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

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      Yeah, whatever. I’m still not wrong.

      Like I said to someone else, in this thread: if you give Sony your real email address that you use for your real personal shit and your real business shit, you deserve for your info to be tracked. Scientists track dumb animals all the time and there’s nothing wrong with that.

      Sony isn’t asking for your fucking SSN and your birth certificate. They’re asking for ANY RANDOM EMAIL ADDRESS THAT YOU HAVE ACCESS TO, SO YOU CAN CLICK AN ACTIVATION LINK.

      I’m not even sure they want you to do that. They might not even ask for activation. I haven’t done it, so I don’t know.

      I only haven’t done it because I don’t play Helldivers 2. Not because I have some kind of principled objection to making a free web account.

      I mean, do you realize how many free web accounts we’ve all made in our lives? Between the years 1997 and 2012, I probably made LITERALLY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREE WEB ACCOUNTS. Now you guys are gonna draw a line in the sand for me, and say “hey, now…don’t make any more of those, or you’re a corporate shill.”

      Fine. Whatever. I guess I’m a shill. I’m not going to stop making free accounts for internet shit. That behavior is literally part of my culture.

      EDIT: I think I’m going to go ahead and make myself a PSN account, right now. Even though I don’t play any Sony games that require one. I’m just doing it to make you guys seethe some more.

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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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                They can blame Sony for forcing them towards their systems, especially if the person in question didn’t vote for the government who enacted those rules.

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                  I will simply repeat myself. Concentrate really hard and try to read all the words, this time:

                  SONY DID NOT MAKE THOSE LAWS. SONY IS ONLY OBEYING THOSE LAWS. DON’T BLAME JAPANESE PEOPLE FOR BRITISH LAWS.

                  Are you okay? What the fuck would make you think that Japanese people control British laws? They were on the LOSING side of World War 2, remember?