@Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club
Somebody gets it
2026-07-02 18:18 UTC
Replies (26)
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@robotElder2@hexbear.net 2026-07-02 18:22
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@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2026-07-02 18:24
somebody? thats trevor noah.. hes hilarious
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@humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-02 18:41
Bloodeborne was 2nd handed to me after not having any gaming console for almost 15 years. I really hate that person. And would like to ruin someone else’s day by passing it on. I wonder then of the next gen consul is dead too? No physical disk readers?
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@SatyrSack@quokk.au 2026-07-02 18:51
Digital goods are not the problem. DRM is. Direct your outrage appropriately.
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@MrSoup@lemmy.zip 2026-07-02 18:58
Nowadays some physical media carries only a license on them, not even the media itself.
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@queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-02 18:59
Every video game I played growing up I played secondhand. I pawed through the bargain bins in high school, looking for games that I’d heard about. I got most of my own SNES games from a single lucky church rummage sale haul that, in retrospect, probably broke somebody’s heart. I borrowed games from friends. I didn’t have money for new games until I was out of college. It makes me sad to think about that going away. I’m sure there are a lot of kids out there today that can only afford secondhand games.
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@ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-02 19:12
The crazy thing is, there’s no actual reason we can’t own digital copies of the games. We could easily own the rights to a digital copy of the game, the game and movie industry has just unanimously decided that they won’t allow that.
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@therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-02 19:33
Fuck Trevor Noah. Fuck that piece of shit a thousand times over. I’m guessing nobody here knows that this POS used his platform to justify the South African regime perpetrating mass-murder on striking mineworkers here in South Africa before he jetted off to play Mister Liberal Blackface in the US? Fuck him. He’d better not show up in the mining town where I live.
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@minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-02 19:56
OP is yet another example how people really only consider how things impact them, not other, not their community, and not the future.
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@brax@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-02 21:07
People like him are why gatekepeeping hobbies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Once the flood of normies comes in, they outnumber the passionate ones and it all goes downhill from there.
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@rozodru@piefed.world 2026-07-02 21:14
also what few people are acknowledging is what happens when the PS7 is released and womp womp it’s not backwards compatible with PS6 software? so your entire library of PS6 games will just vanish. OR you hold onto that PS6 for as long as possible but eventually Sony will shut the servers off for that hardware. OR (and what likely WILL happen) is those PS6 games you bought will be “upgraded” for the PS7 and you’ll have to buy them all over again. THIS is also likely the reason why Sony decided to stop selling first party single player titles on Steam. They’ve been planning this for a long time now. It’s not a matter of IF you lose those games but simply WHEN.
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@Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-02 23:27
God I hate that argument ‘Your entire library can be deleted.’
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@Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-02 18:57
Didn’t expect Trevor to be this based. Miss him on the daily show
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@benny@reddthat.com 2026-07-03 00:26
This should just be about choice, people should be able to buy physical copies if they want. Some people want the ability to resell the game, others might not. Of course, Sony wants to boost their bottom line, and that’s best done through digital licensing that has little to no recourse when things go south for the consumer.
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@heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2026-07-03 01:27
There’s another reason. Sometimes, the copy gets held by an individual and the company destroys it so archival would need to be brought forward by the undestroyed copy. Also, if they’re not copyrighting it through the Library of Congress, how is pirating illegal? Doesn’t the FBI need a copy to inform “their original?”
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@fogetaboutit@programming.dev 2026-07-03 03:01
trevor noah???
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@100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2026-07-03 04:59
You should be able to get video games from your local library. Billionaires were literally put against the wall and shot, so “using your library card to play video games” should be feasible.
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@baines@lemmy.cafe 2026-07-03 05:00
stop giving them money
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@SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-03 06:24
Somebody needs to invent a way to rip your entire library on steam to portable installation cartridges so you just plun-n-play them
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@echodot@feddit.uk 2026-07-03 12:32
Like most people who aren’t up in arms about this TechnicallyTee hasn’t actually given it a seconds worth of thought. “Well I don’t play games on disc” it’s such a surface level retort. If you’re not going to spend 10 seconds actually thinking about it, why have you bothered to make a comment?
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@atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-03 15:16
there are so many amazing free pc games with no microtransactions, how are physical releases someones only way to play games?
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@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-03 15:31
Honestly if you don’t see the inherent problem with: I can pay money for a thing -> Thing can suddenly vanish from existence -> This is not theft, You are due no recompence -> This is totally fine, actually. … Just straight up, you have a mental disability if you think this is fine. You are cognitively impaired, you should not be trusted with any kind of decision making. You’re just telling everyone you are a-ok with being robbed, in some certain set of conditions… any exploitative person or entity that has any experience exploiting people knows that you just have to construct a narrative/experience where the conditions of being robbed that you will accept, slowly expand and grow over time. You are telling the world you are easy to scam and trick. And in a world where you need money to continue existing, in the vast majority of cases… this is functionally suicidality. This is a subsection of the Great Filter. If you can’t pass this test, sorry, you’re fucked, you are too stupid to persist much longer in your environment. This is such a logically dubious position to attempt to maintain and argue for that I very truly cannot see another explanation for it other than… the person that holds that position genuienly is cognitively diminished.
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@natecox@programming.dev 2026-07-03 17:36
This is only half the argument we need to be making though, because if the disk is just a DRM unlocker then we still don’t have real ownership and all these problems still exist.
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@Kwakigra@beehaw.org 2026-07-03 17:51
At some point having a hard drive will become illegal.
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@Dippy@beehaw.org 2026-07-03 14:41
If buying isnt owning, then piracy isnt theft
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@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-06 21:23
I’m so tired of explaining shit to stupid people.