August27th

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  against your bias and narrative

  If being a regular person who just wants to enjoy the things they pay for in peace is bias, and being fed up with this crap is narrative, what does that make you?

  Stop trying to normalize exploitation by greed, and normalizing the acceptance of it.

  Just because Sony can manufacture a bait and switch with some boilerplate doesn’t mean they should. Regular people should not be blamed for being exploited when purchasing in good faith. The developers made a game that works, clearly, and Steam delivered it, so they are culpable, but if Sony can stop their horseshit, and this all goes away, it is clear who really is to blame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did the CEO of Sony write this? A bait and switch scam is fine apparently, as long as there’s some legalese to protect the company in there.

  It seems Steam should have some limitation in place on their end, and the Dev picks sales on Steam, not the publisher.

  Then what is the job of the publisher? To perpetrate scams it seems, because seemingly the devs published the game just fine all by themselves Steam. If they didn’t do that right, the publisher suddenly has no responsibility to make sure that was distributed correctly? Whose job is it to ensure the product is published in line with their inevitable goals, we wonder.

  so why would they list it for sale in those countries?

  Because they botched the bait and switch. And now Valve is cleaning up Sony’s mess. Too bad they couldn’t clean up Sony’s mess of leaked customer data. I guess they can’t fix it but prevent the next one by making publishers agree up front that they can’t require data from players, in order to publish a game, but I digress.

  no one seems to want to accept personal responsibility

  No one should have to expect to be subject to a bait and switch scam in the first place. Which is what this clearly is, because if they were truly up front, they would have required the account on day one and had the appropriate region filters in place, so consumers could never be in this position.

  Stop blaming the victims of corporate greed and scams; people should be able to reasonably enjoy things they paid for without being molested and exploited. Personal responsibility my ass when there should be laws to prevent this kind of thing in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I wonder how that compares to a similar Li-ion cell. Also it’s a shame there wasn’t a close-up on the markings of the battery to know what it is exactly. I don’t imagine all cells are equal.

  The battery packs from the article, for instance, are not constructed from cylindrical cells, but from large thin and flat square cells. The cathode material appears to be unique as well, as far as I can tell; who knows what’s in those blue cylindrical cells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  explosive hazard

  Can you elaborate on that? I was just reading the data sheet for these batteries, and these are tested with a ballistic penetration test, resulting in no fire.

  I’m presuming this concern is from watching videos of elemental sodium reacting with water, which stands to reason, but I’ve not heard of exploding batteries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiss say farewell to live touring, become first US band to go virtual and become digital avatars⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess now they are virtual assholes too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like in the future this is going to get more intense. They will have facial+ear+gait recognition combined with AI so they can detect and combine literally every instance of shoplifting, intentional or not (to say nothing of footage that only coincidentally has the appearance of shoplifting but they retain it as “proof” anyway), over decades of visits to any of their locations, and once you’ve accumulated over $1000 combined in unpaid merchandise, hit you with a felony charge.

  Or they just ban you after the first incident straight up, and electronically recognize you and kick you out for the rest of your life afterward.

  And you would have no affordable recourse because they have all the footage and lawyer money to oppose fighting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your server owner is now banned from participating on lemmy's Github⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  nothing to do with the future of Lemmy

  Let’s not go that far. That said, it’s certainly not everything to do with it either. Let’s call it an indicator and keep an eye on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world’s largest – and stinkiest – flower in danger of extinction, scientists say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Join the club?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for your post! I don’t know how many times I wrote a response on Reddit out, and then thought to myself “I don’t need the hassle” and then just deleted it; I totally relate.