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  • Tina Fey said she would take things her daughter said and work them into the show. The big one was “I want to go to there”

    It’s one of those things where a mother always finds her own kids to be hilarious. It’s just in this case, the mother is a famous comedian who works those lines into a sitcom that she stars in, and is also head writer on.

    For reference, her daughter was 2 when she said these things.

    And I would bet this was another daughter line.






  • I just remembered I had to do the same thing with Sony, and Nintendo. Nintendo had me verify some games I had bought. Sony was a bit weirder. They asked me which games I had been playing. But it didn’t come off like verification. It sounded like the guy at Sony was bored and lonely. He was just like “Sooooo, what’cha been playin?” And I was like “uhhhhh…I guess Grand Theft Auto?”

    I felt bad in saying that my playstation usage had dropped DRAMATICALLY the past 10 years. I barely turn it on.

    And then he says “says here you haven’t played in a while. Any other games you’ve played recently?”

    Uhhhhh, no?

    And thats when I realized he was asking for verification purposes.

    So far, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Epic are the only services that won’t let me back into my service. The rest have all had other ways.

    Now to be fair, yahoo has a way you can pay them money to have an expert look into things. But I refuse to pay money for some guy in India to tell me I need to log into hotmail and give him the code. Then shut down and take my money without resolve when he finds out I can’t.

    I know the passwords. I just can’t log in, because they both want security codes sent to other services I have no access to.


  • Well…I lost access to my email account assosiated with my Epic Games login.

    I emailed them, and they kept refering me back to this automated process that just kept asking me to check an email.

    I don’t have access to that email.

    So I contacted them, and said I’m not going to buy any games from them, because as far as I know, this account could be taken away at any time, since I can’t access the assosiated email. All they gotta do is say “security check, we sent a code to your email. Use it to login”. If that happens, I’m locked out of my epic games account.

    That was 2 years ago. I had the same issue with steam, since steam also used that email account. I forget what steam did to verify, but I remember I had to jump through some hoops. But then they switched my assosiated email.

    I actually JUST realized that my tivo account had the same issue. I called them, they didn’t even make me jump hoops. They just said “oh, you have a new email? Yeah yeah, thats fine, it’s switched. Should we change your password? No? Ok. Have a nice day.”

    So now it’s 2 years later. Total money spent on Epic? $0.

    Total money spent on Steam? Well…I don’t have an exact total, but I figure it’s maybe $1000? Now keep in mind I’m 1 person. How many other people are in my situation who just moved on and forgot about Epic? They don’t fill any niche where they’re needed in the space. It’s not like GOG where it’s DRM free, and they’re the only ones that do that. Epic’s library is probably entirely available on Steam. Yeah, I’ll take your free games while I can still log in, but I’m not paying a dime until my email situation is resolved.

    I feel zero sympathy for Epic games, and if they go out of business, oh well.






  • I was just trying to answer that at the fundamental level there has to be someone trusted to verify your info

    Why?

    Why does there need to be age verification at all?

    We’ve had computera since the 1940s, and never needed this. We’ve had the internet since the 1990s and never needed this.

    Now that a pedophile is in the white house, and an entire network of pedophile politicians have been revealed, NOW they want to protect the children???

    And you honestly believe that?