Quoting: Marrond

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo now they have what they see as a crisis on the OS they do support, Windows, and so they're introducing a solution they imagine will help solve that crisis on Windows, and if that causes collateral damage to a platform they don't support that they have no real reason to consider important, we cannot really expect them to care.

That could be a valid argument however there is one little caveat they like to ignore - Vanguard already is implemented in Valorant and IT STILL HAS CHEATERS... it's as disingenuous as Epic saying no EAC support for Linux in Fortnite (not that I care about that game but it's about the principle) as if EAC was preventing any cheating on Windows to begin with. It's nuts.

As I said, it being a bad solution is a separate issue.

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Quoting: MarrondSo let me get this straight... MILLIONS of people are playing League of Legends and between 1/5 to 1/15 depending on the region is cheating. By their own admission they say Linux playerbase is tiny. They basically say ALL of the cheating is happening on Windows where allegedly Vanguard works better. Sorry, am I missing something here or it's just blatant bullshit talk?

To be fair, this is a game that does not officially run on Linux in the first place. Some people manage to run it on Linux, but it's not like they ever supported that. So now they have what they see as a crisis on the OS they do support, Windows, and so they're introducing a solution they imagine will help solve that crisis on Windows, and if that causes collateral damage to a platform they don't support that they have no real reason to consider important, we cannot really expect them to care.

The solution they're introducing for Windows is bad and dangerous and will probably not help solve their problem anyway, but that's a different issue.

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Quoting: scaineThat was NOT a game title I was expecting [External Link], but I'm sure it really benefits from its now-working audio.

. . . The reviews are "Overwhelmingly Positive". I guess nobody wants to diss a cute dog.

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I saw this and I thought, "I wonder who I will see in the comment section on this one? No particular name springs to mind, guess I'll just have to go and see." Imagine my surprise to see Pengling and StoneColdSpider! Go figure.

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Quoting: NezchanI've never been very good at Slay the Spire (literally dozens of losses for each win, never beat the heart and stopped trying, etc.), but I kinda love the game anyway.

I'm about the same . . . I went time after time thinking "Well, I can get to the top now and then but the Heart is just impossible, there's no freaking way!" Then one time for some reason I beat it. Don't know that I particularly got better, just lucked out.

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Quoting: tarmo888You can't leave the store with that item and you can only find a buyer in that same store. If you put that in real world context, you wouldn't consider that owning something. Buying non-NFT digital items is illusion of owning these items.

So is buying NFT digital items. If NFTs worked as advertised it would be real ownership, but they don't so it isn't.

Quoting: elmapulfor those who still believe in NFT, watch that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g [External Link]

Seriously, watch that.

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Quoting: NezchanI see the Ironclad and the Silent as usual, but I'm not sure about the skeleton. Not sure if the Defect and the Watcher are going to be back, or replaced with entirely new characters this time around.

It's an…odd choice, to my mind. Naïvely, I'd imagine they'd either go with all new characters, or have all the originals + one or more new ones. Not "half the originals, + a new one". One of the screenshots on Steam shows the Ironclad in play with some new cards, but also Ghostly Armor and Shrug It Off looking to be nearly identical to the first game. Maybe they're following the Civilization principle of "⅓ the same, ⅓ improved, and ⅓ new." :grin:

Well, the blurb does say "New Slayers" plural. Could be they are in fact going with all the old ones plus some new ones, they just thought the video would look cluttered if they showed them all, so they just showed a sample to give the idea that there would be both old and new.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe basic "blockchain" concept is a clever solution which has, ever since, been looking for problems it is actually appropriate to solve and instead finding problems it sucks at dealing with.

It'll be interesting to see; the first laser was also described as "a solution looking for a problem," and then we found lots and lots of problems for which lasers are a really good solution. I'm curious to find out if, in a couple of decades, blockchain technology will be similarly ubiquitous or still looking.

I do think there are some things blockchain could be handy for. Nobody's been doing any of them because they won't allow anyone to scam people out of millions of dollars.
One thing about blockchain seems to be that it doesn't scale all that well, it's pretty "heavy" per instance and per transaction, so it probably should never have been put to work trying to do money, which has gajillions of instances and transactions spread across billions of people and entities. So it would work better for small scale things, but they're less sexy and disruptive and lucrative.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: SalvatosI don’t know what Sui, Web3 or Playtron are, but I like how the shoulder buttons seem to be labelled to be readable by people not using the device.

Just like the tops of seemingly all laptops in the world - to my never-ending irritation.

Ah, that one makes sense to me since you can't be looking at the top of a laptop while using it (plus there's no need to since it's just a brand logo).

I'm using a laptop for some years now (not too many though), and I still expect it to open for me when the logo is turned correctly, not when it's on it's head... :)

For me it doesn't normally matter, but if I buy a cool laptop, like say one from System76 or something, I want passersby to see the logo right way up so they can bask in the coolness. :grin:

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Quoting: Smoke39

Quoting: Purple Library GuyYesyes, the Americas, true enough, I was just typing quickly, sheesh. I can't believe you did a multi-paragraph dissertation on what was basically a spelling flame. But my point stands: US people call themselves "Americans" as if there was nobody else on either continent.

I hesitate to go further on this tangent, but this comes up from time to time and I get the impression there may be a genuine disconnect here. Do people outside the US really think we use the word "America" as a synonym for "the Americas," and not simply as an abbreviation of "The United States of America"? Because it's the latter.

It's neither, really. Most Americans just don't think about it one way or another. But it's a viable approach in the first place because Americans don't think anyone else in the neighbourhood matters or, probably, really exists. So like yeah, it's an abbreviation for "The United States of America", but it's an abbreviation that's fine simply because it doesn't occur to Americans that anyone else might have any claims to the term.
It's like the way indigenous people tend to get annoyed when we whites talk about "Discovering America" even if we don't "mean anything by it"--we don't see ourselves making the assumption that nobody who mattered existed who knew about America before we "discovered" it, but they see it and they're not wrong (oddly, nobody ever talks about Columbus discovering "the Americas").

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