They could’ve started with anti cheat on the server side first. Characters were teleporting, money was appearing out of thin air, people were invulnerable, etc. Basic shit that doesn’t need any client side changes.

And yeah, being able to run your own servers would be preferable.

They locked me out of GTA online when they added battleeye and didn’t make it work on Linux. GTA O was shit anyway, everyone was hacking or griefing.

It was free if you already owned the game. Honestly not sure why people are complaining.

Yeah, it depends entirely on how many things you’re tracking and how many people need to access it. It’s probably not the right tool here, but sometimes it just is.

Yeah, maybe it’s one of those things where they announce a thing they were already doing to keep Trump happy

Replace the steering wheel with a Steam Deck.

Yeah, suddenly they’ll go from 60 hour work weeks to 0 if the AI proponents are to be believed (which you shouldn’t).

Also forced people to use a Microsoft account to use it, and they definitely messed something up in the migration.

Yep, that’s what I was thinking too

Yeah, not sure when this trend started, but having to install a new driver to make a new game work seemed like the wrong way to go about it.

Yeah, and the way it will confidently give you a wrong answer instead of either asking for more information or saying it just doesn’t know is equally annoying.

Yeah, I feel like I read the exact same article about stackoverflow 10 years ago. Junior devs will paste code from anywhere in their project until they properly learn the language/framework/platform.

It’s only useful for stuff that’s been done a million times before in my experience. As soon as you do anything outside of that, it just starts hallucinating.

It’s basically like how junior devs used to go to stack overflow, grabbed whatever code looked like it would work and just plopped it in the codebase.

The WiFi gets confused after suspend as well. After like 5 times I have to force a reboot because the connection keeps resetting.

Linux was also the only way to make sure Valve was viable long term. Eventually Windows was going to have an Xbox store built in and would’ve basically been a monopoly on PC gaming, cutting out steam altogether. I think windows now sort of does have that, but it can’t compete with Steam quite yet.

Yeah, the flaw there is that money can flow into and out of the stock market basically instantly, so you always have to manage their expectations to make sure your price doesn’t crash.

I’ve got a whole bunch of free games on my epic account and I’ve never even bothered to try to figure out how to install them.

• only if you’re behind like 7 proxies

Pretty sure that was already something they announced that they’d do.

The only ‘transparency’ he’s shown is screenshots of basic spreadsheets that don’t actually clarify anything. His minions are just sending him spreadsheets extracted from systems they don’t understand, and he’s just making decisions based on whether the title of the program sounds woke or not.

It’s going to be fun when he fucks with some Wall Street Equity fund’s money.