Goodeye8

I mean people are fleeing the country and ICE is literally murdering innocent people and getting away with it. People are dying in detention centers and we don’t even know the exact number because ICE no longer reports deaths. ICE has also stopped reporting on detention and deportation data as well so we don’t even know how fucked it all is.

Considering those points I think 1939 comparisons are still very apt. I don’t think it’s lessening what happened in 1939, I think it’s emphasizing how fucked the US is. It’s just not that obvious because it’s happening right now and you don’t know the full extent of everything ICE is doing. You might even be downplaying the current situation by thinking it’s not as bad as something that is historically picked apart and fully documented.

Part of the reason Valve gets away with it is that PC is an open platform. If you don’t want to buy from Valve you don’t have to buy directly from Valve. If you find a better deal elsewhere you can buy the game elsewhere. That’s not true for consoles. When it comes to digital only on Playstation you pay the price Sony tells you to pay because nobody except Sony is allowed to sell on Playstation. If Sony decides to jack up the price you just have to deal with it. If Sony refuses to put their games on sale you just have to deal with it.

The argument about removing your library is true for Valve (less so for GOG because you can just download all your installers and store them locally) but I think that’s a problem of the law. I think the law should catch up to digital media and give it the same rights as physical media. I hope SKG movements makes enough headway to lay the groundwork for someone else to come along and establish actual ownership of digital media.

While there are a lot of reasons why getting rid of physical media is bad (such as physical media getting certain consumer protections that digital currently doesn’t) I’m going to try to make an argument I think you’d understand. From the image in the post Dead space digital version costs 69.99 but Dead Space physical version costs 18. Why does it cost 69.99 digitally and 18 physically? Because corporations like money. A physical disk cuts into their profit margin. They could’ve made 139.98 by selling the game to two people but instead they only made 69.99 (I know the numbers aren’t accurate and from physical sales corporations make even less but for the sake of the argument I’ll stick to those numbers) because only the first person paid the corporations and when that person was done they sold it to the second person who didn’t pay the corporations anything. In a sense physical media cost corporations a sale. But that’s one of the benefits of consoles for consumers. You can actually get old physical disks relatively cheap on the second hand market. Now you could argue that physical disk users are a minority and you’re probably right, but the fact that a physical market exists keeps corporations in check. If a game is priced too high you can always see if you can find a physical version for cheaper. But if there’s no physical version available you pay what they tell you to pay. Digital only on a closed platform is just giving corporations more control over the pricing of games and we know they want to jack up the price.

I’m with you, I prefer digital media over physical. But my digital media is also bought on an open platform so I can choose where I get the best deal when buying digital media. I don’t have to pay the price Steam gives me, I can buy the game on GOG or Itch or a plethora of third party sellers. Despite the media being digital I retain (some) control over the pricing. That’s not true for consoles so on consoles digital only is a horrible idea.

And now it’s far from a lesson you could explain to a five year old which was my original point.

Fair enough. My original lesson was wrong and got clarified with this discussion.

How many times have rape victims been disbelieved?

Maybe you’re not aware but male rape victims are not only believed less than female rape victims but are also usually more stigmatized and blamed for getting raped.

This is a cautionary tale of patriarchy and going against men.

Cassandra is cursed to never be believed because she refuses to have sex with Apollo.

Sounds to me like the moral of the story is to submit to men who lust for you or you will get cursed.

So the lesson you mentioned is not the one in the story.

The story doesn’t say men don’t believe her, the story says nobody believes her which includes other women. You’re applying a different lesson to the story.

Except the lesson is that regardless of what you do you won’t be listened to. In fact if we go exactly by the tale she isn’t telling the truth, she’s telling truthful prophecies so she literally couldn’t prove the statements she knew were true.

Or maybe it’s because Peter’s tale has a clear lesson about lying too much while Cassandras tale has no clear lesson. Because what’s the lesson that even a 5 year old would understand? That telling the truth is useless if nobody listens? That’s a bad lesson.

Last time I checked (which was somewhere within the last 3 years) not only will the snap version get installed but if you force a non-snap version of the software and do an update it will replace the non-snap version with the snap version. It’s the kind of idiotic shit I’d expect from Microsoft.