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by deadbeeves 5y ago
I can list the two I've played: Elite Dangerous and Planetary Annihilation. Another one I can name is The Crew. Yes, there's not that many, but I never said it was a huge problem, I just responded to your assertion that the only
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
>People love to bandy Diablo 3 about, but the thing is that it's the only game that they can reasonably bandy about and that was released 10 years ago in May. Hardly. Diablo 3 is probably the most famous example (partly because it&#
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
You're right, but I guess we both made the same mistake in different directions. slothtrop said >Likely [I wouldn't pirate]. Probably I'd use YT with adblock or stream on bandcamp. You assumed they wouldn't pirate bec
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
You're responding to an argument I did not make. I specifically agreed with you that certain games have been crippled as a means of copy protection. Please try to read more carefully.
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
I'm not saying players in general don't want those features. I'm saying companies are taking advantage of that fact in order to require connectivity. I never played Diablo 3 (because it's online-only) so I honestly don&#
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
I think stuu99 is off-base in several of their points, but there's no denying that certain games have been online'd purely as a means of copy protection. Diablo 3 is a great example. It's a game that's perfectly enjoyabl
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
Piracy is illegal not because it is unethical, but because at some point in history some creators got rich enough to attempt to protect their profits through legislation. The action itself, the copying of information, is morally neutral. It
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
Not everyone thinks trading their labor for the ability to engage in commerce is their primary function in life.
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
Are you accusing me of hypocrisy? The way to avoid negative attention is by being anonymous. People who specifically avoid being anonymous want to have a reputation. When they turn around and moan about being insulted they're trying to
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
>I think you're being rude. I'm sorry you think that. I'm not trying to be. Link 1: The article is light on methodology, and in any case it seems to be categorizing as "abuse" conversations between person A and p
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
>she’s not legally obligated to open her replies Obviously not. I'm not talking about what's legal or illegal, I'm talking about being courteous by engaging with other's responses to you. Yes, some people will not be
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
I'm well aware. One chooses how to present oneself. Do you know if I'm a woman? Do you think you don't know by accident? If I want my ideas to be heard they should be the focus of my communication, not any part of my identity
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
>Deal with it by not being female, maybe? That would imply that women are inherently more socially inept than men. >there is good data that shows that women encounter both the lion's share of online abuse, and also much worse abu
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
That's exactly how I came to understand the effect. I was looking at a picture of a sunset I had taken and wondering why the sun looked so much smaller than when I was there. I remembered that the sun, like the moon, is roughly the siz
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
The size of the lens is actually completely irrelevant. Anyone who has done any 3D work can tell you the size of the lens has absolutely no effect on perspective. The mathematical model of a camera in a 3D renderer doesn't have a param
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
The article is close, but doesn't quite get there. The problem is not the image itself or how it's taken, but rather how it's displayed. When you look at the world through your eyeballs, your brain recreates the scene so that
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
Oh, so you mean "weapons-grade" in the sense that it can produce plutonium. Maybe, but so what? Also, all nuclear reactors use enriched uranium. Nuclear reactors can't produce nuclear explosions, for the reasons I said previo
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by deadbeeves 5y ago
I'll be the first to admit I don't know a lot about nuclear power, but I'm pretty sure you're talking nonsense. To say that a nuclear power reactor uses weapons-grade uranium is akin to saying that a car works by lightin