Anticheat became a necessity because too many games decided to remove the ability for players to host their own servers. This sucks a lot when people get some games that have SP/MP but never really bother with the MP part

There’s also the problem that most anticheat software will only stop the laziest cheaters, usually the ones that aren’t willing to pay for the cheating software. There are a bunch of cheat-focused forums and creating the software can be profitable.

and I wouldn’t join a “Lemmy” instance if you paid me good hard green American money

I’m curious to know why

Anything with systemd :)

start interactions by saying “We’re tourists from Germany…”

Right now, I guess 1/4 the people they interact with in USA might give the fash salute in joy or something

Heavy exercise will increase your breathing speed, so that’s still the better option.

Even with the taxman trailing you, it sounds pretty easy to get enough money to become part of the tax-immune caste

Lap mutt

That’s a huge violin. Or a very tiny micro gnome

Ah, the Amiga, the best computer you could get in '86, but didn’t know about because their marketing was shit

Nazi - “You’re being intolerant to my free speech”

You don’t deserve it. You don’t respect fairness, expect none back.

All the fucker needed to do was raise or move the wrist shortly after the “bluff”. He kept the whole arm straight, he knows he doesn’t need to hide anymore.

I vote for the blue shell, it never misses

Friend doesn’t get a day off, complains about the “ivory tower” of those that get a holiday, instead of blaming his boss and/or company for being a souless machine grinding his bones to dust for 3 extra pennies that quarter.

CRT? What’s wrong with cathode ray tubes?

What I wouldn’t give to hear about a single Luigi with C4 in there

Nooooooo, that is all one big misunderstaaaaaaaandiiiiiiiing.

You’re just throwing the nazi insult at everyone you disliiiiiiike

/s

I can watch two of those per workday, on my bus commute to/from work. Usually end up watching history documentaries instead (currently going through a 6 hours one detailing the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, gonna be an interesting week)

Probably like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGUHc4gVW4

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Probably for the better, though the general spacesuits as armor theme doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense either.

I really wish one of the devs would come out and talk why they a-ok’d the RNG to be a single pass with nothing between POIs - also generated without a single thought about anything since, to me, that’s the third biggest letdown of the game (the first is the universe/setting, the second is the main story, )

it’s just factually incorrect that “The PC is dead”

I think the author’s point on this wasn’t so much that “nobody uses PC anymore”, but rather the concept of a Personal Computer, which you fully owned. There’s also the irony of the first Apple computers being personal computers you could open, fix and modify. Software is where few people feel like they own their computers. Free software being sold to shady companies isn’t new, even FOSS projects have been bought. That’s the main problem the author wants to point out, which is essentially the same as Cory Doctorow’s piece on enshitification.

The author also left this:

I’ve shown this editorial to friends, and some people felt that I did not emphasize the benefits of current technology enough. But I argue that my criticism is less about the actual technology and more about how we use it—and how companies make money from it.