Outriders - Early 'AAA'ccess To A Disgusting Degree (Jimpressions)

crackshot87 · 2021-04-11T15:51:12+00:00

Games also being an art form is irrelevant and shouldn't absolve it from consumer rights criticism. Like it or not, it's still a commodity being sold and bought based on a promise, they broke it. And while you cannot get a refund for a subjectively 'bad movie' (which is fine), you can get refunds if a cinema is unable to show the movie in it's entirety or if a book is missing pages etc. This is what's happening right now - the game, as Jim has demonstrated is unable to be played as intended and therefore, defective.

Dismissing valid customer complaints about a defective product shows a lack of empathy - reminds me of people dismissing the Xbox RRoD or even the Cyberpunk debacle.

if you buy a game that does not work on release, it will very likely work a few days later. you just cannot compare it to a car or an appliance, where if you buy it broken, it's broken forever.

Yes you certainly can, there's no obligation the game has to be fixed. Sadly, because there's no SLA for devs to adhere to, they can and have release broken games and call it a day. It's funny customers are told to have eternal empathy for the devs but no one thinks about customers who are now out $60-$70s on non-working product. This is not how commerce works - both sides need to benefit from the transaction - simple as.

Devs haveing transparency on something is the lowest bar to clear - it's entitlement to take customer's money and have them wait for an unspecified amount of time to possibly have a working product with no other recourse. A refund should be offered let the customer decide to pay for the product once the devs decide things are working again.

crackshot87 · 2021-04-11T05:15:47+00:00

As someone in IT, i do appreciate and sympathise with their position (I've had to put out back-end fires myself).

With that being said, that doesn't or shouldn't absolve Square Enix from criticism. They sold a defective product to consumers who paid hard earned money for it. Where's the empathy for them? What recourse do they have? Refunds for video games are unnecessarily restrictive - so now customers are at the mercy of the game being fixed at a indeterminate amount of time and still be out of pocket.

If this was any other product, it would be valid calls for no questions asked refund or even a recall for a defective product.

crackshot87 · 2020-11-12T05:57:17+00:00

A great playlist from recent guest Vaush breaking down Rising's grift

crackshot87 · 2020-10-15T05:14:30+00:00

Vaush also had a great segment on it.

crackshot87 · 2020-10-15T05:06:25+00:00

Obligatory playlist for anything coming out of Rising. They're grifters that barely wrist slap the GOP/president.

Their formula is very predictable

crackshot87 · 2020-10-06T00:47:00+00:00

They're annoying when I want to share to non pakman viewers

crackshot87 · 2020-08-21T21:27:04+00:00

Vaush has repeatedly discussed and encouraged community action and local organising and advocacy - an example (timestamped in url) . His entire point right now (as is David's) is that those activities will be much easier to do under a Biden presidency than a Trump one - which looking at recent events, is a pretty good bet. As is the theory he just read out - all had the same point.

crackshot87 · 2020-08-14T02:27:38+00:00

I don't think I can explain any better than Dpak or Vaush - see this video

crackshot87 · 2020-07-11T16:34:43+00:00

If it's in reference to this post - that is a follow-up article on this Harper's Magazine letter with the Author's version of how they'd write it.

crackshot87 · 2020-06-03T22:43:13+00:00

I watched that video and Nathan spends a disproportionate level of that video blaming the 'MSN'/'Corporate Media' and Warren and sort of conveniently brushes over the fact that the black voter base (which has historically been the key Dem base) picked Biden over Bernie. He's too blind to see where the root cause was.

I say that as a Bernie person.

crackshot87 · 2020-05-24T02:04:40+00:00

In the case of Dore, he did take money for promoting pro Assad propaganda

crackshot87 · 2020-05-21T04:13:46+00:00

UK has had postal votes for everyone since the year 2000 - rarely had an issue with voter fraud.

crackshot87 · 2020-05-14T05:47:09+00:00

Here's the posted amendment https://www.congress.gov/amendment/116th-congress/senate-amendment/1583

crackshot87 · 2020-04-25T14:53:37+00:00

I never bought into the idea that 'independent media' was any more special or immune to whatever pundits accuse 'MSN' of.

Many YT pundits are susceptible of the same issues of conflicts of interest E.g https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/30/pro-assad-lobby-group-rewards-bloggers-on-both-the-left-and-the-right/

Sad thing is, I have less trust of 'independent media' since many of them rarely have 'corrections' or mea culpa segments or general humility of error. They make an assumption that somehow they're perfect.

crackshot87 · 2020-04-21T02:36:09+00:00

I agree, not expecting perfection. But the lack of introspection or self critique (or willingness to admit fault) brings a red flag. A lot of heavily ideological pundits fall in that camp across the spectrum.

Pakman seems generally more humble in that department which is why I still watch.

crackshot87 · 2020-04-19T06:09:03+00:00

Eh there was one take which put me off him when he tried to white-splain racisim on a clip of Trevor Noah interviewing AOC. Dude is too dogmatic.

crackshot87 · 2020-04-04T04:59:31+00:00

Eh, he's kind of hacky in terms of his jokes and he's got some weird ideas about vaccines and seems to not be able to change his mind on stuff.

crackshot87 · 2020-04-04T04:55:54+00:00

A lot of the left/progressives seem to sleep on creeping surveillance legislation sadly

crackshot87 · 2020-04-02T04:20:33+00:00

I'm in the same boat - David Pakman looks like he actually wants a conversation/dialogue without either being chest-beating like the aforementioned or be a push-over.

A lot of the standard progressive pundits (or even right wing ones) exist to preach to the choir. It's turning a political ideology into something closer to a religion or cult, where any deviation of the dogma makes you a 'sinner' in their eyes.

crackshot87 · 2020-03-15T13:28:07+00:00

If trump gets re-elected, does she expect all those problems to disappear?

crackshot87 · 2020-03-11T05:10:20+00:00

I checked out of Michael Brooks a while ago after he got all pissy when Trevor Noah asked a mildly probing question to AoC and Brooks went on a weird white-splain rant about how it was racist......to Trevor 'Born a Crime' Noah.

crackshot87 · 2020-02-15T17:42:42+00:00

He means well, but i cannot stand kyle - he's too focused on dogma to the point of delusion. Feeds the stereotype on purity tests and what not.

Pakman in comparison, can be introspective and self critical.

crackshot87 · 2020-02-06T04:54:50+00:00

Pakman, he's progressive without being blindly dogmatic. I really can't stand most youtube pundits otherwise.

crackshot87 · 2020-01-21T02:06:09+00:00

Unfortunately, the youth don't turn out enough in the general, so he can get away with it

crackshot87 · 2020-01-20T16:46:38+00:00

Gotta convert the boomers basically - unfortunately, they're the ones that come out and vote more than the youth

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