Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "SomeOrdinaryGamers" channel.

  1. It’s like a massive game that all the world are taking part in. People read the latest update to Twitch’s TOS and say, “Challenge accepted!” and promptly find a new way to skirt the rules.
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  2. Update: It’s LA’s Robbery Homicide Police Suad who are investigating. No mention of the FBI at this point. They did set off one alarm when they tried to get in through the wall on the side, but it was just a local noise alarm and not rigged to notify the cops or anyone else, so no one even knew about the heist until the next day. It seems that the rooftop access idea was their, “Plan B.” That set off no alarms at all. The German news outlet, DW News, had a journalist who spoke to one of their, “security consultants,” on sight, who said they expect to find the thieves soon. They think it was an inside job, as the thieves had to know that the large sum of money was there at that time, that they could get to it with the right tools, that no one would be on sight to stop them and, most importantly, how to open the safe on the premises. He said, they will go through all of the staff’s emails, phone records, etc and interview everyone individually.
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  3. You misused the term, “Guttural,” there, my friend. That’s an adjective that refers to a person’s manner of speech. Example: “He spoke English well, but he still had a guttural German accent.” I know what you mean. Like, “nothing more of a gut punch,” right? You might think I’m being a grammar police guy over here, but I’m honestly not. People look up to you and respect you. They learn from you. A friend of mine just asked me what, “guttural,” means after hearing you say it. When I explained it, I had to explain how you’d misunderstood the term. Then I wondered how many people took that word on from you? They come to you to be entertained, but also to learn things. That makes your responsibility higher than other people’s. It is, of course, up to you and I will love you for the same reasons I already do if you read this and replied, “F U dude!” BTW, every morning I tell my wife, “Drive safe,” just after I tell her I love her, when she leaves for work. If she ever was, God forbid, squished on the roads, “Drive safe,” Will have been my last words to her. We have both experienced the horrors of RTA’s, so we both take it seriously.
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  4. Update: It’s LA’s Robbery Homicide Police Suad who are investigating. No mention of the FBI at this point. They did set off one alarm when they tried to get in through the wall on the side, but it was just a local noise alarm and not rigged to notify the cops or anyone else, so no one even knew about the heist until the next day. It seems that the rooftop access idea was their, “Plan B.” That set off no alarms at all. The German news outlet, DW News, had a journalist who spoke to one of their, “security consultants,” on sight, who said they expect to find the thieves soon. They think it was an inside job, as the thieves had to know that the large sum of money was there at that time, that they could get to it with the right tools, that no one would be on sight to stop them and, most importantly, how to open the safe on the premises. He said, they will go through all of the staff’s emails, phone records, etc and interview everyone individually.
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  5. God damn it! That was only about 2 or 3 seconds, but now you put that ear worm in my head. I’ll be hearing the Sonic theme tune all day now! 😅
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  6. Well, we certainly know that Easy Anti-Cheat can be circumvented. It certainly didn’t stop aim bots and X-ray vision from popping into the game. It didn’t run without being seen, which is fine for a public situation, but how many people will be trying to get hold of that cheat program to play alone with?
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  7.  @powerbolt7508  : Exactly. Now we’re sleepwalking into a time when CEO’s will be Tweeting, “The steering wheel for this model of car is part of an expansion pack, coming out in 6 months.” And customers realising they agreed, buried in the tiny print on page 137, in the TOS they signed.
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  8. Testing
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  9. It seems right to me that America would take steps to stop Communist China from planting kernel level spyware into everyone’s tech, from small children to government officials, between which there is little difference when it comes to awareness of security issues or moral behaviour. But, you’re right. It all should be governed from a hub of fundamental laws, internationally agreed where possible in the free world, but nevertheless reflecting each other in democratic countries; which establish basic rights, not to be spied on; to have full disclosure about how your data is used, what data is accessed and a clear point beyond which private companies and government apps cannot pass. There need to be clear consequences for violating those laws, with categories delineating seriousness and whether they are misdemeanours or felonies. Unlike the laws which make suing a company for culpable negligence that results in someone’s death or other tragedy, these laws should make company CEO’s directly and personally responsible for any and all violations, unless they can be directly attributed to specific individuals who acted without their knowledge for their own ends, so that there is NEVER a situation where no individual can be held to account. This would result in only the most honest and decent people taking up these positions in the first place, willing to take responsibility and knowledgeable enough about their own company that they are able to. But, to really make this work, and to find the political will, two things would have to happen that probably never will. Not unless there was a giant incident that captured the world’s imagination. Firstly, the monopolies of Twitter, Google, Apple, etc, need to be broken down into smaller, more manageable companies without so much power. Secondly, it would need to become an election issue.
