Friend got a "community ban" for (what we suspect) using one credit card on multiple accounts by Mozaikus in Steam

[–]goldcakes -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Nice to see people always defend Steam in this situation.

You must be unaware of how sucky steam Support is.

The Curious case of Steam Support (x-post from /r/PCgaming) by OneAnimeBatman in Games

[–]goldcakes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

CSGO was developed by Hidden Patch Entertainment.

The only shit Valve added themselves to it are the microtransactions that ruins the game.

The Curious case of Steam Support (x-post from /r/PCgaming) by OneAnimeBatman in Games

[–]goldcakes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Australian consumer law requires sellers to offer a refund if a product does not work.

Australian consumer law also requires the seller to offer support, and it's very illegal (source: I've been fined by the ACCC as a small business owner) to tell the consumer to go contact the manufacturer.

Steam is currently being sued by the ACCC. I purchased a game that doesn't work. I cited the case. Steam told me to fuck off.

Have fun with another ACCC complaint.

The Curious case of Steam Support (x-post from /r/PCgaming) by OneAnimeBatman in Games

[–]goldcakes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know.

Steam is a intrusive and gigantic piece of shit.

  1. Steam sucks up hundreds of megabytes of RAM and spawns dozens of background threads for no necessary reason, even if you've signed offline on Steam.

  2. Steam by default turns you into a walking billboard for the games you play, by spamming your friends with an ad everytime you launch a game. You can't turn this off, only they can turn it off.

  3. Steam's lack of refund policies is against consumer law in many countries. Steam is facing an active lawsuit from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

  4. Steam's support is chronically understaffed and Steam support agents usually follows a script irregardless of how unreasonable it is, such as the one on this thread.

  5. Steam constantly bloats its software with hundreds of megabytes of junk like 'trading cards', community guides, et al, that wastes space on my hard drive despite the fact that I have zero interest in such crap.

  6. Steam's offline mode still breaks half the time, and if you have a computer that can only connect to the internet occasionally you'll have to keep changing the system clock back because offline mode (when it works) only gives you a limited number of days. WTF? You're making me WANT to pirate games.

Seriously, Steam is horrifying. Origin is much much better and I have never had an unpleasant experience with their support, or refund policies.

Has anyone pointed out that the 7 transactions per second thing is a lie and using actual data on transaction size bitcoin can not actually scale to even half that number? by Hodldown in Buttcoin

[–]goldcakes -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It is 7 transactions per second.

What you're seeing is transactions that pay out 10 or 100s of addresses and are 5++ KB each. Your metrics will consider that a single transaction, when in reality that transaction is 10 or 100 one to one transactions.

Scary as hell: Koinify received $1M in VC funding and with their first hosted crowdfunding project (Gems) they have designed a totally irresponsible project timeline that releases half of all the money raised ($200,000+) for a trivial milestone that accounts for about 5% of the entire project. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It does not feature exact fungibility with Bitcoin. That changes absolutely nothing.

Let me break it out for you:

BTC = Bitcoin LTC = altcoin GEM = altcoin XCP = altcoin

Anything that resembles Bitcoin and holds value any slightly independent of BTC is not Bitcoin. It is an altcoin, regardless of how it is implemented or if the Blockchain is embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain.

Scary as hell: Koinify received $1M in VC funding and with their first hosted crowdfunding project (Gems) they have designed a totally irresponsible project timeline that releases half of all the money raised ($200,000+) for a trivial milestone that accounts for about 5% of the entire project. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Blah blah blah counterparty assets are altcoins, and counterparty is a piece of shit for making their own altcoin. Look at coloured coins for Blockchain assets without shitcoins.

The vast vast majority of Bitcoin users don't give a crap about any altcoins, any side chains, any asset, any dac thingy, whatever. We are in this subreddit for Bitcoin news, and will never use a platform like Koinify because we will never touch an altcoin.

So kindly leave and peddle your crap elsewhere.

