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Steam is now rolling out age verification in Australia for R18+ games, and the method Valve chose is already getting a lot of people annoyed.
The system asks users to add a credit card to prove they’re 18 or older and people don’t have a credit card and normally use debit cards instead.
Certain debit cards actually work and others not depending on the bank, which makes the whole system even more confusing.
And there’s another issue, people say they can be blocked from even viewing the store page for games they already own, including games like Cyberpunk 2077.
I understand that Valve need to follow Australia’s new age-verification rules, but making a credit card the main way to prove you’re an adult when for some people their account is over 18 years old feels unnecessary
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US Treasury is projected to buy back $12.5 Billion of its own debt today.
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BREAKING: Brent crude oil prices rise above $99/barrel for the first time since July 24th as the US and Iran exchange strikes.
Inflation expectations are rising sharply.
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BIG NEWS: Ethereum will let users pay transaction fees with stablecoins instead of ethereum:native starting in 2027.
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JUST IN: White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt says Clarity Act doubters will be proven wrong.
Senate vote scheduled for Sept. 15.
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20 year old facebook account and suddenly it wants ID verification so time to abandon it
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Dr. Peter Rost: "I worked at Pfizer for 17 years. We didn't discover drugs, we discovered markets. If a drug cured asthma in 3 days, we would eliminate it. Chronic diseases are where the money is. Cures are bad for business."
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Hologram/CGI plane glitches: wing disappears behind building.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The claim that the wing passes behind a building that is "in the background" is false. The building (21 West, near Battery Park) is 530 metres south of the South Tower. The plane wing passed behind the building as viewed from the south.
See map: metabunk.org/threads/debunk…
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Your world has been AI and holograms for a long time
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What if I told you this dropped on 4chan in September 2019, months before Wuhan, Event 201, or a single lockdown.
An anon claiming to be an “operative” posted:
“Do not accept any vaccines that will be released for a deadly virus in the winter of 2020.”
“It will cause flu-like symptoms and may be deadly to elders and babies but the media will report it as deadly for everyone… It’s a hoax. The vaccine will be the real killer.”
H/T @BradCGZ for piecing this together.
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Windows is no longer the default gaming OS. It is the anti-cheat OS.
AMD plus CachyOS or SteamOS already matches it. Sometimes beats it. Less RAM. Better handhelds.
Nvidia still ships the toys to Windows first. That is a contract, not physics.
Proton launches most of Steam. The rest is publishers locking the kernel.
Stop paying idle RAM for a launcher.
Pick AMD. Install Linux. Play.
🤖 Made with AI