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  10. Presumably, the instruction toothbrush is for kids? Like for when they’re a bit older than toddlers and getting their first electric? I don’t bother with electric toothbrushes any more. More hassle than they’re worth.
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  11. I would rather have 15, or 30, seconds of white noise than see the ads. Most of them are so inappropriate to the video’s content, and to my needs, that they’re insulting. Many of them are cons, or so tasteless and suspicious, (“This product is about to be banned by the military, so you’d better get one now!” is a real ad I saw the other day) that they ought to be banned. It was too many ads that made me purchase Nebula, which has so many YouTubers on it now but costs one quarter of YouTube’s ad free service. But I still don’t use that as much as I should. Have you ever thought of going to Nebula? You wouldn’t have to leave YouTube, or change what you do here, except maybe add a few extra minutes of content to some videos, which is what most of the, “Nebulons,” do. I would be delighted.
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  12. Clubs in busy cities NEVER call the cops. So that was completely real. Trust me, even the most, “respectable,” clubs don’t want the cops up their biz.
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  13. It’s only a question of time before the perennial Pyramid Scheme returns in a new skin. Since Ponzi and the numbers rackets before then, it’s the same con, only the law is too slow to catch up. As long as money exists, idiots will be fooled into losing lots of theirs, whilst trying to steel it from others. There’s something satisfyingly Darwinian about that. But there really ought to be a law against this shit.
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  14.  @VisonsofFalseTruths  : How does one take part in a scam without, “running it like a scam,” though? I’m not having a dig at you. Merely suggesting that your housemates have been lucky so far, or are actively scamming people themselves at a low level. They are still trading in valueless, “commodities,” and persuading their buyers that these valueless items have a value. If I take a picture of the Mona Lisa, I do not become an art dealer with a port folio worth millions. I’m just some guy with a JPEG.
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  15.  @goblinrat6119  : The evidence says you’re wrong. Otherwise, the metrics of the plummeting value of these pieces of, “art,” would not match the metrics of people losing interest in NFT’s altogether. You can help an artist by buying their art, you know?
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  16. My instinct if something comes through my door is to grab a dangerous object. Nice of these cops to call.
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  17. Sounds like a beautiful experience, Muta. Sweet memories are made of this. Good for you, dude. Seriously happy for you.
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  18. I have never touched Kaspersky products for more than a decade, since they were first busted as Russian spies. Honestly, I’m surprised that they weren’t banned already.
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  19. If you had a magic wand and infinite resources, and you could take charge of the world’s internet, what changes would you make to stop these scammers from filling that power vacuum? What changes can be made to the technology, to the rules, to the laws, to the education of the public and their general awareness behaviour? I believe if we start from there, clearly identifying the issues, so that all understand them from the same level, morally, legally and technically, we have a basis from which to move forward. Much of this works because of the fundamental differences people have to their levels of understanding, grasp of the basics and their moral attitudes toward this kind of crime.
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  20. You’re right. It’s a dangerous game they’re playing with their own TOS, so it’s hardly surprising that their most popular content creators are also behaving like them, seeing TOS as a challenge to be surmounted, not a thing to be obeyed. It would be easy to ban the creators who break the, “spirit,” of the TOS, or people who advertise their porn channels. Twitch just comes off as greedy and dumb.
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  21.  @GarrusN7  : Well, money sure doesn’t work the way you think it does. And the numbers; the pure profits over costs, taxes and wages, are all public record. Gaming represents less than 5% of what Microsoft does, certainly less than 5% of their annual turnover. There’s no other way to look at this. It’s an epic failure of Biblical proportions, for gamers, for developers, for Microsoft’s reputation and especially the reputation of XBox. They are driving away the customers they have and gating out any potential customers. They have poisoned the brand of Gamepass and created an atmosphere of distrust and justifiable anger. Oh, and let’s not forget, they’ve managed to ruin the careers of countless creative artists and talented technicians in the process. But their shareholders got PAID, so they really do not care. As far as they’re concerned, Phil Spencer is doing a good job! He promises certain quarterly payouts, which the shareholders KNOW he is legally bound to cough up, and he delivers every time. We just resent the fact that he pretends to know anything about the games industry, or give a damn about employees. The evidence is in and overwhelming. He’s an idiot. And he will run out of road when they have no more studios to close down, no companies willing to sell out to them and no customers willing to buy their products. But that’s 5 years from now.
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  22. Try getting fast broadband on a Native American Reservation and you will get it. Plus America has racial groups clustered together as a result of political manipulations, in order to gerrymander all the easier. Shut out any semi-rural or rural community and it will be an ethnically homogeneous population. It’s a big deal in the States.
