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dandi8 ,

Now do GOG!

dandi8 ,

There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn't need to check anything.

dandi8 ,

Jesus, that sounds like hell.

dandi8 ,

Which did you use to prove there is? What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

dandi8 ,

If I tell you I'm your god and you should give me all your money or you won't go to heaven, you will rightly call me a liar, even though you can't really prove that I'm not.

You won't say "oh I guess there's no way to prove he's not god, so I'd better give him my money".

In science, the default stance on something existing is that it doesn't, unless there's solid proof, or at least a compelling scientific theory suggesting that it does.

dandi8 ,

He's only not evil because he can't understand his actions.

A god would have to be dumb for this logic to apply.

dandi8 ,

Steam is a ticking time bomb but mostly for the reason that you don't own the games you purchase there and you can't back them up (mostly) so when Steam decides to ban your account or just closes down, you lose all of your games forever.

More people should push for DRM-free games with offline installers, like GOG and Itch offer.

Why do people hate TV shows like The Biggest Loser and My 600-lb Life?

I’m watching both of these shows in their entirety and I don’t know why they’ve historically gotten so much backlash. One reviewer called TBL “a dumpster fire of a TV show” and others seem to think M6L is downright abusive. However, I can’t find anything particularly bad in either....

dandi8 ,

One reason is the more you're forced to work, the less energy, and, more importantly, time you have for preparing healthy meals. Therefore you're more likely to go with preprocessed, prepackaged meals or straight fast food which will make you fat fast.

I've got a relatively cushy job and cook my own, relatively healthy meals but even I find myself going for that store-bought pizza when I have a particularly busy week.

Moreover, unhealthy, preprocessed meals are basically drugs in terms of the dopamine hit, so you're more likely to go for them if your life sucks and you're sad about it.

Add to that the lack of education on healthy eating, which I'd bet is easier to come by when you're at least middle class and bam, you're a fat poor person.

dandi8 ,

I wish they were more upfront about the GOG release date.
I'll gladly buy this once it's available DRM-free, like its predecessor.

dandi8 ,

But now no one has all the new major releases, so in that regard it's a worse experience.

dandi8 ,

Physical media FTW. I wish it was easier to obtain movies and shows physically. I like to own my stuff.

dandi8 , (edited )

You first start spreading, then you start feeling ill - about 2-3 days later. If you left your home within 2 days before noticing symptoms, you've been spreading covid.

dandi8 ,

I'm still playing Unreal Tournament 2004 just fine with bots. I don't need a community to play Project Zomboid with my SO. Your claim is factually incorrect.

dandi8 ,

It replicates it well enough for me to still be playing it regularly 20 years later and well enough to debunk the myth that every multiplayer game must automatically become unplayable with time ("die") solely due to the fact that it's multiplayer.

I can also still play UT2K4 with my friends, should I want to. I can't do either of these with a "live service" game where there is no offline mode or self-hostable servers.

Also, you ignored my mention of PZ, which is a multiplayer-enabled game which also won't die when the developer dies (or abandons the game).

The History and Future of Digital Ownership (www.theverge.com)

I’d like to get the community’s feedback on this. I find it very disturbing that digital content purchased on a platform does not rightfully belong to the purchaser and that the content can be completely removed by the platform owners. Based on my understanding, when we purchase a show or movie or game digitally, what...

dandi8 ,

And yet, somehow, GOG and Itch still exist, allowing you to download games completely DRM-free, as often as you like. If they ever go out of business, you can still use your local copies forever.

How do they do it? A mystery...

dandi8 ,

What do you use for automating the backups?

dandi8 ,

Well then let me actually download the movie like it was a game, then! And how exactly does it take less bandwidth? It's still tens or hundreds of gigabytes to download every time someone wants to install a game, most people only use the offline installers as backups.

dandi8 ,

Isn't he only a CEO? What exactly did he himself create?

dandi8 ,

You're not "supposed to" upgrade every year, that's the point. You should be able to use a 5 year old phone if you want to.

dandi8 ,

So something like a Synology NAS, I guess.

dandi8 ,

... And then spend twice or thrice the buying price fixing random things that break in a car that spends most of its time parked at the mechanic.

dandi8 ,

Solid engine costs extra. That's the entire point.

dandi8 ,

So, as far as I understand, he was fined 3 years salary for doing the job he was hired to do (I consider using Google/Github as part of the job).

Utterly horrifying. Especially when you realize that merely accessing Google is illegal in China...

dandi8 ,

I don't know what web3 is doing there, but I imagine this is terrifying if you're doing IT for western companies in China.

dandi8 ,

I'll be the first to say that I only begrudgingly accept Steam exists. However, I avoid using it and vastly prefer GOG due to the DRM-free nature of their store and the offline installers.

