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- Comment on unfactorizable 20 hours ago:
What you say is extremely unlikely. No one decided to use 4.
Either the system they had for generating the key was broken, or they accidentally used a test key for a real system.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
I said “mostly a US thing” for a reason! Australia is definitely one of places where credit cards are more common. Still, from what I checked now, only around 50% of adults in Australia own a credit card, let alone use one.
In US they are popular becase they give lots of rewards (which may be the case in Australia, you definitely know better than me). These rewards come from charging credit card fees to merchants. In the EU the law protects merchants from unreasonable credit card fees, and without charging fees, there are no rewards. And without rewards, there is no point in using a credit card day to day - leaving it only for emergencies, etc.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure the reason, but my guess is that a child can own a debit card, but can’t own a credit card.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
Credit cards are mostly a US thing. Most other places you just use debit cards.
Credit cards are of course used worldwide but most people don’t own one and those who do use it rarely, since why would you borrow money to pay for something unless it’s an emergency or some big / long term thing (at which point an actual loan is probably better, so again CC not needed).
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 months ago:
Minecraft would be quite scary if you actually died when you died.
- Comment on Harry Potter star Bel Powley says she 'strongly disagrees' with JK Rowling's views 2 months ago:
The video game had trans characters. But hardly anyone was ever mentioning that because the boycott was louder.
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 2 months ago:
They never asked me to verify, so it doesn’t seem mamdatory
- Comment on A small moment in gaming history 2 months ago:
Commonly known as the Sremovedhorpe problem
Haha this is what I see. (I really need to move away from .ml I know)
- Comment on Id play it 2 months ago:
Nah, pretty sure all the player characters in online games will outlive their owners.
- Comment on My wife would still say its not clean enough 2 months ago:
Could be a reviewer or reseller.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 2 months ago:
If you didn’t mean the browser, then I don’t see how this makes any sense:
if it’s not valid it will attempt to use the www subdomain and either give a 404
What’s “it” here? It’s not the website since the address was not valid, and a website wouldn’t redirect you to a “www” if it wasn’t valid either and was going to result in a 404.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Stop supporting old games: bad Keep supporting old games: bad
Make up your mind gamers
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m looking forward to it. Will obviously check reviews before buying but the other 2 DLC’s were amazing.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 2 months ago:
No it won’t, it will go to “reddit.com”. Then Reddit will respond with a redirect to “www.reddit.com”. You can see that yourself in your browser’s developer console.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 2 months ago:
That’s not true. It’s usually not there, and unlike “http(s)://”, the browser doesn’t assume it for you. www.example.com and example.com can be different websites, so a browser cannot assume the “www”.
- Comment on Nearly a third of adults in England live with obesity – Obesity is now more common than high blood pressure in the UK, and nearly 3 times as common as smoking 3 months ago:
I don’t like the relative “3 times as common as smoking” in the title. It could just mean that less and less people are smoking and he a good stat. Or the reverse. But my itself it’s just misleading.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 3 months ago:
You are just making an argument that it’s possible to spend a lot of money on gaming, which is true. It’s possible to spend a lot of money on most hobbies. The question is how much are you required to spend to take part. In the current AI bubble it is more expensive than it should be, but I bought a Steam Deck for $399 when it launched, and there are so many free games you never have to spend a dollar.
Yeah, keeping up with new hardware and latest games will cost you, but you don’t need to do that. Since you bring up fishing, a fishing license you have to renew every year, fishing rod and all required gear, will already cost you many times that amount.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 3 months ago:
I very much agree, it’s hard. But I also think that older games are still just as fun. There are whole emulation communities that just play retro games. That’s an extreme example, but gaming is a very wide hobby and whatever your budget it, you can probably find fun stuff to do.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 3 months ago:
And if you want to play the latest title
Well there is your problem, you can’t compare that to gaming as a whole. That’s like saying photography is only for rich people because good lenses can cost thousands, before you even get a camera to attach them to. Which is true, but you don’t need that.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 3 months ago:
They still are, just not from these corpos. I am still excited for launches from small teams of maybe 3-10 people working on their passion projects.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 3 months ago:
Gaming is for rich
Have you looked at any other hobby? Gaming is still one of the cheapest hobbies. You can buy a game for $5 an have fun with it for a 1000 hours. Meanwhile you aren’t getting anywhere close to a cinema ticket for that, which would only entertain you for 2 hours.
