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- Comment on 2 days ago:
Too bad Epstein isn’t here to control the narrative with Bannon and make a bunch of ostracized, angry gamers get angry at games journalists and go vote for Trump again ~~
Still wild to me that that was actually a thing. I only recently learned Steve Bannon was the CEO of a WoW gold farming company.
(This video was a decent watch imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHHSFF_CBY )
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 6 days ago:
Feel free to report it if you think so. I’m not really repeatedly asking for anything imo, but if it gets taken down, so be it. I posted about stuff in the news and was curious if anyone would be investigating. If not, that’s cool.
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 6 days ago:
Because its been posted by all the gaming news articles already?
Regardless, I imagine those who are investigating Cyberleek and trying to help Rockstar find him will hop onto this shortly.
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 6 days ago:
I literally say beware and protect yourselves. It’s highly likely it is a scam. There are people that make content off breaking these scams.
Is it shitty to ask an electrician to do electrical work for you?
The real scam is paying $100 for a digital rental. Or worse yet, a pre-order of a digital rental which can’t run out of inventory, but 🤷♂️
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 6 days ago:
Unless it was just dropped 🤷♂️ time will tell. Just curious if anyone, especially those who like to browse TOR deep links and enjoy finding out how bad some malware is by usinv isolated VMs or hardware, would be interested in testing it considering this is “the one” that’s been causing Rockstar and Take2 trouble this last month.
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 6 days ago:
Because I know there are people much more technically savvy than I am that could more properly test it than myself, isolating a VM, verifying the download link should one exist, etc.
And given the amount of essentially verified leaks given the litigative presence from Rockstar and Take2, there’s more credibility than a random forum post somewhere.
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- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 6 days ago:
Education is the best way
Exactly why Reagan defunded higher education and every republican administration has dismantled public education.
“Our biggest fear is an educated proletariat.” Not my words, but those of the Reagan administration.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
“Slowly”
Let’s get something straight. The people at the top are all hired by the CEO and want money. They tell the CEO what a special smart boy he is, the biggest dickus around.
This has been the way of things for decades.
CEOs and higher ups give themselves their own “yes man” psychosis and it flows down the higher up you go.
AI is just socializing the yes man sycophancy psychosis our “corporate leaders” have been experiencing by isolating themselves from society and only surrounding themselves with an echo chamber of paid sycophants.
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- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 week ago:
The only vegetable the FDA has yet to recall.
- Comment on Assmold fans being moldy. 1 week ago:
Asmeinkampf*
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- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
We’re saying the same things, just I’m saying keep physical as an option too.
- Comment on Pie in the face. 2 weeks ago:
What happened to the dude who shot syringes of his piss at Ilhan Omar?
Aka a literal biological attack?
- Comment on Pie in the face. 2 weeks ago:
Creampie your fascist billionaires and politicians.
…wait a moment…
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about the tariffs that we paid for.
The ones that were ruled unconstitutional.
The ones that the companies, who made us pay more to cover the tariffs, got and kept the refunds.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
Right… the lack of making informed consumer decisions is the cause of the rise of fascism. Got it.
Are you saying that single issue voters are well informed? Lol. It’s the same mentality. If people informed themselves a little more they’d realize immigrants, trans folk, etc aren’t the problem. But it’s convenient to be told what to think by others.
And I mean physical games will just stop being made, so good luck keeping ownership of those.
Exactly what SKG and many others are/should be doing is pushing legislators for ownership and consumer rights.
I think the solution is to pirate, and start stockpiling memory.
Stockpile physical media too and ensure it’s preserved. And pivot your purchases to open hardware platforms (like PC) and platforms that better respect ownership (like GoG) to support them. Contribute to emulation and the cracking of games for preservation. It’s a yes, and situation.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
Well first of all I mostly game on steam, pc and steamdeck. And I don’t even know how that would work with discs.
Disc drives. Usb or otherwise. If you’ve ever activated a game on steam using a keycode, steam supported activating cd keys as well. There would be a CD keycode provided along with the disc. This is similar to BluRay movies that would come with both a disc and a digital download available.
As for the rest, I don’t think you answered my question. I asked for pros and cons and I only see pros with a “I understand the cons” at the end without listing them.
But I do have a switch 2. Switched over from the switch 1, where I could just move my library over.
This one is heavily dependent on the corporation. Because switch 1 and 2 are essentially the same architecture, it’s similar to using your PS5 library on the PS5 Pro. There is no guarantee you will be able to do so in the next generation given digital keys. You actually allude to it yourself.
I even gave away my wiiu to my nephew with mostly digital games and he could just play them.
