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Do you skip tutorials as fast as you can?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Uhh depends

If I haven't played the game before? No I'll play it, even if the controls are typical

I could say something about politics in Australia and how the opposition in parliament is fucking useless because it's tiny and had a bunch of infighting and instability.

I could say something about the rushed through laws after December 14th at Bondi (to stay neutral on that, tl;dr war crimes and terrorism bad)

However I'll also say stuff to keep it light-hearted like ULTRAKILL FRAUD OUT

Also check out this tall as fucking plant behind my work

At a certain point of a word or phrase being used "incorrectly," it's not incorrect anymore.

The only info I have on the social media ban in Australia is that within a day of it coming into effect people got past it with dogs and video game characters

A fucking dog

Not only is the ban just bad (ineffective in what it is supposedly aiming to achieve, increases online risk in security breaches, stunts kids' voices and ability to find likeminded individuals and support, isolates kids, etc etc), it just. Doesn't work also. Which is good I guess because it means it isn't as bad but it's just funny.

I dunno

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, whatever, enjoy whatever break you're getting

If you are an under 16 from Australia fleeing to Tumblr to escape the social media ban

No you're not. You're 17, right? 19? Yeah, I thought so, come on in

But seriously, if you're an under 16 who joined here to escape that, lie about it, don't say you're under 16.

To quote something I don't remember, "if you aren't lying about your age on the internet, what are you doing?" So yeah

The Australian Social Media Ban comes into effect in a little over an hour

It might be tempting to give up rasing concern and awareness, but don't. Even once it's in effect, it could still be reversed if we're loud enough

To my knowledge currently, the ban will initially do the following:

Prevent anyone under the age of 16 having accounts on the following social media platforms:

- YouTube

- Twitch

- Kick

- Facebook

- Instagram

- TikTok

- Threads

- Twitter

- Reddit

- Snapchat

Exactly how this will be verified is up to the platforms themselves I believe. Platforms thst don't comply will be hit with massive fines.

This list could be expanded so Tumblr isn't safe yet

Running over some issue:

Data security: Now, if these private companies get hacked, potentially millions of people's face scans, government IDs, etc, will be potentially leaked

Political stuff: This stifles younger people's political say. Even if they aren't 18 yet, they should be allowed to voice their thoughts on the democracy they live in

"Protecting the Kids": yeah this shit isn't really protecting too effectively, and it'll be bypassed real fast, bets are under/over a week, place them now

And it's just a massive overreach and shit all around

"World-first" as an Australian, can we keep it as a world only? I'd rather only we have to put up with this bullshittery than the entire world

Also YouTube can still be watched, same as twitch I think, because you don't need an account to watch on there. Same with Reddit somewhat? Idk I don't go on Reddit.

The thing requiring everyone in Australia to link something identifying them to their online selves? The exact thing everyone was told not to do when the internet became a big thing?

The thing I can already think of 4 potential ways for someone to get around it before even needing to resort to VPNs?

The thing that originally was going to exclude YouTube but then they said "oops never mind fuck you we're blocking that too"?

The thing that will almost certainly fuck up people's mental health? Kids that don't have a way to talk to their friends without it and desperately need that support due to mental health stuff, trust problems with their parents, etc?

Because isolating kids, stopping them from accessing information, and making them more vulnerable to identity theft is definitely a good idea. Definitely "for the kids"

Kinda wanna punch whoever's idea this was in the nose ngl.

[For legal reasons I am saying this out loud that is a joke and not a genuine threat of violence against a politician. I'm saying this because this account might be linked to me irl soon yay -_-]

I'm so fuckin done with this shit.

I would say I'll move somewhere else but I kinda have to learn another language. UK is how it is, US is being the US, Australia is doing this shit, New Zealand will probably follow soon. Canada.. I dunno someone tell me if Canada isn't in a good state but I remember there being smth wrong there.

I can't even make a joke about "oh I'm just gonna move away haha"

Fuck my life. Fuck this shit. Fuck social media/internet bans in their current state.

They're half baked and overreaching, and probably ineffective, almost definitely harmful.

First, the Australian Social Media Ban coming in (at all I don't like) 2 weeks before Christmas is annoying because what about all the online friends people can't wish merry Christmas

Second, it affecting Steam is stupid. Yes it has messaging but it's nowhere near the main focus. Hopefully only the messaging part is agelocked.

Third. Current song my brain is blasting is 5, 6, 7, 8 by Steps. Not related just here.

Fourth, if you haven't read SCP stuff just. Go read it at all. Even a little. Start with the commonly known ones if you want. Or don't. I'm not the MTF

Fifth, sorry to any Americans that see this, but most of your lollies/candies/sweets kinda suck imo. Only American confectionery I've liked so far is Reese's.

6th uhhh Trans/Gay/Lesbian/etc rights [please don't get upset if you're under "etc" I'm tired and the list would be stupid long]

7th I'm slightly annoyed about how few people know about Don't Starve/Don't Starve Together

8th Henry Jekyll is gay convince me otherwise

It's different from Grounded, I hear that confusion from my friends.

Uh it's really fun imo and if you see this you should go play it

With the Australian Social Media Ban, they've decided to include Steam (even though that's not social media at all and I'd say a decent amount of people don't even know about it's messaging, but that's not this post.)

What happens to the under 16s' accounts?

I sure as hell hope they aren't deleted like I've seen a few people suggest might happen on other platforms, because if it's gone, what happens to total probably 10s of thousands, maybe more dollars worth of games? And even if those are paid back, what about the saves?

I wouldn't want to have to redo my P-Ranks in Ultrakill

I wouldn't have to reunlock my Helldivers stuff.