besides that, the mental illness of society infecting us all. Or maybe it's just autism.

I believe all that I think and say is "correct" but because of maybe autism, the way I put it sounds a bit strange, and gives off the impression that I might be an insane person, but in reality, everything I've said is the truth and one day everybody will look back and say "that was correct".

>>718762610
they aren't going to ban people from the internet, they're going to ban websites other than the massive ones from the internet
it'll just be like 50 approved sites/apps you're allowed to use and nothing else

>>718768950
retarded

>>718769987
As someone who doesn't use TikTok/Facebook/X/BlueSky/Reddit that effectively means they've banned the internet.

>>718769985
kek
Good thread, OP.

to go outside

>>718770046
correct but talking about a complete internet ban like bezos and facebook alien are going to be forced out of business is retarded

>>718762154 (OP)
I already have archives of various movies, various music, lots of books, DOS/PC games, Genesis, PS1, PS2, and Xbox titles. Around 20TB total. I'm not really scared to be fair. I have hoarded my own share of shit and I'm not too scared of going offline. Fuck streaming services and fuck corporate bullshit.
>>718762610
This sounds retarded but you're on right path. Realistically, governments will only push out a surveillance system like in China. I wouldn't bet too much on it because the ones who are truly addicted to internet are terminally shitposters, especially women, and they'll suffer most. Governments fucking hate everyone with brain, so they'll keep pushing AI slop, and monitor and ban all communities that are seen as threat by them, even ones that aren't politically motivated.

Hopefully I won't still be alive by then.

>>718769985
Half the battle of communication is forming your own thoughts in a way that is possible for others to understand and relate to. Most of that is style, if you come across as skitzo, then it doesn't matter if the information you think in your head is true or not, people will react to your weird style instead of listening or caring.

>>718770139
This just doesn't track though. The EU have been made enemies of America and the MAGA movement precisely because they kept targeting and sanctioning the Big Tech companies. Not just for compliance out of failure to moderate harmful content, but because they have monopoly on the market. Stuff like this is arguably why all the Big Techs concerted around the MAGA movement to get it back into power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks3ZB_H1OZM
This is an attack precisely on the people like Bezos. It's not an attack on the consumers.
But the Online Safety Act, and Deadening of the Internet definitely is.
And it would seem weird to me that the same EU that fined Big Tech, are the ones who are going to target users' privacy.

Or maybe it is the same, and they're simply targeting both, but they are targeting both.

There was never a version of this where the bigwigs like Bezos weren't threatened. The reason the Democrats in the US became woke is because the EU Commision was overrun by socialists and commies. I'm from the same country as the woman in this video. She was a very prominent politicians in the country, and if you went to copenhagen in 2015-present everyone is exactly like her. They were talking about "Heteronormativity", they were talking about "Large businesses being evil" and "people using the internet are weirdoes" etc.

Any way I see it, it's the EU that is behind the deadening of the internet. The big corporations have just been fighting a losing battle against governmental overreach, and now it's reaching their users. That includes video games, because it's ultimately also a Big Tech industry that perpetuates itself based on the aim to become "the biggest".

If the Corporate America died, there wouldn't be video games. Japan wouldn't figure out how to make it worldwide, and the EU wouldn't bat an eye if they could no longer make and sell games to consumers. It's driven by the american "free market", which has been attacked by outside actors.

>>718770828
When you put all shit into bigger picture, it all looks like it as if it's about consumer but not really.

>>718762154 (OP)
the only way to truly free yourself is to learn to be in silence and solitude without the need for the silence and solitude to end.

Before this thread gets purged or autosaged by jannies. What vidya and shows would you suggest me to get as soon as possible? I have a feeling that this won't be pretty.

>>718762610
This is idiotic. They won't need people to serve society in the future. AI and robots will take over more and more jobs, until most workers just aren't needed. They are more likely to genocide the useless eaters with targeted bioweapons than they are to do this.

>>718762154 (OP)
I didn't read all that but why is he blue?

>>718774491
Zuckerberg chewed the gum.