Man, TIL. That’s pretty disgusting. :(

I need to try Homarr again, but carefully.

I think my first experience ended with it causing a massive memory leak because I didn’t configure it properly and its error logs got crazy out of control and crashed my server lol. 😂

Sounds basically like an average run of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, lol.

Half the year in sick days? Is this satire?

Edit: Maybe I missed a really obvious point somewhere lol.

“… It’s the smell !”

Yep. Alt-righties / racists are still on the “secret cabal of Jews is why your life has problems” schtick, so if you see “goyim” being thrown around or “You know, ((THEM))” it’s usually a dog whistle.

It’ll get used like “sheep” like “eat slop, goy”. As if people who aren’t anti-Semitic are somehow “sheeple” letting themselves be manipulated.

That kinda thing started getting used heavily around meme communities like iFunny where you could never be sure if it was being “ironic” or not. (Although I heard the FBI caught various violent racist groups trying to recruit through there).

It started to break out, unfortunately.

Cyberpunk / Deus Ex imagined Batman was SO GOOD and for some reason they just stopped bothering with it.

I’ll never understand letting that genius storyline slip through the cracks. That show was awesome.

Well there have been some strides. Games using EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) seem to work fine now. EAC tends to be more acceptable because it’s well known that it shuts down as soon as the game is quit.

A lot of these other solutions like Riot’s thingy or whatever Battlefield 6 uses, seem to enjoy (and insist upon) running even while the game isn’t, which is positively sus.

So yeah in the case of Nprotect, I really don’t know. I’ve heard on Windows it’s pretty invasive and jank though, with the usual security assurance of “Lol just trust us bro.”

It’d be neat if it would be contained on a Linux system but also…wouldn’t that void the point? It seems they wouldn’t be satisfied with allowing Linux players if that were the case.

The uncertainty is the frustrating part. =\

Nice! Buuut what about “n protect gameguard”? Does it sandbox it or…?

Watched a video recently about how they engineered GTA3 to load this impression of an enormous city on the PS2’s miniscule amount of RAM. He showed how the city loads and unloads itself around the player, which was crazy genius for the time.

He also explains how because of those memory limitations, you could end up going to grab a sweet sports car and would suddenly find everyone else was driving one too lol.

It was by Game Maker’s Toolkit. https://youtu.be/cIbCxbrBCys?is=EtKDSUr8BcpU8tuK

I love stories like this and I’m not even big on GTA. I sure did like Saint’s Row 3 and 4 though. XD

I missed out on Helldivers 2 because I’m on Linux now and I’m NOT putting that shitty kernel-level rootkit on my system over a game.

Which really sucked, having enjoyed Helldivers 1 a ton, and seeing all my Steam friends playing it. :(

LOL was gonna say that doesn’t sound like Stan 😂

That’s exactly it. It used to just mean “People who played games.” Then it got soiled and politicized.

So to their point, yeah, there’s huge groups of people that don’t care about “gamer problems” because they don’t see themselves as “those people”, even as they…buy and play lots of games.

They sell us out as well as themselves, and are completely oblivious to the consequences.

That IS unfortunate o.O. How weird!

Every other distro I’ve used has just been like “Hey, some of this stuff was system integral, recommend a restart when you feel like it. 👍”

I may be ignorant af here but…I think culturally, they aren’t nearly as cynical as we are about the corporate hellscape, at least not publicly.

The attitude seems to be that companies, especially Nintendo, are a home-country brand, seen as successful and good at business, and therefore should be respected for it.

This is the likely the same attitude that leads to their abysmal work culture that prizes literally working yourself to death, or at least as close to it as you can.

I think the death grip is loosening though, primarily driven by younger generations seeing through the bullshit.

Haha suppose you’re right. I appreciate the perspective. :) I think I missed the point at first. I’ve been really sleep deprived lately.

It really blows, how especially from the Internet, we have so much information we can’t do anything about. It feels like we’re failing if we’re not out there literally saving the world every day because we’re always shown a constant feed of where and how it’s burning.

…But then yeah, realistically, we can’t. I’m always trying to figure out “solutions” to these big problems but that usually just results in my brain flooring the pedal in neutral until it burns out and feels helpless and anxious again.

So yeah, I totally agree with your approach. It’s almost a skill in itself learning to discern what we can change with enough effort, and what is simply beyond our control.

Okay but, so many different machines can run Steam and play a huge chunk of its entire vast library.

I can go to my local college and buy some heavily abused Optiplex from their surplus for like $90, install Steam, and play anything from Half-Life to Stardew Valley lol.

PlayStation will sell you an expensive single-purpose console, then sell you the same single-purpose console with a little GPU and RAM boost as a “PRO” forced upgrade, and then sell you access to back catalogue emulators as a monthly service. Blegh.

…Also Steam’s got family sharing, so that’s cool.

The biggest advantage I thought consoles with physical media still had: You can check out games from many public libraries.

I bet Sony is champing at the bit to put the kibosh on *THAT. *

I’d say in the end, Steam robs the customer significantly less at every turn.

Okay but look if I’m gonna be stuck in this situation, the revolver has to be out of the picture. Otherwise what’s stopping him from just kicking me in the balls first and THEN shooting me?

I don’t know where this metaphor is going anymore but I simply refuse to die screaming and clutching my nuts. It’s so undignified.

Sony’s “What, don’t you guys have phones?!” Moment. Lol