Fresh update video from Ross about the campaign.

TL;DW:

• There’s a chance many of the signatures for the EU petition aren’t real. Keep signing to build up a safety margin. Official suggestions are: 10% more minimum, 20% pretty OK, up to 40% more for an actual safety net.
• Some countries had problems with signing using the digital ID system - suggests to use the manual method (instructions on the campaign page) or try again later.
• Someone not related with the campaign released a SKG crypto. Don’t touch it, obviously.
• Ross heard about people harassing Pirate Software, asks to stop.
• He’s got a lot of messages to reply to, prioritises ones important to the campaign for now.
• UK petition cleared 100k signatures. Number is most likely more reliable than the EU one.
• Link about contacting UK MP’s for those who want to do more than just sign a petition.

That’s actually one of the most annoying parts about the whole thing. SKG campaign has been running for what, a year now? Barely anyone with an audience cared enough to even look into it, let alone spread the news. Now that things came close to failing suddenly everyone thinks it’s an important topic and scrambled to make videos/posts/whatever. I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt but I just don’t have that in me any more…
We could’ve been in so much better place with awareness, petitions and general sentiment if people in the industry actually cared about these things from the start.

Better late than never, I guess. I just hope there’s enough time to push through the EU petition as well.

After Ross announced the campaign is dead a bunch of YouTubers (and media, I think?) picked up the topic and started spreading the word far and wide. This is the result.

He actively misrepresented the campaign and spread misinformation about its goals. I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake but he did a lot of damage to the momentum and perception of the whole thing.

It sucks these big creators only now pick up the mantle but it’s better than nothing. There’s still some time left.

Seems like most people prefer cases based on what I see around me. Personally I don’t like the additional bulk plus I’m careful enough with handheld objects to not drop them. Haven’t destroyed any phone so far.

I still think the act itself is pretty gross but yeah, the harm is the important part for me - and I don’t mean that just in case of sexual images. It’s also a problem in terms of content created to affect people’s reputation in other ways or influence the sociopolitical situation (something that’s already happening around the world).

The harmful potential of generative AI is on a completely different scale than photoshopped images already mentioned in this thread by others. That doesn’t mean genAI can’t be used in fun and interesting ways but stuff like what’s described in the linked article is a big no no for me.

In my opinion absolutely. Whatever happens in your head stays in your head and doesn’t affect the other person unless you take active steps for that to happen. Images or videos on the other hand can not only be distributed far easier, even accidentally, but also have a way higher chance of affecting people’s lives (how can you disprove you didn’t take nude photos of yourself for example? let alone make people believe it). They can lead to loss of reputation, harassment, bullying and serious mental issues for the victims (trust issues, anxiety, depression, self-harm) - imagination can’t really do that on its own.

Perhaps distribution is the real problem but easy access to tools that can create convincing results quickly and without effort makes said distribution way more probable.

Nice! Just binged through the manga a few days ago and would love to see this animated. What a perfect coincidence.

Photoshop requires at least some skill and doesn’t allow for mass production of fakes the way generative AI does. Same problem, different scale.

That’s a fair point but, as you already mentioned, deepfakes are a pretty universal problem unfortunately. The type of misogyny in Japan compared to say US or Europe doesn’t seem to affect that much (if at all). Either way, it’s a terrible practice without sufficient ways to combat it at the moment which makes me pretty worried about how things will evolve in the future - in terms of “content”, affecting lives of victims and laws that will come out of this (some probably made in the worst possible knee-jerk reactionary ways).

There’s still a difference between a piece of clothing that may or may not have been worn by anonymous women and creations using real people without their knowledge or consent. Not trying to defend those vending machines but these aren’t the same in terms of results and potential effects on the victims.

You can try reporting the video but that probably won’t do much (doesn’t mean it’s not worth a try). The best you can do is treat it as free advertisement and hope it’ll encourage people to buy the game if they like it.

