They’re waiving the requirement for this game, the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima still requires a PSN account to play the multiplayer DLC and we don’t know what the actually no requirement for PSN on Helldivers 2 is yet. My guess is that while we don’t have to sign up, cross play will be disabled, which will of course hurt PSN players more than PC players.
I have no confidence in Sony or any AAA publisher to do the right thing when executives with MBA’s and shareholder profits tied to their bonuses are involved but I’ll take a win if for this one little battle, the consumers won out.
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....
Same here. For me, not only has the CEO been erratic as all heck, the tech has stalled out and I don’t see any improvements and the other car manufacturers are quickly catching up and in some cases surpassed Tesla.
It’s really sad to see the company fall so badly, so quickly but that’s what you get when you let a completely unhinged person be in charge without checks. Still nice to see his money at least kick start the EV industry to where it is today, good and bad.
I mean they could and it would actually hurt the PSN players more than the PC players. Of course that’s well within their right but would be pretty stupid and we all know how Sony executives are at this point.
Nice! Glad the devs listened and helped convince Sony they’re dumbasses for this. I do hope Sony will realize this for their other games including Ghosts of Tsushima. Hell I hope all of these other dumbass publishers stop with the bullshit of external accounts and launches.
Still I’ll add that I’ll wait until there’s and official announcement, after all it’s still Sony and there may be some other side of the coin on this.
Yeah and I only want to buy it on PC for the MP expansion since I already played it on ps4 when it originally came out. So again, fingers crossed on that one but already wasn’t going to buy it going in.
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What’s not to love about this legendary system?...
It was my go to console and my DVD player for years. Played so many JRPGs on there and made me a lifelong fan of ratchet and clank and one of the few games that my now wife could play (she’s terrible with video games). Still lamenting that Dark Cloud series never got the success o thought it should have.
Still have my PS2, still boots and all of it, including the mad catz controller, still works.
So just wanted to rant about something else besides PSN. A buddy of mine wanted to play a bit as kind of a potential last hurrah so we went in to play a two player game on suicide and just immediately got overwhelmed with enemies on something we normally hold our own....
The whole thing is a crap show from the start. I mean selling to places Sony knew couldn’t get a PSN account, putting PSN as optional for months, and then making it mandatory after all of this was just a hellbomb waiting to explode.
They should have just left it as optional and disabled cross play of you didn’t in my opinion.
Yup, I don’t think it would be that difficult to have the unique steam id being logged as part of the application, just requires a bit of coordination and cooperation with steam.
This isn’t a unique or one off thing other games have done this I’m sure, this is just game publishers once being greedy assholes and wanting more data to exploit.
I mean feel free to push back on any of the data the study provided. I mean I thought they could have done a better job with the effects of having a range hood but since that has been studied elsewhere and cited, I feel that it was acceptable with the scope they outlined.
WTF are you talking about? You’re not even in the realm of the study anymore with your rantings here.
from the abstract:
Gas and propane stoves emit nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution indoors, but the exposures of different U.S. demographic groups are unknown. We estimate NO2 exposure and health consequences using emissions and concentration measurements from >100 homes, a room-specific indoor air quality model, epidemiological risk parameters, and statistical sampling of housing characteristics and occupant behavior. Gas and propane stoves increase long-term NO2 exposure 4.0 parts per billion volume on average across the United States, 75% of the World Health Organization’s exposure guideline. This increased exposure likely causes ~50,000 cases of current pediatric asthma from long-term NO2 exposure alone. Short-term NO2 exposure from typical gas stove use frequently exceeds both World Health Organization and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency benchmarks. People living in residences <800 ft2 in size incur four times more long-term NO2 exposure than people in residences >3000 ft2 in size; American Indian/Alaska Native and Black and Hispanic/Latino households incur 60 and 20% more NO2 exposure, respectively, than the national average.
They took samples before and after gas stoves were turned on inside various rooms in various houses and they state all of that in the study that that shit came from the stove and increased the levels of NO2 above WHO standards and not the outdoor environment. They’re stating that gas stoves are problematic especially in lower income dwellings.
Also FTFS:
Consistent with previous research (10, 24, 25), we find that combustion from gas and propane stoves represents a major source of long- and short-term NO2 exposure that can exceed U.S. and WHO guidelines just by using a stove, independent of any outdoor NO2 exposures.
Among AARP survey findings: 61% of Americans 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement. And only 21 percent of people have a retirement plan....
As a 40 year old person here I thought the retirement plan for my generation was to get a nice ergonomic office chair and die in it while still playing of my kids student debt and overvalued mortgage.
Nice, I like the wood grain, gives it a nice I’m a horrible executive vibe to it, the seat padding looks from a distance okay but the lumbar support looks to be lacking.
Helldivers 2 PSN Account Insanity... Did we REALLY Win? (www.youtube.com)
After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail (theintercept.com)
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....
College Students Say Tesla Is Canceling Summer Internships (www.entrepreneur.com)
“Tesla Is Reportedly Revoking Internship Offers to College Students Weeks Before Their Start Dates: ‘I Spent Thousands On Housing’”
"Grow up. These are my movies, not yours": George Lucas Won't be Happy How Star Wars Fan Group is Illegally Saving the Original Trilogy (fandomwire.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/11492759...
Sony backs down regarding Helldivers PSN account linking on PC (twitter.com)
The planned PSN requirement has been canceled! (midwest.social)
twitter.com/PlayStation/…/1787331667616829929?t=N…
The PlayStation 2
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What’s not to love about this legendary system?...
Increased enemy spawn rate
So just wanted to rant about something else besides PSN. A buddy of mine wanted to play a bit as kind of a potential last hurrah so we went in to play a two player game on suicide and just immediately got overwhelmed with enemies on something we normally hold our own....
Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries (steamdb.info)
Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite “internal discussions”.
Glimmer of hope that the PSN linking decision gets reversed. (lemm.ee)
Source: old.reddit.com/r/…/some_discord_updates/...
Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers (www.nytimes.com)
Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study (www.theguardian.com)
Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected...
Majority of Americans over 50 worry they won't have enough money for retirement: Study (www.usatoday.com)
Among AARP survey findings: 61% of Americans 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement. And only 21 percent of people have a retirement plan....