atrielienz
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- Comment on WA man accused of hurling rock at Hawaiian monk seal has been doxxed, lawyer says 4 days ago:
Perhaps (I am not condoning doxxing) he should have thought about the consequences of his actions a little more. Seems like the comment about paying the fine incensed some people to take it further.
There’s always someone out there willing to out crazy you or at the very least stoop to a level of immorality that you won’t.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 4 days ago:
They lost their minds because Nintendo said:
Last week, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa told shareholders that the house of Mario had no current plans to raise the price of its $449.99 Switch 2.
Then they raised the price of the original switch and a bunch of the accessories.
Then the tariffs in the US were deemed to be illegal and they sued to get their --money-- profit back and didn’t want to repay the price increase they passed along to their customers.
There’s also the fact that Nintendo was on a lot of people’s shit lists for their litigiousness and other anti-consumer crap they had done so people were already mad at them before they raised prices.
When you look at it that way, Sony (who were also on people’s shit lists for a laundry list of reasons) are no better in many’s eyes.
Also, this completely ignores how small a company Valve is in comparison to Nintendo and Sony. I think that’s the main problem actually. Valve isn’t a hardware power house and they can’t command the kind of sales contracts or parts/fab that Nintendo or Sony can. So they are less likely to be able to withstand raising prices on their hardware as a result. The fact that they have raised prices so late in comparison to their counterparts in the space is interesting even if you don’t find it laudable.
At the end of the day, the backlash that Sony and Nintendo faced wasn’t because of the price increase so much as it was because of all the other stuff.
Requiring proprietary hardware for $80+ games that almost never go on sale or have online subscription services that also keep going, and then anti-consumer practices like (in Sony’s case) the whole have to have an account to play their games on PC and not wanting to issue refunds where a PS account wasn’t available but people bought the game and oh well we just won’t port our games to PC at all then, and so on.
Like. There’s way more to it than Valve good, Sony/Nintendo bad
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 4 days ago:
Yeah, I wonder if this will lead to a lot of the original Lenovo legion go’s selling out. They’ve basically been on perpetual sale for awhile now.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 5 days ago:
I don’t think it should have been a problem to provide her with tap water (rather than mineral water which is not the same thing), especially since she offered to pay for it. Is there something wrong with the tap water?
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 1 week ago:
Agreed. Headlines more and more rely on outrage for clicks.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 1 week ago:
It’s not physically bricking anything. It’s a firmware modification that prevents two pieces of hardware from talking to each other.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 1 week ago:
That’s because what it actually does is change your system firmware so that a physical piece of hardware commonly used for cheating will no longer connect and be available. It doesn’t actually brick anything. It prevents a handshake. It’d be like if a piece of software was able to go in and unmount your hard drive. Nothing is wrong with your computer. Nothing is wrong with the hard drive. They just don’t talk to each other anymore.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Valve makes you buy a key to open the loot boxes.
Valve then allows the contents of loot boxes to be traded for platform currency.
Unfortunately that platform currency has a real monetary value because it can be traded for real monetary goods because you can use it to buy a steam deck of other valve hardware.
It is this direct chain of events that make this illegal gambling because this is not something you can do with baseball cards or Pokemon cards.
three core elements common to all gambling laws: (1) consideration, (2) chance, and (3) prize. So long as one of these three elements is not met, a loot box system is not “gambling”. The “chance” element is inevitably met in any form of loot boxes, but the “consideration” element can arguably be avoided by making loot boxes acquirable only by exchanging virtual currency that itself arguably has no “value”, and the “prize” element can arguably be avoided by making the loot box drops account-locked. Where the loot box drop cannot be transferred, sold, or “cashed out”, there is arguably no “prize” no matter how rare the drop is or how useful it is for in-game purposes.[1]
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Valve allows users to cash in on the virtual items they have won in two ways. Users can sell the items they won through Valve’s own virtual marketplace, the Steam Community Market, where they can use the proceeds to buy other video games, video game hardware, and other virtual items. Users can also connect their Valve accounts to third-party marketplaces where the virtual items can be sold directly for cash. The OAG’s investigation found that Valve facilitates and even assists these third-party marketplaces in their operations.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Nah. I actually thought the same at first. I literally asked when this was first announced in the news if it wasn’t basically the same as Pokemon cards.
The problem is this. The company producing the Pokemon cards isn’t I hope actively providing a service to trade or resell them for monetary value based on rarity. Secondary markets exist for that but a first party Pokemon company market doesn’t exist for that.
This is where valve fucked up. They allow you to get a rare drop by chance, trade it for points, and use those points to buy something with real world value. It’s a lot more like pachinko than it is Pokemon cards or baseball cards.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is one of the few times I’d agree that Valve is the bad guy. I think other companies are also wrong for this. I think they all should be part of this lawsuit and I think legislation needs to have more repercussions for loot box BS.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah. There has been a whole swath of posts about the price increase, hasn’t there. I can see how that would be mildly annoying.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
This also does nothing to answer my question. I share your opinion up to a point, but I think you missed something here. I was simply looking for factual information about the event.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
I didn’t watch the video (I never do, I want to read). So I assumed there was a warrant, when in fact there does not appear to have been time for that.
