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- Comment on Elon Musk changes X terms to steer lawsuits to his favorite Texas court 2 months ago:
How is the first action of a lawyer not to demand a new judge because this is a conflict of interest?
- Comment on I'm deploying a Laravel app on nginx. Only the main route works, every other throws me a 404 3 months ago:
The .htaccess file does nothing on nginx though.
- Comment on Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads 3 months ago:
I guess they might lose customers, but the ad revenue will offset it. Which could be a win for them. Less cars to produce for the same amount of money. If they survive everybody else will probably just follow suit. Like the car functionality subscriptions.
I’m just sad we reached this point.
Ban targeted advertising. Ban data gathering. You won’t even have to deal with the f***ing cookie banners anymore.
- Comment on "what happened??" 3 months ago:
This. I used to have a bunch of the games backed up on a hard drive because copying the files over & patching was faster than redownloading it.
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October 4 months ago:
I’m guessing maybe the scheduler? Its the only real difference I see versus the other gaming distros.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 5 months ago:
Ah yes. Aria 52. I’ve heard so much about it. The actual location of the aliens. Instead of area 52: the tourist attraction
- Comment on European Union court says TikTok owner can’t avoid bloc’s law cracking down on digital giants 5 months ago:
Dear tiktok,
You don’t have to comply with it. You can also get out of the EU. Trust me, it’s the easiest way.
Bye!
- Comment on Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks 5 months ago:
At least the floppy fits in a standard envelope ( as long ad we’re talking about the 3.5" )
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 5 months ago:
Talk about a reverse UNO card.
- Comment on And they say English is bad 6 months ago:
I am stealing this.
- Comment on Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton 7 months ago:
True, but they aren’t marketing it as FOSS though.
- Comment on Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton 7 months ago:
Meh,
I was interested and it could be nice. But staying in the loop means registering with a discord or github account. :/
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 7 months ago:
Is Windows mobile still a thing? I thought they meant the app in the windows store ( desktop/laptop).
Last time I saw somebody use a windows phone was 10 years afk :/
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 7 months ago:
Actually that’s a lie. I have their routers in house which, for now, all seem to run pretty decently
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 7 months ago:
Fucking Asus transformer pad.
Please send it back for free and we’ll check if the damage is under warranty. If not you’ll need to pay 50$>to get your device back.
FUCK. OFF. Ship it back for free if it isn’t under warranty. Or have a contract with a shop nearby that can determine if it’s under warranty.
Last time I bought anything Asus.
- Comment on Ghosts and Divers 7 months ago:
I believe they already limited the sale of ghost of Tsushima to regions where PSN is available, despite not having a mention of requiring a psn account.
I wonder what their end game is /s
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 7 months ago:
Get off the gaming market EA.
I can’t believe I’m actually going to have to become a retro gamer. Sigh.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 7 months ago:
I hope gamers will unite. Though it seems far more likely that kids will just buy it because “wooooo hype. Who cares about ads, I already watch a bazillion a day when doomscrolling Instagram”.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
Im not even sure if the game would have taken off at all. Psn servers couldn’t handle the load which is Why it was disabled ( temporarily ) in the first place.
A lot of people, including myself, never even linked the psn because I could skip it.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
The thing is that it was enforced right at the beginning. There was a period where you couldn’t play without a PSN account, before they made it optional while Sony rolled out more infrastructure to handle the player numbers.
That’s what I heard as well. I was a bit dumbfounded when I read that it suddenly became mandatory.
I think Arrowhead screwed up because they didn’t know that PSN accounts aren’t available everywhere and so were selling the game in places that couldn’t play it unknowingly.
I think this is the most plausible reasoning. It’s what I’m thinking as well, and also what seems to appear through the CM. In which case it is a screwup on their end. Though in 2024 I do get you’d expect people to be able make an account anywhere in the world for a company like Sony.
Steam is usually pretty good about refunds and has apparently already pulled the game from the store in places where you can’t make a PSN account, so I imagine they’re planning to refund the game. This looks like the kind of thing that could be class-action lawsuit worthy.
If they did that’s good on them, but not wholly their responsibility. It is a good move to prevent new purchases they’d have to refund anyway ( or until there is clarity on what will happen in those regions ). I would kind of expect the publisher to do this once they figured out this was possible though :/
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
Go ahead lol. It was the only thing that came to mind as to why you’d want to try and put blame on valve over this whole fiasco.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
The company that published the game likely updated the region it can be sold in. Steam just offers a platform.
Steam/valve is literally not to blame at all for any of this. Do you work for epic games or something?
I’m all for putting the blame where it needs to be, but you’re just shooting at all parties involved indiscriminately. Like blaming a rental company for a death in a traffic accident because they own the car.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
That is true, but it I’d an additional hurdle. Sony is playing it smart.
They made an announcement and had a bunch of Outrage now. If they had just enforced it people would have refunded on mass probably. Now people can still actually play.
I’m guessing steam might be less eager to refund when the actual deadline hits. I also feel like a lot of people will just cave and link/create the account.
That’s definitely what Sony is expecting. And it’s also what I’m hearing from friends. That they dont want to, but that it’s a fun game ans they’d rather keep playing with friends.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
I can fully understand the agreement between the two parties was “also requires a psn account” while AH being completely unaware that getting a PSN account is so restrictive.
Sony likely didnt explicitly add that the game cannot be sold in regions where they can’t create an account.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
Apparently they recently updated the store to no longer sell in unavailable psn regions.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 7 months ago:
This would have been less of an issue if it remained enforced from the start. Re-enforcing it after demonstrating it clearly works without makes it look scummy and greedy. People could also easily refund if they didn’t agree. Now its too late.
For a lot of people it now looks as: now that the game is a success we want to collect everybody their data as well so we can make even more money.
Tbh, other games just require a 3rd party account without linking them explicitly. This requires an actual link which ( likely ) gives them access to a lot of your steam information which you’d rather NOT give to a corp that doesn’t seem capable at guarding people their data.
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 7 months ago:
I thought it was mandatory at release, but added a skip button when the login servers couldn’t handle the traffic at launch. They’re trying to re-enforce it now.
Its just scummy because of the reasons listed above and people lost their refund window when it was optional. It’s mentioned on the steam page. But IMHO there’s a difference between needing a 3rd party account to play the game and linking it to steam which would give them access to more data than you’ll want to share.
- Comment on Damnatory Arbitration 7 months ago:
What game is this even from.?
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 7 months ago:
Must be the evidence was more damning than the SCT of destroying evidence
- Comment on Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches 7 months ago:
But we just bought tool X that is ISO certified AND soc2. How are we not secure yet? Does the tool not work?!?