I just woke up to my phone alarm pretty bleary and started randomly scrolling. Ended up in this thread below.

Even half asleep, none of this look like human comms to me. The whole thread is an advertisement, with undreds of unique participants.

https://old.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1cmzvhc/nearly_every_game_is_cheaper_at_jb_hifi_how_is_eb/

Not big enough, red enough, or flashing enough. I like steam a lot. I don’t like EA one little bit, or battlenet, or any of those other half-built apps.

best way to stop piracy is by offering a more convenient alternative. I generally for example don’t pirate video games available on Steam

I have towed this line for years. Recently Battlefield 2042 was available on steam for a great price so I snapped it up. I’d played it at release via a 1 month trial of EA play and it was absolute trash.

The game is totally fixed! The problem I have, is that I bought it on steam…and it forces me to install and keep myself logged in to the EA app anyway. It fails to launch the game every single time. I have to reboot my computer, manually log out of EA and log back in. It is an absolute shitfight, because EA gargle balls all day.

My point is, I bought the game on steam and I got absolutely duped. I’m all for a bigger library, but not if it means I have to install and use the other crappy apps anyway. Such a disappointment, I won’t be so quick to buy on steam anymore unless they implement a great big flashing red warning that the game is not actually on steam at all.

undefined> metric fuckton of karma farming spam bots.

People are hard at work writing bots for lemmy so don’t worry, you’ll be able to enjoy your regular hogwash again really soon.

Personally I think lemmy should go as far out of its way as possible to make bots in any and all forms just about impossible.

That first article is truly insane. Persecuted for using tools and applications that are commonplace, as if they automatically make you part of a terrorist cell. What is the world coming to?