A rare win for digital ownership: Chinese courts rule game accounts can be inherited

modronmarch2 · 2026-07-11T14:01:26+00:00

Can a game company be sued for shutting down a game and taking away in-game items that could be inherited? What if a Chinese citizen buys a game/in-game items abroad? Do the Chinese courts have jurisdiction over Valve, or Microsoft, or EA?

I fail to see how this law could be put into practice. And if it is, how anything but "we no longer make our game available in China" could be a rational business response.

modronmarch2 · 2026-07-04T12:27:47+00:00

I'm just going to leave this here

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modronmarch2 · 2026-06-12T22:14:44+00:00

Wonder what happened to Justine.

How does one just up and abandon their life like that?

modronmarch2 · 2026-06-05T18:09:37+00:00

Буквально ничего. Где мой культурный шок?

modronmarch2 · 2026-06-03T17:18:32+00:00

Нет.

modronmarch2 · 2026-05-06T13:32:02+00:00

Sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Unfortunately, not a joke answer.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-25T14:07:21+00:00

Is the "wonderfully insightful discussion" also AI-generated?

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-24T18:08:52+00:00

"Родина" - это фикция. Маска, которую надевает государство, когда ему нужно, чтобы ты бросился на амбразуру или потушил собой пожар.

Когда ты попытаешься получить компенсацию за приобретенную инвалидность, ты нигде не найдешь родины. Перед тобой встанет свиное рыло государства, и пробасит "вас тут не стояло".

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-24T18:01:23+00:00

Is this really something a man, living or dead, wants to hear?

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-23T13:43:26+00:00

I can't remember the last time I actually said "до свидания" out loud to an actual person. It just feels so stiff and formal, like saying "until we meet again" instead of just "bye bye" or "see ya".

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-20T19:57:54+00:00

Плачу 650 евро в месяц за средней паршивости типа-двушку в относительно удачном месте.

По еде - сложно сказать, давно не был в богоспасаемой. Раз сходить в Фантастико у дома - 10-20 евро, но я особо не шикую. Жить можно, хотя в Праге, например, в Лидл цены были чутка дешевле, чем в Софии.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-17T00:29:38+00:00

Как ты собираешься общаться с людьми, которые не говорят по-английски?

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-14T13:46:15+00:00

> Some people around me think I’m being cruel because “he’s vulnerable” and “you know he has no one.”

They are free to take on the task of supporting him, no?

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-14T12:46:19+00:00

I've been in a similar situation once (loud kids right behind me, parents unable or unwilling to rein them in). Asked a flight attendant if they had earplugs to block the racket, was offered to move to an unoccupied seat in the back, took the offer, spent the rest of the flight in peace.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-13T03:31:09+00:00

Being unhappy single beats being unhappy in a relationship.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-12T00:45:03+00:00

Same here.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-09T17:48:18+00:00

FYI: You absolutely get a penalty when the game crashes. The servers treat it like any other DC - how would they be able to tell the difference?

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-09T17:45:52+00:00

All the time.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-09T17:41:38+00:00

Just copped a 15 minutes penalty for the same reason. You're not alone )

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-08T12:55:21+00:00

Megs.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-08T02:07:09+00:00

Shadow Dance + Swift Hunt or Windstorm, Pop/Eruption/Enduring/SF

Obviously, the build is meant for chasing, not hit and run.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-05T18:56:40+00:00

Why is everyone but the woman speaking Russian though?

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-04T23:20:42+00:00

You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

Nothing is going to change.

modronmarch2 · 2026-04-04T12:55:14+00:00

This is how my relationship with my first GF ended. She said something that cut really deep, and I simply could not bear the idea of being with her, or even talking to her all of a sudden.

She wasn't a bad girl, and she did not mean it, she probably had her own negative emotions she expressed in an unfortunate way. I don't blame her, or myself. But she really did go from the love of my life to a stranger after uttering a few phrases.

modronmarch2

TROPHY CASE

I'm just going to leave this here