In other news today...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today, in shooting yourself in the foot. PC gamers are a fickle lot. EPIC has Fortnite and is giving away about $70 a week in free shit and can't erode Steam's market share much. I have no idea who thought this would go well.
The game and the Steam page said the PSN account was required from the start, and now they're enforcing it.
The only people who have a reason to be upset are the people who bought the game in a country where PSN isn't actually available.
There are games on Steam that need Microsoft accounts or whatever to play, I don't see how this is any different.Suspect it will blow over in a week and Sony will have 100000 new users by June.
That too.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
There are games on Steam that need Microsoft accounts or whatever to play
Gah, the second I see that I don't buy or refund the game. You need the Ubisoft launcher to play some Far Cry games, so I refunded them immediately. Was looking forward to Blood Dragon.
*edit thinking of paying for it and then just downloading a pirated version.
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Community manager isn't helping...
Pilestedt is the game dev's CEO.
*edit: Apparently, the UK and some EU countries require ID for age verification. Christ, this was a completely avoidable shitshow.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Apparently, the UK and some EU countries require ID for age verification
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@DogsB what a fucking moron. âBoohoo, it only takes 3 minutes to create a superfluous account you donât want, give out your email address to be harvested and manage more 2FA shitâ.
Yeah, fuck you.Best thing is when they do what the McDonaldâs app did: you can select to log in with your Apple account, but if you do that and select Appleâs anonymization option to create a unique disposable email that they canât harvest, then mysteriously the sign up doesnât work and you get a try again later error. Of course if you use a real email address it works just fine. (You just have to go through your long-ass list of throw-away mail providers to find one thatâs not blacklisted.)
But itâs not like this is going to hurt them. People put up with literally anything.
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@accalia ?
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The thing about Helldivers II is that yes, it requires a third party account, yes this was advertised up front, but critically this was not enforced.
Plenty of people have been happily enjoying the game without needing this account and now the circumstances are changing on them.
Iâve not yet seen anyone give a technical reason why the PSN account is necessary, and Sonyâs demonstrated adequately that they canât be trusted to secure such accounts.
Fuck them, they deserve all the bad reviews.
UPlay too for the same reason, there is no reason you need this - especially if youâve put out statements as a company that DRM doesnât work. Double points for putting that shit in single player games (Blood Dragon sure as shit didnât need it), side points on offer if the only justification is nebulous anti-cheat for hastily tacked-on (and easily ignored) multiplayer features.
Basically fuck modern gaming from big corps.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
âBoohoo, it only takes 3 minutes to create a superfluous account you donât want, give out your email address to be harvested and manage more 2FA shitâ.
Yeah, fuck you.One of my favorite games, Cities: Skylines II (CS2) from Paradox Interactive, has always wanted you to sign into a Paradox account. It would nag quietly, once in a while, but it's completely playable without one.
Since the game was first announced last year, they've also promised modding support through an official Paradox mod store. (The original CS had an extensive modding community through the Steam Workshop. The only problem was that every game update broke most of the mods. We all hope this can be avoided with official support and source for mods. Mods won't break your game, and (we hope) game updates won't break your mods.)
After a delay of several months, the mod store is finally available. The only problem is that it requires a Paradox account to install any mods.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
(You just have to go through your long-ass list of throw-away mail providers to find one thatâs not blacklisted.)
Or, hear me out here, just have one hotmail account that you use for all the throwaway stuff.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
about $70 a week in free shit
Subjective pricing set by the one who holds the cards I suppose.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
(You just have to go through your long-ass list of throw-away mail providers to find one thatâs not blacklisted.)
Or, hear me out here, just have one hotmail account that you use for all the throwaway stuff.
No, I have a mail account for pseudonymous stuff besides my real-name account. But if I use that for too much throwaway stuff, it allows them to aggregate too much garbage. The point is both to not care about mails and not allow any sort of connection between different throwaway things.
You literally cannot distrust the tech industry enough.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
That looks very much like a rabid fox. England is supposed to be rabies-free, which is probably why they are not mentioning that (very dangerous) possibility, but on the other hand the behaviour makes no sense otherwise. A healthy fox could learn not to fear people and walk the streets in search for some still edible waste or hunting birds living there, but it wouldn't pick fight with humans without cause, and there does not appear to be any cause on the video.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
That looks very much like a rabid fox. England is supposed to be rabies-free, which is probably why they are not mentioning that (very dangerous) possibility, but on the other hand the behaviour makes no sense otherwise. A healthy fox could learn not to fear people and walk the streets in search for some still edible waste or hunting birds living there, but it wouldn't pick fight with humans without cause, and there does not appear to be any cause on the video.
People may just have been feeding it so it's used to humans. And since it didn't get a treat from this particular hairless monkey, he nibbled him a bit.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Boohoo, it only takes 3 minutes to create a superfluous account
Oh and don't worry bout those "Terms of Service", you really don't need to read them, they're perfectly fine we promise!
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@ixvedeusi ah yes, I didnât even think of that. Even assuming youâd understand them, itâd take an hour to read.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Boohoo, it only takes 3 minutes to create a superfluous account
Oh and don't worry bout those "Terms of Service", you really don't need to read them, they're perfectly fine we promise!
This also assumes you're not in any of the 177 countries where making a PSN account isn't allowed.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
Man tries to convince group of strangers that a wild fox is harmless
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
Man tries to convince group of strangers that a wild fox is harmless
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@DogsB Memes from this continue to deliver:
https://v.redd.it/ywvw28guakyc1
Though, it probably should say "Sony" on that first shot, not "Arrowhead". Even forbes got it right. (Meh, I kinda respect the Arrowhead people. Their CEO and some devs posting like normal people? That's rare.)