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 3 months ago:
“Linux is so bad it even broke the internet for one day. Windows managed to not disappear!”
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 4 months ago:
If you disagree, feel free to discuss, no need to be dismissive for no reason.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 4 months ago:
Really? The internet is always so quick to jump to extremes. Someone making a mistake at work doesn’t mean they need to be fired. Yes they are responsible, but if they didn’t do it on purpose then why do they deserve to lose their livelihood over a stupid email? Some compassion could be in order here, they will probably never hear the end of it at the work water cooler anyway and to me it seems like enough of a punishment. Assuming this was some deliberate dog whistling is just bad faith.
Fact is it wasn’t sent in Germany where Nazi symbols are a criminal offense and that tells you whoever did this knew.
Does it? Somebody wrote the email, then the email was sent to translators for different markets. The German translators noticed the problem and decided not to send the email, but didn’t report it back, or reported it back too late. What makes you so sure the person who wrote the email was made aware of this? Maybe they were, I don’t know, but you can’t just act like you are sure. I worked at bigger companies enough to know that things fall through the cracks all the time and trying to reach a department in another country is often a multi-day effort with no guarantee of success.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 4 months ago:
How is this a history of transphobia?
Link 1: They made a pun using a trending hashtag without checking what the hashtag meant. They apologized when it was explained to them. This is an example of cluelessness or laziness on the part of whoever was running the Twitter account, not of transphobia. Link 2: In their video game, containing themes like murder, rape, torture, and the abuse of society by megacorporations, they included a megacorporation misusing an image of a trans person for advertising. When asked about it, they confirmed it’s part of the evil fictional world that they have created, and obviously they don’t condone it, just like they don’t condone murder even though the game features a lot of murder. Is it transphobic to include themes of transphobia in a game, even though it’s shown as a bad thing? Link 3: They didn’t like a fan’s assumption that only men work of the company, and used the “Did you just assume their gender” meme. They apologized when they were told it can be offensive.
I don’t see a single example here of them being transphobic on purpose. And speaking of Cyberpunk, it features a major trans character whose struggle you are supposed to emphatise with, so they clearly care about the community.
I agree they should be more careful about what their post, but I think there is a big difference between being transphobic, and accidentally posting something transphobic without meaning it 8 years ago and then apologizing for the mistake.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 4 months ago:
The point is, the game portraits a terrible world. The game contains people killing each other, that doesn’t mean the developers condone people killing each other in real life. The game contains megacorporations misusing images of trans people for advertising, that doesn’t mean the developers condone that either.
I think it’s usually well understood that something being in a work of media doesn’t mean it’s representative of the views of the authors, in fact it’s very common for media to contain themes like violence and abuse, not because the author is condoning it, but because the author is building a dark world for their piece of fiction.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 5 months ago:
I am pretty sure it’s just anti-privacy actors trying to sow discord and generate infighting in privacy communities, and the person your are replying to is either one of them or ate the propaganda.
Any cursory look at the Proton guy reveals he’s a progressive who keeps donating to left-wing causes, girls education, pro-LGBT, pro-consumer. To try to paint him as MAGA for being glad about an objectively good thing the Trump admin once surprisingly did is just ridiculous, and obviously not done in good faith.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 5 months ago:
Yeah, the answer to “Is Framework ethical?” is simple, no they aren’t. The answer to “Is Framework more ethical than all the Big Tech laptop manufacturers?” is a resounding yes though. Which is a sad state of affairs
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 5 months ago:
I am aware they offer a feature. It is up to the game developer to include it though, Steam does not force DRM onto anyone.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 5 months ago:
You buy a game in Steam, you can’t play it without Steam
That’s not true though. For many games, after you installed it you can even uninstall Steam or copy/backup the game to another computer without Steam and play it forever. Yes, many games have DRM that will prevent you from doing that, but that’s the game developers doing. Steam does not have any DRM by itself.