shininghero

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[–] shininghero@pawb.social 24 points 2 months ago

Sony: "And lastly..."
Gestures to a life-size Lovander doll
Sony: "Palworld the mega-doll! Pose it however you want! Stand it dramatically in a window! Lay it in bed and use it as a pillow!"

Sony (smugly): "But we know what you're really going to use it for. You naughty little hand-holder, you."

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 78 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Players (suspicious): "So what is it you're doing here, Sony?"

Sony: "Merchandizing."

Players: "Merchandizing? What's that?"

Sony: "Merchandizing! Come, I'll show you. Open up this door."

Sony: "Come, take a look! We've got the game's logo on everything. Merchandizing, merchandizing... Where the real money from the game is made."

Sony: "Palworld the t-shirt! Palworld the cell phone case! Palworld the laptop stickers! *Palworld, the flamethrower!"

Fwooosh!

Sony: "The kids love it."

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 72 points 2 months ago (3 children)

...This is not a publishing deal for Palworld the video game, or an acquisition by Sony, rather an attempt to make the most of the game’s huge popularity with non-video game products, such as merchandise and music...

Looks like we're safe from any forced PSN account requirements. For now...

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, definitely. I have an electric moka pot in the office, and the coffee it makes is miles better than that weird paper disk coffee machine the company bought.

That being said, it is less forgiving on poor roasts than a French press, but I've had good results with Cameron's Hawaiian blend and Aerial Resupply's MOAB robusta.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

Time for some F12 fuckery to re-enable those buttons. Worst case scenario, there's some extra serverside checks that make the page say no somewhere else.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ehh, I'd say he was more boringly safe, especially for a lot of his in-country policy stuff.

And that's a good thing. The presidency is not meant to be glorious, exciting, or full of media magnet bombshells. Those generally mean that something has gone wrong.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 32 points 2 months ago

I am so using this on my boyfriend tomorrow. I just need to put glasses on my avatar first.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 6 points 3 months ago

The sponsor segments in GrayStillPlays' videos are the only ones I remember, mostly because he ran the sponsor merch over with a lawnmower.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

According to the article, Twitter is also charging $42,000 minimum for enterprise access. That's over $500k per year. If I was a Nintendo employee, I would not only cut that expense, but also use it as leverage for a massive end of year bonus.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I doubt that for two reasons:

  • There's no non-admin way for an app to discern if it's a firewall block, or a legitimate no-internet situation (i.e. didn't purchase in-flight WiFi). It would also look really bad PR-wise if a company banned customers just because their internet went down or was otherwise spotty.

  • How would they even know? Their software can't tattle on me if it's been blocked from establishing a connection.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 30 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Thankfully I don't do anything that requires me to have Photoshop, but if I did, I'd be explicitly blocking all outbound connections in the firewall.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago

I said the same thing on my old kbin account, but I still believe strawberrum should be real, and should be 20% ABV minimum.

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