Quoting: AllyTheProtogenit's dirty money gained through horrific means.

Yeah, people really shouldn't take money from organized crime, labor camp operations, sweat shops, or child exploitation.

Oh... wait...

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Quoting: mindedieIf perfect DRM existed,

There is. It's called a "offering a good product that's worth its money". People typically don't pirate if they don't think the pirates have the better product.

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Quoting: williamjcmPirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

Was looking for the Downvote button, then I realized this isn't Reddit.

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Quoting: PyrateReally hope Mihoyo or whatever they're called now go the Stellar Blade route and make a traditional game for once.

I am afraid they won't. Let's face it, their shady designs are a lot more profitable than traditional games. There is a reason why 100% of the entire mobile market is based on shady designs.

It's not only that, though. I played both Genshin and Honkai: Star Rail for years. In the end they lost me because of their writing going completely bonkers in too many ways. In Genshin, their world building stopped making sense a while ago. They just add stuff whatever and whenever they feel like that, no matter if it makes sense for the setting. In Star Rail, their latest chapter was incredibly convoluted for no apparent reason, and the story stopped making any sense after the first 30 minutes or so, and had what I consider one of the top 5 dumbest endings in gaming history. The first chapter (Belobog) was amazing, but their current lead writer has no clue how to construct a believable plot, really.

In the end, maybe my biggest hope is someone else with deep pockets delivering a good single player anime RPG.

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Their first post was clear enough - local, optional and easy to shut off. The sad part is really where they thought their second post would stop the rage coming from the same people who already didn't read the first. It only takes "AI" somewhere in the first line to make these people go reach for the pitchforks. Objectivity and reason has left this discussion a while ago.

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This sounds like a really reasonable approach to me (local inference, optional "for those who want it" etc), but I am not surprised by the amount of automatic hate reactions they're getting here anyway.

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Not sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

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As a fierce supporter of the "I want to own what I buy, not rent it" idea, I love cloud gaming services struggling and closing down. I can tolerate them as a niche thing for people having potato PCs, but the idea that studios can literally force us into a subscription-only gaming world needs to leave these executives' heads rather soon.

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Quoting: EikeAge restriction can work without identity information (from just entering it in my computer to more sophisticated stuff e.g. the EU implements), and I as a parent do want age restrictions (and no, I don't want to observe every their step in a certain age).

I am a parent, too. But I think you misunderstand the purpose of these system. They are not meant to give parents more control over what their kids can do online. It's about giving them LESS. Because no longer will YOU be the one setting limits for your kids - the government and corporations will do it for you. No matter whether or not you agree with the standards they're setting for your kids. The obvious truth that this isn't about the kids anyway aside (it's about controlling and surveilling all of us), I am not sure why ANY parent would like the idea to have control over their own parenting taken away from them and transferred to governments and corporations. As a parent who never used any parental control software ever, I find it quite frankly insulting.

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This entire debate is so silly, it's not even funny. Anyone want to guess how many seconds it will take for somebody releasing a de-age patch for whatever distros chosing to comply with that crap?

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