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GEP Gun Enthusiast
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Re: Biz Buzz
Mar 18, 2024, 13:32
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Re: Biz Buzz Mar 18, 2024, 13:32
Mar 18, 2024, 13:32
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Tom wrote on Mar 18, 2024, 13:29:
Well then, that means later this year will mark 25 years since my first practical use of Linux and learning the oddities of Qt. Thanks EQ!

LOL! ShowEQ is what taught me the basics of Linux as well.
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Re: Biz Buzz
Mar 18, 2024, 13:23
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Re: Biz Buzz Mar 18, 2024, 13:23
Mar 18, 2024, 13:23
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MacLeod wrote on Mar 18, 2024, 13:06:
I'm more impressed with the character that has 8331 days of playtime in 9132 days since launch (assuming he's one of the 84 characters)... that means he plays almost 22 hours a day for the entire 25 years.

Probably a lot of that time is AFK in the Bazaar acting as a merchant? Not sure how the played time counter works with that, and I'm not sure for how many years they kept the requirement that you had to be online to act as a bazaar vendor.
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Re: Denuvo TraceMark for Gaming Announced
Mar 18, 2024, 13:15
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Re: Denuvo TraceMark for Gaming Announced Mar 18, 2024, 13:15
Mar 18, 2024, 13:15
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Well gamers probably don't care about this one anyway since it's a watermarking feature for finding leaks rather than anything designed to be used with released games.

Kxmode wrote on Mar 18, 2024, 12:50:
And, of course, crackers will deal with it in about an hour.

Well if it's anything like previous Denuvo products it will be more like weeks or months per each title cracked. For their normal game DRM, Denuvo is a complicated scheme that is always changing and there's virtually no one working on cracking it. Unless something's changed recently, it's literally just one person who goes by the name EMPRESS who judging by their NFOs is completely unhinged. It takes them weeks or months per title so only the most high profile titles get cracked. And then if the game has any post-release support, there's a good chance they change up the Denuvo implementation and it has to be cracked all over again and the pirates are stuck on an old version. So there's not a lot of incentive unless you're a severely mentally ill person with autism and a grudge against the makers of Denuvo, like EMPRESS.

For the most part these days in piracy town, you get your Denuvo protected games precisely at the same time the developers patch it out of the legit version of the game.

DRM is an arms race, but Denuvo has been winning it for a very long time.
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Re: OotB: Happy St. Paddy's
Mar 18, 2024, 13:04
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Re: OotB: Happy St. Paddy's Mar 18, 2024, 13:04
Mar 18, 2024, 13:04
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Coffee is another one of those things where I'm glad to apparently have no taste whatsoever. I just have whatever cheap drip coffee maker and use whatever cheap coffee from the store. Good enough for me
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Re: Sunday Safety Dance
Mar 17, 2024, 22:11
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Re: Sunday Safety Dance Mar 17, 2024, 22:11
Mar 17, 2024, 22:11
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Which Musk will shut down if Putin asks him to.
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Re: Sunday Metaverse
Mar 17, 2024, 20:37
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Re: Sunday Metaverse Mar 17, 2024, 20:37
Mar 17, 2024, 20:37
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Free speech absolutists love doxxing, until its them getting doxxed.
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Mar 15, 2024, 18:25
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Re: Morning Metaverse Mar 15, 2024, 18:25
Mar 15, 2024, 18:25
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I entered this thread because it said someone had commented but now that I'm in here, I don't see any posts, only a weird pile of what appears to be cow dung. Forum software malfunction?
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Re: Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 "Not Our Final Destination!"
Mar 15, 2024, 12:09
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Re: Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 "Not Our Final Destination!" Mar 15, 2024, 12:09
Mar 15, 2024, 12:09
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lol
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Re: Embracer Sells Saber Interactive
Mar 14, 2024, 19:05
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Re: Embracer Sells Saber Interactive Mar 14, 2024, 19:05
Mar 14, 2024, 19:05
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Prez wrote on Mar 14, 2024, 15:31:
Are we supposed to be racist against Russians now? I guess I didn't get that memo. Those of you who don't like America, do you hate me as well?

Well, Russia is currently in the middle of an attempt to conquer its neighbors, something which some folks find morally questionable at best. As such, some people have become rather averse to knowingly giving financial support to Russia, no matter how miniscule it may be. Now conveniently, Russia isn't a very big exporter of "shit the average citizen buys directly" They export, gas, coal, oil, etc.

Software is one of the few things the average consumers of the world buy on a regular basis that has a non-zero chance of putting money in the pockets of Vladimir Putin and his gang of thugs. So while it may not amount to much, the effort expended avoiding it also doesn't amount to much. For businesses, the amount of money they could be putting in Putin's pockets is much larger, so it's more significant when they make a choice to avoid doing business there.

Now, obviously people have every right to be a cynical nihilist or to simply have too much on their plate to be able to muster up any fucks to give about the Ukrainian people, but for people with the luxury of choice, they may want to know where their money is going.
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Re: ItB: :)
Mar 13, 2024, 11:47
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Re: ItB: :) Mar 13, 2024, 11:47
Mar 13, 2024, 11:47
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RedEye9 wrote on Mar 13, 2024, 09:43:
A couple minutes ago at 06:38:40 Jackie does an egg roll and aerate nest fluff. nature

Where did she order the eggroll from?
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Re: ItB: BS BS
Mar 12, 2024, 12:56
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Re: ItB: BS BS Mar 12, 2024, 12:56
Mar 12, 2024, 12:56
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 12, 2024, 12:29:
The Wisconsin satellite story creeped me out. We really are skipping happily down the road of becoming a full on surveillance state, aren't we?

