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  • How would you propose I prove to you at a reasonable certainty that I am an adult, without showing you my ID, or showing it to someone else you trust to tell the truth?
    And also somehow prove that the ID I gave was not fake without the government that issued it telling you that it’s genuine?

    Well, I actually could do it because I’m old enough that most of my accounts are already over 18 years old, but I don’t think requiring every new Pornhub user to wait 18 years is a reasonable solution.


  • If there is exactly one global service that does all the checks for every single internet user, which every single website uses, and the information going through them is always known, then sure, they could certainly block stuff.
    But it’s quite clear by now “we aren’t going to implement age verification on the internet” isn’t going to happen, that verification is going to be implemented eventually, and in the rather near future. And places like the UK and many US states are extremely unlike to roll back the already implemented solutions.
    So the question now is how it can be done with the least amount of invasion to privacy, and crucially, without the website needing your actual ID.









  • Kinda. Same as me, they know why the launch failed - no notifications - but don’t say anything why the notifications didn’t get sent.

    Steam has a section for the developers for setting up the release date. It specifically states that you need to be careful with it, because two weeks before that date you start getting visibility on the “upcoming releases” list, and will then show up in the “new releases” section, and once that happens, you can’t change it.
    And Planet Centauri is showing their official release date as being “3 Jun, 2016”, not the 2024 date they left Early Access as it’s supposed to. So did they mess that up and the notifications were actually sent, but they went out nine years ago? Or did Steam glitch when this game specifically left EA, not updating the date and not sending the notifications?
    If it did, were other games affected?


  • Why it happened I can’t say, but I know what caused the failed launch - the game has an early access date and release date both in 2016. Steam didn’t send the mail that the game had released when it left EA because from their point of view, it had already released nine years ago.

    Other games that have recently left EA have their release date update to the date they leave EA. No clue if it’s something that (should) happen automatically, or if it’s something the devs missed.







  • Obviously, assuming you have that hill.
    Slightly harder to do in places like the Netherlands for example, where the tallest hill is 322 metres, and the second tallest that isn’t part of that same mountain range near the Belgium border is just 110.

    And in the US, Florida, Delaware, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and Illinois are actually flatter than the Netherlands - sure, the highest point in Indiana (Hoosier Hill) is 383 metres from the sea level, but the lowest point in the entire state is 98 metres above.