If you don’t trust…

• The Associated Presss (citing US Intelligence),
• CNN (citing Microsoft), and
• NPR (citing “an Israeli watchdog group” – okay, I’ll give you this one),

…then who do you trust?

It almost sounds like you’re brushing off any media report as “a mouthpiece”, and only believing random anonymous posts on the Internet.

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-war-protests-iran-foreign-influence-95e0a161119ed0e060332feda95b4e4f

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/politics/iran-nfluence-campaign-microsoft-report/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204755129/video-game-clips-and-old-videos-are-flooding-social-media-about-israel-and-gaza

Isn’t it common knowledge that there is an Iranian state-sposored social media campaign doing the exact same thing for the other side?

Social Media is the best thing that has ever happened for Iran, Russia, & China in terms of expanding the reach of propaganda.

The fact that the Russian government came out this fast and said they need a version with their own commits is, perhaps, telling.

My daily trickplay task finished in 1 minute after the update. So apparently not.

It’s still active – save the communities that got kneecapped by mods during the revolt (and sadly, most of those are now Discord-based rather than having any appreciable activity here).

The activity there now is a lot… dumber. Like much of the internet, the ratio of real people to braindead bots on Reddit is a lot different than a few years ago.

A lot of stuff ONLY has viable Q&A discussion there…

As much as I love the idea of Lemmy, try finding active communities here for: MAME or any other videogame emulation… Plex… The breed of your family dog/cat… Most any sort of non-Fedi-focused brand/podcast/personality…

Yes, I can create a new community. Then I just sit in it by myself, and occasionally deal with spam.

The majority of Reddit discourse on this is wild. The crowd there is going HARD to try and paint IA in the most negative light possible.

I know we don’t like Reddit here, but for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1g7w0rh/internet_archive_issues_continue_this_time_with/

It’s almost as if the “hackers” and/or copyright holders are running that conversation.

I Don’t Believe You dot gif.

You should be backing up any personal data you don’t want to lose to an offsite location? All I know is that if I did that, alone, on Comcast’s 1.2TB data cap, I’d be cooked.

Not to mention that individual games are commonly over 100GB these days, and have frequent patches. If you work from home, add that in. If you watch any sort of TV, that’s most likely streamed, now, too.

Sure, there was a time when I was always under the 1.2TB of my old Xfinity plan. That time has passed. Luckily, the T-Mobile internet I use now doesn’t have a cap.

I just don’t connect my Hisense to the Internet, and let my Nvidia Shield TV do all the “Smart” stuff. 🤷‍♂️

So, uh… Why does Elon even care about this?

Is this from that Iranian hack of the Trump organization or something?

(EDIT: Literal first paragraph of the article. Yes.)

“Fuck you… Unless I really like you. But extra fuck you if you run a non-PC gaming platform.”

I mean, why give GabeN our email addresses then?

You see, there’s the thing. Sony is not requiring any sort of launcher. It’s an account.

“But mah privacy!”

Again, no launcher. What exactly are they going to track? That you’re playing their game?

You really think GTA6 won’t have a single player component? And that it won’t require a Rockstar account/launcher?

Ok, cool.

Let’s revisit this when Rockstar gets universal adoration for GTA6, which will absolutely require a Rockstar account & launcher.

So that’s who that tool is that’s trying to convince me I need to hate another game every time I rot my brain on TikTok.

I don’t know how many times I’ve told that app I’m not interested in how much he hates Star Wars Outlaws.

Not only do you need an account with those other publishers, but you often need an entirely separate launcher.

This Sony thing is simply creating an account.

This is all just console wars bullshit. It’s stupid when it was Nintendo vs. Sega. It’s stupid when it’s Sony vs. Microsoft. And it’s stupid when it’s PC vs Console.

Grow the fuck up, you emotionally-stunted fucking manchildren.

Did they still find a way to blame their Western developers since they shed them all?

Wait until they make all the money that was to be made on their game.

Then yoink all of that money.