Draegur
@Draegur@lemm.ee
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 week ago:
use old.reddit.com allegedly it lets you through if you click a “yes i am 18” button
- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 1 week ago:
L take.
His worst video.
And an entire month too late for April Fools Day.
- Comment on Tasty 1 week ago:
for an embarrassingly long time, my brain refused to comprehend the words attached to this post and instead insisted on interrogating itself as to the qualities of a candy gator.
gummigoo
its freakin gummigoo
- Comment on Crime 1 week ago:
[when all you did was put a fork back on the table after the physics engine’s weird physics made it fall on the floor]
- Comment on Crime 1 week ago:
When you try to violate the laws of physics…
You don’t break them; THEY BREAK YOU.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
easy: the metal is pulling the magnet backwards and the magnet moving backwards is pushing the whole truck backwards through the arm.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 4 weeks ago:
You call this a life?
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
This is why you have to calibrate your time machine to track the relative gravity well.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
“never ever be biased except in these subjects we want you to be biased about, and always be controversial except about these specific concepts about which we demand you represent our opinion and no others”
These fucking chuds don’t deserve oxygen.
- Comment on Be safe out there 5 weeks ago:
i would still nevertheless really appreciate seeing more anime around that features female characters who aren’t gods damned children.
it’s gross. i’m sick of it. it’s exhausting.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
ugh. Fuck threads.
- Comment on I hate that I enjoyed singing that 1 month ago:
yeah i concur; that was delightfully arranged!
- Comment on If they're people, why aren't they in prison? 1 month ago:
so it’s possible the numbers are even more damning and egregious than they look even here
- Comment on If they're people, why aren't they in prison? 1 month ago:
what’s the time frame on this? how far back are the records we’re looking at? is this JUST fiscal year 2022 or something?
- Comment on Embracer CEO says it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios 1 month ago:
i wish the gaming community could form a SPAC and buy Deus Ex collectively, with the sole mission to immediately release it into the public domain.
Then EVERYBODY can create Deus Ex games.
- Comment on Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows 1 month ago:
gods i hope so
i also hope it could be true for us yanks on this side of the pond.
good luck, UK!
- Comment on I <3 beating dead horses. 1 month ago:
i’m sure you could do it all day.
- Comment on Suboptimal 2 months ago:
Starboard engine experienced a spontaneous ejection in one of its internal combustion cylinders. No Bueno.
- Comment on Need Space 2 months ago:
that’s a cool set of caps though
even though the among us astronauts detract from the quality of the image
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Only the keys need to be stored cryptographically, really, because the game files themselves are nigh inevitably available on torrenting networks. it’s inevitable that people are going to rip backups of all game files for the delicious delights of datamining and as long as enough of them will seed them (which shouldn’t be a problem as long as there’s any INTEREST in a game existing…) that availability never arises as an issue. And if it’s not popular enough to put there, it’ll probably end up on The Internet Archive.
Would be nice if there were an infrastructural ‘backup of last resort’ such as the library of congress, which is something the LoC already does for other audiovisual media. It’d just be nice if that service were extended to software.
- Comment on How many times will I tell you? 2 months ago:
the stinkiest ghosts.
- Comment on How many times will I tell you? 2 months ago:
i mean, that too. that’s the excuse i give when people demand to know why I always “fucking” close the “goddamn” lid :3
- Comment on How many times will I tell you? 2 months ago:
close the lid.
now everybody has to adjust the toilet before using it.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
it’s that holding a license for a game entitles you to operating a copy of it regardless of where you bought it.
it’s the whole basis for why emulation and ROM images were LEGAL
because you had a right to retain a backup of the software you own through the license.
with an independent licensing infrastructure, if GoG closes you can take your licenses with you, download the game from anywhere, and if anyone tries to charge you for stealing it, you can just present your license: “See, i bought it fair and square.”
if i bought a dryer from SEARS, it didn’t stop being mine when SEARS closed.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
no. you’re putting words in my mouth. if the distributor wants to stop distributing they can.
they can take down their servers, they can even cease to be, but it would no longer affect the availability of product they sold.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
i for one would have liked a media licensing system that operates agnostic of any centralized authority
for instance, irrefutable and independently verifiable proof that you own a valid software, music, or visual art license and are therefore immune to prosecution for piracy.
A registry of licenses like this could shield creators from copyright claims on social media applications such as youtube. Could also automate revenue sharing and royalties for artists whose works are used in derivative media so the people who actually perform the work get paid. Would be nice to cut the publisher middleman out. And there is absolutely no reason there has to be anything like a “proof of work” system burning down entire fucking rainforests’ worth of energy to verify every single gods damned transaction because this sort of system isn’t for trading shit, it’s strictly for proving a valid chain of custody between producers and consumers and you don’t need megawatt-hours to just fucking LOOK SOMETHING UP.
imagine if, for instance, fucking warner brothers couldn’t “takes backsies” content that they SOLD to end users through a distribution network; the license is yours, and anyone can look up the fact that the license was sold to the user id you happen to control.
imagine if, for instance, you buy a video game through a digital distributor like steam but then the store goes out of business and no longer exists to serve you a copy or recognize the sale, but on this massively distributed and decentralized database you can prove that you did indeed compensate the developers of that software and thereby legally acquire entitlement to access it in accordance with the end user license agreement.
imagine if ownership of stuff you bought fair and square can never be taken away from you
THAT’S what we could have had
instead of this fucking bullshit.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
yes, it would be nice if this were not the shape of the world we lived in
where vacant houses are piggybank tokens for foreign billionaires and their real estate holdings firms.
where all the currency liquidity of our market has pooled at the top like a brain hemorrhage.
where basic human rights and necessities for life are commoditized, gatekept, and sold at a premium.Metaphorically speaking, our civilization is flooded and we are traped underwater.
It is indeed a problem that we are trapped underwater.
People are drowning every day.Yes, no one should have to need SCUBA gear.
Yes, it sucks that we’ve built our entire infrastructure around facilitating the use of SCUBA gear.
Let us not mislead ourselves, however, into thinking that criticism of SCUBA gear would ever change the fact that we are trapped underwater,
or that someone would be any less likely to drown down here if we took their SCUBA gear away. - Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
HVAC and shelter.
ain’t gonna survive sleeping in your bike for a few years scraping by on the few places willing to hire you under the table.while all the shitstain hiring managers complain “nobody wants to work anymore” as they fucking shred your application over and over and over again.
- Comment on I'm not picky... 4 months ago:
It’s fun seeing things like this and remembering how the person i used to be decades ago would’ve reacted.
And now?
Anyone that gorgeous who looks at me like THAT?
Honey I don’t care if you jizz acid, let the floor melt as much as my heart already did.
- Comment on puzzling 4 months ago:
congrats on getting out of putting up with chud’s bullshit christmas.