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by choo-t 2y ago
> …because it requires a separate copy. That's an absurd statement, it's the same with most program, you make a copy of the data from a CD/Flash to the host machine storage, then make another copy to the RAM for execution.
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by choo-t 2y ago
> Not everyone wants to engage in all of the PR/marketing stuff that's necessary to make any money from that That's not a difference, PR/Marketing is already used to profit over IP work. > Even if that were sustai
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by choo-t 2y ago
other sources of revenue exist, lot of creators get their revenue through donation, either one time or recurring (monthly, yearly, by release). On another level, we could pivot to UBI instead of dedicating ressource to enforce fake scarcity
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by choo-t 2y ago
You can play your backup on the emulator, and you can even make these backup through a modded Switch.
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by choo-t 2y ago
> People don't consider playing around with your friends to be competitive. I didn't say friends. Please don't modify my argument to refute it. > You don't get to choose who else is competing in the game or what st
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by choo-t 2y ago
lot of thing happened, 6th gen consoles started a new way of using online games (no keyboard, no third party chat/vocal, no group chat out of game, no private server), then the industry pivoted away from private server to have more con
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by choo-t 2y ago
> You don't play competitive games, that's fine, but a lot of people do and they demand more competitive integrity than casual players. Little difference : I don't play competitive game with completes strangers on company
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by choo-t 2y ago
> Or your game design might require you to hear sounds on the other side of the wall (footsteps, gunshots, etc.) which allows cheats to infer what what may be behind the wall better than a person would. Yes, and you cannot prevent this e
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by choo-t 2y ago
Making occlusion calculation sever-side during multiplayer have nothing to do with "owning" a game or not. You can even do this calculation on community-run private server.
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by choo-t 2y ago
> It's impossible to tell in-game if a baseball player is using steroids, yet there's a laundry list of banned substances and players who got banned for taking them because the MLB believes it gives them an unfair advantage. It
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by choo-t 2y ago
> This seems like the old “any imperfect solution is no better than doing nothing” argument. Isn't this the argument used against non-kernel-level anticheat and server-side anticheat in the first place ?
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by choo-t 2y ago
Well yeah, that's the correct way to run a server, don't send information you don't want the user to get. But as you are pointing out, forcing client-side intrusive anti-cheat is cheaper, thus this as nothing to do about prev
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by choo-t 2y ago
The server is all-seeing, if there is no way for the server to discriminate cheater from other player, then no player can possibly know there a cheater on the server, thus cannot complain about cheating is either irrational or the server-si
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by choo-t 2y ago
> The point being made was the gamers are demanding game developers stop cheaters... and that secure boot (and related ways to lock down the computer) is one of the primary tools they know to use to do that. That's akin to saying th
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by choo-t 2y ago
You cannot "prevent" cheating, you can at best mitigate it, it's a balance. There plenty of way to mitigate cheating in game, but the game industry is focusing on the ones where they don't bear the cost and only the cust
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by choo-t 2y ago
They're demanding a way to handle or ban cheater, not requiring TPM, that's a non sequitur.
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by choo-t 2y ago
> Let me tell you a secret: it's because the gamers are demanding that. Citation needed. Whose these gamers ? I surely didn't ask for this neither any of the gamers I know, nor seen any demand about that in gaming forums. >
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by choo-t 2y ago
There was a ruling in Europe (UFC against Valve [1]) citing that, as neither e-book nor video-game deteriorate with use, the customer doesn't have a right to sell it on the second hand market as it would affect the copyright holder int
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by choo-t 2y ago
We also spend millennia without tap water. That's not an argument, that's a logical fallacy[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
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by choo-t 2y ago
> No different than having to buy porn magazines at your local corner store.... And that's the point. So… going 25 years back in time and forgo any online shopping ? Or your argumentum ad antiquitatem should only apply to porn ? &gt
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by choo-t 2y ago
> There is no requirement of de-anonymization. […] They can do this by hiring staff to video chat with potential users and ask them to show an ID. What you are describing is de-anonymization. > Alternatively, Pornhub can partner with
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by choo-t 2y ago
That's a human trafficking example, not a porn one. There human trafficking problem in plenty of activities, from housework to construction, restaurant and agriculture. Would you argue that demand for these activity drive demande for t
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by choo-t 2y ago
> It's literally no different False, as interaction on the web and in meatspace are not equivalent. By going to a brick & mortar shop, you already know you have to show your face and have kind of a low expectation of privacy (an
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by choo-t 3y ago
Yes, but you can also opt-out to the telemetry in the settings.
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by choo-t 3y ago
> give their domain to Nintendo So, Nintendo will receive all future Yuzu's telemetry.
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by choo-t 5y ago
I use an RG351V for this purpose, but lot of retro console are already able to play pico-8, either natively with the official binaries (like on the whole RG351 line) or with Fake-08 for Miyoo consoles and hacked 3DS/Switch/Vita.
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by choo-t 5y ago
Roadrunner mostly walk and run, but can fly/glide when needed (going over an obstacle or escaping a predator).
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by choo-t 5y ago
It seems that the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse [0] are as obvious as they are effective. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
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by choo-t 6y ago
>Unfortunately it's a proprietary platform. On the other hand, being closed source help getting the "community" feel where people discover some quirk and secret features of a strange and not-totally documented device. That
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by choo-t 6y ago
The ability to use emoji would be really useful, it convey lot of meaning in very little screen space.

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