A game of telephone involves the message changing from each person. In this case, everyone but Visa/MC are blaming Visa/MC (valve, game stores, and collective shout).

It’s more like a game of calvinball, only Calvin is claiming the rule they made up doesn’t exist

When they say anything that “may damage the goodwill of the corporation”,

Looks like MasterCard is going to have to ban MasterCard because of all the damage they’ve done to MasterCard’s goodwill.

No, the rules don’t (that’s why it’s been fine for 7 years), and you used a derogatory term so cry harder about your downvotes.

Honestly, I don’t care if MasterCard doesn’t want to take responsibility. It was their rule and their intermediaries that caused the situation and they did not intervene when valve tried to reach out directly.

They are responsible through action or inaction, no matter how they try to deny it.

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And only 3-4 million bought by scammers to resell! (/s?)

If you’re not already, log in. I went through something similar and gave up after 10-15. Switched from the embedded browser to Firefox, logged in and no prob redeeming.

Normal people can, yes, but .ml isn’t full of normal people. There’s a good reason for the instance’s stereotype.

I couldn’t redeem on my phone until I opened Firefox instead of embedded chrome and log into GoG before I could get past the damned Cloudflare hell

It says on the post-redeem page that it can take a while to show up

Wouldn’t it be nice if the payment processors required more than being really annoying to get something classified as possibly illegal?

You have to have a Cloudflare captcha solver for some of the *arr stack to work with certain indexers or something, idk. When my old *arr stack died and had to be rebuilt I ran into that problem, and after a short investigation, I promptly said fuck it and learned usenet. So happy that I did.

I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn’t the outlandish part.

I figured, which is why I framed my comment the way I did. You may be able to discount the scientists, but can you discount them, plus citizens complaining about their solar output, power plants having to raise rates due to falling solar generation, crop impacts, and even just other citizens posting raw data all coming out with similar data over time saying it’s a problem?

Having said that and looking at the state of climate change, I have a hard time not seeing the parallels against my argument. But falling solar output would have a much more immediate effect on us than climate change (and would likely reverse it to some extent).

Vincent? Vincent Adultman? I haven’t seen you since business college when we took company 101 together with Professor Realguy!

How have you been?

You’re right when talking about the average person with nothing but their eyes. But there are tons of companies and members of the public that have bits of tech that would call that out easily. Solar panels, environmental logging equipment, etc, would notice the drop in light levels fairly easily, and would be apparent when reviewing historical vs current levels, and the power grids would definitely notice the sun dimming dropping their power outputs.

Without going into conspiracy theory territory, there’s no realistic way to hide that from the public.

I’ve never seen open support for Nazis being left up after being reported on instances that haven’t been defederated, so it’s better without question.

Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

Gamers are easy to rile up, already have exposure to a lot of counter culture language in VC, and generally young or ignorant enough that they can’t see the obvious propaganda they’re being fed. Add into that content creators that intermix rightwing talking points and you can slowly poison their minds into becoming Nazi shitbags.

As the other commenter mentioned, gamergate is where all this shit first came up, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t there with the people who fell for the poison. I was just aware enough of what I was seeing to pull away from that culture before it really poisoned my mind.

researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to “avoid scaring” the public.

Because if there’s one thing you can hide, it’s dimming the one thing that brings heat and light to the planet.

It’s almost like Substack has a Nazi problem and has for years.

Stop pretending substack isn’t a Nazi platform, because they actively support Nazi propaganda on their site and have refused to take it down or commit to keeping it off their platform.

Substack is run by Nazi supporters at the very least, which should be enough for people to flee in droves, but more people are ok with Nazis than we want to admit.

Eh, the quoted portion of the comment is too on the nose to be read as honest imo.