Are you practicing digital hygiene in Gaming?

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mindlessobserver

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Hello Gamers! Its me, Mindlessobserer! Back to you with another Gaming lets play!

What are we playing? We are playing "Lets not get caught by the Eye of Sauron!"

What is the Eye of Sauron? Well Gamers, Sauron is the fallen Maiar of the Valar Aule. Sauron hated how chaotic the world was and rebelled against God to impose his own vision on the world. A world of perfect order. Perfect belief. and perfect obedience. To whatever it was Sauron wanted. The Great "Eye" was a metaphor for the panopticon of the State and Society, backed by malevolent will who does what it does for the very "best" of intentions. Have you read the terms of service for your gaming consoles?

TERMS OF SERVICE

When you sign up to any gaming service, be it Steam, Epik, Playstation Network, or XBOX Live, you sign a legally binding contract. Have any of you ever READ this contract you just "Press A" to accept? Lets take a look using Playstation Network as an example!

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Are you a young Zoomer or Gen Alpha? Well guess what! FUCK YOU. If you are under the age of 18 you immediately void the agreement, surrender all your legal rights, and potentially open your parents up to legal liability! Press A to accept!

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PSN will whore you out to third parties for cash. You have no say in the matter. These third parties may require you to accept further binding agreements. PSN accepts no legal liability if you accept such agreements. Press A to accept.

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Failing to fully DOX yourself to Sony voids the agreement. Press A to accept.

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Accepting this agreement binds you in blood with your family. By accepting the agreement, you acknowledge legal responsibility by Blood, and agree to accept any crimes committed by your family as if they are your own. Press A to accept.


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You AND your Family will comply with Sauron's will. This you will do. Your compliance is not optional. If you or ANYONE associated with you violates this covenant, your account is voided.

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Any money you give us is ours and ours alone. You surrender all property rights to anything purchased on PSN, and give Playstation an unlimited license to dispense with your money and any licenses you purchase as we see fit.

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Just in case we weren't clear before, lets be crystal clear. You own nothing. You give us money, we give you access. We don't transfer ownership, we surrender no rights, and you agree that you are simply buying access. Not property. You are the paypig here, and we are the butcher. If you agree, Press A.

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In the unfortunate event that you foolishly assume you possess rights under the law, we also require that you voluntarily agree to surrender those rights. Press A to accept.



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If by some miracle you convince an idiot judge you have rights, you agree that your rights will be vindicated under the Law of the State of California in the County Court of San Mateo, where SONY America has its Headquarters. No matter where in the world you happen to be.

Press A to accept.

WHAT AM I GETTING AT HERE?

Simply put, what I am getting at here is that an entire system has been built in the gaming industry that not only denies you, the gamer, ownership of what you pay for, but also forces you into binding legal agreements that strip you of your rights. Not just of property, but also of speech. Because these agreements provide an unlimited, unrestricted ban on being a neuro divergent autist, or worse, a political wrong thinker. On pain of having your PSN, Steam, or XBOX Live account seized. So what is the solution? Simply not agreeing to the TOS?

Sure. But then you don't get to play your games. We live in a society my friends, and hypocrites that we are, we TOO must live in society. What, are you NOT going to Press A? Will you REFUSE to "buy" (purchase non exclusive licensed access) the next greatest game? Of course not. I bet most of you never even bothered to read these TOS. Which is why the same digital hygiene you practice accessing the Kiwifarms must be applied to your gaming accounts. You do not want the Eye of Sauron to descend on something you've sunk hundreds if not thousands of dollars on.



NO TIED USER NAMES OR EMAILS


All User names and emails tied to your licensed gaming accounts should be unique. They should not be tied to you professionally, socially, or even god forbid, to the Kiwifarms. Did you know anyone can see what games you play on Steam? Bet that makes you question the wisdom of downloading the next hentai game on greenlight! If you use your gamer user handle on Kiwifarms, I demand you smack yourself now. You should not engage in any sort of political activism or shitposting with your gaming accounts. If you feel the need to do this, create Sock accounts using your PC and a VPN. Then shitpost away.


LEARN HOW THE ORIGINAL GANGSTA'S DID GAMING

Today, I shall remind them.

mIRC

mIRC is an freeware Internet Relay Chat software program that allows you to create and deploy your very own instant chat communication. Unlike proprietary programs, or worse, developer controlled chat rooms, IRC chat rooms are yours. You have an exclusive proprietary right to the IRC room for you and your friends to use. It cannot be moderated by anyone but you. It keeps no logs of any conversations save what you yourself decide to preserve. It is YOURS.

