atrielienz
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- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 hours ago:
Don’t collected the valve stems. That’s property damage and it’s illegal. Instead, buy a box of valve stem caps and a box of small BB’s. Glue the BB’s inside the caps and swap them out with the ones already on the nuisance car (tape the old ones to the tailgate so you aren’t stealing), and go on about your day. It’s gonna take them awhile to figure out why their tires keep deflating because nobody checks that caps, and it takes less than 30 seconds the bend down and “tie your shoe”.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures 5 days ago:
A comment I saw on another thread says that they will be working with the parliament to rework current law to include this, rather than relying on the commission. So yes.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 5 days ago:
Advertisements have changed a lot in my lifetime and I don’t keep good track of the why even though I recognize that there have been definite changes. Sorry for the confusion.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 5 days ago:
Yeah there is and you’re correct that I was mistaken to some extent but I’m not going to rehash it here. There’s a longer comment explaining that I made to the original user who responded to me that you can read if you’re interested but it’s… A lot.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 5 days ago:
So we sort of did but not for the reasons you’d think. Not for the reasons I thought at least.
Specifically there used to be a time when there was ad placement in movies and tv literally all the time. But more often than not now a days this doesn’t happen that way because companies that have trade marked logos or symbols don’t want to allow their products to be used without getting paid a licensing fee and companies that would use this kind of product placement don’t want to pay the licensing fee which is why in the late 80’s and early 90’s there was a rise in blurring logos and brand names in media. There’s also the risk of certain licensing agreements not being legitimate for certain markets which can lead to blurring of the same type or it’s newer counterpart which involves using stickers or off brand styling instead.
But also some other countries do ban it. China apparently instituted such a ban in 2011.
But anyway I got confused because around the same time there was a ban on certain products being allowed to advertise in movies and directly in the shows (cigarettes/tabacco products, alcoholic beverage brands, guns etc). I was exhausted and wrong and that’s on me.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 6 days ago:
Didn’t we stop allowing overt advertising in movies and music videos for a reason?
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 1 week ago:
I actually think this might also potentially have something to do with the lawsuit regarding potential gambling on the platform.
Because children absolutely could buy gift cards and use them to open loot boxes etc. Not positive but just throwing that out there.
I absolutely could be completely wrong about this.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Like. I get it. People are pissed because passenger vehicles in the US keep getting bigger and more unweildy and people don’t want them on the road because of the danger to pedestrians.
But at the same time, the people who service your roads, power lines and water systems and respond to emergency situations still have to drive on them.
Just because he’s being overdramatic about his own vehicle doesn’t mean he’s not right.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
I am not denying the danger. Take a moment to understand that just because the vehicle is dangerous doesn’t mean anything as far as this particular complaint is concerned. My point had exactly zero percent of anything to do with what you’re arguing.
Even if this truck were lower to the ground (like the F150-F350 trucks of the 1990’s and early 2000’s) that still wouldn’t necessarily equate to a turning radius that would allow such a vehicle (looking at you fucking ambulances built on an F350 chassis) to turn the corner without edging into oncoming traffic which is against the law and is unsafe.
You can stop yelling at me. I’m not a yee yee truck driver. I’m not saying that this is meant to be a normal commuter vehicle.
I even agree with you that they’re dangerous. I never advocated for them to be used by everyday people. But they don’t require a CDL. Nor do they require any special license. And municipality’s use them all over for various tasks. So if the municipality uses a vehicle like that in normal operations the road should be able to safely accommodate it.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
It sounds to me like you haven’t been in a Ford truck for some time and you’re basing your opinion on safety rating information for certain events where the occupants aren’t wearing seatbelts and don’t take the proper precautions to prevent things from flying around the vehicle in a crash.
No offense but vehicles are better built for safety now than they were the previous 5 years, 10 years, 20 years etc. But this isn’t about safety in the event of a crash. If you mean ability to see pedestrians in front, this is true but it also has nothing to do with their ability to safely turn a corner without going into incoming traffic to do so.
Newer vehicles generally have better turning radii than older ones. I know for a fact that there are some passenger vehicles on the road including municipal working vehicles and ambulances that can’t make that turn safety without jumping the curb. Without rose rods extended upward vertically the front or rear bumper of a larger vehicle with a worse turning radius can clear that without breaking the law and swinging into oncoming traffic.
