Some important information:
1.) I wasn't phished, didn't click on any links, didn't randomly put my password somewhere, etc. I am completely positive of this.
2.) At the time this happened, my email started getting spammed with hundreds of random emails from all sorts of sources (SubStack, EA, AliExpress, Slack... shit I'm not even signed up for).
3.) I then got a text message that my @PlayStation Network email address was changed. Then I got a text message saying 2FA was turned off.
Frankly, how can any of this even be possible if someone isn't feeding information from the inside or has some sort of bespoke access to things they shouldn't? Makes no sense otherwise. I don't want to speculate, but it seems like a pretty serious technical and security breach.
@PS_Support_US was zero help (though the person I spoked with was perfectly nice). Said my situation has to enter a queue, it will take a week for them to see -if- they can give me my account back, and they seemed to not at all be interested that I was positively not phished, that my email address was randomly changed, that 2FA was shut off, and all the rest.
I did try to explain that I'm a prominent "media" person in the PlayStation space and that I'm likely being targeted as a result, though this has been happening to random people as well (as we've covered on Sacred Symbols). They seemed totally clueless about any of this, even though it's been circulating for months and people have already been targeted and been dealing with account issues.
Needless to say, if I don't get my account back, I'm retiring from gaming and podcasting forever. So let's hope it all works out!
In the meantime, be vigilant out there! Not that anything I could have done whatsoever would have stopped this. <3
My PSN account was hacked, seemingly as part of an ongoing sophisticated series of moves against both random and "prominent" users.
Indeed, I was told by someone a few days ago that I was going to be targeted, and he was right. (He was also hacked.)
Bulgaria has won Eurovision Song Contest!
The commentator on Bulgarias broadcast just said Bulgaria will NOT host Eurovision next year unless something changes due to financial constraints.
This is such an unforced error. (take it from a guy who's made several of them)
The comments section is absolutely brutal. I don't know why you wouldn't notice how much people are trashing this game for its fake gameplay, and then days later upload this. Why say anything?
As someone that was a teenager in the 90โs Iโm struggling to understand the music choices in Mixtape. None of it is what we listened to in Suburbia.
No Sublime, 311, Pearl Jam, Aerosmith (good god so much Aerosmith in the 90โs), Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Beck.
In regards to Mixtape - since that's all I see everyone talking about, I'll just say this. I'm the target audience, I graduated High School in 2000 afterall, so yeah, I was a teenager in the 90s. So I think it's pretty telling that the ONLY song on the entire soundtrack that I've actually heard was one from the 60s, "Have You Seen Her".
I don't know what radio stations they were listening to, but I certainly wasn't listening to that noise. Where's Hole, the Foo Fighters, GreenDay, Offspring, Radio Head, The Smashing Pumpkins, REM? - and that's just off the top of my head.
Nick Fuentes came out as a Democrat this week, and he's not alone. Many erstwhile Right-wing podcasters are now finding they have more in common with the Left these days, thanks to a meeting of minds on a singular issue: One's level of comfort blaming Jews for the worldโs ills.
@GenePark@aStrayBullet10 Itโs not really mental and also not really a problem, itโs just an intellectual observation that the (fairly recent) phenomenon of not being able to identify with a story because itโs different from your own life experience is deeply retarded and nonsensical.
Mixtape connected with me hard too. It asks us to consider what's left unsaid, and I thought about the people who never knew how I felt until it was too late. Yes it's through a specific white suburban lens, but it also summons a reflection back to you.
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@GoodGameKofi Only thing I raised an eyebrow at is the like 10 perfect scores it got from multiple outlets. Im not the target demographic and the game itself might be good but I dont think any gane deserves a perfect score and see that many just seems odd.