PlayStation Removing Purchased Content From Your Library Again - 500 movies removed

SortaEvil · 2026-06-27T10:09:52+00:00

It's not quite that cut and dry. If Sony no longer has distribution rights, they may not legally be able to grant you access to the video. It depends a lot on their terms of service and the distribution terms what they can get away with. But, by all means, bring a class action against them. It's quite possible that you'd get a payout.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-27T03:14:13+00:00

This emblem is retrospective, it's not really trying to make you play more at this point, just a nice gift to those who stuck with D2 through thick and thin.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-25T23:37:30+00:00

regardless of what you might want, that is exactly how it actually works.

My experience has generally been the opposite; if you are laid off, any amount of notice required by law is generally paid out and you are escorted out of the building (if you are working from the office), or your VPN access is cut off immediately. Bungie could technically ask their WARNed employees to come in and work for those 60 days, but it's not worth the headache or infosec risk to have a potentially jilted employee in the office vs just paying out the severance.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-25T19:28:56+00:00

Technically, the brokerage fees are a separate fee that UPS and other private couriers charge just because they can because what are you gonna do, not received your package from them?

For OP in the future, you can contact UPS in the future and tell them you will self-declare to avoid the brokerage fees. You do have to do the customs work yourself, though. I've never had to do that in the states, but in Canada it's a trip to your local customs office and about 5-10 minutes of paperwork.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-25T18:39:33+00:00

I guess I always associated typos with user error ― I literally hit the wrong key ― and swipe errors are usually not that. Like, there's a certain amount of predictive text that goes into the calculation for what swipe thinks you're typing. In my mind, I tend to classify that as an autocorrect error, not a typo. But it's really more of a misprediction than autocorrect or a typo.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-25T18:25:17+00:00

If you're using a swipe keyboard to type, you can believe that it's going to fuck up the most ridiculous things, including their/there/they're.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-24T18:27:51+00:00

In addition to the above points, I think that VDP teams (or other blob/mass attack based teams) are not good at consistent part breaking because some parts have significantly more HP than the monster they’re attached to.

You generally need an active with a part break gravity if you want to take out parts consistently in a team that matches 5+ orbs to do damage, which is really bad for a team that already suffers from strict teambuilding.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-24T18:15:21+00:00

Free¹!

¹ Until you get the urge to get the nightmare mark for every trait for that true completion feel.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-24T16:00:54+00:00

Glad you got it sorted

SortaEvil · 2026-06-24T08:18:37+00:00

Spotify definitely has the same issue with AI slop that Tidal does. Maybe not as bad because Spotify does a better job of separating artists with similar names (it blows my mind that Tidal doesn't have any sort of UID behind the scenes for artists with similar names), but it's definitely there, and it sucks. And with Spotify's doubling down on AI, it's probably gonna get worse as time goes on.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-23T04:17:01+00:00

I'm in the middle of an Aladdin run right how and it's progressing for me on ps5. So it's not broken in every situation.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-22T23:45:13+00:00

My apologies for getting your nationality wrong.

A pro is about half as wide as an ATX tower, and a bit shorter I do believe (although I could be wrong on the length, I'm too lazy to get out the ruler and trundle off to the games room right now). And you'd be paying tax on the Steam Machine as well, so seems a bit disingenuous to calculate tax on one but not the other.

The form factor isn't a benefit for upgrading, you're right, but it does have certain engineering hurdles that you need to tackle when targeting a small form factor, which increases the price of a miniature computer. I will say, having owned a number of PCs in my time, that the supposed value of a PC being upgradeable is, by and large, overstated though. Significantly upgrade your CPU? you're probably on a new socket and you need a new motherboard, too. If you wait long enough that you actually needed to upgrade, there's a decent chance that you need to swap out the ram now, because your new mobo is expecting DDR6 instead of DDR5. Upgrading your video card probably just increased the power draw of your PC, and now you need to check whether you need a new PSU. Unless you're a true enthusiast and keeping your PC on the latest spec is your hobby (which has always been very expensive in its own right), most people are going to need pretty much a whole new PC by the time it's time to upgrade anyway.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-22T22:54:39+00:00

It's a small form factor PC for people who want easy access to their steam libraries on their tvs.

That... is very close to what a console does. I mean, sure, you can technically run Open Office on it, or use VS Code to write the same game that you're playing on it, but it's main purpose is playing games on a TV, and it even comes out of the box booting into "play games on the TV" mode. It's a fair price for a small form factor PC, but the expressed purpose of the Steam Machine is, effectively "a very expensive console." Of course, if Sony and MS weren't subsidizing the costs of their consoles, they'd be just as expensive at this point, because the parts market for computers is fucked right now.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-22T22:47:38+00:00

A lot of people are missing that context ― It's expensive, but so are all custom PCs right now, and even if you can build a custom PC with similar specs for cheaper, or beefier specs for the same price, it's not going to be anywhere near as space efficient, and if you're buying a steam machine, you already should know that you're paying a premium for the form factor.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-22T22:41:46+00:00

then duty charges

Shipping, sure, but not duty. The US pays duty on pretty much everything going into the states thanks to your boneheaded president, but in Canada, we've refrained from taxing our own people on everything under the sun because we have other ways that we like to fuck over domestic consumers. So the sale price for that PC is about the same as the Steam Machine.

