naticus
@naticus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
Oh hell, mine too back in August. Guess I’ll have to take it out drinking next year.
- Comment on HBO should use a different bumper for streaming. 1 month ago:
Holy shit, that brought back so many memories.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Ackshully, that’s a jackdaw. Wait, where am I?
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
That’s great in theory, but you’ll have passwords for logging into OSes too which password managers do not help with and you better have it memorized or you’re going to have a bad time.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
Very common for pass phrases, and not dissuaded. Pass phrases are good for people to remember without using poor storage practices (post it notes, txt file, etc) and are strong enough to keep secure against brute force attacks or just guessing based off knowledge of the user.
- Comment on Day 69 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Some day I need to actually give this a go beyond what I played originally. I haven’t played this since the alpha days forever ago, and it looked like it had a lot of potential, but I didn’t have the patience. I think I helped fund it through their own site to play the super early build and then got the steam key from that when it released a long time after.
- Comment on End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell 2 months ago:
Shut down announcement 10 years to the day from Anand Lal Shimpi retiring from AnandTech.
- Comment on [Ahoy] Nobody Knows How Many Amigas Commodore Sold 2 months ago:
You can definitely put me down for 0 because my parents didn’t love me enough.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
Even more frustrating is that different releases and builds recategorize where certain settings are entirely. To the point where search is the only reliable way of knowing for sure you’ll get to the right place. They haven’t changed things too drastically recently but they kept moving shit around in Win10 throughout its lifetime.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah I quit WoW in 2009 and never went back, which would have been 15 years ago now, and lines up with what the OP was saying for timeline. I remember all the coming class changes that would homogenize things drastically, and already being rather annoyed with how things already were, I dipped without a regret, other than losing touch with friends from there. I’m only in contact with a few of them at this point and that’s a little sad, but we all move on eventually.
- Comment on "Touching grass" is the modern equivalent of Plato's allegory of the cave 2 months ago:
It was arson.
- Comment on Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged | Release Date Announcement Trailer [19.09.2024] 2 months ago:
I demand the goat puzzle be left intact for a new generation of gamers to become infuriated.
- Comment on Day 30 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Big “QUIT HAVING FUN” energy.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
I don’t know of an instance where it’s not used as DRM. Maybe on F2P games since there’s no license management? Would be interested in knowing where you’ve found it isn’t used. And yes, more clarity on what is happening under the hood would always be welcomed by me. I do feel I have a decent grasp of things just because of my IT background and work with cyber security, but closed source software will always have its secrets.
Also, definitely like the play on words with your username lol. I have a domain that is a pun on my last name, so I always like seeing creative ways people use their own names.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
I completely agree with you that Steam itself is DRM and that we use it for convenience.
But I do disagree with the same statement about GOG Galaxy because it doesn’t provide the same digital decrypting functionality that all DRM provides. They don’t do it because they don’t have to, proven by the ability to download the EXE and BIN files directly even in Galaxy. I liken the Galaxy app to using a VPN or other network tool like Hibachi people have used when a game only had couch co-op support.
Either way, your point is made, but I don’t see an issue with running a client app that provides so much. I don’t inherently trust Valve or GOG, but they haven’t done anything that I know of to betray me as a gamer or consumer. I do NOT however see a point in running a client app that also has additional launchers required afterwards like all Ubi games. DRM on top of DRM is anti gamer imo.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
That’s news to me, but looked it up and confirmed you’re absolutely right. That blows my mind, because in many circumstances it can be impossible for players to connect, especially in a double NAT situation or you’re playing on a network you have no control over (e.g. university network).
But comparing a safety feature to a technical requirement is a bit misleading here, no? This is more about making sure gamers can just play rather than having to reconfigure network equipment, which they may or may not have access to.
Honestly if Steam is down at this point, I’ve got bigger things to worry about personally. Does it happen? Do I curse the name of GabeN? Sure, but it’s such a rare instance and happens maybe once a year for a matter of an hour or so typically.
But let’s not confuse using a client app as being DRM. On GOG Galaxy, it’s not doing anything DRM related other than providing you access to download the game itself. All the client is doing is providing a “friends network” that everyone is connecting to and creating a cloud bridged connection. This solves any double NAT problems, obfuscates your IP, removes any need to make network config changes, and no one has to think about it.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
Doing things with a direct connection to friends is something no one does anymore. Port forwarding for a game? Yeah it’s fine for people who are technically minded like I’m sure anyone in the community is, but walking a friend through it on their router just to okay with them is a nonstarter. No, the cloud connection is how this is handled now. I haven’t seen a game in a decade do it via a direct connection from player to player.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
While I agree it can be painful to do anything multiplayer without dedicated network support in the game itself, it’s a nontrivial thing for devs to add. Expecting every dev studio to be network experts as well as having the infrastructure for the cloud peer connections is why Steam finally added a way for games to simulate couch co-op between remote players. I try to buy games on GOG as my first choice but there are definitely factors (including price) where I’ll consider Steam instead.
- Comment on Announcing the Kawaii - A keychain-sized Nintendo Wii 3 months ago:
Yours is better, but not 12yo humor enough for me. Lol
- Comment on Announcing the Kawaii - A keychain-sized Nintendo Wii 3 months ago:
Missed opportunity to call it the Wii Wii.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 3 months ago:
Let me just dust off my JNCOs from '98. I knew they’d be back!
- Comment on Child predators are exploiting kids on OnlyFans despite vows of safety 4 months ago:
I’m not commenting on the existence of it happening, I’m commenting on the use of the word “majority” to give themselves credibility. It’s dismissive of the issue and a way to ride out your bias as if it’s justified. Does it happen where minors get involved with OF on their own? I have no doubts. Is it the majority of OF accounts where a minor is involved? No one knows and making guesses isn’t productive.
- Comment on Child predators are exploiting kids on OnlyFans despite vows of safety 4 months ago:
What you’re experiencing is generational bias and forming an opinion without actual facts. Be better.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
!Remindme in 62 years
- Comment on Help Finding a Game 4 months ago:
And here I am blown away by the screenshots and want to wishlist it, only to see I already had it on my wishlist and remember NOTHING about seeing this previously.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 6 months ago:
*Babbages’s’
- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 6 months ago:
When the only choices are parkour or menus? Yes.
- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 6 months ago:
Parkour
- Comment on Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations 6 months ago:
800-53 Rev 5 is such a pain in the ass to implement fully but holy shit is it much needed. Bad actors out there everywhere and if followed to the letter, those controls will save you almost every step of the way. “Almost” because there will always be a new method to infiltrate an organization or agency, but the damage control built into these controls should lessen the impact regardless.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
A friend told me about it shutting down last night and I looked into it. Found a thread 2 or 3 months old on Reddit talking about it shutting down, though I hadn’t heard about it myself. So maybe this isn’t quite so sudden but the news wasn’t exactly broadcasted widely.