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I read every word of the post (including quotations) and watched every second of the video. I've played on a Switch (owned by someone else). Can someone ELI5
by logicallee 8y ago
I read every word of the post (including quotations) and watched every second of the video. I've played on a Switch (owned by someone else).
Can someone ELI5 what the issue is here or why there's any reason for remorse? Since it's a text adventure game, what's the difference between the game as allowed (text adventure) and the sandboxed bundled ruby? What's the difference between those 2 things? (A sandboxed ruby seems strictly equivalent to a text adventure game to me.) Not trying to be obtuse, just don't get it.
- govg 8y agoOne issue that can easily crop up - the sandbox has bugs that allow access outside the game. This makes the game suddenly more than just an adventure game, and could be exploited. This is what Nintendo is trying to prevent here.
- logicallee 8y agoOh okay. That's surprising to me because Ruby is a web language, so you would think that no, it wouldn't really have any known bugs like that. And again, if you're talking about potential bugs I'd think the text adventure game (or any game) might have bugs too. I still don't get it though because isn't it the user's hardware? Is there some more context here? I'm still confused.