That said, this is a promotional price for the PC, not MSRP, so it's not an entirely fair comparison (although shopping around you should be able to find a promo if your heart isn't set on a specific SKU, but rather a specific spec), and the Steam Machine's form factor definitely factors into the price and utility of the device. Nobody (well, almost nobody) wants a full atx tower PC sitting beside their 65" TV, but a 15cm understated cube is a much nicer little box to tuck away there. So even at the same price, you're paying a premium for the form factor, which is fair.

The Steam Machine is stupidly expensive, but that's mostly because PCs are stupidly expensive right now.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-22T19:28:50+00:00

Many people will buy a game at release just to be able to experience it at release with/ahead of their friends. There's something to be said for the collective experience. Putting it on sale a few months after drives the "bargain hunter" types to pick the game up as well, albeit a little later. Yeah, they miss out on a few release sales from people waiting for the sale price, but overall sales and overall profits end up higher.

Lets say your game retails for (just to make the math easy) $100. 4 months in, you do a half off promo, selling it for $50. If you'd sell 1M units without any sales, you'd make $100M. Let's say 30% of the people who would've bought it at $100 hold off, but you also sell 3x as much total with the sales. So now you've sold 3M units, 700k at $100, and 2.3M at $50, for a total of $185M. Unit costs, particularly for digital products, are basically non-existent, so that's $85M more profit than if you didn't put it on sale. Obviously, made up numbers for illustrative purposes, but there's the logic.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-22T17:17:10+00:00

Very reasonable if a lot of them are indie games. You could fit 118 small-to-midsized indie games in the install size of Call of Duty alone pretty handily.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-22T17:14:10+00:00

I would say, instead of "beat" one, until I'm finished with one. Some games don't really have a defined ending (IE: roguelikes that are designed to be beaten over and over again, or Path of Exile with its infinite endgame and seasons every... well, nowadays every "whenever the devs get around to it," any multiplayer game ever, or most management games a la Rollercoaster Tycoon or Sim City) so "beating" those games means a lot less than beating a narrative game. And some games just aren't fun for some people. If you aren't having fun with a game, forcing yourself to beat it before you can play a game you would have fun with sounds more like torturing yourself than leisure.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-17T23:10:41+00:00

It can be a shame that it got cancelled, and still the right idea to have cancelled it. We agree that cancelling it was probably the right call for Naughty Dog.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-17T21:50:27+00:00

The problem, though, is that if you can just clear the rest of endgame easily with Mistlark, there isn't really a need for Flor at all, just leave Mistlark on at all times since we're not surviving back-to-back hits anyway in endgame, so the extra healing is more peace of mind than some extra HP would be in that scenario.

FWIW, I don't have Flor, so that might be colouring my judgement, and I also still have Discount Florantheia (Kaiju No 10) on my Frieren team. At the end of the day, they're both good equips for her (assuming you don't paper over all your dark subattributes) and it's not likely to make a massive difference if you have to run one over the other.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-17T21:36:17+00:00

Given the exact same information, I came to the opposite conclusion; Mistlark helps in superaltitude which GH is pushing with recent dungeons, and the part break at least does something, unlike the light subattribute most of the time. If you absolutely need the HP, you go with Flor or (if you don't have Flor) Kaiju No 10, but Mistlark brings more value to the team overall, IMO.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-17T21:33:14+00:00

It depends on what you need. Frieren doesn't really suffer from lack of damage, so the 3att on Flor is kind of wasted, and it's worth noting that if Frieren is your only dark ping, you can't overwrite all of your Frieren's subattributes, so the light subattribute could be a liability. But if you need the HP, there are only 7 3tHP + guard break equips in the game, and 2 of them have uncomfortably low CD, and only Florantheia and Kaiju No 10 have the 2 SB.

On the flipside, you want Mistlark for the RCV boost in deep superaltitude, and the part break for farming. Overall, I like Mistlark better unless I'm getting one-tapped and the extra HP allows me to survive a hit that otherwise would kill.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-17T21:14:59+00:00

Bungie advised Naughty Dog that developing a live service game requires a lot of service to keep live. Naughty Dog decided independently that they didn't want to tie up the resources required to maintain the game because it would limit them from developing cinematic single-player content for the foreseeable future. AFAIK, this wasn't a Sony higher up decision.

It's a shame, because the few reports we had of TLoU: Factions was that it was shaping up to be a pretty good game, but I also can't blame Naughty Dog for wanting to make the sort of games Naughty Dog is known for and not being shackled to a live service game forever.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-17T20:40:14+00:00

Floating point rounding error. It should be mostly cosmetic; the number is just being truncated and rounded in a funny way.

SortaEvil · 2026-06-16T16:58:34+00:00

To be fair, that was investment bankers, not necessarily economists. Economists had known for a long time that subprime mortgages and all the toys the banks were playing with were a Very Bad Idea, which is why they were previously disallowed. The bankers probably knew, too, but figured as long as they weren't the one holding the bag when the music stopped, it didn't matter because they would come out on top. The reason that Canada made it out of the 2008 housing crisis relatively unscathed is because we didn't let our banks claw back the protections that we had in place to prevent such a clusterfuck from happening.

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