EldritchFeminity
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- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
Since posting, I’ve learned some extra context that may or may not be true but would be very relevant here. Supposedly, Sony are the ones in charge of the actual store page. Which would mean that it was their decision to have it listed in countries where you can’t make PSN accounts.
Meaning that there are two mistakes here: Sony knowingly listing it, and Arrowhead not making it clear that the optional account linking was temporary. The second of which the CEO of Arrowhead has already taken the blame for on Twitter.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree there, I was talking about Arrowhead specifically. I’ve now seen people saying that Sony is the one in charge of the Steam store page, and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Sony had done it knowingly.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
Except that people didn’t realize that the account was mandatory until this announcement because they didn’t read the store page nor the message you get the first time you launch the game, and Steam probably doesn’t tell devs why a game was refunded.
The PSN account was mandatory when you first logged in on day one, but was made optional later that day due to server load while Sony rolled out extra infrastructure. Why would they knowingly sell a game in 20 countries that would just refund it 10 minutes after first launching it?
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days 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.
It’s an issue now because it wasn’t stated clearly enough and loudly enough that not having a PSN account was only temporary, and 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.
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.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
Or, Arrowhead didn’t know that only certain regions of the world can make PSN accounts and Steam isn’t directly involved in the creation of any individual store page unless they have reason to be - like limiting the regions Helldivers 2 is sold in after the fact.
You and I both have no way of knowing whether or not Arrowhead knew that they were selling their game in regions where people wouldn’t be able to play it, but I could totally see it being the case where Sony didn’t tell them and it just never occurred to them that that was a possibility because it’s not an issue where the company is located. The PSN account requirement was in the game and listed on the store page from day one; it was only temporarily made optional due to how overloaded the servers were at launch. Arrowhead themselves said they expected an active userbase of around 10k people.
And if Steam is anything like Etsy, then the most involvement they have with setting up any individual store page is their automated systems like the profanity filter. I run a business on Etsy and they have no direct involvement with any of my store besides providing the hosting platform and systems to create the storefront and listings (as well as backend systems like tracking pageviews and such). The only time that they’d get involved personally would be if something like this happened.
Regardless of where the blame lies, I think Arrowhead are the only ones who will suffer unless Sony relents on the PSN account requirement. The money for refunds isn’t gonna come out of Valve’s pockets, and I can’t imagine Sony forking over the cash now that they’ve taken their cut.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
And that second option already happened with this exact game when people expressed concern over the DRM, which is designed like a rootkit, giving it essentially full control/access to your system while it’s running.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
People can still get a refund. It just has to be manually reviewed and deemed justified instead of just being okayed by the automated system.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
Reminder that the hours played rule is only a limit for the automated refund system. You can request a refund for a game at any time for any reason. It just has to be manually reviewed and deemed justified by a person.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 5 days ago:
Also, social media is a major contributor to the isolation epidemic going on, as is the economic situation and the work culture of countries like the US.
So what I’m saying is, you’re probably right on all accounts.
I saw a great video once that went into how the economic situation is largely responsible for the cultural shift from “adult” as a thing you are to “adulting” - a thing you do. That from Millenials onwards, generations don’t feel economically secure enough to partake in traditional cultural norms of middle-class adulthood. Things like buying a house and popping out 2.5 kids.
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 5 days ago:
May I introduce you to basically any interpretation of what dinosaurs looked like, ever (which is what this joke is about)?
- Comment on Oddly specific question 1 week ago:
I think the big issue is that the Republican definition for it is closer to: when minorities have it too good by not being murdered often enough.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 1 week ago:
1 year customer service. 2 if you make an annual salary over a certain threshold.
Either destroy the world or fix it, and at this point, I don’t care which.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
My brain somehow read the title as “Tesla was the Elon Musk of his era,” and I got so mad for a split second that I think I may have an aneurysm to deal with in 5 years.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 1 week ago:
Fun lobster fact: They used to feed lobster to prisoners in Massachusetts because they were considered unclean animals since they crawled along the ocean floor and nobody else would eat them.