I dunno, it's a little creepy I guess, but the activity being visible from space and also significant enough that anyone cares to design an AI to look through it, is a pretty high bar that's going to apply to very few people and activities. I feel like in terms of the surveillance that effects people most in their day-to-day life, we surpassed this story a long time ago.
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs
Mar 11, 2024, 16:49
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs Mar 11, 2024, 16:49
Mar 11, 2024, 16:49
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Any time anyone claims to be "protecting the children" my skepticism meter rises significantly about what they are doing and why they are really doing it. I understand some vagueness in wording in laws is necessary to avoid courts drawing too narrow of an interpretation and making laws toothless, but some of these bills feel like they could be written a lot more narrowly.

That said, I've also found that the most alarmist interpretation of a bill almost always wrong as well.
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Re: Game Crossovers
Mar 11, 2024, 16:33
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Re: Game Crossovers Mar 11, 2024, 16:33
Mar 11, 2024, 16:33
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 11, 2024, 16:10:
I know this is crazy but...maybe watch the show before shitting all over it?

I'm definitely checking it out. The trailers absolutely nailed the visuals and feel and the cast looks wonderful.
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Re: Game Crossovers
Mar 11, 2024, 14:45
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Re: Game Crossovers Mar 11, 2024, 14:45
Mar 11, 2024, 14:45
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RogueSix wrote on Mar 11, 2024, 13:58:
Why has Spencer STILL not fired that clown?

Todd is extremely popular within Bethesda. He'd have to fuck up so badly the studio went out of business for anyone to fire him, and at that point it wouldn't matter.
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Re: It's Morpin' Time!
Mar 11, 2024, 14:41
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Re: It's Morpin' Time! Mar 11, 2024, 14:41
Mar 11, 2024, 14:41
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Morped all over the place
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Re: Issues & Activism
Mar 10, 2024, 10:52
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Re: Issues & Activism Mar 10, 2024, 10:52
Mar 10, 2024, 10:52
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El Pit wrote on Mar 10, 2024, 10:28:
You misunderstood my point. Of course, produce Bond games and movies. With the killing and hearts breaking Bond we all know. But you can also produce No One Lives Forever with Cate Archer. And why not invent more and diverse secret agent characters to base entertainment products on? Of course, produce Indiana Jones games and movies. But you can also produce Tomb Raider games and movies with Lara Croft. And how about inventing new "obtainers of rare antiquities"? This is what I meant. More interesting new characters and games and movies and tv series. Those that will work are going to last and those that do not will get sorted out by the buyers/the market.

No, I understand what you're saying. I'm saying that there's no financial incentive to do that stuff, because any money you spend on "New IP No one has ever heard of" is better spent on rehashing something old. There's no reason to take that risk when you've got a valuable existing IP sitting right there that you can retrofit the script or concept you've got into.

"Do both." Sure, it'd be nice if they did that. But consumer spending has shown them that it's better to focus their efforts on rehashing old stuff. So it's the old IPs that get updated for the times, rather than new ones being created.
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Re: Issues & Activism
Mar 10, 2024, 09:06
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Re: Issues & Activism Mar 10, 2024, 09:06
Mar 10, 2024, 09:06
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El Pit wrote on Mar 10, 2024, 07:46:

Instead, there should be new brands. .

Consumers have no one to blame but themselves for this by financially incentivizing the SHIT out of reusing old brands to the point of exhaustion. Making a new character instead of just having a different take on 007 is essentially just saying "Nah bro im good i dont need all those TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS I would get just by using 007"
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Re: Game Crossovers
Mar 8, 2024, 23:03
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Re: Game Crossovers Mar 8, 2024, 23:03
Mar 8, 2024, 23:03
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 8, 2024, 19:58:
Why though? Out of the three games released, only one entry was good and that was the second one.

Well how good the game is doesn't seem to have much impact on how good the film is when adaptations are involved, so I doubt it matters much in the other direction either.
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Re: ItB: Worse than we imagined?
Mar 8, 2024, 08:03
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Re: ItB: Worse than we imagined? Mar 8, 2024, 08:03
Mar 8, 2024, 08:03
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Where's the resident corpo-pologists to tell us how deregulation and monopolies are great for society?
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Re: etc.
Mar 6, 2024, 03:50
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Re: etc. Mar 6, 2024, 03:50
Mar 6, 2024, 03:50
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Prez wrote on Mar 5, 2024, 13:03:
That's the thing - I don't hate everyone. I don't hate anyone.

And yeah, sigh away because I think it is fucking hysterical actually. Maybe I am not as good a person as you think I am. Honestly, all I want is for people to STFU about goddamn politics on my goddamn videogame website. That's not going to happen because you people can't fucking help yourselves so I will just laugh at it instead.

Why did you come into a comment section that covers only one link, one explicitly-political link, if you don't want to hear or talk about politics? And then proceed to post about it on top of that. I mean I get not wanting to talk about politics, and sometimes people bring it into shit that is completely unrelated (Usually in the form of blaming the vague concept of "wokeness" for every ill to befall the gaming industry) but this particular section could not have been about anything else.
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