Hundreds?!

Wow, they really managed to get the whole playerbase to sign the petition.

Would they really? I mean, the way I see it, they are pushing for the all digital market more and more. It’s really in their best interest to kill a market that gives no money to them.

Besides, they don’t need to outright kill it, just spread the fear of bans if you buy used. Enough to indirectly kill the market by making people believe buying used is dangerous.

There’s a darker solution, which is what nintendo would love more: kill the second hand market.

And these moves might very well do it. If news spread and people start getting scared of buying a used game, second hand sales will drop and eventually die. Something that can only benefit nintendo.

I wonder if a banned console could download a game from a game key card, because if it can’t, then there’s not much of a difference between a ban and a brick.

I just had an interesting exchange with a nintendrone about this topic. Apparently, nintendo did the right thing because the guy who bought the game shouldn’t go buying from shady people and, even if it was a store, then, the store is at fault (and not Nintendo), because the store should test the games they buy to guarantee that they won’t cause a ban.

But in no way was Nintendo at fault for treating their customers as guilty until proven innocent.

With a little delay (sorry, life kept me busy enough so I couldn’t read this before), I just finished reading. I gotta say this was a rollercoaster.

I love the news parts, as always, since you manage to get a whole week of news compressed in a single article (and without the clickbait ads) that feels fresh and nice to read.

But knowing the kind of ordeal you are dealing with is heartbreaking. First and foremost, your health comes first. If you need to take a pause from this, you don’t have to apologize, it’s the right thing to do so go ahead and do it. I’m really sorry to hear about all you are going through, I hope you get to feel better soon!! Best wishes from an user who is clearly human!

It was a joke.

I understand that there are hardships linked to our condition, but many of them are not caused by our condition, rather by the world not willing to accomodate us the same way they accomodate NT’s.

This is part of what I call “the allistic disability”. They always tried to make us believe we are disabled, but are we really?

In Italy, Coop is not only taking israeli products off from shelves but also starting to sell GazaCola. I’m not a soda drinker, but as soon as I find them in my local coop, I’m gonna buy some just out of spite for Israel.

These farmers are very welcome to see if genocide can feed them, because I’m not going it.

That implies there was humanity in them to begin with.

I had to read it twice because I thought I was reading it wrong. The second time I continued with the rest of the sentence and realized I had read two “you” in the phrase because there were two.

I’m testing this this evening. My only gripe with soulseek is that if I want to download a playlist from spotify, I need to manually search for each song.

Soulseek is your friend. Setting up your library will be a tough step, but once done, you’ll feel so free that it will be worth it.

Tbf, I hope nintendo keeps going this route and punishing more and more its customers. After all, if you keep supporting a company that hates you so much, you deserve what you get.

As a general rule, if a corpo is against something the EU does, it means your government should do it too because it’s a good thing.

Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It’s basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.

Oh that’s so kind of you to say! I have to say, I’ve been pretty down about it all, but writing this up made me so very happy. I really love Lemmy for how easy it is to share these long-form posts :)

Happy to read this (the part about writing this making you happy I mean!!).

Lemmy is great for sharing long posts, much like reddit was before the enshitification. It’s good to see long elaborated posts here among all the memes and other low effort content. And in the case of your posts, they are also a nice read in my mornings because of all the possitivity and joy you can feel when reading them. You really pour a lot of that in your posts and it feels!

Sounds wonderful, I’m looking this up now! It sure sounds weird, but the longer the gaming industry runs and ruins great things, these odd little different ones just make me happy!

I love “'weird” or unconventional games. And right now, it’s the indie world that provides these gems. In an industry that looks for the short-term profit like the “mainstream” videogame one, they rarely innovate anymore. They just pick a formula that works and copy it until they find a more profitable one, so innovation now happens mostly in the indie world, giving birth to games as odd as this one, a yo-yo player bat that goes around a city beating corpo suits to recover a monopoly! You won’t see EA making this kind of game, ever.

I was waiting for this post, thank you! Since I discovered this “series” I’ve been hooked. It’s nice to read some long content in a non clickbaity way (that seems to be the norm in the industry nowadays).

I’m really sorry about your nerve damage and hope you recover as soon as possible!

As for what I’ve been playing, right now I’m going through Blasphemous 2 (i loved the first one too) and a nice surprise: Pippistrello and the cursed yo-yo. A zelda-like adventure in which you play as a bat with a yo-yo fighting industry magnates to help your aunt recover the monopoly on energy she built to keep a grip on the city (I know! The setting is original, to say the least).

The gameplay makes you think of 2d zelda games, but the yo-yo makes combat (and even movement) a completely different thing of other games, I suggest you to try the demo!!

I’ve spent half of it doing so. I arrived to a point where I stopped caring and just let the others deal with it whether they like it or not.

We’re not broken, and if they don’t want to meet me in the middle when accomodating to each other, I’m not going beyond the middle point for them, actually, I feel more and more that I don’t have to meet them in the middle.

Go figure. Probably they are going to monitor traffic somehow to see if you visit certain websites and if you stay on them for too long, they flag you as a pirate. I’m not concerned, I browse the internet through a vpn.