There is a reason that the law states that you must drive as if there are other people on the road.
As far as the argument about not all roads being required to support all vehicles, every road should generally be able to facilitate an ambulance being driven on it (not even in an emergency situation, but in general).
So while I admit that his personal truck can safely make that turn with no problem, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a point.
I would love to hear from a civil engineer or city planning engineer about this.
I’m from an old American city with some of the narrowest roads and residential streets and I wouldn’t discount his argument just because it doesn’t effect him.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
Not every truck a municipality’s public works department uses is this size. You don’t need special licensing to drive a dual wheel F350 long bed, and I’d wager that might be a problem to turn that corner depending on what it has in it. If they need to replace signs, or even just do road work, they need to be able to turn that corner. I have a lot of questions about this.
What happens when it’s an ambulance (a lot of those are built on f450 chassis and don’t require an CDL).
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
Any municipal vehicle. They don’t get sewage backups or anything?
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
No offense but that’s a basic F150. It’s got one of the shortest beds of the lineup.
A vehicle with a longer bed or dual wheels, or even with a trailer (say a municipal vehicle for the sake of argument) might have trouble making that turn. It’s not necessarily that his personal truck can’t do it. Just because his truck can doesn’t mean all vehicles can.
It needs to be safe enough for all vehicles that might have to travel that road.
- Comment on September 2026 just became the busiest month in years for millions of gamers 2 weeks ago:
No problem. I have ad blockers on ad blockers but I can see how it might be problematic for people on more locked down hardware.
- Comment on September 2026 just became the busiest month in years for millions of gamers 2 weeks ago:
It’s been the biggest mystery of the year: What video game publisher will have the guts to go up against Grand Theft Auto this November? An empty fall release date schedule left some major questions as players waited to see where anticipated games like Marvel’s Wolverine and Control Resonant would land. After today’s PlayStation State of Play, we finally have our answer to that question: No one. November remains wide open for GTA 6 as it appears that every major holiday video game will instead try to launch in September. Good luck to anyone trying to make that work, because September just became a 200 car pile-up.
Prior to Tuesday’s State of Play stream, we knew that a handful of major games were already planting their flag in September. Blood of the Dawnwalker recently announced a Sept. 3 launch. (Phantom Blade Zero had Sept. 9 locked down for a while before it was delayed to October.) The heavy hitters will continue on Sept. 15, which Sony has now claimed for Marvel’s Wolverine. Things will really heat up the following week, though. Tuesday’s State of Play stream revealed that Control Resonant will launch on Sept. 24, the same day as Silent Hill Townfall. Onimusha: Way of the Sword will drop one day later on Sept. 25. That’s three of the year’s most anticipated games landing in a two-day span.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve just narrowly avoided that disaster with an Oct. 2 release date, but it’s still flying too close for comfort. Deluxe Edition holders will get access to it on Sept. 28, so I’m counting that as a September release. The only game that seemed to get away from the dogpile was Rayman Legends Retold, but not by much: It will release on Oct. 1, which, look, if five bucks is eight bucks, that’s September.
That’s just scratching the surface, as a few other games are stuck in that crossfire, too. Dune: Awakening will come to PS5 on Sept. 22 with new content, and RPG-heads have Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter waiting for them on Sept. 17, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 is on the menu for Sept. 17.
Keep in mind that today’s State of Play is only the beginning of what’s likely to be a busy week for release dates. A Summer Game Fest stream is scheduled for this Friday, which will most certainly fill out the rest of the fall release calendar. Considering how many games have steered clear of GTA 6’s Nov. 19 date already, you can assume that September is going to look a whole lot busier by the end of the week.
At this point, I’m starting to wonder if some of these games would stand a better chance in and around November. Does Silent Hill Townfall really have a significant enough audience crossover with Grand Theft Auto that it couldn’t launch a few weeks before it in time for Halloween? Would something like Rayman Legends Retold do just fine in early December considering that it’s targeting kids? Publishers are undoubtedly going to be asking questions like this when the dust clears this week. Don’t treat any September release dates that you learn about this week to be set in stone aside from those for the biggest games. This fall is going to be one messy game of musical chairs.
- Comment on WA man accused of hurling rock at Hawaiian monk seal has been doxxed, lawyer says 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Just curious about why she was raided. What did the warrant say?