smeg

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Does that work? I always assumed games with DRM wouldn't work if they couldn't authenticate to your Steam account.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

Simple explanation: if you have one console full of fond childhood memories then of course that's the one you consider to be the best!

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 15 points 4 days ago (6 children)

You can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

FYI if seems you can access older versions of Steam games, it's just a bit hacky

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

OK, just making sure you're aware that the reason everyone is talking about gatcha games is because they're the ones that you brought up!

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How many of the mobile games that you specifically mentioned aren't gatcha games?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Fingers crossed!

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 25 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Didn't it already reach the threshold last year and the government (or the civil servant in charge of rejecting every petition) closed it saying that current consumer protection laws already apply?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

It also launched a year or two before the ps3 and I feel like it was significantly cheaper. Xbox Live also seemed to be huge despite the cost, probably some network effect in action. I remember Gears of War being another big name they had.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In the uk I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I'm not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

That was probably one of their most sensible naming decisions

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

Taylor Swift has been the biggest selling artist but plenty of people will never have listened to her music, football is the most popular sport in the world but many will never have watched a match, etc. To sum up with a statement of the obvious: the world's a big place so even very popular things can still be relatively niche!

 

Some posts (e.g. this and this) do not load the images in Summit but load fine in the web ui. Summit gives this error:

stream was reset: PROTOCOL_ERROR
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by smeg@feddit.uk to c/summit@lemmy.world
 

This post contains quite a lot of formatting. It looks fine in the web ui but Summit seems to mess it up (I think maybe it's trying to put it all under one of the >?)

 

I looked at this post in Summit and it's just showing an image post, but when I view it in the web ui there's a linked article. Have I hidden it in some setting or is Summit not showing the link?

 

There's a video in the description of this post which Summit can't display, the Lemmy web ui doesn't load it either but apparently it loads in other clients

 

I've seen this posted a couple of times in comments, it seems like a reasonable investigation in to the recent shit storm

I usually actively avoid engaging in anything to do with US politics as it's pointless getting depressed by an awful situation I have zero control over; this post is not about fueling arguments or making us all feel worse, just determining if a useful tech company has gone to shit (TL;DR: probably not).

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by smeg@feddit.uk to c/summit@lemmy.world
 

This triple-backticked comment loads in the Lemmy web ui but not in Summit, though weirdly it works fine on the original instance!

 

This post is a link to imgur. The web ui shows a thumbnail but Summit does not, and when I click the link Summit crashes.

Summit version 1.49.5 on Android 14

@idunnololz@lemmy.world can you recreate or do you need more info?

 

Disney World is arguing a man cannot sue it over the death of his wife because of terms he signed up to in a free trial of Disney+.

It says Mr Piccolo agreed to these terms of use when he signed up to a one month free trial of its streaming service, Disney+, in 2019.

 

We're all well aware of Steam's summer sales, but don't forget that indie storefront itch.io also has a lot of games on sale this week. I've linked to my post in !freegames@feddit.uk which covers 22 games that are currently completely free, but you can browse their games on sale page directly for a huge number of indies (of varying quality!)

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