Peruvian_Skies @ Peruvian_Skies @sh.itjust.works

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But then wouldn't it be easier for those software engineers to just deploy it themselves and keep all the money? What value is the buyer providing?

What is meant by Ransomware as a Service, as opposed to regular old Ransomware?

I came here to say this. If I have only a 7% chance of recovering my data after paying, I'm better off not paying.

So they only share when you click on an ad. I use an adblocker anyway, so effectively they're not sharing anything. Or do I misunderstand?

Color me underwhelmed.

Nintendo is going to have to bring it in a big way to win me back after all the shit they've been pulling and it looks like they decided to do the exact opposite of that. At least it has a proper kickstand. I have no clue how they thought that flimsy plastic membrane from the first Switch was a good idea.

Yes, exactly in that way. The second grader might have a bit of an edge on Bethesda tbh.

Awesome. What prompt did you use?

Taste is subjective and yes, you might enjoy it, but I wouldn't bet on it. Limited beam ammo makes the game unenjoyable all on its own, then there's everything else I mentioned.

I finished the first Metroid Prime thrice on the Gamecube, twice on the Wii, once on Dolphin Primehack (mouse+keyboard) and once on the Switch. It's no exaggeration to call it my favorite video game of all time.

I finished MP2 once on the Gamecube and I regret every second of it. I've played several games that were worse, but none of them had such a vertiginous fall from grace compared to what the same IP had produced before. The only one that comes close is Diablo 3. MP2 managed to go wrong with every single change they made in relation to the original: the soundtrack is worse, the environments are uglier, the story is uninspired, the enemies are boring, the puzzles are too easy, the gimmick is awfully cliché and actively hampers enjoyment and then removes itself for the last 20% of the game, and I don't even remember the final boss, which shows what a huge impact it had on me.

I have never been so disappointed by a piece of media in my entire life, and I probably never will. I feel personally insulted that even a single person would consider remaking this garbage anything other than an affront to good taste.

Yes because tariffs that make legal imports more expensive are very effective at suppressing illegal imports, which don't pay tariffs at all, for reasons. Clearly this is the motivation behind them.

No, that was John McAffee.

Thank you, dear madam or sir!

If they call it a "sale" rather than a "licensing" then I consider myself entitled to remove the DRM (which I do to all my Kindle ebooks, for example) or to download a cracked copy for archiving (which I do to some games I wish to keep, if I haven't bought them on GOG or another DRM-free platform). Common sense and ethics dictate that I am in my right to do this.

If companies are relying on a technicality - an obscure one to the general public, even though techies have been aware of this issue for over a decade - to hoodwink people and charge actual-purchase prices for mere licensing, then I am relying on the implicit tenets of morality, good faith and common sense to bypass their malicious and bad faith distortions. Artificial scarcity be fucked, I paid what they claim is a fair price for what they claim is the purchase of a digital good, so I shall treat it with Animus Domini just as I do with any physical purchase. This includes lending to others as per the First Sale doctrine.

The fact that the seller consciously chose to contradict themselves, calling it a purchase out in the open and a licensing deal in the fine print, should it ever work to someone's disadvantage, should obviously be to the disadvantage of the person who intentionally made the blunder, not to good faith third parties. This is a well-established principle of legal ethics and Civil Law which is adopted by legal scholars the world over. Whether or not they have failed to apply it to these specific cases is wholly irrelevant to its validity, and I apply it to my own dealings with a perfectly clear conscience.

I legally purchase all my media, and I will use any and all means necessary to protect my good faith acquisitions, including those which are incontroversially illegal for those who have not purchased that piece of media, such as downloading cracked software, because this is simply done to remedy an inexcusable omission on the part of those who claim to have sold me a copy of that software but don't provide me with the possibility to archive my copy locally. So long as these transactions are referred to openly as purchases, sales, etc. I shall continue to act in this way to enforce their overt nature over the malicious mischaracterization contained in their licensing.

In other words, slimeballs, have the guts to call it licensing and renting. Until you do, I and many like me will continue to make your lies come true and there is realistically nothing you can do to stop us.

I don't use the feature, so I'm not aware if it's supported.

You're a teenager, aren't you?

Google can suck the shit directly from my asshole Human Centipede style if they think I'm ever going to pay them for.not using their monopoly to harass me. When I can no longer feasibly block ads on YouTube, I'll just move to another platform. Thank goodness they're about to lose Chrome because otherwise they'd soon be injecting ads directly through the browser just like they do in their shitty news app.

Why tf are you using GOG Galaxy under Bottles when Lutris is better than Bottles in every single way and integrates directly with your GOG account, meaning you don't need GOG Galaxy at all? This is like pulling the handbrake on your car and pushing it uphill instead of turning it on and driving it, in terms of how needlessly difficult you're making things for yourself.

Trump will absolutely push for peace talks. If by "push for" you mean "tenderly fellate" and by "peace talks" you mean "Vladimir Putin".

That can only be done if the case is presented again. You can't dismiss something that doesn't exist.

I have a friend who works at a major bank and they use Blockchain technology to keep track of something or other internally, though I don't remember exactly what. In this case at keast we can bet that it has found a problem worth using it to solve. Banks are nothing if not efficient.

I find it funny that it was touted as an alternative to the current banking system and ended up being absorbed into it though