BlueDwaggin

@BlueDwaggin@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t care less about the two games, and fighting on principle seemed like too much effort at the time.

  But yes, I’ve not bought an EA game since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anecdotal, I had the same with EA. When Origin first launched, the two games I had in my EA account disappeared. Do amount of battling with their support got me anywhere, even though I had the retail copies and the serial keys.

  Got to the point where I gave up. Rather play games I actually wanted to play, to than Spore and The Sims 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Civ always makes me think of Nimoy. His voice-lines for Civ 4 echo in my head to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the thing with my CPU. It has TPM, it’s enabled, and the upgrade tool says that’s fine. The installer doesn’t make it clear what the issue is, it’s like: Congrats, your CPU satisfies these three bullet points, but no, you still can’t have Win 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a rig with Windows 10, and haven’t upgraded because… Microsoft arbitrarily say my CPU is unsupported, even though it meets all the criteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That used to work, but these days seems to do little other than sightly change the order of the same useless results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It really winds me up how results that match every search term aren’t prioritised any more. I often search for very specific pieces of hardware, and it’s been a nightmare since the late 2010s. You now have to pore over each result to check that it’s 100% what you’re are looking for.

  SEO exacerbates the problem, but I’d say the root cause is the algorithm itself.