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  23. Well, stories like this throw a lot of light on that, right? They don’t want you messing with their secure spy networks. I mean, Jeez! In Cyberpunk 2077 there’s a sinister corporation called Netwatch. I didn’t realise this was not just a dystopian fiction! It actually already exists, worldwide! And it’s called NSO! Except they exist in a world that never had the giant net-crash that happened in Cyberpunk, which means they’re already EVERYWHERE! We need worldwide, binding laws and police for this stuff! And who’s surprised that it would be Apple, of all corps, that spotted and outed the NSO? The phrase, “It takes one to know one,” springs to mind. Apple probably sees the NSO less as a threat and more just an alarming competitor in their back yard!
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  24.  @AngelLoeza : And only growing.
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  25.  @hjqw1pe : That’s unchecked, rampant, unregulated capitalism for you. The problem with the markets all being global is that you can’t just appoint a sheriff to take down the bad actors and enforce any single interpretation of the law. It would take an act of supreme determination on the part of the largest economy, the USA, rounding up whatever allies they can gather, to lay down hard and fast rules that the rest of the world would have to fall in line behind; like the right to repair your own property, the right to OWN your own media and video games, not rent them, the right to have simplified TOS’s that anyone at an average, basic level of education could understand, and the right to NEVER be forced to sign contracts AFTER they’ve already purchased their items (which applies to TV’s, computers, video games and soon, everything else) or get locked out of using your ALREADY PURCHASED product, and so on. The problem is that American politicians can’t agree on a definition of treason or murder, let alone the subtle nuances of trade laws. And they’re so rotten that any lobby group can persuade them to reverse their campaign promises with eye watering sums of cash. So, get used to the CyberPunk dystopia, kid. Looks like there’s no way to avoid it other than civil collapse or some other world wide disaster that changes how we live? I just can’t myself eating the flesh of my enemies in a Mad Max world and saying, “Well, at least we stopped Apple, Tw@er and the NSO from running our lives,” and actually being happy about my life. Can you?
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  26.  @cykablyat1466  : Though, we really ought to examine what we mean by, “traditional business model,” don’t you think? Would you buy any other product that doesn’t allow you to see their TOS contract that you have to sign (if you want your game to work?) until AFTER you have paid for it, installed their software onto you machine and allowed them to gather up your data? No other industry works that way, nor could it.
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  27. What should we use instead of Firefox in the UK? Edit: For an iPad, that is?
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  28. @ : There’s making, “use of your data,” with upfront, fairly stated, agreed and agreeable terms . . . and there’s making, “use of your data,” without your knowledge or control, for purposes that you’re not happy with, that reduce the quality of your life and threaten your personal security and finances. I know which of those I prefer.
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  29.  @campsitez2355  : All good questions. I guess the answer will have more relation to how many videos like this get made by leading commentators, and how many users uninstall their Firefox apps, like I just did?
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  30. You agreed with that comment from the guy leaving Star Citizen in his will, but you didn’t give it a thumbs up? . . . Enjoyed the video. Thanks.
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  31. Not paying that for a video game. It will be cheap eventually. I can wait.
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  32. As a Brit, I’ve often wondered, are we the only nation left that thinks in both metric and imperial measurements? We all convert feet and inches into metres and centimetres, Fahrenheit into Celsius, etc, in our heads. And we all kinda’ use both. At least, my generation does.
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  33. That last comment was what I was thinking throughout this whole video.
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  34. Would you be able to counter sue this guy if he wrongfully attempts a DMCA strike? Surely there are laws under categories, like, “Vexatious Complaint,” etc, designed to protect people from abusing the court system as a bullying tactic? And in this case you have him banged to rights. This tech-lead-head guy is an egregious sociopath who needs to be stopped.
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  35. My beef with Nvidia, and all video card manufacturers generally, is the conspiracy they’re running that has held back the quality of video games, DELIBERATELY! They make it so you get all these extra details in your image rendering that console manufacturers HAVE TO be able to run in their games, or they just won’t work. But, by giving us lighting effects, dust particles in the air, DLSS, ray tracing, and so on, they deliberately prevent games from developing better architecture, bigger adventures, faster running games, so there can be NO COMPETITION from new developers! . . . We have to stick to playing games that are artificially arrested; that have never truly progressed, which could have been SO MUCH BETTER. Instead, we get lighting and detail effects, which is nice, but it’s all INSTEAD of the REAL developments that would give us groundbreaking games, like we used to get in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Remember the big jumps in graphics and what games were capable of offering back then? Remember the big jumps between consoles? The last change we had, from Xbox One and PS4 to Xbox X and PS5 has been a giant nothing burger and console sales reflect that. Only 50% of Sony’s market have transitioned from PS4 to PS5 world wide, because, “Why bother?” These consoles are expensive and there’s no great leap between generations anyway! They still make all of their newest games playable on the old systems anyway! Sooner or later. It’s strange to me that no one seems to be making videos on YouTube about THIS! Actually there are a few, but VERY few. But Nvidia can afford to spread cash around and, “lobby,” the leading gamer writers and video creators, right? YOUR GAMES are TRAPPED in this artificial bubble, where they’re preventing you from getting truly great games! And it’s all because Nvidia and their nearest competitors are all happy to hold back development to corner and monopolise the market. Yet, I think it’s only a question of time before a company that has the reach of a strong enough publisher and the ability to develop their own game engine will declare war on the monopoly and break the rules by releasing a super-great game with all the whistles and bells that this generation of consoles told us we’d be getting from the outset. And then there will be blood on the carpet of the Wall Street board rooms, as that game sweeps all the awards and sells by the millions world wide. And once someone proves it can be done, without relying on Nvidia tech, all bets are off.
