It's not my thing but I appreciate just how much depth and substance Star Trek has to it and the sci-fi theme is a perfect fit for most people who frequent Lemmy.
Kushia
joined 1 year ago
I don't mean they literally told me to get stuffed. They won't personally take your call nor read your letter. You might get lucky and they'll let you physically come into their office but that's about as far as you'll get.
The last thing I want to do is navigate a tablet when I'm operating a vehicle. I don't know how it ever made sense in the first place.
Having done this before and being told to basically get stuffed from one of their underlings I have zero faith in it. It's basically just another token thing that's about as useful as "thoughts & prayers" for the most part.
Microtransactions aside, if you're trying to protect your kids from creeps online you're gonna have to ban every platform that supports interactions with strangers. This includes several other games you've mentioned in the comments including Minecraft.
Personally, instead of banning it I just play it with my kids on a regular basis. There's plenty of actually decent games on Roblox and it enables game ideas that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day. My favourite is the Ikea survival game.
Good luck with that, your voice is going to be drowned out by all the companies masquerading as "people" whom they really represent.
What makes sense is two things:
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You can ask questions about the game and get a direct answer, often including someone showing you exactly the thing in the game you asked about.
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Some streams are genuinely entertaining, such as GTA RP streams. These people mostly aren't slobbering fat guys (though some are) but are actually working and acting the entire time.
Nah I don't care about that, I care about it being shoved in their faces. My kids are at least old enough to know about these topics somewhat and can make the distinction between video game violence and some cam girl.
If they want to look at this stuff I'm not naive enough to think they won't find a way to do so. But I'm not about to make it as easy as being recommended it by Twitch just because Bezos wants more ad revenue.
If Twitch wants to be an adult platform then they should honestly.
Unfortunately, most parents are not tech savvy and don't understand Twitch or how kids use the internet at all. On the face of it to most parents it just looks like a gaming thing. To these people the internet is basically platforms like Facebook on their phones. When they eventually hopefully catch little Johnny watching furry penises on Twitch it's already too late and a lot of parents lack even the parenting skills to deal with that appropriately. Sadly, it doesn't take much intelligence to procreate.
Personally, I've just blocked Twitch outright on my firewall with this change in policy for my kids and continue to monitor what they do as always. But fortunately unlike the majority of parents I actually know how to deal with it either way.
Artists and writers should be entitled to compensation for using their works to train these models, just like any other commercial use would. But, you know, strict, brutal free-market capitalism for us, not the mega corps who are using it because "AI".