mrhands

Sexy game(s) maker

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I do UI programming for AAA games and I have opinions about adult games


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At my day job, we use Typescript for our UI and do most of the game logic in C++. It can be difficult to switch between these languages mentally, so I encourage the team to write C++ in Visual Studio and Typescript in VS Code. The convention for C++ is that we put the opening brace for statements on the next line, Allman style. But when writing Typescript, we put the opening brace on the current line, K&R style. Unfortunately, while Typescript has very robust linting tools that automatically correct the braces, C++ does not, so I'm forever cursed to open every code review with this comment:

Please put your opening braces on the next line when writing C++.



mrhands
@mrhands

Listen to the adult content creators screaming about this. This will not benefit users, and it will be extremely expensive for sites to implement. If this government handout to the companies making this "age verification" snake oil doesn't receive a lot of pushback, the people in power will wall off the rest of the Internet too.


kaylon
@kaylon
This post has content warnings for: Ofcom, discussion of adult content, Uk politics.

mrhands
@mrhands

First, thank you for a lovely "yes, and" post, that's always appreciated. ❤ Unfortunately, I have an answer for your most pressing question:

What is certain: ""Someone"" doesn't like adult content.

NCOSE, formerly known as Morality in Media, is behind most of these shenanigans. They're lobbying credit card companies in the US to stop processing payments for adult entertainment, and the American legal system agrees:

On July 29, 2022, a federal judge [ruled] that there was enough evidence to show that Visa “knowingly provid[ed] the tool used to complete the crime” of distributing child sex abuse material. [...] NCOSE continues to call on both major credit card companies to completely sever ties with MindGeek [parent company of Pornhub]

Why would they do this? Here's what they think of pornography:

The Internet and other technological advances have made pornography more accessible than ever before. [...] As a result, pornography use, even among children, is more prevalent and normalized than at any time in human history.

In sum, pornography is a deeply damaging social influence that corrodes relationships, erodes the sensibilities and sexual freedom of consumers, and dehumanizes those used to make it.

This organization does not believe that adult entertainment should exist, and they are winning.