Scary as hell: Koinify received $1M in VC funding and with their first hosted crowdfunding project (Gems) they have designed a totally irresponsible project timeline that releases half of all the money raised ($200,000+) for a trivial milestone that accounts for about 5% of the entire project. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it's not. Koinify is an altcoin ICO website.

Koinify is exclusively about altcoins.

Just because you can purchase the altcoin with Bitcoin does not mean it belongs here. You can purchase any altcoin with Bitcoin. Doesn't mean any altcoin non-altcoin.

An altcoin that exists on the bitcoin blockchain is still an altcoin, if it is not 1:1 perfectly fungible with Bitcoin.

Scary as hell: Koinify received $1M in VC funding and with their first hosted crowdfunding project (Gems) they have designed a totally irresponsible project timeline that releases half of all the money raised ($200,000+) for a trivial milestone that accounts for about 5% of the entire project. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Litecoin isn't an altcoin because it's a Bitcoin investment?!

Read the sidebar:

Submissions that are mostly about some other cryptocurrency belong elsewhere. For example, /r/CryptoCurrency is a good place to discuss all cryptocurrencies.

If a currency is not perfectly fungible with Bitcoin, it is an altcoin. Even if it uses the Bitcoin blockchain.

Hatred is back on Steam Greenlight by SnatchTease in Games

[–]goldcakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, they can't. There are a variety of FTC regulations (which trump any terms of services) that would get Valve Corporation into legal shit if they shut it down without any reason.

Follow Storj's Initial Tests On The DriveShare Live Dashboard by ThatchNailer in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tokens stored on the Bitcoin blockchain are still altcoins. Altcoins are any cryptocurrency that is not Bitcoin, and that includes whatever tokens on the Blockchain.

Follow Storj's Initial Tests On The DriveShare Live Dashboard by ThatchNailer in Bitcoin

[–]goldcakes -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

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Altcoin discussion does not belong in /r/Bitcoin.

Sydney siege: Sydney commuters volunteer to ride by Muslims’ side, hashtag #illridewithyou trends on twitter by jb2386 in worldnews

[–]goldcakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Here are the demands by the wannabe-terrorist:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=91e_1418646394

Remember: sharing this video does NOT mean someone is condoning it.

Armed robbery / hostage situation in Sydney cafe LIVE COVERAGE ON THE MORNING SHOW ON 7/PRIME by Guerillagreasemonkey in australia

[–]goldcakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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Fallacy: Argument from authority.

The police has requested the media to not cover their Occupy Sydney raids. The police requests many things, many times not in the public interest.

A request from authority is never a valid justification for any reasoning.

This video does not put anyone at harm directly. It's a piece of novel information.

Armed robbery / hostage situation in Sydney cafe LIVE COVERAGE ON THE MORNING SHOW ON 7/PRIME by Guerillagreasemonkey in australia

[–]goldcakes -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

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Justify why not.

We're adults here. We have the right to know what is going on, and the right to disseminate information among ourselves instead of only relying on information spoon-fed from authorities.

Sharing a video does not mean someone condone it, nor does it mean someone wants to 'spread the message'. It simply means, "here's what's going on".

This video pretty much clears up that the guy has nothing to do with ISIS and is only trying to scare people by pretending to be affiliated with them anyway.

Armed robbery / hostage situation in Sydney cafe LIVE COVERAGE ON THE MORNING SHOW ON 7/PRIME by Guerillagreasemonkey in australia

[–]goldcakes -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

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Video of demands:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=91e_1418646394

EDIT: LOL. Information should be free. This video provides plenty of context, there's no reason it should be censored. Would you rather only receive information spoon-fed from the authorities?

How exactly does Google know that I quit smoking? by r3bl in privacy

[–]goldcakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Interest based advertising networks pay for informational from numerous analytics sites. Chances are you have Adblock, but not the privacy list which blocks trackers (say, Quantcast). Quantcast does not directly sell clickstreams to Google, but it sells them to data brokers and eventually it ends up with Google.

why are you reporting this?

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