- Comment on salmon 1 week ago:
The second one doesn’t seem to be butterflied, as it would be missing a dorsal fin if it was, and the skin color is asymmetrical. They’re 2 different species imo, but I’m only familiar with Atlantic salmon so I can’t say for sure. Atlantic salmon normally look like the top one and get an upturned hook mouth but don’t really change color.
- Comment on Keep it clean 1 week ago:
Weird tangent but me and a coworker actually had this happen to us once because the radio station at work was so goddamn repetitive that it played the same song at lunch every single day for several weeks and then started playing it at 3 in the afternoon.
Took us 2 days to figure out why we were so hungry in the afternoon.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 weeks ago:
How else am I gonna light the fireplace without getting up from the couch?
- Comment on European mind cannot comprehend this 3 weeks ago:
To put it into perspective, one of the leading causes of death in the US is preventable diseases. Many Americans can’t afford to see a doctor to get stuff checked out, nor do they get sick days or could afford to take the time off if they do, so they just keep working and hope it goes away.
Their advice basically boils down to “just have a senior level position in a well-paying field, and you’ll be fine.” As a programmer, you might be screwed right now with the massive layoffs currently ripping through the tech sector.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 3 weeks ago:
I’ll have to see if I can find it again, but I swear I got the hours and jobs from the Census Bureau website in 2020 or so.
With the rise of the gig economy and businesses refusing to schedule people enough hours to be considered full-time employees so they can avoid giving them benefits, I’d be surprised if it was as low as 8 million.
I’m getting all kinds of competing numbers even from just the Census Bureau itself, but they all seem to be around the 8% mark - one article saying that it was 7.8% in 2018 and has been on the rise in the past 20 years but notes that these numbers diverge from another census data measurement which put it at 6.3% and falling, while another from a year or two earlier says that based on recently released data from 2013, 8.3% of workers (13 million) had 2+ jobs in 2013.
Either way, it’s a far cry from the average worker. Maybe I’m misremembering it and the stat was about households or something.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 3 weeks ago:
It’s like the saying “‘I don’t get into politics’ means that your rights aren’t at risk every 4 years.” If you haven’t experienced it or stepped outside your general socioeconomic class and seen how others live, you wouldn’t know. It’s just this nebulous concept that there are some people who have it bad, but nop context as to how things actually are.
This is why Republicans hate college, as that’s where most people meet people with different life experiences for the first time, and why the death of third places has been really awful. It used to be that the wealthy lawyer would be drinking with his buddy the coal miner who he first met at that bar.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 3 weeks ago:
This right here is why:
Planes, cars, jacuzzi, Thai massages, 3d movies. Morning weed smoking in a pool to the sounds of birds. Two clicks away from ordering anything possible to your doorstep
I never had to work even tbh. I mean I did some because it was like an adventure with a friend.
Yours is by no means the average experience. Most of your first quote there is not within the means of the average American (except for ordering cheap stuff from Amazon made in Chinese sweatshops and maybe one or two massages or similar splurges a year).
The average American works 50 hours a week between 2 to 4 jobs. Wealth inequality in 2020 was considered equal to that of France during the years just before the French Revolution, where the price of a loaf of bread reached the cost of a day’s salary for the average worker, and it has gotten worse since then. A new car and 70% of houses are considered unaffordable to the average American (up from roughly 40% of houses in 2019). Car prices (both used and new cars) alone jumped 30% between November of last year and January of this year. The number of adult children living with their parents has doubled since 2015. The leading cause of death in the US is preventable diseases because the majority of people can’t afford to go see a doctor, nor do most have sick days. Life expectancy in the US is actually declining if you make less than a six figure salary, and the national life expectancy is currently equal to the area of the UK with the lowest life expectancy. When adjusted for inflation, the pay of the average worker has gone up about 5-8% since the 70s, while CEO compensation has gone up 300x. The average American has less than $600 in their bank account. The list goes on and on. Worker safety regulations are being axed, as are minority rights and environmental regulations, and the price of a taco at Taco Bell has doubled since the 90s when adjusted for inflation. from the big stuff to the little stuff, things have gotten demonstrably worse since the 60s and the trend isn’t slowing down.
