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My favourite journalistic practice is when outlets lump up everyone playing video games into a single group called “gamers.”

Could it be the next Stranding type game?!

Don’t be silly, for these types of people you can never make enough money.

Non-AMP link: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/05/06/stellar-blade-sales-selling-out-in-one-country/

A better battery would be nice.

The way I see it, that number is a baseline figure for what their services would be offered for in exchange. If someone came up to me and said “here, I’ll give you $53 and in exchange you’ll let me surveil you for a year” I’d say no, but maybe someone else would’ve said yes. Then, as an experiment, maybe we can let the market take it from there, now that there’s a price and some form of discovery mechanism.

Get some people to write really passionately about moving off of it, apparently.

Maybe you shoot boomers?

The Arc cards are the most price efficient graphics cards now, that’s hardly garbage.

Probably because “installing unsigned code from an unknown source” is a mouthful. Installing implicitly means “from within the walled garden” on these devices.

I don’t use public bidets, but the one I have at home I would say is critical to my quality of life.

The piracy bugbear has been raised as the reason why corporations aren’t selling enough since mp3 was invented back in the day. It isn’t always the case. OnlyFans is pirated but the piracy doesn’t affect their bottom line enough to drive them out of business. If you think about it, lots of pornography on the internet is free, and they’re still okay. It’s a much more nuanced discussion than “piracy is stealing” than the corporations want you to think it is.

Edit: if I had to guess, the niche they serve or the value they add on top of “just porn” is something their customers are willing to pay for.

Giving cheat authors instant feedback in terms of detection results in cheats getting better at evading detection more quickly.

It’s cat and mouse when it comes to banning, even with hwid signatures the cheaters are able to use sophisticated spoofing techniques. Also there are side effects like legitimate players buying second hand pcs that have been banned.

How would a server-only method detect esp or wallhacks, which are generally speaking client-only exploits?

Yes. It’s a matter of knowing what you trust on your pc and understanding your threat model. Programs running in user mode can also be malicious.

Why do you call anti-cheat software rootkits? Rootkits are malicious.

Thank you, I was wondering about the voice synthesis and if it was part of the AI model they used.

It’s true. Pragmatically speaking if you don’t have access to the server software you can’t play it if the servers go down, and besides reverse engineering or the goodwill of the developers I’m not aware of any games with online components that continue to be playable after their servers are taken down.

Some fighting games let you filter games by connection and even connection type (wifi warriors you should be ashamed), but the primary matchmaking is skill based, and that still seems to work.