The Games Industry is in Serious Trouble

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, I haven't tested my Switch games, I wonder if any are dead.  I did test a bunch of my 3DS games earlier this year, and one of the ones I tested won't boot.  I put homebrew on my N3DS finally to try to see if homebrew fixer tools could help, but sadly after leaving it running for quite a while all I managed was to get the OS icon to load again.  The game itself still won't run.  Bah... maybe I'll try again but it seems hopelessly stuck. :bummed:

Alright, WHY were they doing this?  Well, congress is set to pass one of the worst acts I've ever seen.  It is named something about protecting kids, so it's definitely going to pass without fail as an unavoidable canon event.  This is because in all the grand history of the world, there has never been a single politician who has ever voted AGAINST any act that claims to be "for the children".  It's an act that will effectively require every single online site, yes, including THIS forum we're talking on right now (I've brought this up before, but now web forums are explicitly mentioned in testimony), to verify the identity of every single user on it, because some of them might be kids, and those kids might be exposed to harmful content.  That's the excuse on paper.  But, the reality is they just want to track dissidents.  Why do I suspect this?  Because of a similar bill, one requiring all precharged cell phone purchases to require ID.  These are also called "burner phones".  What was the reasoning behind THAT one?  They COULD have argued it's to stop drug cartels, or communication of human traffickers, but instead the argument was to "stop terrorism".  It was the least likely of all scenarios, sounding like it was just snatched out of a grab bag of excuses.  In that case, of course, anyone using a burner phone to protect themselves while they find a way to escape an abusive partner (or for neighborhood watch groups trying to evade ICE), will no longer have this option.

Oh yeah, that insanely awful and stupid bill... I really hope that it fails to pass because it's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard, and it definitely won't do anything to accomplish its supposed goal.  It's as you say, all it would do is allow more tracking, surveillance, and state-sponsored punishment of people engaging in wrongthink (as per what Big Brother wants!).