P03 Locke @ p03locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Star Citizen, of course. SQ42 is just an extension of those hopes and dreams.

Neither have been in development as long as modern AAA titles

That's false from every interpretation of the sentence.

Yeah, he realized that the hook was worth more than the actual game. Why finish a game that could tank, when you could promote hopes and dreams forever?

Do you remember the music from the last Marvel film you watched?

I don’t.

That's a different kind of problem.

How are the two related?

A user obtains the game through legitimate means by "buying" the game. However, they do not own the game, and are in fact, just renting something. This is despite decades and decades of game buying, especially pre-Internet, equating to owning the game and being able to play the game forever, even 100 years from now.

By pirating the game, a user has clawed back the implied social construct that existed for decades past: Acquiring a game through piracy means that you own the game. You have it in a static form that cannot be taken away from you. There's still the case of server shutdowns, like this legal case is arguing. But, unlike the "buyer", the game cannot suddenly disappear from a game's store or be forcefully uninstalled from your PC. You own it. You have the files. They cannot take that away from you.

The phrase essentially means: You have removed my means of owning software, therefore piracy is the only choice I have to own this game. It's not stealing because it's the only way to hold on to it forever. You know, because that's what fucking "buying" was supposed to mean.

You can be anything. Any company. Any person. Any organization. On any platform. Anything.

It's federated in name only.

I blame ActivityPub. W3C didn't get their shit together when they invented the standard and now we are paying the price.

I would relish a lawsuit against EULAs where the defendant somehow sends the prosecutor a EULA in a software package that declares that they automatically lose the lawsuit by clicking Agree.

It would really hammer in the point that fucking NOBODY reads this shit.

Goddammit... get the quote right:

If buying ain't owning, piracy ain't stealing.

Stop cherry-picking. If 95% of your HDD's files are downloaded from the Internet, including all of your OS and security patch files, marking all of them as "insecure" isn't a valid security method. It invites a ton of false positives, and is practically useless.

Also, stop assuming my age, my height, and who I am. I know what it used to be like pre-Internet, but it's not like that any more.

It's not.

Go ahead and look through your filesystem. Just random parts of it. Count the number of things you downloaded off of the Internet. And yes, all of those files you extracted from an downloaded archive still count as downloaded from the internet.

If you're using Linux, the ISO you downloaded is from the Internet. All of the security patches and updates were downloaded from the Internet. Every single web site you visit was downloaded from the Internet. If you wanted to use a new program, you downloaded it from the Internet. If you created a new file, chances are good that you used some sort of cloud-based service and it was downloaded from the Internet.

There's a reason why Apple got rid of the CD-ROM drive. Because nobody was fucking using it and everything is installed off of the fucking internet! I was going to say that I haven't touched my CD-ROM drive in ages, but then I looked down and realized that I don't even have one installed on this PC.

Putting a "Mark of the Web" on a file is functionally useless. It's like putting a boolean on a file that says "this came from a computer".

Most file systems have a very limited footprint of metadata. Static information. And they are usually following basic POSIX standards, to ensure that file transfers between mediums are as cross-compatible as possible.

This Alternative Data Stream is now creating this entirely new variable data stream for hackers to hide shit in. No longer can just you scan a file's data to make sure nothing malicious is in there. Now you need complex logic to be able to both read this new stream, interpret the flags and other metadata, and take all of those different pieces of information and figure out if it's even worth opening the damn file.

Data is data. Keep data in the data layer. Everything else is secondary, and should be kept tiny.

Because it's a hack-and-slash Diablo clone. The whole point is quantity of enemies.

If you want Dark Souls, go make another game and call it something else. You can't just make Starcraft, and then say that Starcraft 2 is going to be an FPS.

Yes, because getting so lost in the skill tree that you can easily gimp your character by clicking on the wrong node is exactly the direction they need to push more towards.

Protip: All things are downloaded from the Internet.

What the fuck is this arcane metadata bullshit?

I download a file on Linux, and it has data, a filename, and some permission metadata. That's it. It sounds like this metadata layer deserves all of the hacks that will come for it.

Yeah, it's not his rockets. There was a lot of hard work behind them by literal rocket scientists.

If anything, the rockets have excelled despite his stupidity.

What the hell is a "Mark of the Web"?

Also, Bluesky doesn't use the ActivityPub standard, so it sounds like bullshit.

SNES was arguably better than Genesis system

The SNES and Genesis were comparable. You could argue one or the other, but it was a tighter race than the Playstation 3 curb-stomping the Wii.

N64 has much more raw power than my favorite system the PS1

Playstation had CD-ROM, and that's all that needs to be said about that battle.

GameCube was stronger than PS2 and Dreamcast

Comparing the GameCube with the PS2, it had less VRAM, less RAM, a faster CPU, roughly equiv video processor. I would say they were about equal, and that's with GameCube coming out two years later.

The PS2 was also the strongest console to ever fight in any sort of console war, with its ridiculously large library of games. PS2 punished Sega so hard they permanent removed themselves out of the race, and Nintendo had to completely change strategies to fill a different niche and audience, which worked with the Wii. However, that came with the dumbing down of hardware that everybody is talking about. They have been pushing shitty outdated hardware ever since.

PCs literally had "mouse mode" gaming since the 80s. The Amiga/ATARI ST already had them, too.

Consoles have been behind the times for decades.