Alaknár

My point being: games and art are not necessities. Don’t be a little bitch, if you want to have them, pay for them. If you don’t want to support the company under which the game was made, wait for a massive sale on Steam or some such.

Giving “a shitty company intent on abusing your customers to extract as much money from them” is not done by pirating the game (which makes them try to extract even more money out of their clients), it’s by financially supporting the companies and creators who don’t do that.

There’s clear data showing piracy almost never has a negative impact on sales. If anything, it’s usually a positive impact. And the exceptions to this are not video games.

Please share! Would love to read about it!

Artists don’t get paid for the amount of copies sold, that’s executives and shareholders

Sales numbers are the telemetry execs use when deciding what games to green-light.

Why do you think suddenly everybody was making live-service games? Battle Royale first, then hero shooters, and now extraction shooters? These games are reporting great income because it’s not possible to pirate them. Add MTX on top and suddenly everybody and their mother wants a cut.

Why do you think even GTA became a live-service game, even when it has a single-player story?

Why do you think more and more games have launchers that require people signing in to some accounts to verify if they made the purchase?

All the crap you people are mostly moaning about are a direct result of piracy.

This is such an incredible level of magical thinking that most 12 year olds already grow out of.

What do you think happens with the artists if the game doesn’t sell?

What do you think happens to the genre if the game doesn’t sell?

People are complaining about live-service games, but holy fuck, can you not see that these are the direct response to piracy? You literally cannot pirate these games, because they require constant connection to the servers that verify if you have a license.

The list is so confusing… ESL is an e-sports organisation, they do e-sport events, they don’t make games. Why are they on the list? Why is Netflix on the list??

And why is Riot on the list? Their games are free, we’re literally not paying for the games, we’re paying for the in-game store crap (if at all)…

I never understood the scale of this bullshit until I had a user request his script packaged. Now, Intune doesn’t like executing random python scripts, so I gave him several options for 8 KB, 50-lines-of-code script.

He disregarded them and wrapped it all in Electron.

I received a 380 MB zip file.

But, well, it had an .exe inside so I could work with that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know it’d be expensive, but I wonder if it’d be worth it to valve to start producing ram.

There’s a reason why there’s only, like, three RAM manufacturers. It’s horrifically expensive to start production.

How many games do you play at the same time?

The absolutely MASSIVE Crimson Desert is only 130 GB. Something like ARC Raiders - 50 GB. Elden Ring - 65 GB.

You can easily fit a bunch of games on a 512 GB drive - especially considering the GabeCube comes with SteamOS, Linux-based, which means it’s not going to gobble up 15-40 GB like Windows does.

But that’s your PC. GabeCube is more of a console, so you wouldn’t necessarily keep that many media files on it.

but it won’t make the money people happy

“The money people” is Google which is bankrolling Firefox so that it won’t have to divest Chrome under monopoly laws.

opt-out

Not two months ago I was downvoted to oblivion on this community when arguing with someone who claimed that any feature being opt-out is bloat and dark patterns.

Heh, good one. Just think about it for a second - what would then Nintendo do with their whole office building full of lawyers?

But yeah, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is recent and supposed to be for Skyrim fans. Haven’t played it yet.

I don’t know if I’d call it that. It’s much more story-oriented than Skyrim’s “here’s a sandbox, figure things out, do stuff, oh, btw, there’s technically some quests you can do too”.

The entire time playing Crimson Desert I have the feeling: “this is Skyrim, but better”.

Any time anyone complains about a game and mentions anything at all related to “woke” as one of the reasons for the game being bad, you can immediately dismiss the entire opinion.

If you actually read his github you would know that there is a different version of the responsible component between the recovery environment and an installation. Only the RE has the issue.

I know. It was mentioned in the article. It’s precisely why I said:

Another possibility is that they have two separate builds fro BitLocker, and the one used in WinRE is vulnerable which they missed.

Microsoft is the developer of the vulnerable bitlocker package and the ones who chose to ship it.

… one guy claims.

Another possibility is that they have two separate builds fro BitLocker, and the one used in WinRE is vulnerable which they missed.

We don’t have enough information to clearly state that they did this on purpose.

We can know for FOSS software. You are treating uknownable as being less than the known bugs in Foss software. That’s dishonest, lad.

Again, read up about the XZ Utils vulnerability. We technically can know, but we don’t know, which was a statement by the guy responsible for package. It’s not dishonest, it’s a statement of fact.

I wish you all the luck in regaining a bit of happiness in life, so that you can stop with this insane “us vs them” bullshit. It’s unhealthy, mate.

Microsoft shipping a vulnerable version of the recovery environment. It is the ‘exploit’.

Red Hat and Canonical shipped a vulnerable version of SSH, the thing was caught basically hours before hitting all devices around the world.

Should Red Hat and Canonical be now considered hostile as much as MS is?

You select people who will remain complicit till they have a grievance against you. Even if they don’t and talked for moral reasons do you think they would not been fired for it?

I can only answer by saying this: I wish you luck in the job market and hope you’ll eventually find an employer you don’t assume to be a hostile entity towards you.

Who knows. How many more went through at closed source software a limited amount of people can test in the same way?

This is the equivalent of “prove that God doesn’t exist”. We can’t know because they haven’t been found, mate.

Yeah, that’s kind of the exact opposite of the point I was making, but you do you.