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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But therapists are expensive :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skinamarink. It was truly terrifying for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, anybody could verify it by spending a few hours each on the respective games… But yes, any empirical data would be nice. For example, a study on the amount of blatant hackers found on lobbies joined in comparable ranks. Anyway, this isn’t exactly misinformation to anybody who has played both games at any decent rank. It’s unproved but immediately discernible information. Take that how you will, i don’t really intend to argue about this here. This kind of pointless argument is the worst thing about Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure wish there was some empirical study regarding the same too. I’m very much going by anecdotal evidence from myself and others right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you don’t actually need kernel level to do anti cheat well.

  I’m sure you’re right, but VAC is one of the worst examples for that… I think whatever Blizzard does with Overwatch 2 is a better example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It just needs to be "owning* in the way physical media without DRM works. That is data too after all. The ability to sell your copy of the data or have your friend borrow.

  Yes, DRM-free is the closest thing, never argued otherwise. I’m also not arguing the services offered by GOG are part of “ownership”. The lack of an ability to download a game at any point is just a part of the fact that GOG too is simply licensing in the end. But yes, GOG is still the closest thing to “owning” games. Which is why it sucks that so many titles on GOG have DRM despite the claims btw…

  I’m really only arguing one thing: piracy is better than GOG right now in every single way. You don’t have to worry about hidden DRM. You don’t have to worry about account creation bullshit. You don’t have to worry about anything else. You just download, hit play and it works every single time. If I send the copy to a friend, it will still work.

  Piracy has always been closer to “owning” than GOG, so GOG should at least have some other tangible benefits over piracy. But right now, they don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At that point, why not buy the game on any platform of your choosing and just pirate it when it stops being accessible on the platform you bought it on? I understand wanting to support GOG, I “own” a lot of games on GOG as well. But it’s not really “owning” even on GOG if at some point, I could lose the ability to download the game.

  Any game that isn’t available as a pirated game isn’t going to be on GOG anyway… The problem here is that GOG needs to be better than piracy in any tangible way and right now, that’s not the case. It would be the case for me if GOG Galaxy was available on Linux but it’s not, as one example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s basically the first game any new game dev makes. The idea is way too simple for any kind of copyright. Not to mention it already existed before Flappy bird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨non vegan pizza time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The people you described aren’t the ones being harassed

  I think it’s very hypocritical of you to assume that and then call me out for assuming something similar. And then you call this harassment? I made an assumption based on an assumption you felt free to make. But when I make a similar assumption, that’s harassment?

  If you are so confident in vegans harrassing almost-vegans who try to live without animal products, please name a single instance.

  I’ve personally experienced it, both in real life and on social platforms, including lemmy. I just make it a point to try and avoid interactions like that these days. I don’t go into vegan communities despite being really enthusiastic about stuff like meat substitutes because around 50% of my interactions have been terrible. And 50% is a terrible number btw. The false equivalences, the assumptions and other issues even in this post’s comments section is kind of alarming. But yeah… Play a victim if that’s what suits you i guess.

  I like the concept of veganism, but your community isn’t the best to outsiders. One day that too will change hopefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨non vegan pizza time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What vegan is out there calling non-vegans rapists?

  I’ve been told that before. Not being vegan implies you support terrible breeding practices which makes you a rapist… apparently…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elsevier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could write a script to automatically watch for new files in a folder and strip metadata from every file i guess. I had done something like that for images way before.