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I accidentally bought a game while my VPN was on (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I bought Mega Man X Dive Offline, really hyped for it, but then when I double checked my VPN, I realized it was set for the Netherlands.... Not good, I thought I had it set for the US as per usual.

Now it still showed the price in USD, but now I'm paranoid, I put in a refund explaining the situation and promising I'd buy it with the VPN turned off this time..

How fucked am I?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Arent you not allowed to buy games if Steam thinks you're somewhere you aren't?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

You’re also not allowed to cross the street outside of a crosswalk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I don’t know if you’re kidding, but that would be a very weird law.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's called jaywalking - illegal in Australian cities actually.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also in US, and I suspect many other countries

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t know if something that oppressive is going to be true in many countries.

Maybe only in oppressive countries like China and the US, and a few others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It varies state to state but in my experience it's a single digit dollar amount fine and that's it. Only in places that have adequate crosswalks everywhere and rarely enforced unless there's been chronic pedestrian issues. In US, pedestrians always have right of way. Jaywalking laws are there as a deterrent to protect pedestrians as much as drivers. About the only place I've seen jaywalking laws enforced are university campuses. You've got throngs of young adults, on their own for the first time, and walking around everywhere in busy urban environments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Illegal in the USA, too. It is a rarely enforced law.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is so weird to me. In Belgium, if there is no crosswalk in 20meters, you can cross (and cars a supposed to stop to let you go).

What do you do if there is non ? You take your car to cross the street ? Or everything is well done and you have a crosswalk every few meters on every road ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, we don't walk. We drive everywhere, even if our destination is in the same neighborhood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

In the US it’s only illegal if there is a crosswalk and you don’t use it. If there is no crosswalk, then it’s not jaywalking.

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