MagnificentSteiner
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- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 15 hours ago:
That was also the only factual assertion I made. I posited a guess afterwards, and drew potential conclusions afterwards.
Yes, uncharitable guesses that were unwarranted and amounted to a strawman.
I’ll spell it out real simple for you since you seem to need that…
it sounds like you’re not boycotting Steam’s
I never said I was boycotting either Denuvo or Steam. You’re trying to imply here that I have a contradiction in my argument but I don’t. The only thing I said was they’re both bad.
so long as it can be circumvented, you don’t especially care, right?
Trying to reinforce your own strawman with more assumptions in a transparent attempt to make me seem a hypocrite.
For the purposes of the argument, circumvention and performance are two very distinct concerns.
This wasn’t mentioned in my comment thread at all until you brought it up and even then it’s only in the context of your strawman.
If it can be shown that Steam DRM also affects performance, what would be your opinion then?
As I said before numerous times, I think Steam DRM is bad. Whether or not it affects performance wouldn’t change my opinion. This isn’t the gotcha you seem to think it is.
Here, educate yourself about informal fallacies.
If you don’t want to comment, just keep your hand off the Post button
Make me.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 19 hours ago:
You said they’re both “bad”
This is the only true thing you said. Everything else is your assumptions that you argue against as a strawman.
The arguments I’ve made here stand on their own and I’m not going to jump through hoops to try to pass your manipulative and extremely transparent purity test.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 23 hours ago:
It’s not. If “That game has denuvo so I won’t buy it because I hate DRM” if a stance you have, you should also not buy it because of Steam’s DRM. Otherwise you’re not true to your own word and therefore unbelievable.
Strawman fallacy. You’re arguing against something I didn’t say. I did in fact say “They’re both DRM, they’re both bad.”.
As surprising as it may be for you, it’s possible to be against both anti-cheat and DRM, which I am. You’re the one here defending Denuvo and trying to minimise other people’s opinions on it.
I won’t be replying anymore as you’re clearly not here in good faith.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 1 day ago:
You can own your games on Steam too. It is entirely up to the publisher/developer. Cyperpunk 2077 for instance has no DRM on Steam and can be played without it.
pcgamingwiki.com/…/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games… (not a complete list)
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 1 day ago:
I get that people don’t like the thought of “I’m not fully owning my game” which is reasonable, but in that case, your reason for not playing pargmata shouldn’t be denuvo, but steam itself.
This is whataboutism. They’re both DRM, they’re both bad. I should point out though that it is up to the developer/publisher whether they use Steam DRM. There are games on Steam that you can play the game without Steam (Cyberpunk 2077 for example).
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 1 day ago:
If you are in favour of any kind of DRM then you are arguing against your own interests as a purchaser of games.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 1 day ago:
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Now now, don’t be getting all reasonable. This is the internet after all!
- Comment on Got gifted an XBOX360 S. What now? 1 week ago:
It’s an old meme ;)
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty hyped for FH6 but I’ll wait a couple of days after release to get it, just in case ;)
If you want to test FH4 pirated (you can’t buy it anymore for licensing reasons) before shelling out for FH6 just DM me and I’ll give you details on where to get a good copy and how to set it up on Linux (just got done with that a few days ago, even have multiplayer working).
- Comment on Indie Pass, a Subscription Service for Indie Games, Launches on PC - IGN 1 week ago:
Shhh, don’t tell them that buying indie games helps indie devs even more!
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 week ago:
I only like arcade racers and I love Forza Horizon. The online components of entering races with other players you can totally ignore. The open world events (Forzathon if it’ll still be called that) are pretty fun and collaborative rather than competitive.
If you like having a wide variety of cars to drive, a bunch of different race types (road, street, dirt and cross country racing) and great looking scenery then it’ll definitely appeal to you IMO. There’s also open world stuff like danger signs (stunt jumps), drift zones and speed traps/zones which I think are pretty fun and a nice break from races.
It plays great with a controller, all you need is accelerate/brake/turn/handbrake and you can complete most content (maybe not drift zones).
FYI if it’s like FH4/5 it defaults to online but there’s no need to turn it off as other players can’t get in your way and there’s not that many people on each map anyway.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 week ago:
TBF there ain’t much to pick between them when it comes to business practices xD
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 week ago:
Is it owned by WotC now? I thought it was Games Workshop.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 week ago:
A good one yeah :)
They did however already make an OK one with a terrible DLC strategy (there’s €200 of DLC).
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know. It’s barely even half a game at that point though so what’s the point?
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 week ago:
Total War Warhammer 1/2/3! I hate RTS combat. If these games were turn based they’d be amongst my most played.
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of big companies using Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning and other EPM stuff.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 29th 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been floating between lots of games in my library the last month or so with nothing really keeping my interest.
Something has finally stuck though… having my 2nd go at Atelier Ryza, enjoying it much more this time. First time through I wasn’t so keen on the crafting but this time I’m leaning into it and it’s far better as a result.
Playing Forza Horizon 4 on the side. I really love the setting but damn are the NPCs annoying constantly talking at you and taking control of the UI away as they do. It’ll be much better once I’ve unlocked everything and they shut up!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Red split lentils all the way! They’re great for soup that thickens itself. Great in stews or curries to thicken it a bit. There’s no danger of them having a bad texture like can happen with other lentils and they cook much quicker.
- Comment on Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post) 4 weeks ago:
“We’re so sorry to have to lay you off”
wipes tears with fortnite billions
I loved this part of it… “This isn’t our first time being here. Epic survived upheavals in 1990’s with the move from 2D to 3D with Unreal 1; in the 2000’s building console games with Gears of War; and in 2012 moving to online gaming with Paragon and Fortnite. Each time, we rebuilt our foundations and earned a renewed leadership position.”
TLDR “Epic will survive, but your job won’t. So sad.”
- Comment on Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 8th 1 month ago:
I only did a couple of runs so not done much. I’ll remember to get back to you when I’ve played much more like I said before!
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 8th 1 month ago:
I got sucked into Drop Duchy big time the last couple of weeks.
Chrono Ark is next up (already started it and it seems pretty fire from what little I’ve seen).
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- Comment on CEOs make 281 times of the typical worker 1 month ago:
CEOs
makestealFTFY
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 1 month ago:
Yep, or if you have cookies enabled for duckduckgo.com just disable it in the settings.
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 1 month ago:
Click the … then “Flag AI Image”.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 2 months ago:
You asked a question, I answered. You didn’t like the answer so now you move the goalposts.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 2 months ago:
Anything by Blizzard, Escape from Tarkov, Minecraft, Roblox, Valorant/LoL/TFT, Genshin Impact/HSR, Fortnite and more.