Th4tGuyII

Anon playing a dangerous game with management.

It's all well and good until they find you, figure out what you've been doing (or rather not doing), then fire you and attempt to sue you for damages.

CYA. Make at least some attempts to be noticed. If they do notice you, at least you got a little bit of easily excusable free time - if they don't, now you get the easy life AND a paper trail so they can't say "why didn't you try to tell us".

Considering how historically ineffective age bans have been online, I'm surprised that countries keep trying for this. Telling kids, esoecually teenagers, that they're not allowed to use social media will only make them want to use it more, and thus bypass any restrictions, defeating the purpose of the ban.

It's like CoD being 18+ yet somehow still full of prepubescent squeakers who all apparently fucked your mother last night and have Dads who work for Xbox.

Forcing social media companies to put in place appropriate safeguards for kids who do end up on social media like this "digital duty of care" is probably more effective in the long run than playing an endless cat and mouse race.

Honestly. I'd be fine with a touchscreen for things you wouldn't likely be adjusting on the go anyways - but basic stuff like the radio and AC/Fans should always be easy to distinguish, don't need to look away from the road to operate buttons. Making basic stuff require touchscreen is inconvenient at best and outright dangerous at worst.

Anon discovers that life often isn't all that fair...

Being smart and hardworking can bolster your odds, but your lot in life really boils down to how lucky you are, and how well equipped you are to capitalise on that luck.

Unfortunately the right combination of extreme luckiness and ability to capitalise on it doesn't come up all that often, so most people simply won't ever get that lucky break.

Damn, I'd be salty too if I'd been fined just for having an expandable suitcase.

That gate operaror was daft - why the hell would anyone bother to go through the entire process up to the point of boarding with the case unexpanded, just to expand it on the flight so it wouldn't fit into the cabin??

The only shame (for me at least) is that this is a VR title, so I won't be able to play it despite being hungry for another Metro game since finishing Exodus

Microsoft got the grift of a century. Make Win11 so bad that people will literally pay you NOT to force them onto it! /s

Seriously though, fuck Microsoft - $30 per year to roll out the occasional security update is obscene! They can go stuff themselves with their $3 trillion market cap

Look, I'm not here for a pointless back and forth where we just call each other wrong over and over again, so I'm making one last comment then I'm leaving it at that.

The interviewer asked him to give an explanation for why people hate Denuvo. The reasons are varied, so no matter what he says, that answer is not going to represent every single gamer.

Yes, his major hypothesis being that the most vocal people about these apparently non-existent issues (their critics) are the pirate community who want game publishers not to use Denuvo's software, and as such influence non-pirates who don't see any benefit to using Denuvo (because it adds bloat and messes with their games).

Basically, two different parties are going into online discussions with their own relatively biased goals of changing opinions about Denuvo. [...] He's making the point that pirate groups are the other.

Which is to say that he thinks the ones trying to influence people away from Denuvo, as in those criticising Denuvo for its issues, are pirates.

You grasp that, yet when I say the quiet part out loud that they're implying all their critics are pirates, you disagree with me.

Nowhere in that paragraph that I quoted did I see anything even implying "All gamers are X"

And nowhere in my post did I imply he meant all gamers were pirates. I said he believes their critics are salty pirates, as to dismiss those in the gaming community whoare vocal about thinking Denuvo hurts their games.

Lastly, what did you even mean about burning a bridge?

This whole article is about Denuvo attempting to win back over the gaming community, so them turning around and effectively labeling the most vocal in the community as pirates is (in a phrase) burning the bridge with thr gamimg community they're claiming to be trying to fix.

Clearly we disagree on the interpretation of what this guy said, and I doubt any comment I could make would sway yo on that front, but I don't think it's a very hard conclusion to draw based on his own words.

RPS: Why do you think Denuvo has garnered such a poor reputation?

Andreas Ullmann: I think two main reasons. First, our solution simply works. Pirates cannot play games which are using our solution over quite long time periods, usually until the publisher decides to patch out our solution. So there is a huge community, a lot of people on this planet who are not able to play their favorite video games, because they are not willing to pay for them, and therefore they have a lot of time to spend in communities and share their view and try to blame Denuvo for a lot of things - trying to make the gaming publishers to not use our solutions so they can start playing pirate copies of games for free again.

Yeah, people don't talk like what you said, but they do make implications, like he did exactly here. He isn't directly stating all their critics are just salty pirates, but he sure as shit is implying it.

He goes on to say about the plight of gamers, but stating this first and foremost makes it very clear what he thinks.

Logic-wise, this whole article is about their "attempt" to reconcile with the gaming community - so while I also don't get the logic behind burning the bridge while claiming to be trying to fix it, that is what they're doing.

Exactly. Labeling their critics as salty pirates and dismissing them out of hand shows how disingenuous they are...

Though that's to be expected considering they cherrypicked the hell out of the study they were referencing, then criticised it because the authors dared to suggest that Denuvo was only important for the first couple of months of a game's lifespan

Calling all their critics salty pirates is one surefire way to pit people against you real quick - especially when you're already pretty reviled by the gaming community

There's a really good article on Rentry.co for setting up Win10 LTSC. Though as you say, here's not the place for that.