Remember that pirated copy does not equal lost sale, especially for an indie title most people won’t even hear about.

Edit: well, the double check by the other user makes this thing pretty sus. Either way, my comment still stands in case this really happens for someone.

Yes, I believe that’s it. It look pretty familiar to what I had in mind while thinking about it. Congrats, you get a box of chocolates!

Fair enough. Would it help if I said it was a small cage (like for a medium sized animal) and located in an apartment? It was also set in modern times.

I’m really running blank on the details but my stupid brain can’t stop trying to remember the title.

Maybe? I’ll have to do some digging before I’m sure. Does it have a route where MC is locked in a cage by one of the guys? That’s about as much as I remember at the moment.

Yeah, current balance is pretty whack - great if you want a full-on power fantasy, not so great if you like to struggle (if only a bit). Simple XP Multiplier is an absolute must for me as I prefer to go slooooow with progression (in general not just in Cyberpunk) and mixed with other progression affecting mods can make you feel like you’re really struggling to dig yourself out from the depths of NC.

I’m all about immersion and trying to make the game feel like I’m part of the world so besides various fixes some of the mods on the list focus on minor (some may say useless) fluff features. I’m also one of the weirdos who prefers the pre 2.0 version of the game in some regards so don’t be surprised by some of the choices.

Here’s my list (in no particular order):

• No Forced Weapon On Carrying Bodies
• Sit Anywhere
• Lean Anywhere
• No crowd panic from using devices
• Vanilla Rain Effect Fix (can be hard to spot but the rain effect has a pretty obvious vertical tiling issue)
• Pre-2.0 Access Point Scaling (no more level scaling when hacking access points)
• Pre-2.0 Skill Checks (no more level scaling for skill checks)
• Pet Your Cat (you can pet Nibbles in your first apartment after adopting it)
• Gunsensical (weapon stat rebalance)
• Enemy Rarity Fixes (enemy rebalance)
• Pre-2.0 NCPD Scanner Map Icons (restores separate icon for different activity types)
• Diverse Loot (adds Dog Town loot to NC)
• Bike Wipeout (makes falling off bikes easier)
• Resist and Restore (restores NPCs resistances and vulnerabilities removed with 2.0)
• The Weapons ARE NOT broken 2.1 (enemy weapons no longer end up broken when dropped)
• Relic Malfunctions Restored (restores malfunction effects removed with 2.0)
• Cyberpunk 2077 HD Reworked Project (higher res textures)
• Immersive Crafting Access (crafting access available only from home workbenches and vehicle trunks)
• Economy Tweaks and Balance (slower reward curve, less bling bling to spend)
• Actually Bulletproof Vests (bulletproof vests provide real damage mitigation but affect movement speed)
• Wilson’s Range (you can go pew pew there outside of the competition quest)
• Immersive Sunglasses (sunglasses dim your view)
• Live A Little (gives some breathing room between quests instead of making them available right away)
• Immersive First Person (better first person camera)
• Better Vehicle First Person (ditto but for vehicles)
• Simple XP Multiplier (customise your EXP, rep etc. gain)

I also use various clothing, quest and other misc mods but these are the major ones. I haven’t browsed for new mods in a year or so, might be a time to change that.

Title drop doesn’t happen all the time thankfully but it was still often enough to make it very noticeable. You can at least speed things up by clicking (both the logo reveal and other transitions which can be a bit slow at times). Other than that demo is very promising, thanks for letting me know about it!

It’s pretty out there for an otome since you’re literally being held prisoner by a stalker.

You reminded me of another VN (I think it was otome as well) where every love interest represented some kind of dangerous trait and good ending was (almost?) impossible. Now I’m going to obsess over it until I can figure what it was called. Thanks… ( ･᷄ᯅ･᷅ )

Yeah, I’ve seen it after writing this. Thankfully, half of these are for PC native games so I didn’t miss completely at least.