nottheengineer

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I forgot they replaced CSGO. That was a scummy move indeed given the game lacks those major features.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

given that the lawmakers who enact crap like that are usually tech-illiterate, we at least have high chances of loopholes.

At this point, I instinctively disagree with anyone who tries to "protect the children" or "fight terrorism". I tried challenging that prejudice many times, but never had any success.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

CS was quite shitty for quite a while before I quit. Now it looks like it's recovering, the CS2 launch went well (apart from server issues) so there's definitely a reason to have hope. At least with valve.

Titanfall 2 also recovered, but that was always a good game. I'll even say it's the best shooter ever made period.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't have any hope for any of this improving.

The EU is currently working on legislation to search through all chat messages sent by everyone ever, so the only way to keep any privacy is to take it into your own hands.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

But that's how politics work nowadays. You need to assume that every group is homogenous and when someone from that group points out that it isn't, you call them a hypocrite.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They shouldn't be required to keep selling it, but they should be required to strip it of any DRM when they do stop selling it.

That way everyone wins. They can get out of the market at minimal effort and players can still enjoy their games.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

No, it's morally obligatory.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

And that's what makes this bad. A game that's perfectly playable and even has a community is taken away by greedy Ubisoft. This should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

KDE for me. As much as I hate windows, I like the floating windows, task bar and tray. KDE has that out of the box and lets me tweak all the little annoyances away.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if I understand correctly, you define the border of piracy as the technicality of websites where the HTML and JS are accessible as opposed to a binary that comes with built-in DRM.

How do you think about DRM-free games?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

When did I say piracy was wrong?

In this case it's apparently the only option.

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