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Weekend Confirmed Episode 58
by Garnett Lee, Apr 29, 2011 11:00am PDTThis week Christian Spicer joins Jeff and Garnett on the show and they waste no time getting into the games. Well, okay, there might be a little NBA and NHL playoffs talk but then it's right on to Rage, Portal 2, Dragon Age 2 (Jeff finished it with 65 hours on the clock), and more. Of course, the big news of user data getting stolen from the PlayStation Network gets plenty of discussion as does the confirmation from Nintendo that a new console will indeed debut at E3. When Finishing Moves wraps it all up, the time has flown by.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 58: 04/29/2011
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- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 1: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:32:40
- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:33:14 End: 01:03:48
- The Warning: Start: 01:04:56 End: 01:38:16
- Featured Music "2.2 Cherry Blossom [The Fire]" by the Velvet Chameleon: 01:38:16 End: 01:41:30
- Front Page news: Start: 01:41:30 End: 02:22:22
Vancouver, BC rockers The Velvet Chameleon contributed this week's featured track "2.2 Cherry Blossom [The Fire]." They describe themselves as, "a little out-of-the box like Radiohead, mixed in with the classic rock virility of Led Zep". Their self-produced EP at can be had on the band's Facebook or twitter.
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And while I agree there's reason to be angry, it's really bad form to just call everyone who isn't as angry as you an apologist.
Jeff wasn't excusing Sony for what happened... nobody's excusing them, we're just trying to be realistic about the situation. Sometimes things break, sometimes they go wrong, and sometimes people deliberately do things that hurt and violate other people. That's not to say that it's okay, but it does happen. That's not apologetics, it's Murphy's Goddamned Law!
Now, like I said, there are plenty of reasons to feel angry, betrayed, violated etc. I agree that no company should ever be given a free pass on account of "shit happens," but what exactly to you plan to solve by rallying these emotions and lashing out at other Sony customers (who have also been wronged, I might add) just because they're being slightly more stoic than you are?
Grow Up!
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Every time you enter your personal information online, there's a chance, however minute, that your info could get hacked and stolen. There is no perfect solution and there never will be. You can pretend that the problem doesn't exist or that it can't possibly happen to you, you could treat every single request for information as a potential threat and live in constant paranoia, or you can do what most people do and strike a balance between the two extremes, take steps to protect yourself, and only give information to sources that you trust.
But even then, there's still a fair difference between "trusted" and "bulletproof," and while we are definitely safer for taking precautions, we're not 100% safe. Even if we're 99% safe (I'd wager most people are safer than that, but let's keep it to a round number), that still means that, on average, one person out of every hundred may be taken advantage of. The odds can give you a sense of security, and sometimes, a false sense of absolute security. While the security is definitely not false, it's not absolute.
Am I splitting hairs? Yes, but the point is this:
When we give personal information to Sony, or Microsoft, or Valve, or to anyone, we need to realize and accept that, however unlikely it might be, a situation exactly like what's going on with PSN could happen. We need to come to terms with this, and we need to seriously think about it.
If this situation has evoked any sort of reaction out of me, it's the realization of how badly this story could have been. Plunking my credit card info on online stores is something I do quite a bit without putting much thought into it, and in neglecting to think about it, I've left myself ill prepared to cope with the possibility of something like this happening to me.
And that's where stoicism comes in.
Now, I want to be perfectly clear on this point. I'm not defending Sony, I'm not excusing Sony, I'm not implying in any way shape or form that Sony didn't completely fuck up. They were smug as all hell, and it bit them in the ass, and it's something I'll remember next time they want me to buy a new piece of gaming hardware.
Sony's hubris, which is crystal clear in hindsight, is that they acted as if they were bulletproof, in spite of mountains of evidence to the contrary, and they provoked the very people with the means of proving them wrong. As consumers, we have every right to be angry with them for the way things shook out.
Our hubris, however, is in implicitly believing that Sony could never or would never fuck up. Again, hindsight 20/20. Had we, as consumers, been more prepared for this possibility, I don't think the outrage would be what it is.
Which brings me to the central point of all this:
Neither Jeff Cannata nor myself - nor anyone else who might be taking this more calmly than others - are being Sony apologists! We're not being ignorant, nor apathetic. There's a difference between admitting that something we though couldn't happen actually could have all along, and throwing one's hands up and saying "meh, whattaya gonna do?"
I think it shows poor form, and some degree of immaturity, on the part of Garnett to just reduce the argument to such binary terms, where someone is either enraged or an apologist. The point of having more than one person on a show like this is so that there can be a discussion on these types of subjects, from different points of view, and that discussion is severely handicapped when one person takes the position that you're either with or against him.
Some people have suggested that it was a joke in order to mock the types of people on the internet who do rage in such binary terms, which is something I'm usually okay with, but in this case, joke or not, it completely drowned out the conversation. Reasonable points were made, and then shot down on the shaky grounds of being apologetics. If that was meant to be a joke, it overstayed it's welcome and wound up having the same net effect as if it hadn't.
Garnett's tendencies are not unknown to me, and most of the time, they're actually kind of endearing, but in this case, his handling of the discussion was in poor form, and I felt like pointing that out.
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