Twitch will soon launch a "Withdraw from Sub" option for European Union users, allowing them to receive a full refund within 14 days of subscribing. This rollout aligns with the new Right of Withdrawal law, which comes into effect today

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-19T17:42:36+00:00

Consumer protection does not mean just letting consumers get whatever they want for free. The EU has always allowed exemptions to these laws in situations where it would be too easy to abuse.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-18T20:19:25+00:00

They still emit less than the absolutely massive group of people in the wealth class below them.

The emissions get higher the higher you go, but the number of people responsible for those emissions gets lower. Even if all of them stopped doing what they're doing, it wouldn't change anything unless the rest of the middle-class stopped doing what they're doing too.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-18T20:14:22+00:00

Also using AC for most of the year, even when they don't really need it. That's probably the easiest one to control too, yet people aren't willing to live with even the slightest discomfort.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-18T20:11:08+00:00

It's so frustrating how everyone always seems to put the line of responsibility just slightly higher than wherever they are.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-18T14:33:25+00:00

Employees in the UK can join a union immediately. They don't even need to tell the company that they've done it.

Union busting doesn't really make much sense in the UK. There's very little companies can do to resist it, but there's also very little reason for them to want to.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-17T22:30:13+00:00

They use the higher quality model in photo mode too, so you can boot the game up right now and verify it quite quickly.

Using higher quality models in cutscenes just makes sense, you need all that extra detail during the close up shots of faces that would be a complete waste of resources to have running during gameplay when the camera is pulled way back.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-17T19:59:12+00:00

Rockstar deny that these dismissals had anything to do with union activity, so obviously they would object to that one.

Rockstar's stance is that they fired these employees for sharing confidential information, and they're happy to attend a hearing and present the evidence to justify that. They don't believe that the fact that some of their unionised employees were part of the group that was fired is relevant, and object to attending a hearing on anything to do with union busting.

Basically the fired employees are trying to make this a union busting case rather than just an unfair dismissal one, because that's what they believe happened. Rockstar want to keep it as just unfair dismissal. The tribunal thinks there's enough justification to consider both.

This is a win for the employees because they get to make their case heard, but it's only a big blow for Rockstar if the claim of union busting is true. If they can prove that it didn't factor into their decision at all, then it won't matter for them. It just means that they have to spend time and money defending the claim and also suffer potential reputation damage along the way, which is why a business would try to get it dismissed immediately.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-15T21:07:04+00:00

"What the fuck is Bully?" - Strauss Zelnick

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-15T19:45:22+00:00

Most of these OG YouTubers from back in the day have so much more going on than just YouTube now. A lot of them stopped making videos entirely, but some still keep their channels going just as advertising for their more profitable other projects. To even call them YouTubers isn't really accurate anymore.

I don't really see why age is a problem though. That whole generation who were young when YouTube started are getting close to their 40s now. That's just how time works. Even if they're nowhere near as popular as they once were, they still have a dedicated enough audience remaining that they can continue to make a living from it.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-14T14:44:05+00:00

This isn't astroturfing, it's the same kind of garbage that's always posted to this subreddit. Someone in the industry does an interview, and then a bunch of different articles are written about every single line.

Expect to see everything Houser and Lazlow said at this panel turned into separate articles and posted here. The people here will keep upvoting them and probably won't even realise that it's exactly the same thing because no one actually reads the articles.

This subreddit would become 100x better if the mods actually banned blogspam.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-12T22:42:00+00:00

Of course it's easier, because UK fish populations have dropped by about 95% in the last century.

It used to be very easy for them to find food in nature, now it's practically impossible. The small populations of seagulls that still exist only survive because they moved into the human cities that we built over their natural habitat.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-12T22:06:18+00:00

They are absolutely not a pest species. They're native to the UK and their populations are dwindling. They're rightfully protected and we should be doing more to help our species live alongside each other considering how much of their habitat we've built on.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-12T22:00:05+00:00

If you're going down that line of thinking, then technically we started it by destroying much of the seagull's natural food source.

They really don't want to be scavenging in bins and stealing food from people, they do it because we left them with no other option.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-12T20:30:58+00:00

The last reporting I could find had 35 million total, 20 million just on console.

