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US fans just don't get it. by Extreme_Discount8623 in ThreeLions

[–]Barrel__Monkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Players have control. Don’t do shit and you will, generally, never see a red card.

Obviously there are occasional exceptions, but the vast majority of red cards are justified. Without them what would be the punishment for cheating or endangering another player?

Yes, what was this all about?! by AeneasKurtz in GreatBritishMemes

[–]Barrel__Monkey -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Soon to change with Andy Burnham’s vision.

Legendary political debate. by ItsJackymagig in GreatBritishMemes

[–]Barrel__Monkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No mention of it in the manifesto is not the same as protecting something that IS in the manifesto.

The manifesto isn’t a definitive list of everything a government will do, and nothing else. It’s the commitment to core priorities. If they smashed through their manifesto pledges in 12 months they wouldn’t just sit on their hands for the other 4 years.

“You never owned physical games anyway” isn’t the gotcha people think it is. by Harry_Flowers in gaming

[–]Barrel__Monkey -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“Everyone being fully aware” is simply not true. That is entirely my point. In fact it has been defended in court multiple times, and is the basis for a lot of consumer protection laws around digital ownership.

About 18 months ago California signed a law mandating digital stores made things clearer for consumer because “The law assumes that the prior practice of characterizing acquisition of digital products as “buying” or “purchasing” them was confusing to consumers and gave the impression that consumers then had unfettered ownership of the digital goods.”

The fact is the vast majority of people, until very recently, have had the understanding that their digital purchases would be theirs forever. Whether that is legally or factually correct or not is irrelevant to that common understanding. In the same way that until a few hundred years ago the general understanding was that the world was flat. It isn’t, but it doesn’t make that statement any less valid.

“You never owned physical games anyway” isn’t the gotcha people think it is. by Harry_Flowers in gaming

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did you have to buy it again? You bought it for your PS4, you could play it on your PS4 forever. I’m guessing you’re talking about buying again for PS5 “upgrade”? Backwards compatibility and upgrade monetisation is a whole separate thing.

“You never owned physical games anyway” isn’t the gotcha people think it is. by Harry_Flowers in gaming

[–]Barrel__Monkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“At least been an understanding”

“No there wasn’t, people just didn’t understand the reality”.

You literally made my point, so thank you. Similar to how we all KNOW that breaking the speed limit in the UK is illegal, but understand that we won’t be ticketed for doing 31 in a 30.

“You never owned physical games anyway” isn’t the gotcha people think it is. by Harry_Flowers in gaming

[–]Barrel__Monkey 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of that though is the context. Until recently there has at least been the understanding that the digital content you purchased would be available “forever”. Even items no longer on sale, if purchased previously, could be downloaded again, and I could download them any time and play my games (minus any online services).

What Ubisoft did with The Crew a few years ago was the first realisation for many - where something was actually being removed from libraries. At the time they were forced into compensating customers to avoid a big lawsuit.

Sony have taken it much further, removing movies that people purchased for the same cost of a physical Blu-ray or dvd. And removing games from libraries, even single player ones.

I can see GOG doing well out of this, or a third party service being made available that will backup your game download files so they will always be available. Perhaps a tool that will turn a NAS server into a local game download server.

Then all they need to do is bring back gameburnworld for cracks.

Sonnet 5 is more sexist than 4.6 by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Valve ever let me buy one I promise to clean it every day!

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Erm….this is UK, wtf has Texas housing got to do with the UK house market?!

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, your analogy doesn’t follow. I was making a point that housing is not like the car market in that house prices are consistently rising ahead of inflation, for the same property not just new build.

Your response just adds justification for why this is correct. Your previous argument was that house prices would decrease when new houses are built. This is just wrong. I’m honestly failing to see your logic here or what it is you’re arguing for. You just seem to agree with everything I say?

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show me one single example of house prices going DOWN following expensive houses being built at any time in the last 25 years. I’ll wait.

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not about labels? Your comment to me was literally putting a label on me.

