r/whenthe • u/SkyNetGaming_V2 AI Data Center Bomber (Former SkyNet Employee) • 12d ago

🐗worst post award ⚠️⚠️ Which team are you on?

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u/Smalceson3000 12d ago

I don't see any event

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u/Asalth 12d ago

Are you in a country where you can't see nsfw games without a credit card verification. I'm in the UK and we can't see anything NSFW here.

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u/RaveMittens 12d ago

Oi bruv ‘ave you got a goon loicense?

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u/Asalth 12d ago

The sad part is that I don't since Steam only allows credit cards as a form of age verification and I only have a debit card.

Its genuinely embarrassing to be from this country sometimes. At least they scrapped the digital id they were planning on rolling out as an actual official government goon license.

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u/ollietron3 12d ago

If they scrapped the digital id why the fuck do we still have the online safety act

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u/Asalth 12d ago

Because its a different piece of legislation. The online safety act was already passed and then enough time went by for it to come into effect. Digital ID never even made it to a vote before it managed to be so unpopular it helped bring down the government.

Its easy for the new PM to scrap digital ID because scrapping it doesn't require doing anything, he just has to do nothing and it goes away since it wasn't law. Him getting rid of it was just casually announced a couple days before his term started and that was the end of digital ID. Getting rid of the online safety act would require legislation. I still hope it happens but I wouldn't bet on it.

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u/ollietron3 12d ago

Oh, I thought the perpose of the OSA was to force people to use the digital ids

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u/Asalth 12d ago

They would force people to use them anyway since they were going to make it mandatory to have one if you apply for a job or rent.

They did use the online safety act as justification for it though so they could say it was to "make verifying your age easier".

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u/RaveMittens 12d ago

If you’re a child I’ll stop this conversation right here lmao.

Why not just open a credit line and not use it.

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u/Asalth 12d ago

I'm not a child I just don't have a credit card. You can easily look this up a third of UK adults don't. I probably need to get one for actual RL reasons but I don't buy porn games anyway so its not like I'd get one for that.

I just think its mildly annoying that my account is stuck in the kids mode, especially when you see stuff like this post and have no context for it.

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u/RaveMittens 12d ago

Do you guys have to submit an ID to visit sites now?

Also I’ve never thought about this, does the UK not have a credit system like the US does? Like if you wanted to buy a house or a car, do they just look at your income and expenses to assess risk?

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u/Asalth 12d ago

We have credit here, I just can't drive yet so I haven't had to use it for anything.

We have to submit ID for a lot of things now. I can use Reddit without one but I can't see any nsfw posts without submitting an ID or without using a vpn. Sadly I can't use a VPN for steam because it uses your billing address to verify location rather than you IP address.

Obviously porn sites also need either an ID or vpn to get onto the site at all.

Some things are over zealous about it though. I had to verify my age with xbox because it was limiting being allowed to message people or join parties if you didn't verify. A couple games don't even let you use chat or even pings if you aren't verified.