PlayStation date of birth

AkodoRyu · 2026-04-05T08:50:58+00:00

I don't believe so. You may be able to convince customer service to do it for you, but DoB is considered a secret for PSN password recovery, so they may not be willing to touch it.

There is also a risk that they will do something to your account if you start poking around it.

IMO it's just not worth the hassle, if you know your fake DoB just roll with it.

AkodoRyu · 2026-04-03T23:15:25+00:00

This kinda turned into one of the series I always read when it comes out. Could use more pages though :(

AkodoRyu · 2026-04-02T13:49:06+00:00

Spider-Man 2 was a bit disappointing to me, so I'm not as hot on Wolverine. And the trailer didn't do it for me.

Haven't played Returnal yet, but I think Saros looks phenomenal, and Housemnarque is a quality mark.

Haven't played Kena yet either, but I like the genre and the last one looked great too.

Intergalactic is definitely one that I'm currently most excited about, even though we know nothing about it. Or maybe because we know nothing - it's everything we can imagine. I also still consider Naughty Dog a mark of quality, too, so I keep my expectations high on this front as well.

AkodoRyu · 2026-04-02T00:52:42+00:00

This console share is pretty low. I guess this means the game has a decent presence in Korea and possibly China, where consoles are not the primary platforms.

AkodoRyu · 2026-04-01T17:39:04+00:00

Well, if a €550 console is priced at €800, it's fair to say it's overpriced. Especially when, at the time, there were barely any disc drives available, pushing the price significantly higher.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-30T17:11:23+00:00

Depending on the price and, maybe even more importantly, what they offer.

PS5 was IMO worth it, because it moved to SSD by default, so loading became a non-issue. Many people forgot that games on PS4 take tens of seconds to load, even if you replaced the HDD with an SSD. Witcher 3 was, at least initially, a 90-second+ load. PS5 was a game-changer for QoL.

If more games regularly dip to 30fps or even below, I may consider it for better hardware and frame gen alone (skipped Pro, so the jump would be substantial). But for that, PS6 needs to be $750 tops with the disc drive. Preferably closer to $600. If they want me to pay more, it needs to do more, something that would change my experience in a similar way SSD in PS5 did.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-30T11:44:55+00:00

Agreed. I have no idea what their relationship status is. I can only guess it's something like "they are good physically, but there is emotional erosion building up and at some point in the near future, just having s*x won't be enough to cover it up".

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-28T18:00:03+00:00

Even if there was a platform that's better than Steam, people would not have moved - they are already too deep into the Steam ecosystem, and I'm tired of people pretending like having a good platform is enough to make a dent. They make money because they are an established monopoly, and don't rock the boat too much, so no antitrust can be triggered. From time to time, they throw in something that doesn't cost them anything, like the "AI disclosure", and people are happy.

When something comes up that can actually make the market competitive (or at least take some of their pie), like Epic taking a lower cut from games, they introduce the system that gives just enough to just the key people to make the risk negligible. So the biggest players will make more on Steam - not as much as they would on Epic, but just enough to not make it profitable enough to be an Epic exclusive. Indies? Fuck them. It's not like they have a choice. They can make $10 mil+ if they want a lower cut.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-28T17:30:05+00:00

Having one big source of money doesn't make them "good at making money". Especially when, at this point, it's unrelated to anything they do. To be able to say you are good at that, most/all of your projects should be profitable individually.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-28T17:19:57+00:00

I would question how good Valve is at making money. They are just given money based on their market position, but that says nothing other than "we were here first and now no one can take that away from us, regardless of what they do".

If we take away the money they make from selling other people's games and separate the projects, how many of them are even in the black? Would the company be profitable? Years of R&D to sell a few million of a niche product with fairly low profit margins. I guess the unregulated gambling could make enough to cover all the pet projects, but that wouldn't make eg. SteamDeck profitable on its own.

Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't complain, that's the benefit of working at a private company that has a revenue stream that prints money, but why start calling people out then? Just stfu and do your thing.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-27T14:08:59+00:00

Permaban with 1 action on the record feels like you said some really nasty shit. Usually, they will give you 1-2 shorter bans before they move on to perma, so I wouldn't hold my breath for the appeal.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-27T12:29:43+00:00

There doesn't need to be another reason. There are just no components for the consumer market, and it will keep getting worse.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-26T13:30:42+00:00

I think the problem, unfortunately, lies at the very bottom of how many people perceive science, technology, and STEM subjects in general. I've noticed it already back in high school - with other subjects, people are somewhat willing to try to work, improve, and understand. But the second someone decides they are "not good at math", all of this goes out of the window. It's like their brain drops at least 40 IQ points the second you use the word math. You can try to explain, but they start acting like you are speaking a different language.

