Not really, I’m thinking of literal unapologetic nazis on Steam, gamergate chuds on Twitter, incels on Reddit, mykittens on Discord and so on and so forth. Competitive games suffer from bigotry the most, but there’s still plenty of casual “you aren’t a real gamer if all you play is Sims/Stardew/Animal Crossing” aimed primarily at women, too. And of course it’s currently the wave of nick fuentes type stains that freak out over anything even remotely “woke” that keeps the shitshow going, the GoW situation literally just took place.

However I do think that all of the above is strongly amplified by the outrage content farms, so I can believe when “The authors suggest that hostility might be driven by a vocal minority of players rather than the general gaming population. It is also possible that certain specific online communities reinforce exclusionary behavior, even if the average gamer holds progressive views.”

I mean specifically the sequel(s). The current game I would’ve already gotten if I didn’t have to spend money on something else, but still intending to buy it some time later, looks fun and pretty much exactly what I expected.

And I won’t be buying it then. Great job whoever decided this, saves me 70€ 🙂

Steam lets publishers include Steam keys if they don’t sell them for cheaper than on Steam.

Then how come official retailers like GMG are consistently able to sell Steam keys at 10% discount for nearly every new AAA release on launch?

Why do you assume EU’s or any other payment processor for that matter would be any less draconian? EU and the US are not that far apart when it comes to puritan nonsense.

And it does seem to be working on SD. SD verified != Linux verified.

The game made by MS for Windows runs very well on Windows, as pointed out in the article as well, so is it “extremely broken” or MS simply couldn’t give less of a fuck how it runs on an endless stream of Linux distros?

Except the way it’s done means everyone on the internet is by default a child, including the pedophiles. There isn’t a single purpose for the age checks, it’s useful for (wannabe) authoritarians, its profitable for the companies, it’s convenient for child abusers, it’s data galore for 3 letter agencies etc. The current big wave of it is known to be sponsored by the american megacorpos, so pretty much all the reasons apply.

See you in a year or 2.

Play as old as times:

1. Company announces garbage change
2. People freak out
3. Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
4. People calm down and forget
5. Company later does the rest of the garbage
6. Nobody cares because half of it is already there

Same way you’d use a phone that’s EOL. Even my old ass EOL router still held up because it accepted no incoming calls as if it wasn’t even there. Any other more involved attack vectors would probably fall outside of scope for the people potentially targeting an average person. Where the real danger lies with outdated systems, especially W10 while it’s still fairly fresh, is user error - visit the wrong link or download a wrong file and you are in the world of pain.

Idk how many times we have to go over preemptive compliance with fascism before you all get it 🤦

Don’t expect any help when the field is enforced with a TPM signed by MS, otherwise 95% of the web won’t let you in, because you can’t verify with your government ID linked phone app that needs an OS level verification step.

I don’t know you so I can’t tell you how to feel, but I can share how I see it - you can die literally any time, so what’s the rush? Might as well keep going on and see where it takes you. There will always be moments when you feel like shit, but when you’re dead - there won’t be any moments at all.

To answer your question - if it’s real bad then try seeking professional help, regular people are simply not well equipped for dealing with mental crises and could accidentally make things even worse. Otherwise on an “easier said than done” side - learn to be self sufficient, have hobbies, do things you enjoy just because you enjoy it and people will naturally gravitate towards you, you’ll get to know more people who can become real friends and you wouldn’t feel as lonely anymore, and if not - you will no longer depend on others so much that bad moments turn into tragedies.

Shouldn’t that be insanely illegal? This is literally malware. Even if someone is outright hacking into your servers, you can’t just hack back and ruin their system. There’s a reason the legal side is not supposed to resort to illegal actions, the fuck.

They don’t block it for logged in users yet, just like reddit, but if you are logged out and have no cookies then they will block the playback for known VPN IPs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3fSnHTJdR0

Would that even help? Windows malware can run on Linux precisely thanks to Wine and Proton.

And they already made it worse - new “cases” just go over the items 1 by 1 and give you a choice to buy each one right then and there at stupid prices. Wouldn’t surprise me if this makes Valve even more of a giant in the end, because these people have absolutely no idea what they are even trying to achieve with these lawsuits.

I don’t believe in “just upgrading” at this point. If you built your PC with efficiency in mind, there’s like nothing you can even “upgrade”. Anything I can think of will get outdated by the time you need the next thing. A new GPU? Oh, you are still on Gen3… that means a new motherboard. Updating from AM4 to AM…4? Nah that feels like bad value, but AM5 requires DDR5, both of which have already been out for almost 5 years and will likely get replaced in a year or 2. Upgrading RAM? Again, just bumping DDR4 for a marginally better/larger cap DDR4 feels like bad value and unwarranted. Storage? Whoops, your old motherboard doesn’t support NVMe booting and it’s BIOS hasn’t been touched in over 5 years! You are lucky if you even have an M.2 slot.

And believe it or not, these prices are not even the worst they’ve ever been, so might as well just get a new PC every 5 or so years, maybe keep your old storage, CPU cooler, PSU and case, but that’s about it.

All the attachments, though… man this is going to be such a pain :/

Lol. Your mom is accused of handing over your intimate personal information to your dad and grandma.