Quoting: KlaasWhy do they claim that they did not request a takedown of the itch.io domain, when that is exactly what happened as a result of their requests?

They claim, or at least imply, that they only requested the takedown of this specific page hosted within itch.io (the fansite, created by one specific developer), not the entire itch.io domain with a lot of other things.

Quoting: LoudTechieThis is a great example of "it can be done legally, but nobody actually does it" by the way.
The itch.io founder challenged the takedown.
In such a case they should receive a response from the rights holder within 24 hours.
They didn't.
If this was a DMCA takedwon request, they can now come and try this out in court, but the burden of proof lies with them and not everyone with a website has the budget and guts to take a coorperate behemoth to court.
Which is why this guy saw only the path of public shaming as a way out, which worked by the way.
He has a response.

As clarified by leafo, this was not a DMCA takedown. It was an abuse report claiming fraud and phishing, not copyright violation.

Though as you point out, they do put the effort to distance themselves: "a takedown was issued", not "we issued a takedown". And then "we did not request the takedown of the entire domain", which leaves space for someone else (like "the partner") to have done so.

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Quoting: hell0As someone who worked on the "other side" (in fact, I personally automated some abuse handling), I'd like to offer a bit of a different point of view.

Firstly internet in general is fundamentally flawed in that most of the protocols and technologies in use today were developed by some nerds in a uni/garage. They were never intended to be used at such scale nor were they designed to be abuse-proof.

As a result, internet is full of trash. I worked for some small registrar/host and we would get hundreds of abuse reports daily, week-end included. And the sad truth is that 99.9% of them were legitimate: hacked websites, domain registered with fake/stolen info for phishing, servers used to send spam, the list is endless.

Additionally, the bad actors are not dumb, abuses are often obfuscated (like displaying only if the referrer is google or at certain times of the day) to make detection harder. Checking whether a website is really compromised may require some technical skills (and thus be expensive).

It sucks for itch and imo, their registrar is still at fault if itch did indeed reply (should have trigger a human check). But in general "shoot first, check second" is sadly the most efficient way to protect people from scams, phishing and other bad stuff.

If they want to accept some false positives, I'd say it is fine... if they take liability for it. Revenue lost, deadlines missed, possibly moral damages. Do they? Is it viable for a small business or individual to get it? Otherwise, they should have to prove they did due diligence before taking it down.

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Ooh, cool! I want to join the giveaway, thanks!

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Well it is good, if season passes are a thing then having proper mechanisms is good - more transparent, easier to manage, more organized. I'm not particularly invested in the idea of season passes (I rarely buy things on release much less in advance), though I'm not strongly against it either.

Quoting: pbThe idea is good but some of it doesn't seem enforceable, I'm sure they will be adjusting these requirements.

That is presumably why they are only doing it with selected partners with a proven track record. This is likely going to work more as a friendly agreement than a set of hard rules.

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This cell and these restraints are both entirely for your protection. We can't guarantee your safety if you are free to leave.

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Well it is not

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Quoting: AnzaUnless you have habit of activating everything right away, then it doesn't matter.

Is there a habbit of not doing it right away? Feels unsafe for me to not just redeem it right away and be done with it.

Well people that give away leftover keys often wait and do a whole lot at once, and for subscription people might just be getting them automatically and not necessarily they will take action on a particular month.

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Wow, this is amazing! I have wanted this for a while, for my old Phenom II X4 desktop that I'm using as a HTPC; it is certainly good enough to run some lightweight or old games, which includes most couch coop games I'd install on it, but few of them would run with Proton.

This can also help with my third gen i5 laptop, which I still use when I want to play something in bed or in the couch or traveling. That one is pretty good already, some games need the PROTON_USE_WINED3D flag to work but generally proton works (unlike the older desktop, where stuff often fails to launch or requires a lot more troubleshooting).

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Extremely reasonable. I get very frustrated when people that expect a new steam deck so soon, there were a few parts that were higher-end, the competing device is stronger, there must be a new deck soon!

There is little point to doing it for such incremental upgrades. There is an advantage (for developers, and for game compatibility) to having a stable platform, there is an advantage (for Steam, and for price) on having larger batches instead of renewing all stock that often. They still haven't sorted out distribution in most of the world, which in my opinion ought to be a priority over upgrades.

Quoting: missingnoForget about power, I just want a Steam Deck Pocket. One that fits in my pocket.

This depends a lot on what clothes you wear. I have some cargo pants where the pockets could fill a small laptop, but if you wear women's clothing then it is never happening.

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Hmm, a bit disappointed that they list a discrete GPU as requirement. Not that those are unreasonable, my 5600G will work just fine.

But Civ is a game that has a very diverse and casual audience, that play on their cheap laptops and even on their smartphones (yes Civ 6 was ported to android/iOS not just to tablets but eventually for phones). It isn't a game specifically for the core gamer audience that has a GPU for all their modern ARPGs and shooters.

I really wish the minimum specs were "Intel Iris Xe or equivalent", not for my sake but because it is what many potential players will have... and honestly I doubt it won't work on it (with bad performance but playable if you can tolerate it).

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Damn I just got Chaosgate Daemonhunter. Though to be fair it was cheaper on sale (even more due to regional pricing that Humble doesn't get), and there is preciously little else I'm interested in this bundle. Starsector is sort of uninteresting, and the Age of Sigmar RTS is exactly the kind of RTS I'm not into, and both are only on the highest level.

It's just not a very exciting bundle - they mix the action and strategy games and the games end up having little to do with one another. Put the likes of Sanctus Reach, Mechanicus, Gladius with Chaosgate. Action games and RPGs with each other.

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