I’m not. :/

Like I said, it doesn’t take anything away from people, so if you don’t want other people to have it, you have to assume its because you *think* you’re losing something you had, presumably access to know when other people are online even if they don’t want you to know that.

When its your billion dollar corporation, you can handle your IT priorities as you see fit. Nyah.

Its a guess, based on how reticent they are to allow us to change those names, but its the type of thing that would happen in a system that nobody expected to grow so large, onion style, written by people who had no experience writing such systems and were locked into the mistakes made by their predecessors.

Its the same thing though, he approved you not being there in exchange for not getting paid - otherwise should have fired you on the spot, because your actual health condition is completely private - maybe he sees you jet skiing, means nothing if you’re having an acute attack of a copier toner / sharpie fume allergy…

_{Loss of user data is the best case. EXPOSING user data is the worse scenario when the database becomes corrupted. I’m sure they backup the database and would test any model changes for a while before pushing them into production, but there’s also probably no common API for doing pulls which means every individual}…

But your account name is what your logins are based on, what the psn store pulls billing information on, etc. Every service would then need to know to pull your old, hidden psn ID based on the new ‘visible name’. Its not just what they show you, its that all the information is tied to this unchanging ID, and changing…

Oh, it started with Nixon. Reagan just took it up to 11.

Those are the people who WANT to know what you’re doing at all times so they have the choice of pestering you to join their game or not. You’re *robbing* them by hiding from them. They are the reason offline features were invented in the first place. The people who think you owe it to them to let them keep tabs on…

I just want to know where do those people come from and why do they keep inflicting them on the rest of us. Sorry to hear that. They are the type to insist you friend them on every social network just so they can cyberstalk you during your off hours. Its *your* sick leave - you negotiated for it when you signed a…

The trophies would probably still pop with date stamps, even if they waited until you were next online to do so. This is why you don’t put the boss on your friends list.

Also, I would point out that you could clearly say “what did you expect me to do while I was home bedridden with ebola? Why I totally decided to…

If you had ‘social fundamentals’ you probably wouldn’t keep saying that people need to learn social fundamentals or get new friends, or think that everyone needs to announce to everyone else when they are online, or that having the option of not doing that is somehow superfluous.

For a guess culture like Japan, you’d…

They can handle it just fine. The problem is having to message each of them, over and over and over, to say ‘not today’ to the point they will stop asking. This is not the preferred outcome - because there are times I *am* receptive and do want to be asked. When I’m online, I want it to mean I’m available to game, not…

Oh please. If my friends are that insecure that they can’t handle someone earning a trophy without them, then I need better friends. I have more than *three* online at any given time so somebody’s obviously being left out every time I game coop anyway.

“I never understood this concept. Why do you need to appear offline? Someone trolling you? Block them. This isn’t the 1990s with AIM. Grow up. If you don’t wanna play with someone then don’t or remove them from your friends list. Stop being insecure dickweeds and man/woman up.”

Because, oh, I don’t know, maybe I have a…

Its not impossible but its not entirely trivial - this is a legacy system that all the stores and services tie back to. It sounds like when they wrote it they decided to use names as a primary key, so if they change the name they risk breaking all the links between their tables unless the update process is perfect -…

I’ll vote for him if he puts his money where his mouth is and starts up hard labor camps for all the retired people surviving on social security and medicare that form his base demographic - they want to be productive too!

Thos of us who actually are working know full well that perpetual growth is unsustainable, and…

That they said it in the article doesn’t make it true. They haven’t even established that this one occurrence was true. Its a tautology. “He’s good at making plagiarized work look non-plagiarized, so all the stuff that looks non-plagiarized is evidence of his plagiarism.”

Sorry. No.

Especially since the people making…

I really don’t think he’s copying and pasting. I think he’s one of very few people who has gone through the game and thought about the backstory. If he’s plagiarized, he’s plagiarized ideas that are prevalent, and probably developed collaboratively, in the very small community of people who do this sort of thing (ie.,…

I thought I did, but then I took a nap inside a coffin. Now things are different.

/obligatory DS2 reference, meeting Nito just made me a PK.