• @cmrn
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    No idea what bequeath means but it sounds badass so I support this

    • nocturne
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      bequeath /bĭ-kwēᴛʜ′, -kwēth′/
      transitive verb
      To leave or give (personal property) by will.
      To pass (something) on to another; hand down.
      “bequeathed to their children a respect for hard work.”
      To give or leave by will; to give by testament; – said especially of personal property.

    • @[email protected]
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      How am I supposed to prove I am dead if I am dead? 🤔

      Just send them a photo of you dead. Make sure to label it “This is me, dead”.

      Or send them your dead body.

    • @vxx
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      You get a death certificate

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          Yes they do, but their partner or child is allowed to get copies.

            • @vxx
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              If you call the bank to cancel the account of a dead person, are they asking for your death certificate or the death certificate of the person that died?

              • @[email protected]
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                Well it’s the dead guys death cert, but since the dead guy is dead he can’t prove anything. Lol I’m just fucking around.

                • @vxx
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                  Me too actually. I searched it up before commenting and the wording didn’t disprove me immediately, so I ran with it.

                  Now I’m curious and will have to research it…lol

    • @qarbone
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      I assume this is an official way of claiming when you don’t have login information.

  • YeetPics
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    How do I posthumously prove anything?

    Do I need a dead-man switch? Do they sell those?

    • @[email protected]
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      148 hours ago

      I think a death certificate and your will are enough. Only one of the two is probably not enough.

      • @[email protected]
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        56 hours ago

        Wills aren’t required and not everyone will have one.

        I think the best course of action is to have a trust set up and have all of your assets under the trust. That’s how my attorney set up my end of life tasks. It saves you problems with probate and taxes while also giving you flexibility if you want to change things.

  • @TehBamski
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    1910 hours ago

    And just like that, GOG rose to surpass Steam as the better place to buy video games.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      Call me when they add regional pricing, otherwise their sales are still way too expensive for me.

      • @v0rld
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        12 hours ago

        GOG enabled regional pricing several years ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      Correct me if I’m wrong: if you’re a linux gamer then GOG doesn’t support your platform, no?

      • @[email protected]
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        Yes and no. They do have Linux binaries for games that support Linux, but GOG Galaxy is Windows. Heroic Launcher and others do support GOG.

    • m-p{3}
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      I even rebought some games I really care about on GOG.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      1710 hours ago

      It was already better as the games it sells are free of Digital Restrictions Management

      • @[email protected]
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        55 hours ago

        If only they had a Linux client I might do that too, but the client they said they would come out with never apeared

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        57 hours ago

        Funny how people like it when they actually provide value to you instead of only forcing an ad delivery/data collection tool on you, right?

  • @[email protected]
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    2511 hours ago

    I’m guessing Steam decided against being able to leave your games to somebody else when you die because of how most EULAs I’ve read work: they are often non-transferrable licence and so in most cases the store has no choice in the matter. Now GOG are willing to say they will do what they can given this limitation, but I can see why Steam wouldn’t: it’s a whole lot of work for realistically not much benefit. It’s probably easier for Valve to gift the same games over to the new person.

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      1710 hours ago

      Aren’t all the games on GOG DRM-free? If so, there’s not much difference here than giving someone a USB drive filled with the installers.

      • @[email protected]
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        Pretty sure that’s the technicality GoG is using when they keep saying all this sort of stuff. Their terms of service have effectively the same language about purchases only being a license that Steam does.