Quoting: JoneK... DRM is the correct word here.. They won't allow the Linux versions to leak to the public, I mean Doom has an Linux executable somewhere inside ID, they didn't release it...

I think it's the same kind of pipe dream that Streaming games from Finland to Sweden and then back to Finland, makes for great low latency experience.. Only way to bring ping down is to actually fast track route all Stadia packets and get rid of bad last mile dsl cable and 4g, even 5g is slow. 9ms on last mile is too much. oh and +40ms for the packet to travel from Finland to Sweden and then back to Finland.

Yes all Google Hamina Data center traffic travels this way... Well.. maybe they will make the game data centers to Sweden..

Latency between Finland and Sweden should be well below 40ms and trying out http://www.gcping.com/ i Actually have 41ms on average round trip latency between my 4G mobile wifi here in western Sweden (Göteborg) and the Hamina center in Finland.

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Quoting: EgonautThe crashes happened for a friend on Arch as well, so it's no issue with the distribution. It might have been fixed in a patch, but that must have been in the last 6 months.

There are tons of crash-reports on both Windows and PS4 so the game is simply quite buggy at it's core. Myself I'm currently stuck in The Following at the mission at the granary where it segfaults some minutes after you reach the granary.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: DesumThey really need to having kids read more stoic literature in class.

Agreed, kids (and adults) should read more literature in general.

Quoting: DesumIt's pathetic how thin skinned people are these days and I think making it so easy to tune everyone out has contributed to that.

I don't think people are any more thin skinned now than they always were. And tuning people out is surely much harder now in the era of social networks than before. The problem is, most of what you read and hear are opinions and reactions to these opinions, whereas information and moderate analysis are drowned out by the noise. You gain more than you lose by filtering it and ignoring those who shout the loudest. Too bad we only tend to filter out loud voices we disagree with.

Actually there are people that argue that we might be thinner skinned today due to us now living in a safer world than what we used to.

Youtube video from Seth Andrews that covers this in more detail than what I can write Seth Andrews - Unholy Trinity Down Under: "The Good Old Days"

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: NanobangGlad to hear Stallman is staying on since he neither did nor said anything wrong. In a saner world he'd win a defamation or slander lawsuit against Vice.

He said a lot wrong.

Over the years, no doubt. On this occasion, such as?

QuoteAnd no, he would lose a defamation case against anyone who just printed literally what he said.

I can't recall all the text of the article; I don't believe that's quite what they did. But they're responsible for the headline, not just the article. The headline was certainly both inaccurate and defamatory--and headlines get read by a hell of a lot more people than the articles under them. (The article's author probably wasn't responsible for the headline, but Vice sure as hell was)

On the thread about this, I didn't see a single person getting upset at Stallman over what he actually said. To the contrary, pretty much everyone who was upset was basing their anger on what they assumed he must have said given the Vice headline and perhaps the tenor of the article. Nobody who went and read the emails seemed to be all that mad. This suggests to me that the Vice article was quite successfully defamatory.
(Some people may have been upset at what he actually said--I didn't see that, though; nobody was saying "He said this, which was a bad thing to say." rather it was all general and mistaken, along the lines of "He defended Epstein" (which he did not), or references to things he is rumoured to have said in the past, or explicitly based on the Vice headline)

Well there are lots of people that have been upset with what he actually have written over the years and this particular instance is simply the pin that broke the camels back. One "classic" example from Stallman is this:

QuoteI am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

From https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%202006%20%28Dutch%20paedophiles%20form%20political%20party%29

And there are lots more like that unfortunately. And I say this as a person that highly idolizes Stallman, the free software movement would not have been what it is without him. However due to his social shortcomings (him likely being on the autistic spectrum, and this I write as a parent to an autistic son) he is not really suited to be the front head of FSF and GNU regardless of his other merits.

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Quoting: BotonoskiSome irrelevant local news: I recently purchased a used DVD copy of Borderlands 2 for $8, the only place it mentioned needing Steam was in tiny font in the system requirements, as such it was a dud since the cd key had already been used, and the cherry on top: the place I bought it from has a no return policy on PC games. Now I sit here contemplating whether or not pirating the game is morally justified at this point or if this is all really my fault for expecting anything different.

Sorry but for me it's obvious that this game was using Steam, all boxed versions need it. I hope you know perfectly well that Steam have the monopoly now on all boxed PC games. There was no way this used copy have worked. Of course the code was already going to be used.

Quoting: Admiral AckbarIt's trap!

What might be obvious to you or not is completely irrelevant here: The store sold Botonoski a faulty product, there is really nothing more to it.

And while we are at Borderlands 2 and macOS it's still sad that Aspyr ported the last DLC:s and coop for only macOs.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaMy main question is whether this can be enforced for any games on Steam other than Valve's first party games. I mean, the license holder is usually the publisher or developer, so Steam could have serious issues if they are told to allow something that they may not legally have the right to do.

The publisher/developer would be held to the very same ruling if they publish/sell their games as digital downloads in EU so this would only be a legal problem in Valve vs Publishers if the publishers would have no way to opt out of EU.

Valve is only included in the lawsuit as a test case for the law that already exists, now that a court have ruled that the law in question does apply to digital stores such as Steam it applies to every other single store that sells digital downloads in the EU region, which includes the publishers (aka a publisher who sells their games via digital downloads are not allowed to ban resale).

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Quoting: chancho_zombie

Quoting: Salvatosbut where does that article say that? I don't see it there nor in the French articles that I've read about this ruling. Is it just the headline?

in the headlines, but it also can be a spelling mistake.:|

Journalists does not write their own headlines, that is always done by some editor that have no real insight into what the article is about and is always just there to gather interest (aka click bait). I know many journalists (especially one who cover science) that is really mad about this but there is nothing that they can do since this is the nature of how media works.

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Quoting: orochi_kyo... why suing Valve specifically when every other virtual store including console ones are doing the same ...

They sued Valve since Valve is the biggest player in the market (to make it a high profile case). The ruling will then apply to every one else that sells digital products.

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Quoting: EhvisI think people are making far more fuss about this than what is really going on. It appears to me that the ruling is about the passages in the licence agreement that forbid users from reselling their games. I suspect that all that is needed for Valve (and other stores) is to remove those passages and inform the users that this is in fact legal. However, nowhere does it really say that Valve needs to implement a system for people to resell individual games to other users. Which means that all that the net effect maybe that you will be allowed to resell your entire account. How many users will that benefit?

Came here to write the very same thing. The people who have actually read the verdict might chime in and tell us if we are wrong but this all sounds just that a digital store is no longer allowed to forbid people from reselling their bought games in their EULA. How such a thing should be made possible in a technical sense is all up to the user to figure out and no one is forcing Valve to open a second hand market in Steam (nor I assume would Valve want to do such a thing since that would open up that market big time by making it easy).

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Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: orochi_kyoBlazblue Central Fiction, perfectly playable on 4.11 after installing Media foundations libraries. Only works on 4.11 so part of the work is being done by Proton while Media Foundations is only for making the game to not crash on video playback.

Does someone know why Japanese companies have fetish with using media foundation with their games? I imagine it's because xbox, but does ps4 uses it too?

I really can't imagine a good reason for not use free and multi platforms libraries for videos besides miss information (which I think it's improbable), even if its a directx game.

It feels like they're still using just to difficult the life of linux gamers.

PS4 does not use it, this is Microsoft Windows only. Actually I'm not even 100% sure that the shit works on Xbox, all the Microsoft pages only refer to it as Windows only, no mention of xbox at all (although info on xbox is probably locked behind some expensive sdk).

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