Pretty sure it would depend on the crime. Speeding slightly over the limit or jaywalking would be basically a no reaction crime because everyone does it.

Theft? Depends on what I stole and from who. A few coins go missing fromy brothers room and my parents probably aren’t gonna care as much if I tell them later ( which I never tell them ), so long as it’s not a significant amount of money. My dad would also have no leg to stand on since there have been plenty of times he’s taken stuff from our rooms without asking ( like the time he took some snacks I had stashed in my tech junk drawer in my dresser maybe a year or two ago, which I’m still salty about ).

Stealing from a store? They’d be shocked and I would definitely be punished. As to what the punishment, no clue, besides definitely returning whatever I stole to start.

Murdering someone? More than likely gonna be reported to the cops and locked away.

Piracy? Don’t get caught. They have received emails about me doing it a long time ago and just don’t want us to lose our service.

Tax or other kind of financial fraud? My dad wouldn’t approve at all and might report me if he ever figured out I was in on some type of financial fraud because he doesn’t want to get screwed over by association of being my father. No clue how my mom would react, but I don’t imagine she’d be thrilled about it either.

Illegal things like CSAM, beastiality, etcetera? Ain’t no way I wouldn’t be put in some sort of psych ward or something of the sort for such sick and dastardly material. If not straight up sent to prison because the feds get to me in this hypothetical before they find out. There’s definitely a chance I wouldn’t be part of the family if this ever happened, which I hope it never does and that if I have a midlife crisis that it’s just me buying stupid things instead. Especially since I know someone who got caught during his midlife crisis flirting online with a “minor” ( some form of either fed or law enforcement honeypot account ).

Yeah, my brain had stopped working. Thanks for the help.

The fact I can hear their exact voices saying this says something.

Swift could easily get a lawsuit set up against them and most likely win, if AI nudes start getting made and sent out by average people. If she did, she’s already won the court of public perception or whatever it’s called ( drawing a blank ) because of how popular she is. I guarantee if she told people not to use grok or ex-twitter, a large of the swifties on the platform would run faster than Usain Bolt to delete their accounts.

Imagine you’re a teen dealing with a serious parental abuse issue. You don’t wanna give that info up to just anyone, so you rely on forums for people that are having or have had the same type of problem. Suddenly, under the new law, you are either geoblocked from the site entirely or you must provide some form of age verification.

Your options are either get a VPN ( which could very well be being blocked soon enough ) or you could find a free speech forum on the edge of the web that doesn’t require any of that. For people with even just slightly above average tech skills, a VPN wouldn’t be that hard to get.

For the forum, I can guarantee there are gonna be people looking to make you feel welcome, only to suddenly change once you’re comfortable and start demanding illicit content. Although this probably happens a lot on big platforms like ex-twitter, you have more options to deal with the people on there. The admins/mods of free speech sites probably aren’t gonna care as much if you’re getting abused on their free speech for all forums, so long as you don’t report their site to the government.

If neither of those are a good enough answer, imagine any company responsible for all the age verification stuff. Imagine they keep all the info they collect, whether that’s the verification for adults or minors. You know they aren’t getting rid of that data because it’s worth more kept and constantly being sold than if it was being deleted. What would happen if their repository of age verification data got hacked? A matter of when, not if, they get hacked, and suddenly every single person who submitted an ID, including the IDs of minors, gets stolen and suddenly any minor in their database is now a very likely victim of ID theft and fraud before they’re even considered a legal adult.

I don’t remember my parents having many, if any, rules for games, probably because I was the final child by that point. They didn’t really have to worry too much about me getting into games too mature for me ( probably the worst I could remember when I was still little would have been Turok on n64 ), so I was fine either way.

I do remember on weekends, though, my dad specifically trying to get me, someone who doesn’t like to eat breakfast in general, to eat before I’d play games. That was around middle school when that would happen.

Definitely.

Although, I don’t think I’d go for a full suit for my fursona because I’ve never imagined them naked, I’ll agree this is a good idea.

