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- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 5 days ago:
Yeah now how will we give all the AI crawlers exemptions from uploading their ID and proving they are of age?
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 2 weeks ago:
Poor guy, maybe he should get AI therapy.
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 2 weeks ago:
If SKG get what they want I’ll be even better off when buying games on sale 8 years after release.
Imagine it’s already unsupported and thus:
- Time-limited FOMO events are disabled or left in a predictable cycle
- Can decide to play with friends instead of forced to play with cheaters the publishers can’t seem to keep out of official servers
- Related to previous point but toxic players usually follow the bigger player bases to have more harassment targets and you can ban them yourself if it’s private server or p2p
- Offline play and LAN: play with your travel companions on handheld devices without internet or during outages
- Cash shop shutdown if one existed
Games are ironically going to get better, like a fine wine, as they age and lose support. The alternative is that publishers make them as good at release so people don’t wait until end of life too buy it.
I don’t know if this has been addressed by SKG but my biggest fear is that publishers will push controversial updates that fundamentally change the game like EoC in RuneScape or disable core features before shutdown so that they can say they left it on the newest patch. The game works, but nobody who enjoyed it before is going to want to play it.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
They can’t replace him with a suit. There should be a shaman council that speaks with his spirit to make further decisions for Valve after his passing or retirement (they can just speak directly in this case).
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
I mean the only good alternative to Steam is GOG but there you’re not dealing with DRM.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, well familiar with wine going back over 10 years of using Linux as primary OS with the occasional foray into getting my games running on Linux. Most of this time I have just kept a copy of Windows available for games though since it’s been way too much hassle getting things to run until the last couple of years.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
For the games that natively run on Linux I don’t see any difference in how they’re preserved. Haven’t encountered anything that doesn’t run on modern systems.
With that said they could get an easy win by making a Linux version of Galaxy and borrowing Proton to run non-Linux titles.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Then reading the manual on the bus home or in the backseat of the car. 😊
I still go to the local GameStop sometimes and pick up a used Switch title I’d like to keep and play again in the future before they all dry up. Sadly they come with no manual.
I’m afraid I’m fooling myself though and that one day when I dig out the Switch after not using it for a couple of years it will be a swollen mess of a fire hazard (with mega stick drift) and all those physical copies will be worthless without cartridge-dumping hardware and emulators.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
This is fair but I’m also worried about introducing a new dependency for a game that normally does not rely on Steam.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
GOG is legit though. You can archive those offline installers and they’ll work forever (barring future OS incompatibilities etc). For the titles that support it I use the Linux installers otherwise I just run Galaxy through Steam for the time being since it reduces the amount of wineprefixes I have to configure with Steam.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s been at least five years since I tried Lutris last time. It’s probably matured alongside Proton. Honestly I started moving all my non-Linux games over to Linux after getting a Steam deck and seeing how good well it worked.
I don’t mind leaving my Steam games in Steam but I would like to run some of my Windows titles e.g. GOG titles, Guild Wars without relying on the Steam network being up. Is Heroic the way to go?
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s kind of huge tbh. I honestly hadn’t read that much about Proton. Like that facts that it’s open source.
Just remember all the discussions from the early days of Steam on Linux where some were miffed about running non-free software. I then figured that it was a necessary evil to have games work with less hassle. The games themselves are largely closed source as well, so it’s kind of moot that Steam is also.
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- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 3 weeks ago:
There is a valid argument against the DRM being that your ancient air-gapped system should be able to run the game still but can’t run the DRM due to the requirements changing after the point of purchase. Perhaps there is a discussion to be had about whether DRM should be removed once you change the system requirements drastically, but this feels like a rare circumstance.
The simple solution is to get DRM-free copies from GOG where possible. Archive the installers if you’re worried about future compatibility. That way you can have a nostalgic Windows 98 machine or whatever that only plays games and won’t bug you with random unprovoked changes and updates from day to day.
- Comment on Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS 4 weeks ago:
Oof, Windows 11 is really needy as far as an OS goes. I forget that the machine is supposed to serve me, not demand things me from the all the time.
The grass really is greener in the Linux world. Hope more people get to experience that soon.
- Comment on I have about 55 hours of flights coming up. I’m thinking about the deus ex collection. Any thoughts? 4 weeks ago:
This is me every flight. Got a Switch with lots of stuff, ebooks, music and whatnot. Always end up playing Slay the Spire on my phone.
- Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable 4 weeks ago:
/e/OS looks interesting too and can be delivered from Fairphone with it pre-installed. I’m kinda lost since there are so many privacy-focused OSes based on AOSP. They could probably achieve more by merging some projects, but I imagine there are different philosophies separating them like in most OSS.
In any case, lots of great info here. Cheers again for the insight.
- Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable 4 weeks ago:
Wow, thanks for sharing. This is very detailed. So you tried Calyx, Copperhead etc. too?
The biggest thing turning me off most of these security-oriented roms is having to buy a Pixel. I kind of don’t want to go from one American big tech phone to another.
- Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable 4 weeks ago:
Thanks this is very detailed! Don’t feel compelled to answer any follow-up questions (but you are welcome to!). Just wanna discuss with whoever has opinions and knowledge about it.
One question about lockdown mode on Android though. This means you can’t unlock using biometrics, so you can’t be forced to unlock? On iOS it means it won’t render a lot of scripts and images with tracking on websites, emails, SMS, apps etc. as to make it much harder to exploit anything remotely. I’m wondering if such a feature exists on Android too. I don’t care that lots of websites look janky, I just feel safer knowing most exploits won’t work.
I used LineageOS before my last phone crapped out on me. Ironically I needed to root my phone and use Magisk to hide root in order to make banking apps work. Because the bootloader had been unlocked it failed some google checks or something. Original software support was a pitiful 18 months, so kind of had to go custom rom too.
- Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable 4 weeks ago:
Not in the market to change phones now, but always considering options in case I urgently need to replace it due to catastrophic failure (and fear of making an uninformed choice due to urgency).
With that said, I have an iphone 11 right now with lockdown, stolen device protection, cloud encryption, and FIDO keys enrolled and it feels very secure whilst still letting me use banking apps normally etc. How does /e/OS compare to something like that and how vulnerable is it to being plugged in and downloaded or wormed by malicious actors, zero-click SMS attacks etc?
- Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable 4 weeks ago:
Same. Unless it stops getting security updates or has been dropped to the bottom of the sea, I’m holding on to the phone I have.
- Comment on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google’s Veo 3 4 weeks ago:
Oh so that’s what happens when you give the most talentless, bigoted imbeciles, that couldn’t dedicate two hours to learn a little image/video editing, the tools to generate content.
No, not downplaying the effort it takes to master these skills. This is just how long I imagine it takes a normal person to learn how to splice a few clips or make some memes/shops in gimp.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 29th 4 weeks ago:
Replaying Dark Souls 1 because it feels like home.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 5 weeks ago:
I’ll normally tell my managers etc. when they have an idea that would not work well in the real world. However, many people seem like they have an almost theistic belief in the power of AI (maybe because they’re deeply invested) so I’m holding my tongue at work.
For the time being I’m doing my job properly but if I’m forced to do things a certain way even if it’s clearly worse I will comply and let them waste their money. I’m tired and I won’t police decisions above my pay grade.
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s the one. It’s sad that people take what guys like this say at face value. He’s obviously got ulterior motives (own live service game in the works and/or paid by industry) to oppose regulation that would only benefit game enthusiasts.
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 5 weeks ago:
For real. It’s not hard to understand at all and he’s clearly misunderstanding on purpose.
With DRM being so prevalent these days I’m worried we’ll just have decades worth of games we can’t play one day because publishers want us buying their new games and re-releases of old games.
I make a point of buying physical copies for console where possible and from GOG otherwise. Especially when I am likely to want to replay the game a few years later.
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 5 weeks ago:
Apparently some gamer streamer with a much bigger platform put out a bunch of videos criticizing the initiative and intentionally misrepresenting their goals.
He also refused to talk to the guy behind the initiative to get clarifications whilst still putting out more videos dunking on it. Most likely the critic got paid by the industry to muddle the waters and turn people against their own interests (as per usual).
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 1 month ago:
I wish people would boycott but most people don’t know or think about right to repair, game preservation etc.
Nintendo is selling record numbers of Switch2 and they can just keep phoning it in because they have proven that people are willing to pay a subscription to rent emulated copies of their childhood games whilst replacing drifting joy cons every month.
Doubt this will be the end of Nintendo even though I would be happy to see some consequences for companies that clearly hate their paying customers.