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  • I'm actually really surprised that Valve is loosening up on this one. They usually play hardball when it comes to refunding a game past the 2 hour mark.

    They make exceptions when a game has major issues or implements some significant change that dramatically alters the availability of the product. No Man's Sky, Starfield, and Cyberpunk 2077 all could be refunded outside the 2 hour window - at least for some people. And of course everyone who bought The Day Before was refunded entirely.

    I expect they'll be allowing refunds for anyone in a country where PSN does not operate at a minimum. It's really hard to argue that the game is still playable when the required service is not available in your home country.

  • Local safety regulations require a breathalyzer test before you're allowed upstairs.

  • I'm not predicting a Fallout-tier adaptation here, but as long as I get a few giggles then go on Comedy Central.

  • If you’re going to have a shitty anticheat at least give people the option to play in anticheat disabled lobbies.

    This, a thousand times. I can understand requiring anti-cheat for Ranked matches, but some of us just wanna screw around. If there's no progression tied to the match why should they care?

    (Microtransactions, if I had to guess)

  • Seconding NewPipe. It's the easiest to get set up, and once you get it set up you basically never have to touch it again.

    YouTube Revanced is more user friendly and has more features once it's set up, but the install process is more involved and updating it essentially requires you to redo the install process again. It's nothing crazy, but NewPipe is the "set it and forget it" option IMO.

  • Try to see if there are any that do that little Javascript-evaluation-to-render-the-client-side-site thing, and if there are, have them mine cryptocurrency for you.

    Using your evil powers for good I see.

  • Beast Wars. My wife and I both remember loving it when we were younger and wondered if that was just nostalgia and being a kid. It was not, the show is legitimately good.

  • They have free coffee and croissants in the mornings and their chairs are decadently plush.

  • You say, I feel that, and yet every time another poll about the economy comes out its like I live in a different universe entirely.

  • The upcoming Fallout series on Amazon Prime. This is a screencap taken from one of the most recent trailers.

  • The other guy is worse, so we really don’t have to listen to a damn thing you say at all and you have to vote for our guy, get that through your poverty addled brains.

    I mean I hate to say it but this is unironically true. As bad as things are now The Other Guy absolutely would make things worse. Neoliberals may be a scourge but MAGA is cancer. One of the bad cancers. Not even prostate cancer, like pancreatic cancer.

  • My high school had a "no hats indoors" rule and even that was regarded as dumb. No hats at all? Screw you if you wanna keep the sun out of your eyes I guess?

  • No hats. Toques are allowed, everything else is banned.

    It's always rough when a gang of Chefs take over a school.

  • Supposedly there was a similar policy at my elementary school early on, which led to a kid being forced to eat something they were allergic to. As the story goes, they vomited violently all over the lunch monitor and then had to be taken to the nurse's office. Their parents were not amused. The policy did not stay in place.

  • Blades my beloved.

    Never forget what they took from us.

  • Knowing him this is less of a matter of conscience and more a "fuck it I'mma burn this bitch to the ground on the way out".

  • Also, don't put all your eggs in one basket: diversify, diversify, diversify. Make a main account, but have more on at least one other instance. Instances go down for maintenance, software gets updated, owners change moderation policies, so on. If you can't get to Lemmy through your main, use your secondary.

    Personally I use lemmy.sdf.org as my secondary. It's run by a bunch of retro-enthusiast Unix nerds who more care about the functionality of the tech than anything else. No blocked communities there, and AFAIK they haven't defederated from any instance outside of ones that were hacked/compromised. That does not mean you can just go there and be a shitbird though, they do have standards.

  • Thanks, though I am honor-bound to point out that Sandbox6 has been maintaining YUP for the last several years now. Doing a great job, too.

    AFAIK they're not on Lemmy or I'd tell you to thank them more directly. Still!

  • Also no need to buy a Steam Deck version of that game you bought on Steam ten years ago, it’s already there and probably runs great.

    Android could have had this same advantage too, but Google's now pushing this whole framework version check thing.