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  1. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    Looking back its crazy how many of my childhood game choices were just one of my dad's friends giving him a copy of a game he bought.

    Looking back its crazy how many of my childhood game choices were just one of my dad's friends giving him a copy of a game he bought.

  2. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    The big difference there is that photoshop was a product you bought that later switched to a subscription. If you suddenly had to pay a monthly fee to keep your steam library, people would be...

    The big difference there is that photoshop was a product you bought that later switched to a subscription.

    If you suddenly had to pay a monthly fee to keep your steam library, people would be pretty pissed

  3. Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games

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    I mostly stayed out of it, but I never heard of depression quest or "ethics in games journalism" till it was dying down and people were trying to make sense of it. Everything I saw was "how dare...

    I mostly stayed out of it, but I never heard of depression quest or "ethics in games journalism" till it was dying down and people were trying to make sense of it.

    Everything I saw was "how dare these women come in here and tell us how to do video games". The sane response was "women are allowed to talk about games too and nothing they're saying should be that controversial "

    17 votes

  4. Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games

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    I find it very hard to believe that everyone was just so upset to discover that a bunch of websites were trying to keep their advertisers happy. Something that wasnt exactly a secret, and not...

    I find it very hard to believe that everyone was just so upset to discover that a bunch of websites were trying to keep their advertisers happy. Something that wasnt exactly a secret, and not really a big deal anyway.

    I find it very easy to belive a bunch of turbo nerds got mad that women were daring to stick their nose in their sacred hobby and jumped at the chance to be assholes about it.

    23 votes

  5. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    As a PC gamer I did find it a little strange just how pissed everyone was about the no disk thing. I think the lasy physical game I bought was something for the wii. But seeing court cases like...

    As a PC gamer I did find it a little strange just how pissed everyone was about the no disk thing. I think the lasy physical game I bought was something for the wii.

    But seeing court cases like this where they're saying "well obviously no one owns the game they buy. Everyone knows that!" is making things a lot clearer

    8 votes

  6. Comment on Tim Curry, outlandish star of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ dies at 80 in ~movies

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    Oh wow I didn't recognize the name, but I definitely remember this show

    Oh wow I didn't recognize the name, but I definitely remember this show

  7. Comment on Tim Curry, outlandish star of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ dies at 80 in ~movies

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    I know it's probably not the work he's best known for, but I'll always remember him as M.A.L. the computer from Captain Planet https://youtu.be/XJMg38meQaw?t=72

    I know it's probably not the work he's best known for, but I'll always remember him as M.A.L. the computer from Captain Planet
    https://youtu.be/XJMg38meQaw?t=72

    8 votes

  8. Comment on I run a speculative fiction book club in ~books

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    I'd like to get in on this too please

    I'd like to get in on this too please

  9. Comment on Webcomic of the author's experience in an abusive school that was a part of the Troubled Teens Industry in ~life

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    Ive read this a few times. Every time, I spend the rest of the day just generally pissed off at nothing.

    Ive read this a few times. Every time, I spend the rest of the day just generally pissed off at nothing.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Fired from the White House for being trans (gifted link) in ~lgbt

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    I really did not expect Pence of all people to come out looking so good in this story

    I really did not expect Pence of all people to come out looking so good in this story

    11 votes

  11. Comment on What lesser-known sci-fi reads do you recommend? in ~books

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    Can't belive I got beat on Sector General. I loved those books. The quality is kind of all over the place but overall a great series.

    Can't belive I got beat on Sector General. I loved those books. The quality is kind of all over the place but overall a great series.

  12. Comment on What lesser-known sci-fi reads do you recommend? in ~books

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    I read Red Mars when I was a little too young for it. Ive always meant to go back and read it again

    I read Red Mars when I was a little too young for it. Ive always meant to go back and read it again

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news

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    Basically I don't think we should drag every billionaire out of their homes to be shot in the street. But there's people who think they can do whatever they want because their money and...

    Basically I don't think we should drag every billionaire out of their homes to be shot in the street.

    But there's people who think they can do whatever they want because their money and connections insulate them from legal consequences. When they're about to take an action that will bring misery and harm to thousands or even millions of people, I think we all benefit if they have to consider the small chance that one of those people will be pissed enough to kill them for it.

    So on one hand we have to punish people that go outside the law to enact vigilante justice since we can't just go open season with vigilante justice. But on the other hand, the threat of vigilante justice is really one of the only braking mechanisms we have left to try to check this insane greed and corruption

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech

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    I like AI more than most people on the internet seem to likw AI. I use stable diffusion sometimes. I often search with Perplexity or get chatGPT to write stuff for me. I dont know how AI agents...

    I like AI more than most people on the internet seem to likw AI. I use stable diffusion sometimes. I often search with Perplexity or get chatGPT to write stuff for me.

    I dont know how AI agents work, where to go to use one, or even where to start. Honestly I dont really know what the difference is

  15. Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news

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    I don't think it would be great for everyone to start killing anyone they consider immoral. However I do think it's good for immoral people to occasionally get a reminder that they aren't invincible.

    I don't think it would be great for everyone to start killing anyone they consider immoral.

    However I do think it's good for immoral people to occasionally get a reminder that they aren't invincible.

    13 votes

  16. Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official

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    Yeah I'm pretty ok with that. Personally I think a little more traffic would be nice. I only check in once or twice a week and it's pretty common for the half the active posts to be the same. But...

    Yeah I'm pretty ok with that. Personally I think a little more traffic would be nice. I only check in once or twice a week and it's pretty common for the half the active posts to be the same. But I can't name a new feature I'd want to see implemented

    5 votes

  17. Comment on The Don Hertzfeldt Collection is now on Dropout in ~tv

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    For years I've just had my tv hooked directly to a computer. Whenever I do an upgrade, my old PC gets moved to the TV. I just have a firefox window with a bunch of tabs left open to all the...

    For years I've just had my tv hooked directly to a computer. Whenever I do an upgrade, my old PC gets moved to the TV. I just have a firefox window with a bunch of tabs left open to all the streaming sites. No screwing around with smart TVs, ads, apps or anything. Plus it's easy to launch steam since it's all right there.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on End of Series - Tildes Book Club discussion - July 2026 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers in ~books

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    I really like this one. I had a lot of trouble with the idea that it was big enough to live in but also easily pulled with pedal power.

    I really like this one. I had a lot of trouble with the idea that it was big enough to live in but also easily pulled with pedal power.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on End of Series - Tildes Book Club discussion - July 2026 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers in ~books

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    This author has one of the most positive portrayals of humanity I've ever read. The idea that everyone just immediately agreed to give the robots their rights ajd shut down the factories, is...

    This author has one of the most positive portrayals of humanity I've ever read. The idea that everyone just immediately agreed to give the robots their rights ajd shut down the factories, is probably the most fantastic thing in the book.

    Theres a similar element in the Wayfarer series. In that one humanity realizes that greed and ego has resulted in a Earth so polluted that they will need to flee into space. Apparently with little conflict everyone goes full communist to a moneyless society free of almost any sort of hierarchy

    1 vote

  20. Comment on End of Series - Tildes Book Club discussion - July 2026 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers in ~books

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    I might. I was a little disappointed in this one. But I also felt like it ended right when I was starting to get into it.

    I might. I was a little disappointed in this one. But I also felt like it ended right when I was starting to get into it.