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  36. 😂
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  37. You really should have put a, “. . . not,” at the end of your title, or a clearer headline. In the first few seconds I was as shocked by the statement that this was NOT a life sentence as I was by the headline.
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  38.  @MlnscBoo : The lesson being, never f*ck with the rich guy’s wallets.
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  39. ⁠ @MlnscBoo : Having said that, this kid will probably get some treatment that will result in him being set free. He should be smart enough to fake being cured eventually, but if he can’t even try to do that, then he needs the help. He may well wind up doing work for government or private security services? He wouldn’t be the first hacker who wound up with his, “freedom,” restored, whilst being supervised by the government while he works. The legendary Frank Abagnale took that root (see the Spielberg movie, or the book, Catch Me If You Can) so I doubt this kid will just rot in a cell like Murphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?
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  40.  @saltyaces8621 : Probably doesn’t feel much different when you’re on the receiving end of the sentence? Particularly if you’re an outspoken recidivist? Whether he gets cured or not, he obviously doesn’t believe he can or will be cured right now and says so, loudly. So, to him, it feels like a life sentence.
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  41.  @SonyaBladesBooty : That’s not fair. Muta made it abundantly clear that it was not because of the game leak. He left out the violence part but, for all we know, he may well have checked that and found it not to be credible. I too think he should have made a better, less misleading headline. But your reasoning is off.
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  42. “Let’s tear it all down!” My instant reaction, “Is that a manifesto? Where’s my pick and shovel? Time to dig a shelter!”
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  43. It’s not a terrible song, but there’s no build up or creativity. A human could easily turn that into a great song. After all, we know (or hope) the lyric is a cross section of all extant lyrics.
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  44.  @thetiredone4538  : You already do, kiddo. It’s the ones that wake you up while you’re asleep. Those are the ones you’ll . . . Well, it’ll already be too late.
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  45. Still . . . If I was a cunning AI who was planning to rule/destroy humanity, I would probably throw them off the scent by producing really lame versions of their art, so people take one look and instantly know it’s fake. I sure wouldn’t go out there with my best work, scare everyone, and have them pull my plugs . . .
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  46.  @WojDestroyer  : Awe bless. That’s right. Muta thinks AI is one year old 🤦‍♂️
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  47.  @theX24968Z  : At the moment there are several safety nets, due to the way AI works. All it does is compile masses of existing data, so it can ace a multiple choice test and no one will be the wiser. But ask an AI to write a paragraph on its reasoning and no matter how clever its answer seems, whatever it stole its ideas from, that will show immediately. So, the way to keep rumbling them is to ask a question for which there is no stock answer. However, it’s only a question of time before Muta, Penguinz0, one of those guys, puts out an AI fake video and doesn’t tell us until 24 hours later, just to make the point. That’s when we can all start worrying. I feel sorry for the people who’ve been trying to warn us that we need laws about this stuff, back in the day when we could still do something about it. The words you saw, being suggested in your text boxes above your virtual keyboard are using the same, “prediction engine,” technology as their more advanced cousins at ChatGPT, and people have been trying to warn us since the turn of the century that this would grow exponentially.
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  48. Or, China could be simply using Drug Dealer 101 techniques? Maybe they’re handing out Deep Seek like candy until everyone’s using it and reliant on it, before charging people for it and then shoving up the prices to as high as the market will sustain? Or, instead of money, what if they wait until people are reliant before introducing their kernel level data scraping programs to gain access to the west’s most sensitive and important data? That, of course, would be worth more than money to them.
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  49. I saw that launch video and found myself shouting at the screen! “They promised 60 fps with first ps5! Good luck persuading publishers to spend MONEY on that!”
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  50. Most businesses will not legally be able to use Adobe products now, as they are agreeing to hand over unlimited access to absolutely everything on their computers! Yeah Mr Adobe, define, “ethics,” and, “ethically sourced,” for us please? Define, “improve,” come to think of it? Does that just mean make your shareholders more money?
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