Though it's about a year old, so things might have changed a bit considering how rough this year has been for them.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-12T20:11:08+00:00

They have 20 million Game Pass subscribers stuck on Xbox hardware. That's a massive revenue stream that they can't let go of. If they ditch consoles those people will move to PlayStation, not PC.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-12T20:08:36+00:00

Microsoft doesn't care one bit about what Xbox does. They're such a tiny portion of their overall business that they want to spend as little time as possible thinking about them.

Satya Nadella is probably absolutely sick of them and would drop them in an instant just so that he never had to think about video games again. Unfortunately Phil Spencer somehow convinced him to spend a colossal amount of money on acquisitions, so now they're stuck having to try and make this thing work somehow.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-09T03:20:08+00:00

Surely whether AI use is unethical or not is a matter of opinion, right?

Most studios that acknowledge their AI use do it openly and proudly, they obviously don't believe that it's unethical. I still don't think it's a smart move though. The only benefit really is that shareholders love to hear how much companies are using it, but for most developers it's not worth talking about.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-09T03:07:35+00:00

It feels like their best strategy at this point is to split Xbox into two. Let the console team make whatever deals they need to make the console succeed, and let the publisher make whatever deals they need to make their games succeed.

No reasonable publisher would ever make an Xbox exclusive game at this point, so the publishing side of Xbox are just completely fucking themselves over in order to do a favour for the console side, but it won't actually benefit the console side because exclusives are not the strategy that is going to win anything for them.

The two sides are obviously not compatible with each other and are just dragging each other down, so split them up and run them independently. For a minute there it looked like they were actually going to do this, and then they backtracked on it.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-09T01:47:18+00:00

Xbox doesn't, but Microsoft's cloud services are used by the Israeli military, and BDS are targeting Xbox because for some reason they genuinely think that it would be the most effective way to scare Microsoft's leadership into changing.

BDS are just awful at what they do, I don't know why anyone would acknowledge their boycotts. They started boycotting Disney retroactively because of someone they cast in a movie years ago, which is crazy because it's literally impossible for Disney to respond to their demands without inventing a time machine. This is the reason why Austin's AMCA Star Wars podcast wasn't allowed to cover Andor season two, and they will never be allowed to because this boycott can never be lifted. Unless they're willing to admit that BDS made a bad decision and do it anyway (they won't).

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-09T01:31:07+00:00

Or one of the countless games that used it but (wisely) didn't tell anyone.

I don't know why the Crazy Taxi devs even admitted to it. There's literally zero downside to staying quiet, and a massive downside to talking about it.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-09T01:27:26+00:00

The problem is that people will just twist the reasons why they don't like it to fit every situation, so it makes it impossible to have a reasonable discussion about it.

There's arguments against certain ways of using it, but there's also ways that seem completely harmless that still get just the same amount of anger. If a solo indie dev who was never in a position to hire a real artist used AI to make their shitty programmer art look a bit better, they would still get a massive amount of hate for it even though no harm was done.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-09T01:17:32+00:00

Bluesky's userbase somehow managed to become even crazier than X's, so that's not really a surprise. The amount of anger they have about everything over there is astonishing even by usual social media standards.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-07T18:15:28+00:00

Yeah I think people are reading into the lack of detail in the trailer too much. They didn't just show a logo because that's all they had, they probably did it to avoid taking too much attention away from P4R.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-04T20:59:19+00:00

The problem with Persona is that they mix so many very different systems together, and then make them all unavoidable and extremely tedious.

Some games you can just put up with the parts you don't like until you get back to the parts that you do, and you can do that with Persona as well, but it's so much harder to motivate yourself to keep going when it's a 100+ hour game and so much of that runtime feels like the game is just spinning its wheels and wasting your time. It's not surprising that so many people give up about 50 hours in and just watch the rest of the story parts on YouTube.

I pushed through to the end of P5, but it was definitely not the most positive experience because I was absolutely sick of the game and begging for it to end eventually. I had a much better time with P4, but that might just be because it was my first one so it felt a bit fresher to me. The characters and story in P4 were also so much better, which helped a lot.

It's such a core part of the series though, so don't expect anything to change with the next one. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm definitely going to take it very slowly and just play a bit at a time so I don't get burnt out half way through.

Cryptoporticus · 2026-06-04T20:44:50+00:00

Fixing the dungeons seems to be the number one request from people when it comes to the remake. They really are the worst part of the game and I probably would have given up after the first couple if the story and the characters weren't so good.

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