It is directly linked to gaming communities in general, so the "to protect kids" excuse glue better with it.
But as you can see with the article, they're already slipping the same thing to everywhere else.
Let's say the purpose here was to be the test lab rat.

Come on, it's obvious that the account were from your parents, like an inherited treasure

Pretty much.
But given UK, i wouldn't be surprised if was a solution like sending agents to your house to certify you're an adult, like the TV license thing.

It is about ending anonymity on the internet.
Discord for example is requiring your face and ID to "prove you're an adult", in countries where these laws were implemented.

To prove that you're an adult, that is!
We're 100% not storing it anywhere, and this won't be used by Starmer to put you in jail for criticizing his face.

Is that this is a stone on the shoe of the future plan of making single player games server dependent.
Things like Stadia, where all the files only exist on a remote server and can (and will) be erased are impossible to implement with this.

The worst part is that these game companies are not trying to profit, the whole point is making the stock price go up, which means making things that make the old boomers think the company is worth more, it's all marketing for a few people that barely understand what the company does and mostly guide themselves by buzzwords.
However if the "AI buzzword" turns into a negative one for these individuals, you could see it being abandoned overnight.
 

90% of the "AI art" problem is just that people doing it don't have a good eye for art and end up doing soulless deformed stuffs.
Stuff like shopping mall advertising using characters with the wrong number of fingers and all that.
If you're not even counting the fingers, you're probably just picking the first thing that pops out and plastering it directly.

Indeed, but just plugging the batteries somewhere else is a lot cheaper than actually recycling, it's a pretty good middle step.
I imagine you could have this whole wacky secondary market of "watts per kg" where batteries are just shifted around until no market wants em and then it's time to recycle.
Of course, that would require very standardized batteries.

Time to make scopedogs.

I got too used to the rat and how quick things are, can't quite see myself going back to sluggish windows managers.

The chinese version of 3 body problem is MUCH better.

It probably don't help that the shareholders and gamers have complete opposite views on what they want, and when the company is large enough you end up being forced by the shareholders to do games you know that will not be enjoyed, just because buzzwords.

Please do not unite again, last thing we need is a large group of people asking banks to get punished for doing terrible things.

The corporation will abuse the hell out of you if you don't impose limits
But the classic "union" is most likely a socialist scammer leader and his crones demanding money from you to "protect your rights".
However, we're in the future, we have chats, we have anonymous chats. you can very well create a leaderless, peerless, mostly anonymous movement that coordinate actions to improve the working conditions.
It's the ol "power corrupts" thing.