Telaneo

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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I don't care about being seen as a good person. I do care about being a good person (at least to the extent I am able). I don't see how copyright relates to my (or anyone's) character. You can be a good or bad person who copi
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Like imagine how much harm is caused by the luxury fashion industry manipulating people to spend $20,000 on ugly leather bags? The EU is actually working on that, at least from the environmental angle.[1] Beyond that, I agree, but in a
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I have very little faith that it will be very possible to rewind to that point. Not because the technology of today is different, or even the legal landscape, but simply due to the cultural landscape being different. Pandora's box has
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> I’m not sure what limiting principle you can apply to limit the ability of businesses to show users other things the user might be interested in that wouldn’t also basically ban advertising too. That's a baby I'm happy to los
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
We should do something about that too, yes.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> I mean we deal with daylight saving time all the time And I wish we didn't every year!
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> As someone who also has two family names, I always dread questions for my "last name". I feel the same about anything that doesn't ask about my middle name. I end up constantly see emails with 'Hi/Dear First-Na
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I want to like the EU. In many ways I do. They're making it really easy to not like them. All for a safe and secure society.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I'm so happy I managed to transfer everything important over to my own domain before anything like that happened. I still have my old Hotmail and Gmail, and while nothing important shows up there, there's still a trickle of non-sp
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony is listed as silver on protondb, meaning 'works with tweaks', so that sounds about right. Things obviously aren't perfect. That last 10% of games is a massive pain, since every game is different (al
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I can't see this happening without either Windows getting in the way, negating much of the advantage of a console (have a look at the Windows handhelds and how they're not selling and how they're not a great experience), or M
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Xbox is the value proposition for people that want to play on Console + {PC/Handheld} Okay. Then who is that? Most of the people who play games who I know are either A.) Console gamers who only use PCs for work, 2.) PC gamers who
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
A part of me wants to be generous in interpreting that and say, OK, maybe it's the first time she's playing games semi-seriously in order to understand the capital G Gamer. Surely she's played games before, like say, the Sims
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Can't say I'm surprised. I can't see a reasonable path for Xbox to do anything but just stay alive other than as MS's overarching gaming brand. Xbox is on the losing side of the consoles, with no distinguishing features
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Heck, even 60 years ago, you could still buy that arcade cabinet! Sure, it costs a fortune, but it was at least possible.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Heck, I'd pay to explicitly not get the new features and only get the security and bug fixes in several cases. The "new" features is in some cases just a reshuffling of the UI and removal of features I actually do use.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Correct, but I don't expect Sony to keep those servers up for long when people can't even buy anything there. It's nothing but a cost centre for Sony at this point.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
People agree to fraud all the time. That doesn't mean people shouldn't get their money back.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> so what are arguing for is to welch on the deal you accepted? I'm arguing unfair terms shouldn't be upheld, or really in the agreement in the first place. This is on paper how it should work in Europe, but we (apparently) hav
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Most books are lost in time. And that's a bad thing. > Only obscure titles get truly lost. We can do better.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> but they have form for disallowing redownloads of old ebook purchases. If you dared to buy ebooks from them pre-Kindle, you can't access them anymore. Well that's bad and also shouldn't happen. They should not be able to
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I would if I had money.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
With renewal comes repayment, and there's still a set date when you renew. WoW is a service that works like that. The vast majority of games don't use evergreen licences, nor should they, since they usually aren't a service.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Pretty sure the answer to that is no, they haven't turned to rocks. I believe Amazon keeps a record of your book purchases, and Amazon isn't going away tomorrow, so you should be able to redownload your books (and probably even ba
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Focus on enjoying games now, in the time when they are relevant. No matter how hard you try, all those games will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. I've enjoyed games that came out 20 years before I actually played them. Ma
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
That agreement can be filled with unfair terms, and often is. I'd call that fraud.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
That's not how I read your suggestions. Your suggestion to just rename the action, which isn't helpful. You're still buying a licence, one that is nominally permanent, meaning it's a product, on the same level as a CD or
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> An extreme example is Fortnite. This is free (with paid cosmetics) but imagine if it cost $20. Do you own it? You should. > If they shut down the Fortnite servers, the game is pretty much worthless. What do you "own" exact
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Even if I only read a book once after buying it, it shouldn't turn into a rock just because I never intend to read it again.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Then they can stop pretending and actually sell it as a service. What they're doing now is doing one thing (selling it as a product), while getting the benefits of the other (selling it as a service).

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