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- Comment on Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like something someone blindly mocking Apple would joke about them releasing
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 1 month ago:
The thing I think is left out is that it usually eliminates all of the casual cheaters. For some games this is a massive change in the feel and culture of the online space in the game.
But yeah, no matter what, even when the games are never on our hardware and become just video streams sold to us by the hour, cheating tools will always exist. Even if it’s just a bit of tape on your monitor.
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 1 month ago:
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 2 months ago:
I doubt the majority of those incidents are people who bought it without knowing about the controversy first. Thats why they can be grouped and labeled as something other than standard reviews.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 2 months ago:
That does sound like review bombing then. People elsewhere in the thread are arguing about definitions.
- Comment on Valve Working With Rockstar to Fix GTA Online on Steam Deck 2 months ago:
Of course Valve is. GTAO is the most successful online game ever.
- Comment on Minecraft creators are already trying to fix the Minecraft movie 3 months ago:
Oh, “creators” not the creators of the movie, or the game. I see.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress adds Dwarf Babies, an upgraded Adventure Mode and more but macOS cancelled 4 months ago:
😔
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress adds Dwarf Babies, an upgraded Adventure Mode and more but macOS cancelled 4 months ago:
Nooooo
- Comment on If you look to play the upcoming "Spectre Divide" game, don't hold your breath this is from an interview with Mountaintop Games CEO via The Verge. 4 months ago:
Maybe they should publicly boast about having no anti-cheat and tell everyone that they are doing it for cross platform compatibility reasons. And because they believe kernel level stuff is also bad.
I’d love to follow along and see how things go.
- Comment on Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma 4 months ago:
The op said they don’t stop cheaters. Implying it makes zero impact.
- Comment on Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma 4 months ago:
They do make a difference. I’ve been party to the difference that bringing these tools to a platform does.
- Comment on Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma 4 months ago:
Server side is beatable too.
My point is anti cheat will never be perfect, and you just rattled off a bunch of text to say that.
Anti-cheat efforts do make an impact on the pervasiveness and culture of cheating.
- Comment on Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma 4 months ago:
If stopping any and all cheating absolutely is your only metric on “stopping cheating.” Then you have a distorted view on the effectiveness of current anti-cheat tools.
- Comment on Google is purging ‘low-quality’ Android apps next month 5 months ago:
Despite this, conventional wisdom says it’s a better situation on Apple’s side though, right? If so I can’t imagine how messy the play store must be.
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it 6 months ago:
Most of Valves properties are iconic.
- Comment on Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. 6 months ago:
That’s a misuse of the 404 status.
- Comment on OpenAI's new safety committee is made up of all insiders 6 months ago:
“Well work to make this as safe as we can. Right up to the point where it starts to cut into profit potential.”
- Comment on YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment 7 months ago:
“You can pause here to read the full post”
“No I fucking can’t, an ad for a dubious weight loss product covers it!”
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 does what Elden Ring couldn’t, sweeps BAFTAs to become first game to win every big GOTY award 8 months ago:
lol. I just remembered starfield.
- Comment on Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
What specifically is better? These are just clients for the Streaming that Steam provides, right? They don’t actually swap out the “server” side, right?
- Comment on ‘X-Files’ Creator Chris Carter Gave Ryan Coogler His Blessing for Series Reboot: ‘He’s Got Some Good Ideas’ 9 months ago:
Interesting take. That could also pull it out of the classic conspiracy theory territory canon too. That could be interesting culturally.
- Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Coming in 2025, Anime Series Reveals New Footage 10 months ago:
And season 7 is pretty good.
- Comment on The Blue Cross (Michigan) strike has now ended 1 year ago:
You’re suggesting that the scale should never get bigger as a whole too. So for a quarter century the bottom and the top of the pay grades should never change.
You are saying raises should only happen in a fixed scale that stays put for decades.
Wage stagnation.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer released early by rockstar after it was supposedly leaked 1 year ago:
Gross, someone seriously leaked it with a trashy watermark?
- Comment on Exposing the Color Blind Glasses Scam 1 year ago:
Logan Paul is a jackass.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
With an ad blocker, that site claims “something went wrong!”
Nothing went wrong.
- Comment on Windoze 1 year ago:
I haven’t heard that name in years. I miss that magazine.
- Comment on My PDF reader REALLY HAD to add a permanent "AI assistant" button that floats on every single file i open 1 year ago:
Preview is pretty good.
- Comment on [Question] Anyone know if those Miscro sd cards work well on the Steam Deck? 1 year ago:
It’s a bummer that the situation is essentially a tax that guarantees not being hassled by counterfeit goods.
“Well, I have two options. Here, this one here that’s white. And here’s another one that’s not white.”
“What’s the difference?”
“Well, this one I guarantee is what it appears to be.”
“And the other one?”
“Well, that one is probally what it appears to be. But how can I know. I’m just the one selling it to you.”
