Therefore you might accidentally buy a game without knowing you need it and can’t just "not buy the game and move

Launch the game, see that it requires a sign in, refund the game because it doesn’t have over 2 hours of play time.

Make sure you remove your credit card from the account, or check your statement each month to make sure they didn’t sign you back up.

“computer error”

Love how it takes them 3-5 business days to return the money they stole from you.

We had to remove our credit card from our account because Amazon kept charging us for Prime and I would have to call them to get it cancelled and refunded (and wait 3-5 business days to get our money back).
We were very careful when checking out that we didn’t have anything checked saying “sign me up for Prime”, even had it happen on a day where we did not place an order (and therefore weren’t on the site) for at least a week on either side of us “signing up for Prime.” Once we took the card off the account it stopped happening, so it wasn’t anything we were activating.

It’s annoying to have to re-enter our card information if we want to order something, but less annoying than having to call them every month to cancel Prime again. And anything that increases the barrier to using Amazon is probably a good thing anyway.

The difficult steps in FTL are no joke. I was having no difficulty clearing on easy and was just trying to unlock all the ships. Once I did I switched to normal and had to restart 3 times before getting out of the first sector.

I’ve been taking part in the beta, as far as Steam is concerned me and my friends are a thrupple. Works pretty well, other family member’s games just show up in your library. Haven’t had any issues, Steam will tell you if your copy is in use by a family member and you either play something else or ask them to quit.

They’ve always been like this

When I worked at McDonald’s I used to keep the DriveThru headset on after closing while I was doing paper work to tell people “sorry, we’re closed” if they drove up to the speaker board. (Mind you, the building lights and menu board lights are off at this point. Something we call a “clue”.)
That stopped after one too many people screamed “FUCK YOU!” into the speaker board (for us following our posted hours and me politely informing them instead of ignoring them.)

You quickly adopt a policy of “just ignore them and they’ll figure it out.”

There’s no way your order is worth me turning everything back on, unless it is way too large to be something quick.

Thomas was alone

An excellent example of storytelling elevating a game. The game play is a decent puzzle platformer, and the story is very charming.

Hand of Fate

A deck construction game where the cards you choose to put in the deck are the challenges you will face on your run. You unlock more cards by completing challenges on the cards you have.

You can skip the first one and play the sequel, it’s more polished.

Then I’d be more concerned about that and your posts rather than if you happened to up or down vote something.

And if that doesn’t work check the physical connection by unplugging it and plugging it back in.

If someone tries to harass me about how I vote I’ll just block them.

You are doing it privately. Nobody knows who amju_wolf is, or where they live.

How does one “behave as a shithead via voting”? If someone decided to waste their time following me around Lemmy and down voting my posts it’s not going to do very much.

Incorporating that in a way that doesn’t allow for vote manipulation by just lying to a server that different “anonymous” users have up or down voted a post sounds incredibly difficult, and not worth it for the narrow use case of “prevent my votes from being data mined even though all my comments can.”

datamining my voting patterns for building a deeper interest profile.

They can already datamine your posts.

The same argument could be made about your posts. Maybe a user tends to post things that aligns with a certain group, just as easy to track that (if not easier) for targeting.

Not to mention anyone with the tech to do this already can by creating their own instance so they can view votes.

For me the latter will produce a chilling effect on how I operate with the site

Why?