Another big part of it that I saw somebody describe really well is climate change vs the Cold War and how that affects the mentality of Boomers vs Millennials and younger. Basically, growing up under the threat of nuclear war meant that any day could be your last, so you might as well ignore it and keep doing the same old thing, whereas climate change is an ongoing catastrophe that only gets worse the longer we ignore it. So you have the people in power who want to ignore everything and keep on doing the stuff that makes them money (and makes the problem worse), while the younger generations are watching the train come barreling down the tracks at us and begging the old folks to just get off the tracks because they can’t do anything about it themselves.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 3 weeks ago:
Mobile games have basically always been like that. It’s practically Shovelware: The Industry. They’re cheap and quick to make compared to other games and mtx make crazy money, so they’re basically the equivalent of those cheap Chinese clothing brands that pop up out of nowhere for a month on Amazon and then change names to something like Zivaldie.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 3 weeks ago:
I agree to some extent, but even before then hardware was getting expensive thanks to stuff like the Bitcoin mining craze. Harddrives have been getting cheaper on a dollar per TB basis for a long time (as they should), but I remember the days when it was cheaper to build a gaming PC than to buy a new console, and those days are long gone. And after COVID hit, greedflation set in to declare what the new normal is.
- Comment on Service with a smile. 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, “the sun is a deadly laser” face.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 3 weeks ago:
Not to sound snarky or anything, but since when do prices go down? If people were willing to pay the inflated price, there’s no incentive for them not to make that the new standard.
- Comment on science 🤝 humanities 4 weeks ago:
In before the Vanta Black guy copyrights this too.
- Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors 4 weeks ago:
Appreciate the correction, the first time I could think of as “white” being a unified thing was the white supremacists of the “Aryan master race” era.
- Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors 4 weeks ago:
I am…unclear on what you’re actually arguing about. You went from arguing that white people are oppressed for being white and/or that white as a unified race wasn’t the invention of racism to separate the white European ethnicities from black people, to straw-manning me to argue that white people were never oppressed the same way black people have been (and continue to be).
Both me and the OP are saying that the idea of a single “white” race was the invention of racists. To separate white Europeans from other people. Before the white supremacists coined the term white as a race, your race was French, Swedish, Irish, British, Russian, etc. White is just a label to lump all these Europeans from disparate cultural backgrounds who hated each other’s guts together to form a unified front against “the savage black man” and “the Asian menace.”
And nobody has ever been oppressed for being white. When was the last time you heard of somebody being passed over for a job because they were too white, or the cops going around arresting all the white people off the streets. White people probably suffer the same treatment as other foreigners in xenophobic countries, but they’re not singled out for being white.
- Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors 4 weeks ago:
Yup, trans men are “poor deluded women and victims of the patriarchy” and trans women are “predators trying to invade women’s spaces”. And that’s if trans men are even thought of at all.
- Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors 4 weeks ago:
The concept of “white” as a race dates back to WW2, at most. Before then, being from France was as ethnically important a distinction as being from England, Spain, Germany, Ireland, or China. Due to the long history of conflict amongst European nations, there was no unified sense of race due to something as simple as skin color.
When the Irish immigrated to the US, they were considered equivalent to black people by Americans and competed for the same jobs.
The British, inspired by the American ethnic cleansings of the Native American tribes, attempted to ethnically cleanse the Irish from Ireland for their land. That’s what the famine in Ireland actually was. There was a scarcity of potatoes, but otherwise there was plenty of food - so long as you were British. In fact, there’s a statue of a Native American in northern Ireland commemorating the Native tribes’ aid during the famine, because they recognized what the British were doing and were one of the few groups to send supplies to the Irish. Nobody else cared, because they were Irish, not (insert country here).
