Sonotsugipaa

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I thought so too at first, but my version seems to be made for multiple countries (even if it's not equally binding), so I assume the same is true for East-European countries;

then again, Snoy is notoriously stingy with countries allowed to have PSN accounts, maybe they do have country-tailored licenses, and use vague language such as "accoring to local applicable laws" only to muddy the waters in case they do get in trouble.
Or maybe their web devs just underpaid | micromanaged | burned out | lazy.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I don't blame Steam, I don't expect them to foresee publishers specifying EULAs as "idk google it m8".

... actually, no, I do blame Steam, what reason is there to prevent copying EULAs? Are they protected by copyright too now?

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I'm Italian and live in Boot, all my devices are set to en_US and the websites that respect Accept-Language all work for me...

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

You can not, in fact, copy that link - I had to type it manually. It's relatively short and human-readable, but still...

Devil's advocate: I wouldn't accuse Sony (or friends) of intentionally making the text unselectable, that's on the Steam client.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

You make a compelling case, however Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

I think GNOME's filechooser is the GTK one (never used it so I'm not sure), mine looks like this:

It's entirely possible that Firefox changed and now uses XDG portals by default, I configured it like this a long time ago.

As for how to configure it, I honestly don't know.
It was a combination of messing with widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal on about:config, and changing XDG envvars and dotfiles; both by following several conflicting Reddit and bbs.archlinux.org posts.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

Unfortunately I've played for 325.4 hours more than that, so I doubt they would refund the game even with questions asked.
As far as my non-lawyerly eyes could scan the EULA itself it's not egregious, which is why I find this mildly infuriating.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

As far as the content of the EULA, sure, use the laws of the request's IP address; the rest of the website, however, does not allow you to select a different localization, only the place of origin.

Furthermore, rarely do I see EULAs that aren't written in English, and it's not like the EULA in question is not a generic one translated for my country:

[...] [non] influiscono su eventuali garanzie o garanzie legali dell'utente in qualità di consumatore ai sensi delle leggi locali applicabili (ad esempio, diritti dell'utente in caso di malfunzionamento del Software)

Non-lawyerly translation:
[...] [do not] affect the legal rights of the user as a consumer accoring to local applicable laws (for example, the rights of the user in case of Software malfunction)

... which means either someone bothered localizing a generic EULA, or that excerpt is the legal version of "unless it's illegal idk im not a lawyer".

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 108 points 15 hours ago (17 children)

Bonus rant: the webpage is one of those death row worthy websites that forces you into the localization it determines based on your IP address, rather than using the HTTP header that has been specifically defined for that purpose.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Doesn't refund me, let me play HELLDIVERS^:.|:;^ 2 without accepting nor give me back the time I lost reading the EULA. Not a fix.

 

The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a god damn URL

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago

Can't read the directory, the syscall fails with EISDIR

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

XDG portal filechooser for Firefox: the KDE implementation uses Dolphin, which is full of features and I use most of them; the default GTK one is mildly infuriating to use and looks ugly too, but getting the browser to use the portal I want was a nightmare - especially since GTK discontinued the GTK_USE_PORTAL envvar.
The related Firefox config entries make no sense either.

 
 
 

literally unplayable

 

Things that happen in game differently from my headcanon:

  • During a dive, destroyers just hang around over player heads
    • Even worse, there's an actual game mechanic that causes orbital stratagems to have an AoA at 90° at the center of the map but lower it at the edges, like the ships were actually hovering over the center (realistically, all orbital stratagems calls would have roughly the same AoA)
      • I say "even worse", because I have to actively ignore a decision the devs made for the sake of realism rather than just tell myself "eh, they didn't think about this too much"
  • Orbital stratagem timings make no sense, and are strictly a gameplay balance issue that cannot be realistic: the loading screen shows the first helldiver drops well outside the atmosphere and take several minutes to reach the ground, but turrets take 3 seconds to deploy? This game sucks, literally unplayable
  • Surely Eagles must be capable of atmosphereless flight, if the cheap ahh shuttle is?
  • At the beginning of the loading screen, the destroyer doesn't have an atmospheric re-entry fire effect which would be countered by shields or whatever

Things that oddly do make sense:

  • Hellpods do have the atmospheric re-entry fire effect immediately after launching, which wouldn't make sense in the absence of (less than extremely thin) atmosphere
  • ... that's it, actually

The reason I made this nerd emoji of a post:
I've played KSP and my suspension of disbelief towards games or shows with spaceships is completely broken.

 
 

(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

 

Notice the actual desktop background, ignore my attempt to kill -9 DIscord after the first of 6 crashes

 
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Georulecation (i.imgflip.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 
 

Definitely not something I made for r/ProgrammerHumor before it got reposted on r/196

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