Quoting: GerarderloperI do wonder how long until this extends to ALL software. Imagine having to have your face and id scanned to play a game or use an adobe app.

Could be worse. What if instead of your id, they wanted to scan your superego?

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Quoting: mr-victoryAND TOUCHSCREEN TOO??

Meh. This is one of those features that, I know you have to have it nowadays, but I'd pay a bit extra not to. I never use it deliberately, but I do sometimes use it accidentally, which is a pain, and it means I need to think twice before I flick a piece of lint off the screen, and it's an invitation to get my screen all fingermarky. Basically, to me touchscreens are mostly there to create an extra point of failure, a reason for things to randomly fuck up because I touched my screen.

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Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.

Dunno about now, but in the old days you'd also have to download it from some unknown website and it would likely have a virus in it.

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Quoting: SakuretsuCan they really be 100% sure none of the code from some contribution was generated by AI?

No. No project can. And? What's your point?

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoudTechiecriminal dev: Most potential partners avoid me, because I've been proven to be violent in court

Assuming it was a violent crime. Even today, people do still sometimes go to jail for embezzlement as long as it wasn't a big enough amount to make you a new-minted oligarch . . .

According to our favorite mediaoutlet.
He claimed he was jailed, because he was "a very violent person."

Ah. Then I retract my point.

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Gotta admit, that looks really dashed cool.

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Quoting: LoudTechiecriminal dev: Most potential partners avoid me, because I've been proven to be violent in court

Assuming it was a violent crime. Even today, people do still sometimes go to jail for embezzlement as long as it wasn't a big enough amount to make you a new-minted oligarch . . .

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To me, this is threatening me with a good time at one sixth the price. I'm not into playing games online in the first place, so restricting it to offline solo play is just restricting it to what I would have wanted to do anyway.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: tfkThis is not the job of a government. This is the job of the parents.

And the article mentions a "parents decide act", which I could theoretically get behind.

I have noticed that for at least the last 25 years, government bills in the US always have titles that are pretty much the opposite of their actual function. So whenever you hear a "something or other" act and the something or other seems like a good thing, you know the actual substance of the bill is going to be rancid.

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So if they're not selling the game at all, is it still piracy or should it properly be called "game preservation" instead?

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