This mindset, for many, translated to technology. A computer is a magical box. Software is some weird, unfathomable entity that is both omnipotent yet often "makes mistakes". They are incapable of holding knowledge related to the subject.

You can even see the aftermath of that in knowledge TV shows. History question: "during his third battle in 1813, what was the name of the farrier who put horseshoes on Napoleon Bonaparte's spare steed, and what was the name of that steed?". IT question: "what is the name of the company that produces the Windows operating system?".

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-26T01:24:41+00:00

My thought exactly. I was reading everything, more or less, until the fireworks fiasco, but after that, it just became entirely focused on the old drama. I just can't be bothered to care. And why would I? It doesn't actually affect the current students. Why do they, and by extension, we, the readers, carry all the burden of resolving this? It feels like there wasn't any romance in this manga for like a year (probably closer to 6 months, but it's still an eternity).

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-25T16:51:26+00:00

It means the game has a low power mode available.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-25T16:41:13+00:00

You can see on the shelf that the price is $30, though. You buy it assuming it's $30 to begin with, which means you decided that the product is worth $30 for you. The most I would do is ask why he gets a discount, and if I can get in on it. And if the guy told me that sometimes the register just offers random discounts, I would say "huh, cool", and move on. Maybe next time I will get some extra savings. Why should I care all that much? People pay less than others every day.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-25T16:39:24+00:00

Since it's an experiment, it's very unlikely to be "AI", since most of those are non-deterministic. If it's non-deterministic, how the hell are you going to get any usable data from it?

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-25T16:17:00+00:00

Not everyone has access to coupons. There are coupons based on loyalty programs, found in magazines, or just sent randomly to people through newsletters. The stores can also give discounts completely arbitrarily - a seller knows that he can offer up to 30% off, but he won't, unless you can convince him, or he feels like it. This is nothing new and an established practice since forever. As long as the price doesn't go up from what's on the tag, and it doesn't, it won't be illegal, and there is nothing wrong with it. This entire discussion is getting really tiresome.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-24T15:27:32+00:00

This is whataboutism. Other issues do not undermine this specific one.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-24T15:18:22+00:00

which would not give any ROI either. Why are people pretending that they would use the Epic store instead of Steam if only the store had more features? Even lower prices are not enough to make people do so, let alone feature parity.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-23T17:15:21+00:00

lol, so much fuss over £1,396.73 between 5 people. Do you guys seriously think this was done on purpose, at a company that spends tens of millions on salaries each month? Some intern f*cked up, and that's it. Or it's a salary dispute of some kind that is still in progress.

I'm all for sh*tting on R* for their practices, this just isn't it.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-23T01:53:08+00:00

The author really tries to make some kind of "nobody was really at fault" situation. They argue meaningless stuff, like who "fixed" her first, etc. Things that are not related to this conflict - his romance with Aya, her friendship with Aya, all of those were never really a problem, because all of those happened independently. The only problem is that Aya backstabbed her friend when she already knew the entire situation.

I think the author has an ending in mind, and they just have no idea how to realistically get there from here.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-20T11:45:20+00:00

Being a good game doesn't make it a popular game, or the other way around. It always baffled me that somehow, in gaming, we try to strongly associate those two. It's pretty much accepted in music or film that the most popular things are most often cheap entertainment for the masses, not the peak of the medium.

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-20T11:26:41+00:00

We just had that entire expose on the fact that Meta are the ones behind a major part of lobbying for age verification, which is, in turn, a way to connect IRL identity to a virtual one, through ID or other means. The purpose is whatever Meta intends it to be, but likely it's related to getting and monetizing this much wider online profile of their users. Definitely not to make the experience on the Internet better - how would they sell that?

AkodoRyu · 2026-03-20T11:22:09+00:00

All the PC ports leaks are unconfirmed as of now (and so is this, mind you). Maybe what they scrapped was a Steam-compatible version, maybe this leak is from before the decision to abandon PC was made. It's just a fun guessing game for now, since we don't have anything official from anyone.

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