I have thought about that, but for the first one I get, if I ever get one, I’m probably gonna get one without just to make sure I can handle it. Last thing I want is to spend a ton of money on a fursuit with a ton of extras only to find my body cannot handle it, with or without fans.

That’s why I’m definitely gonna get a partial if I ever get a fursuit. All I need is the head, hand paws, and tail. Then I’d be set… as soon as I get a bunch of sweat reduction clothing and more black pants and long sleeve shirts.

Maybe a +3 or 3.5 max. After having a little bit of experience with artificial “intelligence”, I have been doing everything in my power to block it out of my life.

People can call me a Luddite for this, but my response to those people is that I can at least think and form an opinion without needing an AI telling me how to think or what to feel.

The only exception to the AI rule for me are the people who either use their voice or get consent from a friend, to work together, to use their voice for something like creating a Diffsinger or ENUNU voicebank as that requires a lot more work than just typing a prompt on a keyboard and, when done in an ethical way, doesn’t involve theft in general. Similar reasons I support UTAU voicebanks and older vocaloid voicebanks that are basically confirmed not to have used AI.

As for other forms of technology, I will absolutely agree with OP on fearing the people over the technology, even if I don’t fully understand it all. Except for VR. I’m 100% worried, with the way my brain currently works, that someday we’ll have realistic enough VR that I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference and that scares me a lot.

I would hope being rich, but I’m not counting on it.

I had an amazing run going earlier on Dungeon Clawler using Toxicarl and the kiddo pets. I could stack millions of stacks of poison on the enemies. Got to somewhere like floor 70 or so before dying.

Other than that, I have been on and off with most every other game I’ve attempted to play due to me finding them more boring nowadays.

The exception being a pokemon fangame: Pokemon Decay, which is kinda cool. Whole thing of the region you are in is the result of the first 4 regions being smashed together due to a decade prior the 3 legendary Hoenn creatures causing things to go chaotic and causing lots of chaos. Has new forms of pokemon, new evolutions for some, and for the most part they all look like well designed sprites.

1. Used to play viola back in school. Lost it around fall 2019, early winter 2020 during a forced move.
2. I currently have an acoustic guitar I got recently. Really need to actually play it now that I have time instead of letting it sit in the case. Learn it instead of procrastinating.
3. I should follow music communities to find more music, but I don’t because IDK.
4. I don’t post because I feel like whenever I do post on a site like this that I need to respond to everyone who replies, which adds mental gymnastics I don’t wanna play with .

All these types of rules dlnis push kids away from safer sites and towards the fringes of the internet that fly under the radar, like CP sites that don’t have age verification.

It’s never about the kids. Only a pedo, child haterz or both would ever try to convince you it’s about the kids.

Heard about this earlier. The situation sucks, but at least this is better than nothing.

The cost of all stuffed animals at a thrift shop.

Then I could easily work on increasing the amount of rescues I will have. It’s currently 1.5 rescue to 4 others ( purchased at a store, gift shop, gift, etcetera ).

My goal to someday have more rescues than store bought would be a little easier.

Oh yeah, and kids would have an easier time accessing them because $1 stuffed animals are a lot easier to convince a parent to buy than a $5.99 stuffed animal. But I don’t like kids, so they were an afterthought!

I’ve been seeing the same thing with New York on yt. Single channel posting straight up “Immigrants Looting New York”, “New York Destroyed By Gangs” type of bullshit using what looks exactly like AI imagery for the thumbnails.

Hell, I don’t even need to see the video title or channel responsible to know it has to be bullshit if they’re willing to use AI generated images in the thumbnail.

With Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong I used to hear “ain’t nobody gonna come when your sound is gone” instead of “when you sound your gong”.

As someone who has started rewriting an old Summer Camp Island fanfiction I started around 2019 and never got very far with, I’m gonna have to say concentration and not getting writers block as the combo that would be the holy grail IMO. I’m sure a lot of writers in general could probably agree with that.

I definitely wanna get back into fanfic writing to a degree, but concentration and writers block have been my enemy.

To see all Oaken Tower players have their computer mice overheat when playing that game. To the point where an hour of playing it would make their mice unusable.