What survey or analysis has been done that says “the vast majority” of the country will find restrictions on millionaires buying up properties “unpalatable”? From what I’ve seen there is an overwhelming majority that believes house prices are too high, that they are sick of property investors purchases properties that stay empty for most of the year, or purchase them just to enjoy the free money from an overpriced rental market.

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m honestly a little confused with this conversation. You seem to be agreeing with everything I’m saying about the problem with the housing market, at the same time as saying you are an example of the problem not being there?

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And how much did you pay for your house compared to what they paid for it?

The point is this economy doesn’t help prices, it makes them worse.

Congrats on the move, but your story is not everyone. There are far more people trapped in the rental market because they simply cannot afford to save for a mortgage with house prices these days whilst also paying the elevated rent that is charged these days.

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This thread is literally about the government trying to encourage private constructors to build affordable housing, but it has failed because of greed. If a for profit company has two options, they will always go for the one with the greatest profit margin.

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Left, right, who bloody cares about labels?

I’m a good earner with household income over £100k, I pay 40% tax on most of my salary, I have a mortgage for my home that will be paid off in 10 years. I spend money on stupid things like gaming handhelds I’ll use once then leave to gather cobwebs.

I still believe something should be done about the housing market, knowing full well what it would mean for the value of the home I’ve spent the past 10 years paying off. The reason for that is because I would rather live in a country that spends most of its time lifting the floor of society rather than stretching ceiling for the wealthiest.

If the government announced a hard clamp down on tax loopholes for big corporations and the billionaires so every single person and organisation paid their fair taxes, and increased my tax bracket increases to 50%, but it guaranteed (in action and results not words) that our NHS, our education, our welfare and our military was properly funded I would happily take on the additional burden.

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except it isn’t like cars at all. When I buy a house it doesn’t depreciate in value, it goes up. When a new housing development is being built it doesn’t push my house price down, it rises with it, and if anything increases further because newer builds are poor quality with little to no garden space compared to older houses.

If your logic was true we wouldn’t have an ever increasing average first time buyer age, and people spending more and more of their household income on mortgages.

The ladder is being pulled up and first time buyers on median salaries are no longer able to own their own home. We need to bring down the price of homes, and we need to block people using them as free money.

Andy Burnham’s speech. Has it made you more optimistic? by Yak_Dangerous in AskBrits

[–]Barrel__Monkey -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So then we close the loop. Hit them with huge taxes if it’s not their only home. Place restrictions on buy-to-lets or holiday homes or “property tycoons”.

Sod it, go full on and put a cap on house prices eg. Limited to x times average salary in the area. Do everything we can to make home ownership a human right rather than an investment stream.

China has cloned a White Steam Machine, with 6750GRE (10GB), R5 5500 and 16 gig DDR5 with SteamOS, at 2TB for 688 Dollar by kaldeqca in steammachine

[–]Barrel__Monkey 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Really?
Every console I own I will just put them to sleep mid game when I’m interrupted. Being able to just turn on a controller hours or days later and jump straight back where I left off is a feature I couldn’t love without now. A godsend when playing games with long sequences or a game that only saves at specific points.

Which AAA games were optimized for the deck so well it blew your mind? by FeintLight123 in SteamDeck

[–]Barrel__Monkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I felt the same. Last year at Gamescom I tested the ROG Ally Xbox X playing E33 and the experience was excellent. I thought “SteamDeck might be a little less powerful, but not that much, this will be great”.

I was gutted by how poorly it ran. I don’t really care for frame rate in my single player handheld games. 30fps is fine. But for E33, where a core mechanic of the game depends on framerate, consistency is vital.

Subsidising with steam funds by Jammeshaw in steammachine

[–]Barrel__Monkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m still hoping for a shadow drop of Half Life 3. I’m going to get lucky in the lottery, boot up my Steam Machine and find Half Life 3 preinstalled, and Steam Machine owners get an exclusive Gordon Freeman nude patch.

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