It’s not really any different than any other application you run on Windows.
User level access is all that’s needed to upload the majority of your files. And we’re all trained to push yes to the admin access button all the time.
If you really want to be secure, you need to have a different OS/hard drive for your games, and not allow that OS to access your secure drive. I haven’t yet gone this far, but it’s reasonable. Lethal Company on Steam is much more of a risk than anything Riot, including Vanguard. Tarkov was enough of a risk that I wouldn’t install it at all.
In the future this is a change I might make, but Riot isn’t in the top five of reasons why.
The mods for one, absolutely. Also it’s just a much, much smaller developer with much less oversight (even internal) and less to lose if they were caught.
And trying to sell this data for a price that would matter to Riot would make it even more likely to be caught, and maybe land someone in prison. Screenshots are not okay (and aren’t happening).
The game itself is probably fine. Most things are probably fine. The mods are absolutely more risky. And all of this is more risky than Vanguard.
Part of it is also the high profile. Part of it is the attention and pushback.
If you want real corporate spyware, check your car in your garage.
i’ve been in relationships where someone passive-aggressively refuses to communicate (or simply through incompetence doesn’t know how, and/or came to believe that I was supposed to already intuitively know their position and condition)
One such relationship recently ended on thankfully good terms.
One such relationship was years ago and never quite got off the ground because I was NOT going to play along with the stupid games.
Several others got up through the initial courtship phases but then disintegrated as I realized that my partner at the time was not going to engage me on an honest basis.
These people are real. They’re really out there. And they’re either destined to be vaguely miserable forever, or someone is going to have to teach them and make them intensely miserable in the immediacy until they learn - and not many people have the patience or psychological energy to guide someone (who is kicking and screaming objections about how they shouldn’t have to change or grow or adapt because they’re special and perfect just as they are) through establishing a basic understanding of communication.
When people are adults, it’s their job to learn the things and seek the knowledge and self improve. That thinking that you can save someone, that one will always get you in hot water. You just focus on improving you. And leaving the drift wood behind.
What you mean the guy who keeps getting sexual assault claims filed against him and is know for internally grinding EA into dust and abandoning ship is out of touch at Unity too? I don’t get why you’d think poorly of their vision
Clearly Unity had an eye for talent. I wonder what’s going to be the next company that chooses him as CEO, so they can use too his incredible, privileged and always successful business vision.
A bit of an unpopular opinion I’d love a tip option. Especially if I could tip a specific person. Like if I liked the soundtrack maybe I would tip the composer or whatever. Obviously I would require a few rules
100% of tips go to the developers or whoever I’m tipping
Dev pays don’t get cut because of expected tips.
However neither of these will be the case even if they implement something like that.
My country never let tipping culture cross over from America, and we never have to worry about that tipping stuff Americans complain about. When cheap credit card machines were still new, a bunch of businesses used American systems that asked for tips and employees and customers alike completely ignored that screen.
We have a very expensive engraver at our shop, probably to the tune of idk, $20-30 thousand. It’s a pretty large, heavy machine. We use it all day long for identification tags on cabinet doors, push button tags, serial ID tags. Absolutely critical to our business and the company that made it went out of business so if the windows 7 laptop that has the software ever dies, it becomes useless.
That’s probably a good idea. A decent amount of old programs can be run on modern equipment if you can create a good disk image and get it virtualized. There’s some edge cases with figuring out I/O and getting timing to work correctly, but I’d say most old tech can be made to work with a reasonable amount of effort.
If over $10k is on the line, there’s almost no reason to not at least try if you can afford the downtime.
I used to work at an airport and they had a internal tracking system for passengers with special requests (mostly for unaccompanied kids).
Anyway it’s programmed in assembly and only works on one particular type computer. Even if it runs on a different era appropriate processor apparently this app won’t work. So there was a buttload of old motherboards in a store room somewhere so that we could just swap the board out if the computer ever died. It’s critical infrastructure that there is no backup for.
So basically I’m pretty sure the way the world ends is because somebody threw away an important floppy disk, and now a nuclear reactor is going into meltdown.
You can sell it to a Makerspace or just toss on a new main board. Engravers, lasers, CNC machines, mills, etc all operate on the same fundamental principles.
LinuxCNC or Marlin work with practically every piece of hardware that you can imagine. Stepper motors/drivers have 4 wires each. Once you figure out which is which, just plug them into a Beagleboard or something similar, load up the software, and you’re good to go. Often with far more capabilities and accuracy.
I played PUBG with a mate of mine back in the day. He was awful at communication. “THERE! I SEE SOMEONE!!”, he would shout into my ear after talking about boring stuff like DnD, which he loves. Then he’d die seconds after, and get pissy because I didn’t help him kill the other player.
