The guy sees everyone die in the first scene but ends up just going along with it.

I’ve kept chickens for eggs and once for meat. Meat wasn’t worth it, just too much trouble and the butchering cost don’t make it very economical. They were massive though and tasty.

It’s worth it for eggs. Get less chickens than what you think you need. Just two gives you a dozen eggs a week. Building a coop can be done really easily with some scrap wood. Upkeep was mostly opening the coop door in the morning, closing it at dusk and refilling water and food every three days. They herd and manage themselves for the most part.

I think these are the 30 biggest. They have an estimated 200 warehouses about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_strikes_on_Wildberries_warehouses

There’s more nuance to it. It mostly depends on skin color.

I’m saying that your criticism of the person may be valid and you certainly are being harassed, but these two things aren’t necessarily related which makes all of this kind of silly and hypocritical.

You can check my history and modlog, I’m neither of those things. I am not a fan of Israel.

You are defending a wrong (taking perfectly valid keys offline) because of a group abusing it in a legal manner (buying excess keys).

They could find solutions that don’t spit on our ownership rights.

It’s ToS abuse imo, not really defendable. Steam is getting dragged into court because of shit like this. The breach of ethics involved in trying to dictate the use of keys is far greater than the one committed by the reseller imo. They can only do this because of the quasi monopoly they have.

I really think this is the steam pink google effect. If it was Microsoft and Activision behind it, everyone would be livid imo.

The problem is that it isn’t stolen, counterfeit or anything if the sort.

Buying on sale is perfectly legal. On top of that, in this case, they also banned keys that the publisher sold directly to a reseller, not a reseller that bought it on sale pretending to be a regular customer. Granted, they are going back on that and it was largely a mistake, it just shows exactly what’s wrong with all this.

The fact is that if a key is sold by the publisher and ends up in my possession, and I activate it and it’s valid since it was bought legally and is an official key, then that’s the end of it.

They shouldn’t get to have a say in the transactions along the way. The whole reasoning for it is petty excuses. It doesn’t matter the effects, they can find solutions that don’t associate massive risks with using second hand shops for fuck sakes.

You know that bullshit where if you buy a second hand Tesla, a bunch of the software stops working even though it has a lifetime membership since its associated with the person and not the car, this is the exact same kind of bullshit.

We should be able to turn our games into keys whenever we want and trade them with friends ffs. Why are you advocating for taking keys offline just because of who’s hand it went through when they were bought perfectly legally?

It’s up to them to figure out solutions that don’t fuck over regular consumers. Steam doesn’t get to be the only legal storefront. It’s bad enough that we only get a license but I don’t get defending this when it’s clearly anti consumer above all else. I figured most people on Lemmy would like to properly own their games, it seems like a hot button issue. This is the opposite of that, a feature that takes advantage of the fact that we don’t own the game.

If you buy a product, it should become yours and you should be able to do whatever you want with it. It doesn’t matter if you bought it from a reseller or on sale or wtv.

Some people seem to have gotten their keys removed even when they bought it from a reseller that got it directly from the publisher, nothing shady about it.

I don’t think it’s scalping. Scalping has scarcity involved to drive up the price, this is the opposite.

There aren’t any tools. They shouldn’t get to control what happens after they sell it. They sold it, they chose the price, end of story.

Try to apply the same logic to GameStop and not sound like a capitalist bootlicker. If Activision was pulling this, you’d be seething at the mouth.

So the spam is clearly abuse. That being said, you seem to be handling it in a terrible way.

The user in questions argument is pretty sound. No one saw the comment where you “called him out”. It wasn’t a rebuke, just the only comment in a thread with 14 upvotes.

Second, in the same day, you also “rebuked” three other people

I can see 2 polarizing instances thinking that way. But I do not respect Gedaliah, Jordanlund or Mr. Kaplan at all.

So I don’t see why it couldn’t be any of them if throwing darts around without thinking is what we are doing.

Then there is this:

So with no real proof about all this, you then went out of your way to ban him from your community. That’s actually PTB behavior.

Idk if the guy is transphobic, Its the first time I hear about all of this. Just not a good look on your end tbh.

Ones a faulty system festering because of greed and laziness, the other is a attack on that system to get unjust results.

Two wrongs don’t make a right imo. I’d still classify it as cheating even though the opportunity is only there because of the systems unethical reliance on AI.

No they weren’t. None were stolen or bought with stolen credit cards according to the article.

This works because we don’t own our games. They have an equivalent to key resellers for physical media, it’s eBay.

Crazy that I’m supposed to think some random gamer that bought a perfectly legal key from a “shady” website is at fault here.

Thats what I meant, that was my example if I understand you well.

If it wasn’t cheating, then what makes the grade unfair? What about a case where the person notices it working and just silently accumulates fake grades. It’s definitely a form of cheating imo.

Not that I disagree with your point, but it would be closer to a student adding prompt injections to his work to change his grade. It only works if the person scoring is using AI, which they shouldn’t be doing, but it’s still cheating.

Free the feet

Like, what Russia is doing?

I’m not getting through any of my days currently so maybe that’s the solution. I just need meth.

Lmao, so now you’re throwing baseless insults. Obviously, I’m not surprised since your whole stance is based on knee jerk emotions instead of logic.

I’m a realist, I’m not going to push for laws that are never going to be in a favor.

Like I said, you are living in a fantasy world. Copyright companies aren’t your friend.

If you think the laws will be built for small content creators and not in favor of corporate juggernauts, then I have a bridge to sell you