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1 hour ago, huilun02 said:

Sending lawyers to kick a dead horse for money.

 

Only in America

Stadia deserves to be ground into dust and forgotten about for eternity. I wish it would delete itself already

13 hours ago, Vishera said:

America is behind most of it's allies when it comes to Internet and health care...

I am sitting here happy with 1Gb/s and the best ISP you can ever have. (I am from Europe)

depends where you live. Most european countries have far less footprint to cover than America. I've lived in places with symmetrical 1gbps up/down and places with 10mbps. Starlink can't come soon enough

1 hour ago, Poison4K said:

I hope CDPR gets fucked from this honestly, this is on them; completely

I would never make excuses for EA or Ubisoft, why start with CDPR?

Why did you have hope for them to begin with? They made only the Witcher games, and only 3 was any good compared to the competition at the time, which somehow convinced everyone their next game would make them have 2/4 good games instead of 1/4 good games

On 12/29/2020 at 10:47 PM, Gamer Schnitzel said:

The cryptocurrency market has to die. From a logical and rational point of view it makes no sense whatsoever to convert electricity into an online currency. It literally has zero purpose. No I don't care that it helps you dodge taxations or that you are able to make an income from this. Electricity usage is already high enough in the world, we don't need morons running graphics cards day and night for nothing more than just money making reasons. I doubt Americans are able to understand my argument or care too much about environmental consequences but I can definitely see the EU stepping in one day and regulating this because it literally defies logic from a humanity perspective.

in other words the USA likely won't regulate the living garbage out of an alternative way to make money but the EU will, just because the established government and powers don't like it

At what point is the breaking point for "offensive" speech? At what point do people stop caring because it's too much effort to keep track of what offends who?

16 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

I see this as a win. Every time I've had to pay ridiculous import fees and/or my item arrived damaged, it was UPS. 

blame the governments for the import fees

lots of things in china seem to run out of money, get acquired by some form of the chinese government, then suddenly have record profits that are definitely real and tacked onto their rising GDP

3 hours ago, krakkpott said:

Nintendo's anti-consumer behaviour never got any backlash, that's why they keep doing it.

lol what they get backlash all the time, but people seem to have a problem with Nintendo protecting their very valuable, very old intellectual property. If you had a game series filled with characters as famous and worth the money as Nintendo does, you'd be hiring lawyers to stomp out any theft, no matter how small, just the same as Nintendo. The fact remains this is a third party mod made without permission of any kind for a game Nintendo still fully owns all rights to. They have ever last legal right to do this, and it's not their problem a bunch of people want to play a 20 year old offline-only game. Nintendo's also immune to the outcry of the angry Twitter army, which is a little refreshing from all the companies that buckle from one complaint (Ubisoft....)

Nintendo's best option would be to bring Melee to the Switch somehow, but let's be real that's not going to happen

50 minutes ago, BuckGup said:

Youtube really has been on the grind trying to find ways to kill it's platform entirely. Youtube is following the identical steps Cable TV did. Damn shame 

It's not going anywhere. They have no real competitor, they can do whatever they want and it won't die anytime soon

The wording sounds like they're telling everyone that they can run ads, not that they will. It seems unlikely to me they'll suddenly slap ads on every video that the creator can't monetize, or isn't monetized by a claim or some garbage like that, but YouTube is a business so I don't think I'll exactly blame them if they do

On 10/23/2020 at 2:40 PM, AbydosOne said:

Well, that sucks...

 

And (obligatory "I'm not a lawyer") it seems like a blatant misuse of the intent of DCMA (as bad as it is) to prevent a legitimate tool from existing that can be used to "illegally" download something. I can use Windows to make copies of copyrighted files, why is Windows legal?

 

I feel like there needs to be a provision in DCMA that for any claim filed, the defendant needs automatic free representation to prevent huge corporations for whacking one-man-bands with lawsuits that they can't hope to afford to counter.

if it went to court you could get that free representation but it would likely be yourself and it would suck very much

sounds like a lot of accusations and not much else. don't really see this going anywhere but an undisclosed settlement a few months from now

I've always found this weird, no McDonalds I've ever been to has had a broken ice cream machine

The guy behind an effort trying to permanently remove media ownership doesn't like independent people making money by streaming media? shocking

13 hours ago, Orange1 said:

When you say out of Cali, yeeeup lots are leaving cali

just what the rest of America needs...

On 10/14/2020 at 3:22 PM, BuckGup said:

Considering how scummy NVIDIA is and what MSI just pulled I wouldn't doubt it for a second

was there any actual proof of that? all I saw was another reddit post

18 hours ago, SADS said:

I'm still very surprised that these guys haven't been taken to court in some way yet.

 

Just reminds me of all those BS kick starter 'inventions'. They're just scams to get people rich quick.

Considered starting my own in some way! Free money! Promise something, never deliver... have the 'customers' chalk it up to experience.

What is there to take them to court fo? they've been clear from the start you're basically donating money for a game that doesn't exist, can't really be sued for breaking promises or no company would exist.

not that they deserve to be defended or anything. it's annoying because for what little of the game does exist today, there really is nothing else like it even in its broken and permanently unfinished state. elite dangerous is also victim to broken promises and no content, and no man's sky might get there one day but it's more like the mobile version (much better value today though). i hope in vain one day star citizen will be finished, but i wouldn't recommend anybody buy it

can't wait for this to rock 10mbps DSL companies in small towns, and hughes net for charging out the wazoo for 25mbps

They were just like a Kickstarter, all promises and fancy videos or renders but no physical product of any kind yet. Nothing you can touch. Yet people still invested or bought into them. Don't buy things that aren't real yet

Why is Linus to blame? Not getting a DMCA just means you weren't popular enough for it to happen yet. It was always going to happen

Wouldn't mind this, I have no PC part stores of any kind to speak of within 250 miles of where I live but if Gamestop had even a few things it would make me go there from time to time.

43 minutes ago, ThePointblank said:

The way I see is that you originally bought the vehicle with one set of specs. That was what was advertised to you at the time, and what you paid for.

 

The manufacturer then turns around and offers a $2000 upgrade which improves the performance by a small amount. It's performance in addition to what you originally bought, and in most cases, there is no expectation that a vendor would supply a free upgrade months or years down the line for most products, unless one was promised to you at the time of purchase.

defending this is where it begins. soon they'll just sell a barebones Tesla, no options, but the second you start it up you'll have 50 ads begging you to "upgrade your car to PRO" and "tap here to remove ads" and "RAID SHADOW LEGENDS"

19 minutes ago, comander said:

Just make the exams harder and make them open everything. 

 

Have 3x the questions as normal and shuffle them. 

 

 

Main issue with this is garbage, sell-answers websites like chegg/course hero will get the answers and there goes your test integrity.

Arizona State University among other decent, online colleges in USA have been using one called RPNow for years which makes you go through similar checks. Don't really see how it's different than sitting in a classroom... it's not a difficult concept to section away part of your living area only for test taking. and you can't use the restroom when you take a test in a real classroom either

5 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Dangerous business to be in.  Ebay is super easy to return a brick to the seller and as long as the tracking shows delivered they auto-refund you.  Absolutely nothing the seller can do to prevent it.

put "don't accept returns" on your listing and they won't care. if the seller wants a return, and the escalate it and eBay sees you have no returns, eBay says too bad to the buyer. paypal is the bigger worry.

also in 6+ years of selling on eBay I have never heard of or seen that happen

Bet this will be a normal addition to games in a year or less. EA and other companies have been through it before, they push a change no one likes and just accept the outrage once. People only get mad once.