That sounds well below the acceptable % for doa parts, especially if ASRock is indeed nuking chips.

Might just be easier to spin up a VM of 98 at this point, good hunting to you though.

They definitely can add anticheat to cooperative games, though again it feels a bit much.

I would say not to worry too much? The potential for abuse exists, but is not actually used. The companies that make the anti cheat software these days have way too much on the line to risk that kind of behaviour. It’s one of those things that it’s in a bit of a weird state, and some people like to keep an eye on it, but for the vast majority of cases is a minor inconvenience.

I’m being a bit vague here because where it is now is the result of decades of arms race between the cheaters and the developers, thus extremely complicated.

It’s a program that sits on your machine, and watches both the game in question, as well as other programs, to make sure there’s no funny business regarding the game.

It’s somewhat effective, though it comes at a cost. There is a noticeable performance cost on modern anticheat programs, meaning you’re losing performance for sometimes no tangible benefit.

Kernal level anti cheat programs are especially invasive, as they have deeper access to your operating system than would normally be allowed by any other program. This can be fine when used correctly, but if abused could be a massive privacy concern, or even a danger to your system. If you remember a little while back where every business windows computer went down for a day due to the crowdstrike antivirus, that’s a potential result of kernal level software going bad.

So somewhat necessary evil, and they do kind of work. I personally don’t love solutions that eat performance like this, and privacy is a concern of mine, but also I kinda get it.

Great idea dipshit, who’s gonna foot the power bill, you?

See that one is a touch different, billionaires aren’t something that generally just happens. People making that much money are usually exploiting someone to get there. However, hypothetically, it might be possible to have an outlier billionaire that has done nothing wrong, though unlikely. Though I’d say it’s difficult to imagine an ethical billionaire that stays a billionaire as well, given how much good that kind of money could do for the world in general.

I think it’s important to judge each individual based on their actions, even if their actions may fit the profile for an unethical businessperson or the like.

Unfortunately though it is pretty safe to generalise when it comes to the wealthy.

Hard no.

The idea that your can judge an entire group of people to be innocent or not is heavily flawed. Even if any groups cultural influence was hypothetically incredibly evil, do people deserve death for being influenced by their surroundings? How do we gauge who has true evil in their heart, and who was harbouring doubts but couldn’t say anything? We literally can’t, and that kind of thinking shouldn’t be used to decide judgement of a person, let alone who lives and who dies. In practical terms things get muddier sure, but we’re way past that point.

At this point I feel like the conclusion of violence is made first, then the justification coming afterwards.

Oh I’m sure they’ve got ten thousand shitty business practices we could spend all day criticizing.

Amazon. I’m pretty against workers being treated poorly, and they’re frequently the worst without delving into actual slavery.

It’s kind of two fold though, because trying to explain to people that letting shit like this fly is encouraging it to happen to you or me just cannot get through to some people. The longer this goes on, the more they push the envelope, the further it spreads. Like they don’t know how to function without the single megacorp, and having to suffer a minor inconvenience is just too much.

Nah I get that, I’m glad that it’s improved so much over the years. I’m excited to build a new PC and never have it touch windows tbh.

Which ones in particular? I have this issue on windows 10 as well. I’ve still not touched city skylines 2 and stalker 2. I just tried Jedi survivor, and honestly it was a mistake.

Bloodborne I could see them saving for a PS6 launch, MGS4 is so extremely in the PS3 architecture that nobody wants to try porting that minefield.

But yeah, they’re clearly trying to keep a old business model when it’s not working anymore.

Fucking DLLs

Reminds me of how Castle super best was saying how some find it refreshing to see metaphor tackle rascism, but it’s not uncommon to see it in western gaming. They just never played games from that end of the pond.

I’m sure this is real, but I see a headline like that and I think of schoolyard talk. Like, nuh uh, my armour has 100 trillion bonds, you can’t shoot me.

Windows feels like a bit of a sinking ship. Not entirely, and it’s slow, but the feeling is present and consistent. I don’t want to keep having to rip apart the OS to remove shit they shoved onto my hardware without my consent. I just want an easyish experience that I can do my shit on, and they aren’t really interested in that it feels.

In comparison to that, alternatives like steam os sounds great to your average user.

Technically for the first three planets you don’t need anything. I’ve done all three with only power armour and legs (because I’m too impatient to walk). That being said, bringing a stack of your standard belts, grabbers and machines goes a way towards making that first initial base a lot quicker.

That’s nuts, good luck with the sluething

How much data is a lot? Mine lost wifi privileges for putting ads in my stuff, but I’m still curious.

I find when I get like this I have to give it a bit of a rest for a bit. I figure either I’ve blown out my dopamine receptors to the point of non functionality, or I just need to rest. I find that only doing a small handful of things at a time helps not get in this state, easier said than done though.