Yes, I realize how much hate I will get for this. I don’t give a shit. Seethe away, kids.

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      It’s against the TOS to use false information to make a PSN account. So now you’re banned and can’t play the game on steam.

      Sony has an atrocious record of being hacked as well.

      Some of the countries the game was sold in don’t allow PSN accounts to be created. So those users can’t play the game on steam.

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              I’m not really a gamer, so I’m really not fully sure what you are getting at. I just hope you experienced some kind of catharsis with this comment that will help you continue to live your best life as a Chill Dude. Heh, 69.

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                The tldr version = people are blowing a gasket, because a game published by Sony is requiring people to create a free account for their online gaming service, even if they bought the game through Steam (the Steam platform has nothing to do with Sony).

                I hold the opinion that it’s not any kind of a big fucking deal to spend 120 seconds giving Sony an email address that you only use for making free web accounts.

                Other people are choosing to absolutely lose their fucking minds, talkin’ about boycotting and whatever. And calling me a corporate shill.

                They’re mostly kids, I assume.

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                  Yes, I would advise to simply disregard these individuals and/or focus on spreading the gospel of how best to make throwaway email accounts. Don’t blow your own gasket! We need more Chill Dudes, not less.

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                    Absolutely good advice. In fact, I’d just replied to another person, basically outlining how a consistent plan to only give out throwaway email addresses could change everything, by making those vast collections of email addresses worthless, on the corporate data-trading market.

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                    Like I said to someone else, if the citizens of the UK chose to vote for shitty politicians, they should blame themselves for voting stupidly and their politicians for enacting stupid policy.

                    Nobody should blame Sony for obeying the law.

                    But that’s what people are doing. Because people are fucking stupid.

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          Noticed you glossed the TOS bit. Idk if you know this but they’ll ban you for using a VPN to create an account. So all those regionally locked people that bought it just should not have? A megacorp like Sony who installs fucking rootkits on CDs is a weird company to lick the balls of but go off.

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              You don’t know what a Terms of Service is? You’d be breaking it in that case, resulting in a ban. They didn’t lie. Its just a shit ass thing to do. Its not a win for anyone. Expect more of this, make 599 million accounts. Enjoy it.

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                Here’s what this comes down to.

                I will freely admit that it really does suck for Sony to require people in countries that can’t make a PSN account to…just fuck off, I guess?

                But I know you WON’T admit that it’s fine for everyone ELSE to just make a throwaway account.

                For some reason, you consider 120 seconds of typing an email address into a text box and clicking an activation link to be some kind of ridiculous bar to clear. I just don’t get it. Give them a throwaway email and get on with your fucking life, goddamn.

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                  Idk how old you are, but that’s not why I have a steam account, to make more accounts. Its not. If we’re going to do this shit we might as well go back to the wild west of a launcher per game. I’m not making a fake PSN account and getting banned from a game I spent money on and have been playing just fine. That’s bullshit.

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                    There’s no launcher involved. You make a PSN account ONE TIME, then you LINK THAT ACCOUNT to your fucking game.

                    No launchers. No extra services. No nothing.

                    Stop complaining about make-believe shit that only exists inside your own head.

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        This is the world we’re making for ourselves. No middle ground between heroic rebel and evil corporate shill.

        Whatever. Keep seething. It just keeps making me more erect.

        EDIT: I’m just saying, this is how people get radicalized. But NOT the way you’re thinking. Not in the socially positive way that you’re thinking of.

        Be mad all you want. I actually don’t care. I’m seriously warning you about this shit where you’re altering your worldview to see “your side” as the heroic good guys, with no faults, and anyone who even SLIGHTLY disagrees with you as one of the evil, evil bad guys.

        It’s not even about the impassioned nature of your views. It’s about ALTERING YOUR PERCEPTION IN A WAY THAT BLINDS YOU FROM REALITY.

        Here’s what it is: I actually don’t care about this issue AT ALL. I don’t even fucking play Helldivers 2, yet.

        I might, at some point. But I dunno. I’m certainly in the key demographic for it. I even played Helldivers 1, which puts me in VERY rare company, compared to all these bandwagon-jumpers, who are now jumping OFF the bandwagon.

        But I digress. The point is, I actually don’t really give a shit about the whole PSN thing. I don’t support it. I’m not mad about it.

        Now, you DEFINE ME as being a corporate shill, on that basis. And that would be fine, in an academic sense. It would be fine, as long as you remembered “I’m the one defining that guy’s beliefs for him, because I feel that anyone who isn’t fighting against the corporate bullshit is actually supporting it.”

        But that’s not how human minds work, in the information-addicted, hyper-connected, echo-chamber-ified social media age.

        That environment is hacking your brain. If you’re not careful, you’re going to wake up one day, having completely forgotten that I’m not really a corporate shill. You’ll forget that you defined those terms, and you’ll TRULY BELIEVE that I am an actual servant of the Sony Illuminati.

        I’m just saying. That’s how we’ve gotten these Q motherfuckers, these flat-earth motherfuckers, these people who worship indicted political candidates. All that shit. Disagree with me all you want, insult me and my stupid face all you want. But don’t call me a shill so much that you actually start to believe it.

        For your sake, more than mine. But for all our sakes, because we don’t need more brainwashed people out here.