Barbarian

@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably Valve’s lawyers can make this case, so I guess we’ll see if the judge is receptive to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. There’s 2 different methods that I don’t think they’re doing that would make it legal:

  1. Explicitly tell the user what data the anti-cheat collects when you install it, and what other companies have access to it.

  2. Anonymize the data. Crop the screenshots in storage media to just the game screen, and have a list of which games need what sections of the screen blurred to remove usernames.

  The first is far more useful for them than the second, but it also undermines it’s functionality ad an anti-cheat because you’re telling the cheat creators what to guard against.

  Of course, the real answer here is stop doing user-side anti-cheat at all, do it server-side, and trust nothing the client says. That’s more difficult than user-side, but it also has the benefit of working, while also respecting the user’s privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The big hit medieval strategy game Manor Lords works well on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup! The performance gets pretty terrible towards the lategame, but as far as I understand it, that’s a general issue atm, not Linux specific.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  play better games

  I’d heavily recommend people who want to play DnD but better and without Hasbro look at Pathfinder 2e. Fixes all the major issues with DnD (boring combat where melee gets glued to each other due to attacks of opportunity, no variety in actions outside of magic, broken balance, mandatory healer, etc) while also being produced by the only unionized TTRPG company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a “real” accent? Plenty of people have multiple accents that they code-switch between depending on who they’re talking to.

  An Englishman from Newcastle might talk to his childhood friends in Geordie, talk to his colleagues in RPI, and meet some family from Leeds and talk to them in a Yorkshire accent.

  Accents aren’t this big static monolith.