It won’t.

This is how I see ‘giving up a little privacy’ looking. Legitimate/compliant users will link their accounts, the government & Google both enhance their tracking, and the rest of us will abandon our existing accounts (if we have one) and skip out via VPN to a region without this requirement.

MyGovID/DigitalID (maybe as SSO) is my bet; a Google account linked to one of these two government services.

https://my.gov.au/en/about/help/mygov-website/sign-in-to-mygov

https://my.gov.au/en/about/help/digital-id

The name changes go back to Fallout 3 (at least, I can’t recall if FO1 & FO2 had the same drama).

By the time of Fallout 4, names like Med-X (morphine), Rad-Away (iodine), Brawno (amphetamine? I can’t remember) were well and truly bedded in, and suited the aesthetic. Why change it at that point? They’ve created names that suit the aesthetic better than the actual drug names.

I was in my mid/late 20s when this was all going down. I grey imported the MK reboot so I could play, had a copy of Manhunt, and others. The Fallout drug names were a result of the lack of 18+ rating and trying to comply with MA15.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/07/fallout-3-cant-get-a-rating-in-australia/

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/fallout-continues-from-ban-on-game-20080715-gdsma8.html

https://www.gameshub.com/news/features/australian-classification-law-video-games-2646457/

Kinda correct, it was a ratings issue. The problem was that we didn’t have an 18+ rating for video games - if your game was deemed 18+ then you couldn’t sell it here. Sex, depictions of drug use, and a couple of other things I can’t remember right now are reasons for an instant 18+ rating.

Bethesda got told they couldn’t sell it to anyone in Australia, so they compromised to drugs that didn’t actually exist.

Left 4 Dead had something similar with the gore; if I remember correctly, L4D rating submission referred to the zombies as “monsters” (or something) and passed while L4D2 referred to the zombies as “infected people”… because they were now people, our ratings board shit the bed protected the children and gave it 18+ until they removed the bodies and gore. It was patched back in by Valve when we got an 18+ rating.

South Park: The Stick of Truth has/had some good censored scenes about this, graphically describing Randy being probed by an alien while the graphic of a koala sits in the background. These were patched out too I think (or I downloaded a mod).

We still have people like these lobbying against porn on Steam, but the overall situation got a lot better when we got an 18+ rating.

It’s not a poll of Republicans, it’s a poll of the US public and there’s upticks in both camps.

To the rest of the world, it’s not the United States of Republicans that are threatening Greenland and Canada, tearing up their own trade agreements, and shitting on allies. It’s the United States of America.

Pointing at the other internal camp and implying ‘It’s not us, it’s them’ might help US residents sleep at night but it does nothing on the world stage.

Upvotes = relevance to topic and visibility. They don’t necessarily mean that people agree with the topic.

Those damn Ancient Greeks and their fascist rockets. /shakes fist

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ariane

If your day is just starting, maybe you need a coffee. There’s a distinct difference between Aryan (or Aryen in French) and Ariane (or Ariane in French).

Different words in different languages sounding the same is a wild launch to a crusade in 2025. Wait until you hear about Ariana Grande… the most Grand of all the Aryans. I know the additional letters won’t fool you.

Tiny Tim - Living in the Sunlight

Not always true; I was quite disappointed with the lack of labia options in Cyberpunk 2077.

I hope it’s good but all the screenshots just stink of a re-skinned Stellaris. I’m sure there’ll be Star Trek themed DLC but how that will fundamentally differ from Stellaris with a Star Trek mod pack, I don’t know.

I would love for people who have it to prove how wrong I am though!

Smashing some Titanfall 2. It’s included with EA Play/Game Pass Ultimate and it’s a ton of fun. We’ve been doing 4 player co-op “Frontier Defence” mostly; think arcade “MechWarrior” meets tower defence. Tons of fun!

Lemmy growth numbers since the whole API thing kicked off might give some indication.

I came in here to recommend Todoist - been using Pro for years and I love it for organisation and reminders… However, with all the self-hosted options in the comments, I’m looking at making the move to the NAS. Thanks other commenters!