You’ve never heard Goonswarm Comms. Utter chaos until someone utters the word “Check.” Then we all turn into pilots with complete comms silence except the guy calling for help and the fleet commander that gets to jump in to save the dummy.
all of these cliché relationships where people don’t seem to understand basic forms of communication just confuse me. if you feel this way, tell them! If you don’t like something their doing, say something! this isnt highschool; it’s not a guessing game anymore, it’s people.
So many people going “opposite sex does X in relationships” and me just being like “you could stop dating people who do X” and they always look at me like I’ve sprouted horns. Like seriously, people who do X in relationships don’t need to be enabled to continue uncriticized
I’m really glad I was able to develop good communication skills in my life of work. When I just started out I made some pretty bad communication errors and I got to see the effects of the errors and learn from my mistakes.
Pretty much learned from the start to just never assume anything. If it’s important, say it even if you think the other party knows it already. Because at “worst” you just said something obvious but at best you realize there is a communication gap ASAP.
It’s always high school. Always has been, always will be. After generations of learning how to interact with each other in romantic contexts from media, what do you expect? Especially when we spend our formative years watching media that’s written to appeal to people in their formative years, you end up with a lot of people acting like poorly written characters because that’s how they learned to interact with each other.
Not to say that our generation is worse than previous generations, of course. Back then dudes didn’t know how to not hit their wives. Now we just don’t know how to talk. A marked improvement, I’d say
What’s the most annoying thing is 1tb. I have 5 games on my x and it’s maxed out.
Not that I’m defending Sony or Microsoft, but I’m not sure how you achieved that. I got 9 games installed + some apps and I still have free space on the SSD.
I don’t think you get arround buying a addictional ssd for you series x/ps5 if you use the consoles a bit more. Of course that’s again costs, nobody told you before
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War (312.6GB)
Gran Turismo 7 (196.8GB)
Elder Scrolls Online (168GB)
Cyberpunk 2077 (159.6GB)
NBA 2K23 (152.2GB)
Leaving only 10.8GB left for saves etc.
More large games:
Spider-Man Miles Morales Ultimate (170.5GB)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor (147GB)
Destiny 2 (139GB)
Marvel Avengers (111GB)
Horizon Forbidden West (101GB)
I’m sure there’s plenty of other beefy games I’ve not found but it doesn’t seem impossible for 5 games alone to push you to the point you can’t install a sixth.
Possible sure. If you cherry pick the absolute biggest games + their DLC. What are THEY playing. I’m sure the crossover from nba2k, Skyrim,and cod is huge 🙄
Perhaps not but it’s a bit of a piss take that they’re saving money on every console yet the price for us stays the same. Or INCREASES for the digital model.
So if Sony is saving £100 per unit (I pulled that number out of my arse as an example) then technically it’s £100 more expensive than the current model.
It's really badly optimized. Every map has a copy of all dinos in the game, including those from other maps. This is because every map is a DLC. But you can transfer dinos from one map to another. And if you transfer a dino from a map I do not have, to a map I do have, then I still need to be able to see your dino.
Fundamental part of the internet, the quickest way to get the right answer is to post the wrong answer. Military nerds have a habit of being involved in militaries.
This was on purpose. This was a door in face negotiation tactic. They always planned on their scaled back policy but they introduced a ridiculous one so that people would accept a small walk-back. This is exact same shit that Wizards of the Coast pulled with Dungeons & Dragons. It’s getting so predictable. When I first heard the news I knew this is exactly how it would play out.
Fuck Unity anyway. Godot is gaining popularity and it’s not stopping.
I think they really were that stupid and though people would just go with it. And once that didn’t go how they planned this was backup plan.
This allows studios to not rush the transition to different engines, but staying with Unity shouldn’t be an option for anyone that wants to make a living from making games. There is just no trust left.
Just that their reputation is heavily tarnished anyways. This isn't a B2C company. The people buying from them are taking years to complete their work and how much money they have to pain can matter painfully.
So now they can't trust not to get fucked over after years of being deep into working with the engine. You can't plan business with this
This still leads to people choosing different on new engines on new projects. Everything that already rolls in Unity will keep doing that, but that's more because switching engines midway or afyer you already done is no fun, rather than Unity doing something right
I’d usually be inclined to agree with you, except no one in gamedev would have balked at the final position. 2.5% revenue share over 1m is less than Unreal even.
Maybe it’s a tactic they believed they were using. But that would just be a different kind of stupid, because they burnt a lot of trust over something no one would care about.
It could be another kind of bluff though. It could have been the CEO signalling he’s the toughguy who’s willing to make tough decisions so he can get some job down the line.
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