Teamspeak 3

Teamspeak, Version 3 is a proprietary VOIP system. With a very key difference to Discord. It does not provide server space or bandwidth. Its simply a program, that is barebones for free, with greater tools for purchase. What you do with it however, is YOURS. Your Teamspeak server is YOURS once set up. Teamspeak offers no moderation, because its not their job. They just sell you the tools. What you do with them is up to you. This is a big difference to Discord, or integrated in game VOIP software that is provided "for free".


WHY YOU NEED TO DO THIS NOW

Getting you to agree to the onerous TOS was simply the first step. Now that gamers have gotten "comfortable" with not actually owning their games and instead purchasing "license" to play, the other shoe can now drop. And that shoe is overt moderation and voice recording. Make absolutely no mistake. Everything you say and type on Discord is being recorded, and anything you say or type into Steam, PSN or XBOX Live is DEFINITELY being recorded. You after all gave an unrestricted licence to these companies for monitoring your data. You also agreed to unrestricted moderation.

Enter, the "Toxicity Rating", and the solution being provided. "Toxicity Monitoring". The Eye of Sauron itself.


What is being proposed here is not a joke. It is a persistent monitoring program that will record voice and chat communications for later review. Imagine being a dumb kid at 17, and saying the "gamer word". Then imagine being that same Kid at 27 deciding to run for Congress. But Uh oh. Here comes a Sony lobbyist. With a recording of you saying the "Gamer word" a decade ago. Better do what Sony says if you want to get into congress! For that matter, good luck keeping your job if you end up on the wrong side of a cancel mob and some shit heel at Sony decides to accidentally "leak" your records to drive the nail into your coffin.

Never mind what this power could mean if actually wielded by the government instead of avaricious multinational corporations.

Protect yourself NOW/. Build a wall of fire between your gamer self, and your social/professional self. Learn how to gain proprietary control of communications methods so that you and your friends can talk to each other without fear of blue haired freaks ruining you socially and professionally. Never mind just blowing up hundreds of dollars in your "license" purchases. Practice good internet hygiene, in gaming!
 
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If I own a game on one of those services, I just stay quiet and play it like a good little boy, without interacting with anyone. If I can, I simply pirate the games and then these companies can kiss my ass as I steal their profits from them.
Gamers are cattle, news at 11. My bigger issue is that every single one of these games that needs a platform or a central server to function is DOA, it's only a matter of time until it is shutdown like The Crew. Hopefully Ross can help resolve that issue so we can stop companies from doing that, at least.
 
in 20+ years we went from LAN parties to this online hellscape for gamers
The big problem is trying to get friends and family who are gamers to go along with this or else you basically are going to be excluded from practically everything.
^this too. Stupidity is rampid in the gaming scene because there's more normalfags in it than actual gamers. The same kind of people that their brains melt when you tell them to just emulate a retro console on their computer.
 
You’re being autistic, you are right and wrong. As an xbox fag its well known on xbox that any naughty text messages will lead to an instant 1day-week com ban if reported and has led to people self censoring in messages and using parties to shit talk.

I only know one guy who was console banned for his communication. Guy was some ragehog addict who constantly shit talk in Smite(shitty moba) and probably sent death threats.

I’ve never been banned for saying anything in a party. They added a record recent chat for report feature and feature retarded anti-bullying ads but that hasnt stopped anyone. It’s just retard posturing to appease the lgbt’s. These companies dont care enough to ruin your life if you say nigger.

Dont worry we xbox bros will continue to call people niggers
 
Dont worry we xbox bros will continue to call people niggers
I don't understand why anybody in 2024 would continue to dig themselves deeper into the vendor lock-in hole under the presumption that these corporations are gracious overlords and won't continue to find new ways to both police your behavior and screw you as a consumer.
 
When you sign up to any gaming service, be it Steam, Epik, Playstation Network, or XBOX Live, you sign a legally binding contract. Have any of you ever READ this contract you just "Press A" to accept? Lets take a look using Playstation Network as an example!
Quick nitpick, but for confirmation on PlayStation, it's X. (Or O for Japanese users.)
 
The video game industry has gotten so lame and privacy invading that I stopped playing video games a few years ago. Shelling out your money for a mindless hobby that you are only given access to on the condition that you play nice and sell all your information to the company providing you this “service” is bullshit, but it is what it is. I’m infinitely more happy with the way I spend my time and money now.
 
Sorry homie this is going to fall on deaf ears, even if the young folk read this they'd be like "Yeah so corporations can basically just roll in take possession of my house and sell my family into slavery. That's just how it is, idc".

The funny thing is that emulation and piracy has gotten better while cost and quality of gaming has worsened to the point that I don't understand why people even play new releases anymore, so the increase in brazenness within the gaming sphere has been exclusively fueled by complacency among the contemptible niggercattle gaming public who deep down yearn for the mines.
 
