daniyeg
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- Comment on Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ 1 month ago:
thanks. 32% of malicious traffic is still a lot. the 50% increase in bad traffic in gaming is interesting though.
- Comment on Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ 1 month ago:
can’t read this article, can some explain what their definition of bot is?
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Roku is a pioneer in most of this crap but don’t be fooled to think that only cheap stuff is gonna have these and that somehow you are safe if you spend a lot on your TV. as it turns out high end and average TV producers would also like to squeeze the tiniest profit margins out of their consumers and if they could get away with it they would do the same.
in fact nowadays most TVs regardless of price are actually collecting and selling your data and in the best case it’s an opt out option in the worst possible place in the menu.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 4 months ago:
mostly around my university but i have also seen the 5G symbol pop up at random places. it’s never consistent though outside uni. the speeds are almost the same as 4.5G so it really doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 4 months ago:
lmao yeah. long live Mokhaberat
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 4 months ago:
here we are getting some limited “5G” (bandwidth is fucked it’s basically early 4G speeds but with a 5G written at the top) here and there, but most cable connections are still on ADSL2. if you want fibre you have to pay for replacing the cables and congratulations now your bandwidth maybe increased from 8 Mbps to 16 Mbps but now your data cap costs are twice more expensive and you basically limited your choice to 1 or 2 ISPs.
the irony is now that almost everyone are on the mobile network the speeds are basically the same as landline connections but data caps are much more expensive. internet here is just fucked.
- Comment on Jagex: CVC Capital Partners & Haveli Investments to acquire Jagex 4 months ago:
oh so that’s why they tried hard to push subscription numbers up. a new set of owners. who could’ve guessed?
- Comment on Crusader Kings 3's 2024 roadmap brings legendary tales, the Black Death, French fashion, and more 4 months ago:
ck2 is still better.
- Comment on First game you played 4 months ago:
super mario bros on one of those NES bootlegs that have “16000” games while in reality it’s more like 50 60 pirated games repeated across the whole list. remember i couldn’t finish the second level really couldn’t time the moving platform jump over the hole. it was fun.
- Comment on What game fits this? 4 months ago:
EU4
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
i’m gonna blatantly disregard your “but where the consequences actually matter” and recommend most of telltale’s games (The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us are the better ones).
besides them and the suggestion of others i would also recommend Tyranny. great CRPG made by Obsidian.
- Comment on Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2" 5 months ago:
if there’s one rule to modding valve games, it’s “don’t touch GabeN’s hat and skin sales”. TF2 despite being a real mess and valve’s server being practically unplayable, still brings in millions of dollars of gambling money, and now that CS2 keys are not tradable TF2 keys are in demand for laundering money. of course they are gonna take down a direct remake of their live service game minus all the bots and shitty cosmetics.
- Comment on A record 14,000+ games were released on Steam in 2023 5 months ago:
the way i try to make sense of it is imagine if every commercial movie was released on the same platform. when i say every movie i mean every movie. every movie from film school thesis that got a limited screening in the local cinema to hollywood blockbusters, from every country of the world, USA, china, india, nigeria, etc… all released on the same platform. i’d bet it would probably have the same amount or even more movies than steam has games. valve just has that kind of global monopoly on the PC gaming space. we only tend to see the shovelware since they are predominantly made to swindle cash out of highest value customers which are english speaking people either in anglosphere or in parts of europe that english literacy is high. we never get to see countless good or bad chinese games because… well they are in chinese.
don’t get me wrong steam is filled with crap and scams but it’s because everything is filled with crap and scams. although actual moderation from valve would be welcome. it’s a hard problem but they got the money and no excuse.