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Kelly

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  • Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams?

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  • It doesn't look good

    https://www.pcloud.com/terms_and_conditions.html

    pCloud has a fourteen (14) calendar days money back guarantee, beginning on the day you have submitted your payment for the Paid services. During this period, you are eligible to request for a refund. If you issue an explicit written request for a refund within the fourteen (14) days referenced above, we will process the refund due to you in full within 30 calendar days, counting from the day you have confirmed your request.

    We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.

    In case you have purchased Paid services through a promotional campaign or provided discount, pCloud reserves the right to decline providing a refund.

    I just used web archive to check the site on three random days in 2024 and it looks like they always have a promotion and could claim any purchases are ineligable for the money back guarantee.

    Termination

    We reserve the right not to provide the Site or Services to any user. We also reserve the right to terminate any user's right to access the Site or Services at any time, in our discretion. If you breach any of these Terms, your permission to use the Site and Services and your account automatically terminate. If pCloud ceases operation, your account will be terminated and pCloud will no longer provide the Site or Services. If your account is terminated in accordance with this section, you will not receive any refund of any fees paid for the account.

    And they can decide to stop your service at any time.

  • Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams?

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  • There are on going costs with running the service so if new customers stopped signing up they would go broke when they run out of money. (i.e. like a ponzi scheme)

    Unless they invest your seed capital and pay for your services from growth. This would work when times are good, but could fall apart during any significant financial crisis.

    The current offer for the named service is asking for us$800 for 10TB, if they followed the 5% rule that would leave them with us$40 per year to provide the service.

  • Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer?

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  • Agreed, even if you limit yourself to major tentpole content its impossible to keep up.

    But if you look at the uploads to major digital distribution platforms its incredible how much content is being produced:

    • YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded per minute.
    • Spotify has 60k tracks uploaded per day
    • Kindle has 225k books published per month
    • Steam has 50 games published per day

  • What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?

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  • Moderates no longer have a say.

    Many view the democrats as being right of centre already and that "moderates" are largely unrepresented because both parties lean right.

  • Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console

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  • Joystick but no keyboard is going to limit the IF options. That said it might be a great way to play gamebooks.

  • Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame?

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  • As a related phenomenon the Addams Family set was painted in colour so that each element would show distinctly on black and white television.

  • What actually happens to the communities whose instances shut down?

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  • This probably depends on what you mean by "shut down".

  • FOSS alternative to URL Forwarder?

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  • My share menu default to text with file based share as a secondary option.

  • ASUS States It Will Compensate For The GPU Damages Incurred By Q-Release Mechanism On Its Motherboards

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  • "detachable metal shrapnel"?

  • More First-Party Games Have Sold Over One Million Copies On Switch Than Any Other Console

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  • There is an interesting list here;

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games

    Nintendo includes sales numbers for their successful games in their financial reports so they are well represented but wikipedia also includes 3rd party figures when the publisher has released the numbers.

    The top 5 3rd party titles*:

    • Monster Hunter Rise
    • Starview Valley
    • Sulka Game
    • Minecraft
    • Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa Mo Teiban!

    I have overlooked titles like Pokemon and Hyrule Warriors as they are published by Nintendo in some regions.

  • Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.

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  • Its just a warning, if the game is still active people can still access it.

  • Why the names of (real world, not made-up) video games and other media are usually changed when used in fiction?

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  • For live action TV its probably easier to just use retail units but for animation it allows them to use only the aspects they are interested in while not getting bogged down in the realities of the console/controller design or the actual gameplay scenarios.

    Of course it also allows for the title to function as a joke too, and makes for a more timeless product than a current year pop culture reference.

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FictionalVideoGame/WesternAnimation

  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2's PC port is already getting slammed by Steam users

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  • Long-Gone Classics The Sims 1 And 2 Are Finally Coming Back To PC

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  • I think Sims 1 was physical only.

    As a digital product EA halted distribution of the Sims 2 with very little notice:

    On July 16, 2014, Electronic Arts announced the end of support for The Sims 2. As a response, The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection was released at the same time as a limited time offer. The game became available for free download from Origin exclusively following an announcement by EA that they would no longer be supporting the game. This offer ended at 10:00 PDT July 31, 2014.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sim_2

    Oddly it looks like Mac got a version via another distributor not long after ?!

  • Is there any place with all of reddit's snoovatar assets?

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  • Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

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  • Huh, TIL.

    Here in Australia every house I've been in that has an electrical connection has had a light of some form mounted on the ceiling of each room of the main structure.

    It just shows how any assumptions we might make will be proved wrong at a global scale.

  • Ubisoft says Assassin's Creed Shadows will have less map icon 'hand-holding', more player-driven exploration

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  • I feel like I've been hearing this since odyssey.

  • Let us all consider ourselves lucky that Donald Duck in the comics does not have enunciation issues like Donald Duck in the cartoons.

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  • I was reading the barks comics before I had any real exposure to the cartoons.

    It was a bit of a WTF moment to see how they nerfed the character like that.

  • Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age'

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  • I don't like the idea of it needing to be patched in.

    At launch advanced graphics mode settings could be something that is disabled by default but unlockable (via config.ini setting, console command, cheat code, whatever). Really the implementation isn't what's important, just that it is opt-in and the user knows that are leaving the normal settings and entering something that may not work as expected.

    Then if they are still supporting the game later the defaults can be changed with a patch but if the devs don't have that opportunity the community can still document this behaviour on sites like www.pcgamingwiki.com.