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[princess george 🏁 @waylorrr]

Yall come over to bluesky already. It's literally the same as this but there's no ads 🦋 and you won't be supporting apartheid clyde lol just missing the thoughts of my irl friends!!!

[princess george 🏁 @waylorrr]

@lauty This ain't it boss man

[🏁milky🏁 @milkystar64]

i need more examples of old stuff that has this metallic frosted lavender pink vibe something about it is so peaceful

[Homo Honey @DixPeyton]

invisible ink but a kiss really can… be like a handshake!!!!!

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

It’s officially “put it in reverse terry” season 😂😂

[Game Informer @gameinformer]

Reminder that you can subscribe to Game Informer to get physical, printed magazines sent to your mailbox with amazing covers! https://t.co/EnyJh798ot

The physical magazine is not a rented license that can be revoked. Once you receive the printed issue, it can't be taken back. It’s yours forever.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.

Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.

First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.

Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.

Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.

A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.

That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.

Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.

This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.

Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.

The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.

Do you agree with what Sony did??

[jordan @JordanUhl]

My immediate thought was there’s no way, and then I watched the clip….

[🍵Yo Soy Elly🍵 @snacks_fruity2]

Bro went home hopped on his twitter and was like faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwk.

[David Firth (Salad Fingers) @DAVID_FIRTH]

the original Salad Fingers was released on this day 22 years ago. Here is the full first episode

[𐌕𐌙𐌙 @KamuraTyy]

They’re saving 60fps for the ps6 so they have a reason to sell it again lmfao

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Even if a game vanishes from the GOG storefront, it never leaves your library.

Exactly as digital ownership ought to be.

[Santa Decides @SantaDecides]

nvm

[OmegaPro 🍉 @OmegaProYT]

Let's say the PS6 is a digital only console (pretty much guaranteed now) and 20yrs after it's release you wanna get a game for the PS6 but they've shut down the store just like they did for the PS3/Vita. What are you going to do?

You can't go to a gamestop, a pawn shop, a flea market, ebay or whatever. This is planned obsolescence in its' final form. PlayStation now has 100% control over how you buy and play a game.

Your boy wanna sell you a game for cheap? Can't do that, gotta buy full price on PSN. Wanna give your boy a game to check out? too bad, he's gotta buy it for $70 on PSN.

This is terrible for videogame preservation and consumer rights

[Daniel Ahmad @ZhugeEX]

PSN in 2028 when you buy a new game

[MoshiMoshiMoan @MoshiMoshiMoan]

It's 2029
You just bought a PS6
It cost 1200 dollars
All games are digital
They each cost 80 dollars
You have 4 in your library
Yesterday it was 5 but Sony removed one
They offered no refund, its just gone
You'd strangle yourself with the controller cord but its wireless

[Shirrako @ShirrakoGaming]

Consoles have no reason to exist without physical games.