• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    driven by manufactured conspiracies.

    I don’t think that’s entirely true. I know I’m in the minority, but there are legit reasons to resist recent changes with video game hardware, like how manufacturers have made it so they can brick people’s consoles remotely.

    Can’t remotely brick my PC.

    I do agree that some people are over-wrought about it, but pretending that all of their concerns are unfounded is itself a tad silly too.

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      5 hours ago

      First off, your PC can 100% be bricked remotely, go read up on Stuxnet…

      The problem is the assumption that there is nefarious intent behind this move.

      Sony and Microsoft tried to give us digital entitlement resale AND friend loaning with Xbox One and PS4 and a whiny minority of “core gamers” kicked up such a fuss during E3 2013 that Microsofts stock tanked and both of them backpedalled… It was senseless then, and it’s even more senseless now.