The Wii online game stores no longer exist similar to the DS game stores. Titles without physical releases simply no longer exist in most of these cases. And for your nephew to play these titles he has to use your hardware with your account. A digital only future with DRM protection would remove access in several ways, via an IP address change prompting a login, license changes or store server closures that would remove DRM auth keys when a title is launched, etc.
But yes, overall, you are correct, the rest of the reasons you list are isolation (not wanting to go to a store or discuss with others what games exist, instead using a storefront algorithm) or are out of laziness/impatience (waiting for a delivery, getting up off the couch, pressing a button.)
I doubt I would be able to convince you, so I will not try, but thank you for explaining. It helps the rest of us to understand the opinions of those who seek convenience over rights and freedom. You understood that you would be downvoted and that is because to us, your apathy and laziness is the same reason we also have a resurgence of fascism.
It’s a lack of empathy and selfishness focused purely on dopamine activation. We see someone empty of life and fulfilment as you’re not enjoying, reflecting, or introspecting on life or the gaming medium, you’re purely focused on self pleasure. That’s what we see and it’s both pity we feel and frustration as these actions and mentalities directly harm the rest of us, be it artists whose works are lost or individuals directly who lose access to art they purchased.
I’m reminded of a quote from Benjamin Franklin.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Liberty would be yours and my rights to ownership, the freedom to experience the medium and share it with others. And temporary safety is convenience.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
Please list those pros and cons of digital and physical. I’d like to see the methodology here.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
So don’t be cattle and give up ownership for convenience? Greedy corporations listen to one thing.
Physical is simply where more ownership tends to exist.
And if it doesn’t? Fuck your closed off platform, if I’m forced into digital, I can get it on PC with mods, version states, often better performance, and possibly even some levels of ownership if DRM free versions exist for purchase.
Make informed decisions. This is also why we’re loosing our freedoms to fascism around the world as we choose convenience over our freedoms and rights.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 4 weeks ago:
Part time and contractors should be included, not just FTE.
And it should be 4 weeks. To make up for all that “productivity” we already put in without time off.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 4 weeks ago:
Did you ever write their password on the inside of their case cause they kept bringing it in for password resets?
I know we could’ve kept making money off of him but that would just be cruel.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
Me too.
I learned if things affect their wallet/affects them personally, they’ll learn.
Good ol republican ideology.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 5 weeks ago:
The article for those interested, instead of just the headline
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if you ignored both but:
As the original commenter said, pricing of next gen consoles will be $1000+. Which puts pricing into PC ballpark.
I said there are system integrators, always have been, to buy a prebuilt system.
So “too much” both fiscally and laboriously aren’t true anymore.
And I mentioned it, but choosing Bazzite is a locked down system. Installing it takes about 10 clicks of your mouse.
They could ask a friend. Or google it.
How braindead do you think people are? If they talk to anyone they’ll easily come across these ideas. Linux just jumped from 4% desktop usage to over 10%. So people aren’t completely gone. Enough friction and they’ll look for alternatives.
If they play sports games I can’t help them though. They’re already on life support.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
Cyberpower. iBuyPower. Even Starforge. There’s a bunch of builders out there to remove that “scariness.”
It’s a personal choice, but if they were willing to spend 5-10 minutes to download something like Bazzite and click the 10 total clicks to install it, you’d achieve a console-like experience too.
The information is out there, it’s just not forcefed to you because of a massive marketing budget.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
PS5 emulators I saw recently were able to get games to boot for the first time. So, getting there already!
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
^ now that’s a boycott
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
2 clarifications:
1 - because of Sony’s requirements for printing physical discs, it requires permission and effort from Sony itself. A company cannot simply burn blurays for playstation games, they MUST engage Sony. This isnt interest in just managing of the IP, this is specifically to increase profit by removing physical needs altogether (shipping, manufacturing, distribution, etc) as well as snuffing out the second hand market which, in theory, would drive more profit towards Sony, and finally it provides control. Access can be revoked, products become fluid, and the store can remove your access to older versions if a remake or remaster comes out that you would then have to buy on the new storefront.
2 - they directly respond to shareholder questions around the backlash to the announcement, which they refer to as “various opinions.” They did not retract their statement, and choose to push forward. How is that not doubling down?
There are various reasons we made this decision, the biggest being that the digitalization of content overall has been progressing. That’s the big factor," he said. "It’s not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of content; digitalization is progressing. And so, when we think about the future – and we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this – and we came to this conclusion, and we’re going to cautiously move this forward.
Tao added, “And to this decision, we have received various opinions and people have strong views, and we understand that the community has put forth those views to us.”
