UK Citizens Use Death Standing 2 to Bypass Porn Blocks
Those of you living in the UK will be aware of the introduction of a set of "safety measures" which will require you to disclose your identity in order to access adult content. This obviously includes porn sites, but has also rolled out on services like Discord and Reddit.
Not every site implements the security measures in the same way, but some require you to scan your face using a smartphone camera in order to confirm you're of a certain age. It's a potentially dystopian development which raises concerns about all kinds of personal security risks.
While many of the verification companies claim photos won't be stored on their servers, it's perfectly understandable why people wouldn't want to participate in the process at all. So the obvious workaround is to use a VPN of some sort.
But creative Brits have also come up with another solution: scan Norman Reedus' face using Death Stranding 2: On the Beach's photo mode.
A lot of these security checks require you to complete a variety of different poses, like opening and closing your mouth, so the ability to select Reedus' facial expression comes in really handy here. And when you pair that with the overall quality of the character models in Kojima Productions' sequel, it all works a treat.
While we haven't personally tried it for ourselves, we've seen several people mention it on X (or Twitter), and PC Gamer wrote up a first-hand report as well.
We suppose if these safety measures can be so easily bypassed, then it's not massively different to the old "enter your age" verification forms we've all become accustomed to – it just takes a little more effort and nous than saying you were born in 1900 now.
It is pretty funny to think Reedus is about to become the most prolific gooner in the UK, though. He accessed Pornhub how many times in the last 30 minutes?!"
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As for Bananza, the EG review mentionned how they liked it, but not as much as they would have thought and I think I agree... There's something off about the game that I can't seem to put my finger on. The world doesn't feel alive and I guess this is due to it being voxel based. Nothing moves around save for the occasional enemy. There's no unexpected movement in the distance to trigger your curiosity. Despite the different texture work the whole world seems like one big statue for you to demolish.
It's a consequence if the dev teams choice to focus on the demolition, but I do feel a lot is lost because of it. There's not enough... Charm?
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Those of you living in the UK will be aware of the introduction of a set of "safety measures" which will require you to disclose your identity in order to access adult content. This obviously includes porn sites, but has also rolled out on services like Discord and Reddit.
Not every site implements the security measures in the same way, but some require you to scan your face using a smartphone camera in order to confirm you're of a certain age. It's a potentially dystopian development which raises concerns about all kinds of personal security risks.
While many of the verification companies claim photos won't be stored on their servers, it's perfectly understandable why people wouldn't want to participate in the process at all. So the obvious workaround is to use a VPN of some sort.
But creative Brits have also come up with another solution: scan Norman Reedus' face using Death Stranding 2: On the Beach's photo mode.
A lot of these security checks require you to complete a variety of different poses, like opening and closing your mouth, so the ability to select Reedus' facial expression comes in really handy here. And when you pair that with the overall quality of the character models in Kojima Productions' sequel, it all works a treat.
While we haven't personally tried it for ourselves, we've seen several people mention it on X (or Twitter), and PC Gamer wrote up a first-hand report as well.
We suppose if these safety measures can be so easily bypassed, then it's not massively different to the old "enter your age" verification forms we've all become accustomed to – it just takes a little more effort and nous than saying you were born in 1900 now.
It is pretty funny to think Reedus is about to become the most prolific gooner in the UK, though. He accessed Pornhub how many times in the last 30 minutes?!"
I've been playing AdvanceWars reBoot and bananza. In AW I'm on the last mission of the second game, which is a massochists delight. The CPU is at such an advantage both in sheer numbers, unit offence and defence, terrain,... It's more frustrating than fun really.
As for Bananza, the EG review mentionned how they liked it, but not as much as they would have thought and I think I agree... There's something off about the game that I can't seem to put my finger on. The world doesn't feel alive and I guess this is due to it being voxel based. Nothing moves around save for the occasional enemy. There's no unexpected movement in the distance to trigger your curiosity. Despite the different texture work the whole world seems like one big statue for you to demolish.
It's a consequence if the dev teams choice to focus on the demolition, but I do feel a lot is lost because of it. There's not enough... Charm?