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But why do they care? You're paying the transaction fees. They're getting their money. If anything isn't it good for the payment processor to get more transactions?

It's a real transaction. Nobody was deceived, the money really changed hands, and the payment processor got their fee.

If I own a physical shop I'm allowed to buy stuff from it if I want, why isn't that also the case for an online store?

I'm not saying it isn't against the ToS, but I agree with OP it isn't obvious why it should be and it seems like almost everybody would test at least one real transaction at some point.

Message from Spooky23: says they like eating apples

Product pages on Amazon now have AI review summaries.

I like it in theory, but the cynical part of me is suspicious they're somehow using it to skew things positive.

Yep. They obviously learned nothing from killing Xbox overnight.

As an IT person I can guarantee this rebranding is going to cause confusion that will waste my time.

That being said, Coke killed Coke Zero and seems to be doing okay I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel like there has to be some weird cultural problem at Microsoft where nobody wants to speak up about obviously bad ideas.

They destroyed the entire Xbox brand overnight and hampered any chance at recovery with a stupid confusing naming scheme... now it seems like they've learned nothing from that?

Yep. I've been an Xbox player since 2002. Huge Halo fan. Thousands of hours on 3 different generations of Xbox. I still have my Halo 3 special edition helmet. I keep up with gaming news and listen to multiple gaming podcasts every week.

But even I can't reliably name the last two generations of Xbox without a pause. I always have to stop for a second and think it thru because the naming scheme is so abysmal.

I work in IT support helping customers with this type of thing and this specific problem you just described still trips me up regularly.

And it's been like that at at least 3 or 4 companies I've worked at so it's not just this specific organisation.

And the New Teams removed the ability to copy formatted chat logs with timestamps! I used that every single day

Eternal Disney Vault

What's the advantage over a MacBook? Supports more external displays or something?

"Digital" has become this weird overloaded term with a second meaning that means "no physical media". You see it mostly in videogames, "bought digitally" means buying it from Steam or another online store as a download, as opposed to a physical disk.

Obviously you're right and and literally every commercial* videogame ever released is digital in the sense that it's binary information, and the movies that person was talking about were already digital on Blu Ray.

You can kind of justify it as literally correct if you infer the context of "digital" referring to the method of transferral, rather than the method of information storage - I.e when I bought a game disk from a shop, the game was transferred to me physically on a disk, but when I bought one from Steam it was transferred digitally. Doesn't really apply as much for this situation tho.

(*I almost said every videogame ever made, but I suppose Tennis For Two and some other experimental games ran on analogue computers)

Exactly. I feel like this author doesn't realise how long ago 32 bit was replaced. Only specifically retro gamers are still playing on PCs that old, and they're probably not online.

I'm surprised the launcher still supported any 32 bit operating systems this long.

A bit clickbait. EA is still running a store and you won't lose your games, it's just a new app and not called Origin.

Also the bit about 32 bit PC users having to buy a new one is a bit overblown. Who's still using a more than 20 year old computer as their main gaming rig?