I had the temerity to finish my study abroad and return to my country shortly after I bought it, and it got a ‘blocked in your region’ even though it was a single-player game. Turns out there’s some Steam games that you only own for as long you stay in the country you bought them.

I understand that licensing issues exist that are country-based, the part I still can’t forgive is that the asshole in customer support lectured me like I was maliciously breaking their rules on multiple counts, first by being in the Wrong Country, and secondly by filing a support ticket to ask them to either fix it or give me my money back; he then hinted that I might be banned (subtext: lose several thousand dollars’ worth of my other games) if I pursued it any further.

So yeah, it does irk me when people get all fangirly about what noble defenders of the consumer Steam is.

• Doesn’t solve a problem

• Recording everything around you is fucking creepy

I mean at some stage you have to start wondering about the sort of person with a less-than-one-week-old account that’s up in here defending them so vociferously. I notice you’re also in other AI threads on Lemmy being equally shilly.

Perfect is the enemy of good. The worst offenders for AI slop are the sort of people who won’t bother making the extra effort to scrub watermarks.

I didn’t think they even needed to explain themselves, I mean they were literally clowns. I can’t see what more they could have done to flag up that you weren’t supposed to take that shit seriously

He’ll eat Monopoly and shit out Connect Four

I read your list and stand by my statement. Half the things on that list are novelties that you’d get quickly bored of, and the other half have solutions that don’t require pervert glasses. I see zero problems being solved anywhere in the list you just made.

“If you’ve got anxiety, try not having anxiety!”

also I suspect the shill bots have started to find their way over here too.

The actual usefulness and potential of smart glasses, especially ones with cameras, is almost unfathomable.

I thought the first paragraph was leading to a decent point, but “unfathomable usefulness” is an almost rabid level of overstatement. There’s some fathomable applications as an aid for blind people, but every other use case that’s ever come up has ranged from “novelty” to “really fucking creepy” with the occasional “looks like a useful thing but didn’t really solve an actual problem we had with the previous way of doing it”.

I have firsthand experience of a game I’d paid for on Steam being taken from me with no refund, so I’m def gonna push back on any “relax, guy” posts on this.

(EDIT: shoutout to the downvoter demonstrating OP’s point about rabid fanbois perfectly)

I would make fun of the guy for not even being able to make a bribery scheme unprofitable, but I’ve never been more certain that the losses are on paper only for tax and creditor purposes.

It’s such a weird thing to do a study on in 2026 given how many thousands of years of data we already have. Like if it made any difference at all it definitely would have been spotted by at least Roman times.

injuries per passenger

The fact that you phrased this so specifically to not mention the corresponding increased danger to other road users and pedestrians, suggests you’re a shill pushing industry talking points.

John Cleese’s original family name was Cheese, but his dad changed it because it was silly

My niece refers to herself as “you” because she doesn’t understand that when people refer to her as “you”, that isn’t her name.

She’s 27 years old…

Also, if you’ve ever said “how I raise my kids is my business”, you might be a shit parent

also unlike most predators, they don’t even do it to eat. They just get off on catching and torturing other animals.

(EDIT well excuuuse me for not dressing it up in a bunch of academic speech that essentially adds up to the same thing)

yeah sorry I keep forgetting not everyone lives in Europe

virtually unlimited sick days as long as you don’t call out too often (>3x month)

“virtually unlimited” = 36 days a year

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