Sony’s Lawyers are Retarded
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/13/26 at 03:27 PM CT
The recent backlash and attempted boycott of Sony’s digital PlayStation features wasn’t the only thing customers have done in an attempt to fight back against Sony’s latest hubristic moves toward totalitarian control of everything PlayStation. There was also a class-action lawsuit, arguing that Sony’s terminology on their digital stores was misleading.
Sony brought their best crack-team of lawyers to fight back against the class-action suit... and it would seem that the crack-team might just flat-out be smoking crack, since their arguments as to why PlayStation customers have no legal rights to the products they buy digitally are so incredibly stupid they go beyond the mere “bad faith” that we have come to expect of our corrupt lawyers in the 20th and 21st Centuries, all the way to what the classic (?) comedy, “Tropic Thunder,” dubbed “full retard.”
First, Sony attempted to argue that no reasonable customer would click on the word “buy” or “purchase” …
There is Nothing New Under the Sun: The Erosion of Digital Rights
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/06/26 at 12:06 AM CT
There has been a big backlash against Sony’s recent announcement of the end of PlayStation discs in 2028. There was even a week-long PlayStation Blackout movement that... I’ve been participating in since 2014. The entire debacle, including its implications for PlayStation players’ (I almost typed “owners” there, but that’s the crux of the whole issue) rights in an ecosystem where the Company owns the platform, the store, and, ultimately, the things you “license” (again, I almost typed “buy” there) from the store, are chilling. Indeed, it’s highly reminiscent of the kind of corrupt slavery-adjacent behavior foisted on low-wage, low-skill workers in the era of Company Stores and Scrip Currency.
Penny Arcade, the Gaming webcomic that has been around for nearly 30 (!) years at this point, recently had a similar notion, calling out the current trends in Industrial Gaming as less of a new, terrible thing being foisted upon customers, and more of a return to the …
Review Round-Up: Summer 2026
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/01/26 at 03:59 PM CT
Welcome back to another installment of the MeltedJoystick Review Round-Up. Here’s what our staff has reviewed since last time:
Nelson’s Reviews:
I finally broke out of my “Warframe” rut, thanks in large part to diving into a new “Fortnite: Save the World” rut, dealing with daily missions and the seasonal Venture Zones. I still managed to force myself to finish “Lost Odyssey,” then tried to enjoy some other RPG-adjacent things, but, sadly, didn’t. I was actually expecting to have the lowest number of reviews this quarter, but it turns out that everyone else was having an even worse time with our collective hobby than I.
Lost Odyssey – 3/5
Granblue Fantasy: Relink – 3/5
Dragon Quest Treasures – 3.5/5
Chris’ Reviews:
I don’t know what Chris has been doing, but it certainly hasn’t been working on his backlog, ablutions or otherwise. He has jumped into that same “Fortnite: Save the World” rut with me – he was also the one who informed the …
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