Just because the hate on Epic is vocal does not mean that everyone likes the Steam status quo.

dandi8 ,

When will it release on GOG?

dandi8 ,

Absolutely ridiculous and serves nothing but to make the CEOs feel better.

dandi8 ,

They only "don't have enough to pay us" insofar as they don't have enough to pay us without sacrificing record high profits or CEO salaries.

dandi8 ,

AFAIK this applies retroactively.

dandi8 ,

I have a feeling you're talking about emulating consoles, which is a bit different than, say, emulating a game that only works on Windows XP.

dandi8 ,

I also have plenty of experience emulating all kinds of things, including Windows - in fact, I have an instance of Win 98 in a VM right now.

That said, I can't agree that it's in any way easy for the average Joe. It's not rocket science, but it's by far harder than just having a working executable.

If nothing else, consider the legality of it - you must have a legal copy of the specific version of Windows, often the specific BIOS, as well. These are not easy (or cheap, often) to acquire these days.

Then you likely need to make sure your CPU supports Hyper-V, then install the entire OS...

Then you often need to make sure you're emulating the specific CPU with the specific GPU, with the specific sound card, or else this specific Windows 95 game will CTD or be missing features. Old games were finicky and OS emulation for gaming is only easy on the surface.

dandi8 ,

This is such an uneducated take I'm convinced it's just trolling.

dandi8 ,

I believe the peace talks fell apart once they discovered evidence of all the rape and murder committed by the russians.

dandi8 ,

No one is cheering for the war, no matter how many times you say it.

People may cheer for Ukrainian independence, or for their victories, but no one wants the war to continue. The war can end today, if only Russia decides to give back all the land they took by force, including Crimea.

You're building a strawman.

dandi8 ,

What about what about what about...

dandi8 ,

If it's a proxy war, that means that Russia attacked Ukraine to get back at the US, not the other way around. This means it's on Russia to stop the war, by giving back an innocent country's land that they stole.

dandi8 ,

Oh, Russia is winning this war? Is that why it didn't end in their estimated 3 days? Is that why Prigozhin marched on the Kremlin? Is that why they're asking North Korea for weapons now?

So much winning.

dandi8 ,

This is not politicalmemes.

dandi8 ,

How is this even a meme...?

dandi8 ,

What the hell is this both side-ism? Trying to discourage people from voting?

'Leave our country': Indian students living in constant fear in Ukraine amid hostility (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

The challenges for Indian students pursuing medical degrees in war-torn Ukraine show no signs of abating, as they grapple with increasing hostility from sections of the local population, who perceive India as supporting Russia in the ongoing conflict. The situation has escalated since Ukraine initiated its recent offensive...

dandi8 ,

The argument of deliberately misunderstanding the context and meaning of a comment is indefensible...?
Or do you mean to suggest that we should completely ignore when someone is cherry-picking news to fit an agenda and spread anti-Ukraine sentiment?

Because I'd have no problem with this news article being posted, if this same person didn't post several other very specific articles today.

dandi8 ,

Some things need more context than a single article. In this case, the context is several articles being posted by a person with an agenda. This knowledge may change some people's perception of the article.

dandi8 ,

That's not at all "what we usually do". Most people don't have time to cherry pick articles and post them to "widen the picture", nor should they.

Context is important and so is being aware of bad actors trying to alter public perception.

You're trying to skew this into something that's wrong, but it's not.

dandi8 , (edited )

I counted at least 9 specifically about Ukraine in just the last 3 days, not counting cross-posts.

dandi8 ,

And this was claimed where, exactly...?

Although the article is mostly about how the indian students (of which only 3.5k are currently in Ukraine, per the article) are afraid of bombing and complaining that they can't be transferred to another country, with about a paragraph about (admittedly not good) animosity from Ukrainians.

dandi8 ,

... And improve your reading comprehension. I don't feel like repeating myself.

dandi8 ,

Wikipedia has many, many sources for these war crimes, including the Human Rights Watch, NYT, BBC, CNBC, Amnesty International, Reuters and even the *International Criminal Court *. Nothing you linked to disproves the claims in the wiki article.

dandi8 ,

Russian war crimes are not proven

You're obviously not arguing in good faith with claims like these. You would claim any source I provide to be untrustworthy unless it came from the mouth of Putin himself. Not even photo evidence, Amnesty International (which you yourself used) or the International Criminal Court is good enough for you.

For that reason, I will not be continuing this conversation.

I can only hope you're young so that you have a chance of growing up from the propaganda you've been fed. I hope you don't yet realize the evil of the machine you're feeding and I hope one day you will.

P. S. At not point did anyone claim that any war crimes Ukraine could commit are OK. If someone commits them, they should be held accountable. It just so happens they are not relevant to whether or not Russia was justified in attacking Ukraine, even if any of them happened. Especially because for war crimes... There has to be a war first.

the point here is if you care about war crimes, then you should care about ALL war crimes.

Interesting way to admit you don't care about war crimes. But then, you have been brushing them off this entire time.

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