Oof.

... don’t worry, his lawyers will fuck up and he’ll have to pay at least $20 million of that back.

I know all of this and, yes, Vanguard runs in the background even when you aren’t playing the game and it still causes problems with the less common tools used to control hardware (like the tools included with generic Clevo gaming laptops, etc). There should always be a tray icon while it’s running so... there is…

That isn’t what the science shows. *Humans* don’t fully develop neurologically until around 25 (on average), but women specifically run about 2 years ahead of men (from the same research)... which happens to roughly be the age Pugh was when she chose to start this relationship.

As pointed out elsewhere... this tweet is…

Woah woah woah. This tepid criticism may be a little too strident.

Those statements all seem completely compatible to me.

TPM/Secure Boot is only required to install Windows 11 (meaning they can be disabled later, possibly accidentally through something like a BIOS reset) and requiring TPM for a game is arguably both “not totally absurd” and also “pretty intense, relative to other…

Balance seems to make everything samey.

Pretty much everything in that tweet contradicts that there is anything wrong with the Pugh/Braff relationship. There was no power/consent issue as far as I can tell and, so far as I know, Pugh was somewhere around 23/24 when their relationship began.

So if a man is a teacher in a school and all he’s around all day are young girls and old school marms...

But I would like to ask Braff what’s wrong with people his own age

I’ll be interested to see the numbers for the most recent generation.

Really, having a unified application store is one thing every Linux distribution does that I think is a major improvement over Windows. Having to go hunt around download sites for the latest versions of applications, download & run installers, and hope you didn’t download it from somewhere untrustworthy that bundled…

The article mentions both.

It’s mentioned twice in the article (the first mention references the original Far Cry, the later mention references the sequels). I think you folks are talking past each other.

The government doesn’t exist nor function to protect people from themselves.

I mean the game is still new so unless other players are dropping the money he did to get to the top there are probably not a lot of players on his “level” to even play against.

I mean... it seems to me that Blizzard designed the game so they bear responsibility for any situation where a player can no longer play the game (assuming the player isn’t violating terms or something). It probably isn’t fraud, but it’s certainly not anything good.

Dung Eater in July... brutal.

Yeah, permission is clearly implied by wearing cosplay at the venue.

I think you can still get really really unlucky and start out on a planet with none (or very very little) of the materials you need to complete the intro. I had one new game last year that was like this... if it had been my first game it might have been my last.