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ysjet

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  • The situation with Sony

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  • Fun fact! Sony wanted to screw over Nintendo not because they were screwed over by Nintendo, but because they were humiliated by Nintendo.

    Sony was trying to screw Nintendo over in the first place, Nintendo realized it, pulled out, and Sony threw a hissy fit.

    The tl;dr: is that Sony basically wanted distribution rights for IPs that were published on CDs. Nintendo initially thought Sony meant as in 'we want to be able to distribute stuff published on CDs' which makes sense... but Nintendo's lawyers realized at the last second that Sony meant 'Anything that is published on CD, we now own that IP's distribution rights entirely'

    As in, if a Zelda game was ever published on CD, Nintendo literally could not ever publish a Zelda game without Sony's approval. Defacto ownership of the Zelda IP, though not actual ownership.

    Considering Nintendo was literally currently dealing with Sony extorting them over the dev kits for the Sony sound chip in the SNES, Nintendo very wisely walked away from that, and pivoted to Philips. (Sony and Philips jointly created the CD standard.)

    While the CD-I was obviously a failure, this whole thing was a MASSIVE embarrassment to Sony, because they had already been doing the industry equivalent of bragging about the deal (which they shouldn't have been, because it wasn't finalized yet). Them yapping about it is also how Nintendo's lawyers realized that Sony was basically trying to do a hostile takeover of all of Nintendo's IPs. Needless to say, Nintendo was (rightly, imo) pissed.

    And then Sony had the gall to complain about Nintendo like THEY were the bad guys, setting a narrative for years.

  • Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer

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  • In many states it's illegal to not connect your solar panels to the grid, because fuck you, they own the politicians and will ensure they take your money one way or another.

  • Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer

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  • electricity companies will just start raising prices for connecting to the grid just to make sure they aren't losing any money from you.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • Oh no, everyone else in the republican party got off scott-free, including the current sitting governor, and the laws and funding that were bribed into existence are still around as a result, and the taxpayer money (over 1 billion of it) won't be repaid.

    I think the only exceptions to them getting off scott-free is Larry Householder, who I mentioned is in jail, and Sam Randazzo, the former PUCO chair who committed suicide. And I supposed technically the ex GOP chair Matt Borges, who was convicted, but released almost immediately.

    FirstEnergy themselves are being investigated, the sitting US Senator just testified iirc last week on the matter, but the politicians that facilitated everything have otherwise not been charged with anything and there's no intent to, and the judge seems fairly intent on ensuring no one at FirstEnergy goes to jail as well. She's been overreaching by trying to squash any journalistic coverage of the court case, to the point of where multiple newspapers/news companies are suing her. She also just straight up dismissed money laundering charges, claiming that the prosecution hadn't proven that the defendants knew that they payments they made were illegal.... despite the prosecution providing the defendants' own text messages celebrating it, and documents and fucking testimony from FirstEnergy's own attorney advising them against the payment. On top of that, she dismissed the charges despite the fact that the case is still ongoing and evidence is still being entered into the record!

    So yeah, it's fucked, and it's likely to resolve with them getting away with it. $60 million in various bribes for over $1 billion in Ohio taxpayer money, propping up power plants that don't even serve Ohio.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • Considering how horribly corrupt PUCO is- part of quite literally the largest modern bribery scandal (possibly the largest in the history) of the US, lets maybe not use Ohio as an example here.

    For context for everyone else, this was so bad republicans literally threw a senior republican politician (sitting state representative, former speaker of the house) in jail for a 20 year sentence.

  • What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

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  • Have you thought about not trying to drag meshtastic down to try and prop ham up?

    I get it, you spent a bunch of time studying for your ham and you don't want it to feel like a waste, but lets be perfectly frank here- most people aren't going to get a HAM license. It IS, however, VERY accessible for someone to buy a cheap gadget on sale to try out.

    I never understand why ham radio people always try to sabotage every other communication method, but you guys do it every time.

    Let other people communicate how they want.

  • Klingons are so wholesome

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  • Klingons are so wholesome

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  • Nah, this is wrong. In british english, it's pronounced EE-pock. American it's generally pronounced eh-pock. In no way is it ever pronounced 'epic'.

  • Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes

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  • It is indeed, which is why progressives are getting a lot of local wins. At this point the hope seems to be bottom-up change, because top-down isn't happening.

  • Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes

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  • I expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth over the boat strikes.

    I don't expect Jefferies to, because he isn't a Democrat, he's a a Republican with a D next to his name.

  • CVS style

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  • Please go find a sense of humor, and stop punishing people for imagined slights with biohazards.

    The fuck is wrong with you.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • GOG has no DRM, but they also don't offer the same kind of services, like workshop, updates, cloud sync, etc.

    Not trying to say they're worse or anything, I love GOG, but it's really kind of comparing apples to oranges here.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how I forgot google. They also definitely take 30%.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • I should note that 30% is incredibly standard in the industry, and Valve offers a LOT more for that 30% than literally any other digital publisher. Physical publishers take substantially more, and the only digital store that offers less is EGS, which is simultaneously absolute dogshite and also has been trying very, very hard to astroturd the '30%' thing for ages.

    Nintendo, Sony, and Apple all take 30%. I think MS does as well, but don't quote me on that one.

  • Stealth!

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  • Yep. I broke my wrist, pretty much the same thing happened. I figured I just pinched a nerve, was going about my shit until I finally got badgered into going and getting an X-Ray.

    Turns out, broken. Whoops.

  • FBI shuts down corruption group, fires agents after they monitored GOP lawmakers

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  • Once again, the headline gets twisted to the republican narrative,

    Anti-corruption. It's an anti-corruption group. The GOP lawmakers are corrupt.

  • Anyone else live somewhere that has had people joining in a WiFi naming joke?

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  • I know a guy in college whose dorm ended up with a wifi naming theme. Someone (highly suspected to be the passive aggressive super religious fundie on the floor above) changed their wifi name to "Stop, we can all hear you having sex"

    So naturally, someone changed theirs to 'I can hear you NOT having sex'

    at that point it was on lol.

  • 'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech

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  • Intends to? He already has.

  • Democrats leave White House with no deal

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  • Time can go fuck itself for this bullshit headline. "Democrats leave White House with no deal"?

    How about "Republicans refuse Democrat deal, setting stage for Republican Government shutdown"

    Or maybe something like "Republicans Refuse To Give Americans Benefits and Medical they Pay For, Govenment Shutdown Imminent"

  • politics @lemmy.world
    ysjet @lemmy.world

    There's a website that provides you everything you need to call your reps and push them to do their job in under a minute.

    5calls.org