“You are too poor for this mod, peasant”, basically.

PlayStation Portal(?)

PSP actually stands for PlayStation Portugal.

If by “grab”, you mean “pirate”. Don’t reward them for taking games away.

I was pretty surprised to see Vince Masuka on the Spear bench tbh…

Its characters cost as much as $63,000 in cryptocurrency, despite the fact that I’m not entirely sure what you can do with them once you own them

My guess: what cryptocurrency was originally invented for; money laundering.

So she asked me, ‘What was your dog’s name growing up?’

And then she emptied her bank account, having just learned the final security question answer.

Personally, I’m surprised it’s so low, but I guess we don’t talk to each other 😁

The real Mojave is actually very tan

Makes sense since the sun is always shining on it 😁

I mean, isn’t the real Mojave desert quite beige? It would probably be weird if they made it green or blue 😛

But doesn’t the change open up for litigation in small claims court?

More like mandates it. For those who live in the country to even have ACCESS to it. The vast majority of Steam users don’t (while the US has more users than any other single country, it’s still only ~14m out of 120m) and would also need a lawyer licensed to practice in both countries afaik.

So nah, I don’t suspect that this change will benefit the users in general, rather the opposite…

I don’t think it is. If it’s anything like the US court systems I know more about (criminal, juvenile, immigration, main civil court), it’s extremely backlogged already.

And that’s even before considering jurisdiction and how much more a lawyer licensed to practice in at least two countries charges.

Even IF you decided to go through with it in spite of everything, you could easily end up spending thousands of dollars fighting an $80 case and STILL be likely to lose.

Which is why it’s best to let the user choose rather than force one or the other.

The reason why we always hear about companies forcing arbitration is because arbitration is best for them when it comes to the big stuff that the news report on, compared to court.

The reason why we never hear about the opposite is twofold:

1. it doesn’t happen as often and

2. “yamanii didn’t get their refund approved even though they were entitled to according to the rules” isn’t something that makes headlines or even makes it to court.

as I understand it, arbitration is still available (if both parties agree, I assume), it’s just not a requirement anymore.

Unless the OP is a forgery of some sort, you evidently DON’T understand it.

still seems to me that consumers are getting more options which is usually a good thing.

Nope. They’re switching from one mandatory method which favors companies liable to get into big disputes where a court case is advantageous to the consumer, which isn’t the case with them, to one that favors a company wanting to avoid a lot of issues too small to warrant a lawyer.

It’s not anywhere near as bad for consumers as when a utility company that poisons thousands of people forces everyone to corporate-friendly arbitration procedure (likely with the “neutral” third party much less neutral than the ones Valve used), but it’s certainly not GOOD for Steam users to not be able to complain without lawyering up.

Forcing you to shut up or go to court isn’t great either, though.

On the big stuff where they’re liable for a lot of money and you might be able to get a pro bono lawyer, sure.

On the small stuff, though, the prospect of having to pay for a lawyer and likely have your case thrown out by a judge for not being worth the expense and effort of suing a foreign company is probably going to deter a LOT of legitimate claims.

If, for example, I want to return a game in accordance with the rules and they won’t let me, I’m not gonna lawyer up and sue them from the other side of the Atlantic.

Speaking as someone who never walks alone and has a brother who’s more into hammers, third round wasn’t too bad 😁

The problem isn’t the people voluntarily participating in the world’s biggest grift losing money.

The problem is the real world consequences for other people.

Barbara Streisand

OoooOOOoooOOOoo!

Can’t say I’d have called the Italian ones if asked before the start of the season 😄

Only way to turn up to a party tbh…

Nah, Liverpool lol

Fucking hell, Real Madrid again? Can’t we just throw them out for their decades of financial doping so that we don’t have to play them almost every year? 🤦

Honestly looks a lot better than I thought

cautiously optimistic

This looks more akin to Final Fantasy

Congress.

D’oh!

I was so sure I had already updated it! Thanks for reminding this idiot of the blatantly obvious step he accidentally skipped 🤦😂

Better than grabbing the blade with his bottom, at least 🤷

Some of it might even be petty. Like a grown man cheating at musical chairs at his kid’s birthday party.

4 sprint speeds. No cars.

So what you’re saying is that it’s doomed?

Unfortunately, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 was taken.

Where did you find the toggle to disable teenagers? Does it work IRL?

#MendTheSchism!

We’ve informed Microsoft, we’re confident the problem will be fixed

Famous last words

And why would you play Sims 4 if not to reunify Persia?

Watching the first half of that video gave my eyes double cancer. Thanks.

Yeah, that’s just half a Bethesda release cycle!

The only way to truly win this fight is for the devs to face potentially life-ruining circumstances to fight it in court

So you’re saying we release lions in the courtroom?

…oh wait, life-RUINING. Hmm… Including their browser histories in discovery?

I still don’t see how punishing the already victimized helpers is supposed to solve anything…

They keep winning the cases themselves in courts very much rigged in their favor, sure, but for each headline, they risk alienating more gamers who don’t appreciate them bullying comparatively tiny sites who are just providing games that Nintendo themselves refuse to sell.

Confirmed. They were two spots ahead of me in the line.

Less than a day after I find out from an old article that there was supposed to be a modernized remake of Gothic 1 on the way to be published this year and got all excited. Fucking fantastic 😮‍💨