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
Oh and don't worry bout those "Terms of Service", you really don't need to read them, they're perfectly fine we promise!
Besides, they'll change every week.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@cvi did Slashdot get sold to The Onion?
I wish the Onion would buy Slashdot. It would greatly improve the quality of Slashdot's articles.
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And ... some 250k negative reviews later, Sony apparently walks back the requirements:
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... do we get 50 medals for completing the Snoy's Backstab order?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
And ... some 250k negative reviews later, Sony apparently walks back the requirements:
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... do we get 50 medals for completing the Snoy's Backstab order?
I'm actually surprised it ended this way.
*edit
probably would have worked.
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Sony is not exactly known for genius thinking.
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Xitter post @cvi linked to said in In other news today...:
Weâre still learning what is best for PC players
I can't even express how fucking ridiculous that is. Amazing Newspeak.
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@topspin Yeah that entire message is a gem of corpo-speak.
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On the other hand, the gullibility of people never ceases to amaze. What did all these idiots thought was going to happen after Sony spent over a hundred million over the years? Great amount of goodwill, maybe? It may have become profitable, because it's apparently not half bad. But 1) nobody could have predicted it and 2) critical success was not the plan. It was to be another fucking online multiplayer shooter that takes a single general idea and runs amok with it. Sony did a fuckton of astroturfing. They even got Casper van Dien to go all giggly about all the blatant Starship Troopers references. What did all the dumb fucks involved - on both sides! - thought was going to happen?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
What did all the dumb fucks involved - on both sides! - thought was going to happen?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
What did all the dumb fucks involved - on both sides! - thought was going to happen?
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SCIENCE!!
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If you don't have a physical copy to play on a device that isn't connected to the internet, you probably don't own a copy. Even then, there's probably some legalise that says you don't own it but have a revocable license.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Ownership rights
These still exist? Such a 20th century concept.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Ownership rights
These still exist? Such a 20th century concept.
In the 21st century, corporations own you!
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Ownership rights
These still exist? Such a 20th century concept.
"You hereby receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable license. We can repeal this license at any time for any or no reason. In case of dispute over this agreement, there will be a binding arbitrage by a mediator who is appointed by us (and on our payroll)."
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
binding arbitrage by a mediator
Arbitrage is, I think, not the word you wanted.
In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets â striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded.
Arbitration is the appropriate word in this context.
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@HardwareGeek That's a case of substituting Dutch phrasing because I'm not fluent in English-Legalese.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek That's a case of substituting Dutch phrasing because I'm not fluent in English-Legalese.
Speaking with a throat disease is illegal in 'merka
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek That's a case of substituting Dutch phrasing because I'm not fluent in English-Legalese.
Speaking with a throat disease is illegal in 'merka
Howdy pardner, that's grounds for secession.
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Arbitrage sounds like the sort of weird portmanteau of art, bits and rage that the current streaming universe is producing.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
binding arbitrage by a mediator
Arbitrage is, I think, not the word you wanted.
In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets â striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded.
Arbitration is the appropriate word in this context.
Really, the distinction is arbitrary.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
binding arbitrage by a mediator
Arbitrage is, I think, not the word you wanted.
In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets â striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded.
Arbitration is the appropriate word in this context.
Really, the distinction is arbitrary.
Gonna need to commit arbitrocity on that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
binding arbitrage by a mediator
Arbitrage is, I think, not the word you wanted.
In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets â striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded.
Arbitration is the appropriate word in this context.
Really, the distinction is arbitrary.
Gonna need to commit arbitrocity on that.
I can't find that in any dictionary, and I'm afraid to even spell out the slogan above the gates of Auschwitz in this light-hearted forum.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
âMy whole library is wiped outâ: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
On one hand, yeah, we've collectively invented a brand new way to get shafted.
OTOH though, we might have more of the Great Library of Alexandria left if it hadn't been entirely stored on highly combustible physical media, so it's not like this really is a new problem.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
âMy whole library is wiped outâ: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
On one hand, yeah, we've collectively invented a brand new way to get shafted.
OTOH though, we might have more of the Great Library of Alexandria left if it hadn't been entirely stored on highly combustible physical media, so it's not like this really is a new problem.
We used to contrast printed reports on paper with digital-only records by saying that the more permanent records were "written in stone". Someone failed to realize that the ephemeral computer data relied on silicon.
And were therefore literally written in stone".
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Interested developers can now make themselves known at the following address: about.winamp.com/free-llama
For a moment there I was afraid they'd be adding an LLM for some reason; before I remembered it's just the usual Winamp ass-kicking. Darned AI bubble.
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@Zecc the only training it needs is to know that it whips the llamaâs ass.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
We used to contrast printed reports on paper with digital-only records by saying that the more permanent records were "written in stone". Someone failed to realize that the ephemeral computer data relied on silicon.
Silicon, the metal, not silica (silicon dioxide), the main mineral of many kinds of stone.
And were therefore literally written in stone".
They were not etched in it though. Well, except CD-R/DVD-Rs, those are even etched (but still not in actual stone).
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and a Dungeons and Dragons night every fortnight where customers come dressed in mediaeval garb to play the fantasy role-playing game in the pub.
An app and larpers! What can possibly go wrong? Hopefully, a meteor hitting the pub.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm ok with this, except I do wish more pubs used the same app rather than needing an increasing collection of apps.