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partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical GamesEnglish
2·3 days agoThe basic concept wasn’t “there and then left” though, like I feel as though you’re implying. Games came with extra content like maps and guides, sure, but regardless you always bought and owned the game. This has been the case with board games, card games, other physical games, and even digital games since until recently.
Would you suffer the same emotional trauma if you had a leaky roof and your physical game collection got damaged and was unplayable?
That would be pretty upsetting, yes. I owned those, though. I very well may own that roof, too. There’s a lot to be said, considering a leaky roof may even be my own responsibility. You can loose access to a downloaded digital game, however, while maintaining the console fine.
Why would your favourite game that was still saved on your console not be playable but putting a disc with the same data on it somehow would be?
Because of how the licensing framework operates with digital games. It’s no longer in your control to protect your access. Governance of your access isn’t owned by you anymore. When a game is designed to require purchase validation, which many are and they can be changed to retroactively, but the validation server goes offline, you can’t play it without modifying the system—assuming you can modify the system.
You’re getting a little too upset over the potential that you might not be able to play some games you deleted
Games have become inaccessible in the past and will continue to do so. Requiring all games be virtual pretty much ensures all games will, sooner rather than later.
It also goes without saying, it’s a lot easier to protect a disk collection than it is a console. Consoles have many more moving parts that can fail, for obvious reasons.
I don’t think it’s too far fetched to be upset by this.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical GamesEnglish
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partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical GamesEnglish
2·3 days agoIt’s not just that experience in and of itself. That is only one experience derived from the lifetime benefit of ownership. You own the things that you enjoy. Hell, I remember playing the Wii… then I remember finding exploits in the Wii, providing replay value… then I remember learning how the Wii works in interesting ways… then I remember hacking the Wii… then I remember discovering a world of community content for hacked wiis… then I remember sharing that with my dad… then I remember regifting that Wii to my mother in law decades later…
Prior generations had the same benefits, be it with cars or whatever. The standards for ownership have been pretty consistent for consumers in the consumer market for centuries if not thousands of years. Suddenly, everything is being locked up and licensed back on fragile infrastructure you don’t own. That’s not tech advancing. That’s you loosing shit.
Sooner or later, people won’t be able to get physical medium at all for the games they enjoy. Favorites will be predestined to be a faded memory, not something you can choose to cherish over time (in a box somewhere, of course). Thats fragile.
What about when life gets busy and you’re suddenly out of touch with modern games? Want to bust out an oldie and kill some time? Tough luck… you never owned those old favorites you’d poured money and time into… That’s where it’s headed. I don’t call that advancement.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical GamesEnglish
6·3 days agoI don’t want games that aren’t going to end up in my attic within the decade, so that I can rediscover them in another half decade, and spend several hours trying to boot the legacy hardware to play them.
That whole experience of actually owning your stuff is gone, if you go digital. It’s not just the theoretical risk that they turn the server off. It’s the constant dependency on Sony servers, licenses, accounts, and digital catalog. Those dependancies precede even being able to look at what titles you own.
Do you remember finding your old WII as a kid? Jailbreaking it years after it became irrelevant, and showing your dad that you loaded all his favorite childhood games onto it for him? Contra, Russian Attack, … my son will never have that experience.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic wants to develop its own drugsEnglish
61·4 days agoThis is funny. Was it too hard to automate everything with AI, that you now need to explore other avenues?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Spanish government ‘quietly bans use of Palantir’ in critical state systems over fears of national security leaksEnglish
2·5 days agoSpanish government
- is different government
- in different timezone
- founded in different year
- and is a different economy
I think you found a hack, actually.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•U.S home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs | Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.English
11·5 days agoAren’t there a whole bunch of interesting battery designs that can be worked into the land if you design the house to use it?
Like… (1) design the house to have solar, (2) solar power puts tension on giant underground springs, (3) slowly unwind springs for the power.
Or, lift a weight through some kind of gravity generator. Power generates at night when the weight falls back down.
I don’t know… I’m just assuming there’s got to be pretty neat designs when you figure that you’ve got a giant plot of land and only need enough power for a home on top of it. Do we really need to rely on giant chemical battery manufacturers?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•House Democrats Committee Release Report with Whistleblower Accounts and Internal Documents on Trump's Hijacking of America's 250th Birthday to Enrich Himself, Sell Access, and Harvest Americans Data
5·5 days agoHarris was nominated? I thought she was anointed.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump whisperer admits only massive turnout of 'lower information' voters can save GOP
9·5 days agoThat’s a rather genius idea. A big free circus with bread.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•PlayStation 6 bill of materials nears $1,000 as RAM shortages worsenEnglish
10·5 days agoIt really seems like the idea is to create walled gardens where you profit from every part of the ecosystem. The ecosystem gets augmented with surveillance because surveillance provides the information necessary to fine tune the ecosystem. The surveillance gets augmented with automation, scaling techniques, and machine learning because they believe that better data continues producing better results. Results being anything that effectively drives profit: vendor lock in, sales, monetizing resales, monetizing game sharing, reducing labor costs, …
At a certain point, the rest of the world should decide that the American bar is too low and easily competed with — right? I mean, who wants the fruits of late stage capitalism? I imagine nobody who hasn’t been raised and educated within a culture which pre-accepts these things as normal.
When the rest of the world begins competing better, do they thing foreign gaming consoles will be banned like foreign cars?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance VehicleEnglish
141·6 days agoYou had a healthy immigrant population that didn’t mind taking up the jobs everyone else didn’t want. They did it, they worked hard, and they had a beer at the end of the day. Too bad they were chased out of town, slandered, kidnapped, tortured, deported to foreign states, …
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Zohran Mamdani to deliver a speech marking America’s 250th birthday
24·6 days agoYou’ll have to squint pretty hard. The president is a fat piece of shit with orange skin and a haircut from the muppets. Don’t hurt your eyes, friend.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Shock New Details on Trump Sex Accuser, 13, Revealed - A family member has come forward to share new details about the alleged victim.
5·7 days agoNot saying it’s good science. It’s just a good point. If you have a bite scar on your dick, it’s most likely because you tried putting it somewhere that it should not be.
In the context where a lady comes out of the shadows and says she put a scar on Trumps mushroom, where nobody had ever mentioned a scar on Trumps mushroom before, and it is later revealed that Trump does indeed have a scar on his mushroom…
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck… what is it?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Shock New Details on Trump Sex Accuser, 13, Revealed - A family member has come forward to share new details about the alleged victim.
91·7 days agoI saw a tv show where, in one episode, a rapist got bit and they were able to use the scar as evidence.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to much of federal government’s regulatory structure
61·7 days agoThe vote in the Federal Reserve case was 5-4, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining Chief Justice Roberts and the court’s three liberals in the majority. Writing in dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas blasted the majority for what he called second guessing the U.S. Constitution.
I had to read that like 6 fucking times.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•House Dems fear another big loss to the left in Colorado
3·7 days agoWe should use their own logic. They loose to democrats. That means they are not democrats. They’re imposters, self proclaimed imposters. Ought make their own centrist club and gtfo.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Biden: Trump is a corrupt, narcissistic loser
0·9 days agoHis job was only to step down after one term like he said he would. Then maybe we could have had a normal election. Instead we got our current timeline. There should have been no question, no debate, … he should have never tried to not step down.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists found a cannabis compound that relieves pain without the highEnglish
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Oh I’ve got some limes.
Oh, well I can go get some of that.
Oh, so it’s not lime soda. It’s soda lime. Alright then… I’ve got some salt and milk.
Wait, I’m not supposed to drink it?