kevinsky
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- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 days ago:
Right, but why would they keep maintenance on these courses going if nobody uses them and only uses their mountainbike to ride to work, over the asphalt? Why not focus on making them better for that instead?
The community at large stopped buying games on disc. Evidently to the point Sony feels confident enough to axe them entirely without too much noise. So far it seems to me they are right, I don’t really see the public outrage you can get with other controversies like the launch state of some games.
And why wouldn’t they honestly, this has been pretty much the reality in the PC landscape since the PS3 era. And yeah, technically on the PC there is “comptetition” in terms of other digital storefronts but it’s mostly the publisher that decide where you buy their game, not you. So in practice it’s highly debateable how much that actually works as proper competition for the consumer.
Sony is now going to have to keep the Playstation interesting to people without offline disc deals, we’ll see how they manage…
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 days ago:
Somebody might buy a mountain bike, doesn’t make the company they bought it from responsible for supplying a course to use it on.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 5 days ago:
Stop using platforms that are actively locking you out.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 5 days ago:
I also bought the disc version, despite predomenantly buying digital releases.
It’s more expensive but not that much more expensive. The difference was in the ballpark 50 bucks or so. On a 500+ euro or so purchase this is peanuts.
I didn’t buy it because I need it for physical games I bought it to have the option.
- Comment on Heh heh 1 week ago:
Taking people to court over a plumming bill is not a thing here, and even if you make a point of not paying it they’ll just take it out of your deposit and then it’s you that’ll have to fight them over those 200 bucks or so. Who has time for that.
Also the practicality of it. Blaming previous tennants might fly if you’ve just started living there, but there’s no way that is a reasonable defense after two years.
It’s easier to just not toss crap down the drain that has no business being there. I’m almost 40 and so far I still have to make my first call to a plumber over a clog.
- Comment on Heh heh 1 week ago:
The whole idea of willingly causing damage somewhere and somehow not being held accountable for it because it’s not your property is wild.
If you have your landlord send a plumber do declog a drain clogged by a bunch of grease or wet wipes or some other garbage that shouldn’t go down the drain there’s no way you won’t get the bill for that where I live.
There’s renters protection but not against your own acts of misuse.
- Comment on The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them 1 week ago:
I don’t get the hate, I swear by these. I have one that vacuums and mops.
I think it’s about expectation management.
These by no means replace actual cleaning. Not in the least because they only handle your floor and there’s more shit that needs cleaning. Besides if I put my back into it I clean the whole apartment in a fraction of the time this machine only does the floors.
However, this machine runs when i’m not home, so It could work at it for 8 hours and that would still be fine. Moreso, to do that it only needs a fraction of my time.
The reality is that I have this machine running way more than I myself can be arsed to manually maintain the floors and the net result is that I have cleaner feeling home with almost no time invested. Considering I have about 3 hours of actual me time on an average working day this is a big deal.
Some poeple see them as a symptom of wealth, but honestly this machine is no different to a dishwasher. You could realisticly wash your dishes in half an hour instead of the three hours the machine takes. But that machine only needs to be packed with the dirty dishes and fed a tablet, and occasionally you need to top up the salt and and rinse aid. Whatever time it needs to actually clean your dishes isn’t really an obstacle because you’re using it on something else.
- Comment on They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. 2 weeks ago:
Who is this?
This insurance plan covers absolutely nothing as literally everything can be lopped under either the first or the last rule.
- Comment on End of an era? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why anyone would choose to buy a console after this.
I don’t think people buy consoles for the physical games… I mostly stopped doing that a generation ago.
Sony has has a pretty strong list of exclusives still. In my mind at least. And I just don’t always feel like sitting at a desk.
So unless you build another pc for next to the TV, your other options are a mile long HDMI cabele or remote play. Neither of these options are as smooth of an experience as just grabbing a controller and turning the Playstation on.
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 3 weeks ago:
The amount of people that leave things like youtube logged in on hotel room tv’s is also moderately staggering.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Big corporations actively campaigning against you doing something like this is always a pretty safe bet that the opposite of what they want is in your interest.
- Comment on The Nintendo 64 is now 30 years old! Released in Japan on June 23, 1996. 4 weeks ago:
I still have one kicking around in case I feel like playing some Goldeneye.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why everyone is so upset about the price.
Because this is a 6~700 dollar machine that is now this price because of Sam Altman and his competing AI cronies having gone full scorched earth on the hardware market for no good reason.
It’s significantly less than a gaming rig with similar specs that you can custom build.
Youtube’s full of people that build comprable or better performing machines in this price bracket. There’s obviously more to this steam machine than just performance, but it’s not particularly cheap in any respect.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 4 weeks ago:
I mean I have no idea what this guy’s like, outside of what he’s broadly known for, but I definately approve of what he did.
- Comment on Sweetpeas 4 weeks ago:
Bengal is a cat breed with leopard spots.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 5 weeks ago:
Lot of EU supremacist/jingoist gamers gonna be feeling some serious cognitive dissonance tonight.
Eh?
- Comment on poverty is a choice 1 month ago:
Ofcourse there are other metrics to considering yourself rich, some of which don’t necesarily have anything at all do do with money.
But that is not what those online grifters that constantly talk about crypto and having a huscle mean with being successful.
- Comment on poverty is a choice 1 month ago:
The amount of people that evidently don’t know what a passive income really is is wild. If you have do do something for it, it’s not passive.
- Comment on poverty is a choice 1 month ago:
People that say you need a “huscle” need to remember capitalism only works if a large part of the population is happy just doing some menial job that pays just enough to have a somewhat interesting life.
If everybody is rich, nobody is rich.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
There are cars you could park in front of that honda and it would still not protrude as far out as this truck is.