Police received a report of an active shooter with one shooting casualty. That is what prompted the response and that’s all I wanted to know.
The fact that the response happened isn’t something I personally think should be left up to the police (they shouldn’t be allowed to decide which calls are valid). The fact that this was obviously an overreaction on the part of the police (that so many cops showed up) is still ridiculous in my view.
What I really want is for there to be an investigation into who made the report and preferably for the book to be thrown at them.
I don’t disagree with you that this was a ridiculous display of force. But your answer didn’t answer my question.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Just curious about why she was raided. What did the warrant say?
- Comment on How to sexualize males for a female audience? 1 week ago:
Was it Captain America Winter Soldier where Cap pulled that helicopter back to the roof, and did all that flexing?
- Comment on After the Kendrick Lamar beef, can Drake come back with 'Iceman'? 2 weeks ago:
Traitor. Kendrick called him a traitor.
Could he come back? Yeah with fans that don’t care about or know about the beef, and only listen to the music without trying to understand it (there’s a lot of people who just don’t care about the lyrics if the beat is good).
But I’m good. I don’t need Drake or his music. I’ll find other stuff to listen to.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
You could say the same thing about human, but that still works.
Here’s the thing. It demonstrably doesn’t work because we don’t do any of the things you listed. That’s why parking tickets only work on poor people and rich people view them as just the fee to park where ever they want.
Which is exactly what I was alluding to but you seem to want to take it as if I have no earthly idea how to make it better when the point wasn’t about fining them. The point is there’s a better way and it starts with gathering data to use to basically revoke their license to operate their business and their taxis in the state. Because that’s a better outcome altogether than a stupid fine. The money from the fine might enrich the state but it won’t bring back someone’s kid.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
Think about how laws and legislation evolve over time.
Some legislation has a habit of giving the perpetrators who violate it enough rope to hang themselves. That’s why I laid out what I said to include other steps they could take to amend or update the legislation.
A ban on self driving vehicles would be better, and we already know that Musk among others has been throwing money at keeping that from happening for ages.
Either way, if you can tell me why they’d bother to allow them to be ticketed rather than just not doing that like they already weren’t, I’d love to be enlightened.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
Forgive me, that wasn’t the complete thought I assumed it was.
What I mean is that Liability in business is often spread across the company as an entity because there are usually a lot of people involved in the decision tree that leads to things like this.
You’d be holding more than one person liable if you were holding people liable at all. And generally if one person can be pointed to as at fault they are “the fall guy”, taking the brunt of whatever consequences so that the company doesn’t have to. Rarely do you get both options.
I didn’t mean to imply that the people who are involved couldn’t be held accountable.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
Not exactly. They were braking the law and not being held accountable. Now they’re being held accountable but how they are being held to account is problematic and toothless. That’s not the same thing and it’s exactly what my comment was trying to highlight. There are ways that the law can progress to be more effective.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree. As the operator of the vehicle you as a regular person at held at fault. A commercially licensed driver is held at fault and in some cases the company is held at fault depending on the infraction and their policy.
When a machine doesn’t operate within the confines of the law, the fact is the company who owns and operates the machine is liable. So that’s who should be held at fault.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
If this were true they wouldn’t have enacted any legislation at all (which was the status quo before this). The next step should be to use the data gained from ticketing these robot taxis to determine the rate of infraction and hold the the company accountable when that legislation is ready. I. E. Corp has broken the law X number of times and each infraction equals a penalty, x number of penalties means revoking of license to operate robot taxi service in state etc.
We all know that fining corps isn’t something that actually works because they just consider it part of their operating cost, so the goal should be to prevent them from operating altogether big their product can’t adhere to traffic laws.
Also, I think perhaps it might be worth it to license these vehicles differently. A commercial license of some kind because individuals can’t be held accountable (because either the people operating them or observing them aren’t in the same country, or because there isn’t a vehicle operator at all).
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 3 weeks ago:
Funny that they waiting to raise the price until after the tariffs were decided to be illegal.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t wish that on the smi driver. They don’t get paid enough to have therapy for the kind of trauma you get from turning another person into paste. And also probably losing their CDL over it.
- Comment on No bonita 5 weeks ago:
You’re still Bonita to me little bug.
- Comment on I knew this all seemed a bit fishy 1 month ago:
He sprays that shit on every morning? Surprised his lungs haven’t given out.
- Comment on today's massive sunspot looks like a dancing gorilla cmv 1 month ago:
Relatable.
- Comment on today's massive sunspot looks like a dancing gorilla cmv 1 month ago:
Came here to make sure this was here. Thank you. Carry on.
- Comment on Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply 1 month ago:
I’m an Avionics tech. Chances are I’ve repaired, modded or installed a lot of the systems you’re talking about, and I don’t disagree.
I definitely wasn’t talking about Fortnite when I made my comment.