Heh, more of this shit.

Remember, the only reason we can still watch the highly influential 1922 vampire movie Nosferatu today is because some people didn't destroy all their copies despite a court saying they had to.

DISOBEY DESTRUCTION ORDERS.

COPY ALL THE THINGS.

I feel like this whole hobby has always existed on the verge of being deleted for whatever reason, and I am forever grateful that there are people who put this stuff up in the first place.

Still need to work out a way for me to help out.

Hot take: the internet was better when it was simpler like that.

If it has Denuvo it's basically asking "please, get a pirated version if you want this, because the official version sucks".

Yeah this is the kind of crap that encourages people to pirate simply to spite them.

The fact that you have some sort of plan for managing your photos is one step ahead of me. I have no plans and my photos are a very messy collection.

I would caution against using a flash drive (a.k.a. pen drive) for any permanent storage. I've had multiple flash drives fail on me. Usually it's this super cheap kind that gets distributed as branded swag, but I've had some others fail too.

Ahh, the actually-pornographic version of begging senpai to notice oneself.

I would hope that's the case, but as I mentioned in another comment, I've actually seen a case where a Denuvo-addled game was cracked, then the cracked version stopped working at some point (seemingly after a certain calendar date or a certain time after installation, because it definitely wasn't based on in-game progress), necessitating an updated crack.

The game is Shining Resonance Refrain, if you're curious.

Maybe the new crack actually succeeds at really defeating the DRM? Who knows. (Though I also remember it saying something like you gotta skip a certain cutscene or else it'll crash. But, let's say we excuse that.)

Yeah, I read. I don't have much sympathy for him. He sounds like a jerk.

IMO preserving the content is more important than honoring him (or, for that matter, humiliating him).

An admirable sentiment.

The fact that a game is Steam-only is good enough reason to pirate it.

Pardon me for living under a rock, but what's wrong with uTorrent?

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Well, it's not too surprising; if people are like that, and AIs learn from people...

Y'know I think another possible analogy here might be the difference between a videogame and a tabletop game. Especially if we compare RPGs specifically.

It's one thing to play a computer RPG. It's another thing to play with a human GM who can reshape the story as needed and who can interact with the player in an open-ended manner.

Frankly speaking, it's not like anyone on the internet can tell the difference. And, at least speaking personally, it's not like I need to know. If they crack stuff well they crack stuff well. If their political views suck their political views suck. So be it.

You can add literally anything, and all Steam does is launch the executable you specify. And maybe take screenshots if you use the overlay.

Valve could actually look through the games people have added and do some sort of major crackdown, but for better or worse they seem to have left this alone. Still, though, I'd consider it a vulnerability, and I also recommend against using Steam because Steam is basically DRM. (Yes, this varies by game and can be argued over. But it still definitely tries to lock you into using it, one way or another.)

Yeah, I agree, I can understand wanting higher resolutions but there are diminishing returns and even 1 GB for a half-hour episode is pretty absurd.

Plus, you can't seed what you can't keep.

I had poked all over the megathread, but didn't know about the github repo. Thanks.

But yeah, you're right about it being a matter of luck sometimes.

throws bowling ball at Cybertruck

"Count Dracula rises but once every century, and my role is over. But if I were to resurrect him, the battle would last for eternity!" - some asshole named Richter Belmont

One problem with these arguments is that, when it comes to criticizing a product for its usability problems, it makes perfect sense for an actual user to have opinions because they're the ones with the experience.

But you get people going "well if you hate it so much then stop using it!"

It's a common trait of so-called "fanboys". For example, I've seen this on the Steam forums before. Have someone saying that Steam should improve in various ways to make the consumer's experience better, and then you get other people replying with basically this line. If a person cites some other site, such as GOG, as an example of a better way to do things (and a proof of concept that it can be done), they reply with "then go use GOG instead", for example. (Along with making up various excuses why Steam is better without such an improvement.)