You’re being autistic, you are right and wrong. As an xbox fag its well known on xbox that any naughty text messages will lead to an instant 1day-week com ban if reported and has led to people self censoring in messages and using parties to shit talk.

I only know one guy who was console banned for his communication. Guy was some ragehog addict who constantly shit talk in Smite(shitty moba) and probably sent death threats.

I’ve never been banned for saying anything in a party. They added a record recent chat for report feature and feature retarded anti-bullying ads but that hasnt stopped anyone. It’s just retard posturing to appease the lgbt’s. These companies dont care enough to ruin your life if you say nigger.

Dont worry we xbox bros will continue to call people niggers
People have been banned and had their Xboxes blacklisted for being toxic in chat and over voice.
It only takes one soft faggot to brick your console. The fact all these chuckle fuck companies make almost every game require unnecessary online services with stupid seasonal passes for content like rainbow flipflops and other crap just shows you where the industry is.
Games used to be good now they're gatcha virtual dress up for as much money as they can squeeze out of you.
 
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You’re being autistic, you are right and wrong. As an xbox fag its well known on xbox that any naughty text messages will lead to an instant 1day-week com ban if reported and has led to people self censoring in messages and using parties to shit talk.

I only know one guy who was console banned for his communication. Guy was some ragehog addict who constantly shit talk in Smite(shitty moba) and probably sent death threats.

I’ve never been banned for saying anything in a party. They added a record recent chat for report feature and feature retarded anti-bullying ads but that hasnt stopped anyone. It’s just retard posturing to appease the lgbt’s. These companies dont care enough to ruin your life if you say nigger.

Dont worry we xbox bros will continue to call people niggers
lost my entire account because of shit talking and an entire clan on ark rage reporting. So I'm another one. I don't see d death threats, kids just can't handle being told they suck while being teabagged
 
People have been banned and had their Xboxes blacklisted for being toxic in chat and over voice.
It only takes one soft faggot to brick your console. The fact all these chuckle fuck companies make almost every game require unnecessary online services with stupid seasonal passes for content like rainbow flipflops and other crap just shows you where the industry is.
Games used to be good now they're gatcha virtual dress up for as much money as they can squeeze out of you.
if I don't play multiplayer or have friends what's my risk of ban?
 
People have been banned and had their Xboxes blacklisted for being toxic in chat and over voice.
It only takes one soft faggot to brick your console. The fact all these chuckle fuck companies make almost every game require unnecessary online services with stupid seasonal passes for content like rainbow flipflops and other crap just shows you where the industry is.
Games used to be good now they're gatcha virtual dress up for as much money as they can squeeze out of you.
What do you expect. The industry is plagued with women and soy cuck/simps pushing dei. All they care about is looking some way.
 
If you have a little bit of extra cash lying around, I really can't recommend grabbing a PS Vita or a 3DS off ebay or facebook marketplace enough. Those babies are easy as hell to mod, you can slap a 512 gigabyte SD card in there and download every game for the system and like, the previous three or four console generations onto it, then buy yourself some replacement parts like batteries, screen protectors and spare buttons to keep it up and running so long, you'll be able to pass it onto your kids.

If you wanna really have every option at your fingertips though, get yourself a harddrive with a few terabytes on it, download every emulator you can and just mass-download every ROM in existence; Reddit, as cancer as they are, maintain a gigantic library with all the ROMs you could ask for, so download them en mass to the hard drive, and enjoy having every game from the first 7 generations of modern games on your computer.

They can take your shitty, unfinished and overpriced modern games all they want, sure; but they can't take physical media, and older games are way better than the garbage that gets pushed today. The PS1 library is so underrated it ain't even funny.
 
If you have a little bit of extra cash lying around, I really can't recommend grabbing a PS Vita or a 3DS off ebay or facebook marketplace. Those babies are easy as hell to mod, you can slap a 512 gigabyte SD card in there and download every game for the system and like, the previous three or four console generations onto it, then buy yourself some replacement parts like batteries, screen protectors and spare buttons to keep it up and running so long, you'll be able to pass it onto your kids.

If you wanna really have every option at your fingertips though, get yourself a harddrive with a few terabytes on it, download every emulator you can and just mass-download every ROM in existence; Reddit, as cancer as they are, maintain a gigantic library with all the ROMs you could ask for, download them en mass to the hard drive, and enjoy having every game from the first 7 generations of modern games.

They can take your shitty, unfinished and overpriced modern games all they want, sure; but they can't take physical media, and older games are way better than the garbage that gets pushed today. The PS1 library is so underrated it ain't even funny.
I'm gonna take my lord of the rings metaphor all he way to the end zone thanks to this post.


Own physical media.
 
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