If your document reader needs access to critical, system-level OS functions, you’re doing something terribly, terribly wrong. And if that same document reader then exposes access to those same critical, system-level OS functions, you have no business being a software developer. Period. End of discussion. That level of…

Fuckin Adobe, those fucks won’t even sell me an individual license for a product of theirs I use, I have to buy a 10-pack.

I get what you mean, but think about it this way: In this context, “hack” means someone getting permission to files, programs, electronic assets, or whatever through illict means.

I guess it’s a “haha you still thought it was impressive even though you didn’t know it was segmented”. Disregarding the fact that part of the reason people found it impressive was that they thought it was live, and at an event where records typically aren’t set.

I mean, between it and Polygon? I just did a ctrl+f on Polygon’s home page and “diablo” came up zero times.

Watching it live, some things definitely raised some red flags but I brushed them off.

That’s sort of the vibe I got but it doesn’t seem like he really thought this through at all lol.

I “THINK” what he is trying to say is that it being truly live doesn’t matter and that the communities persuance of non-segmented speedruns is just forcing speedrunners to mindlessly replay long stretches of the games that have already been solved when they could be focusing on getting the trickier portions and…

Obviously no exposure from GDQ. The real issue is this was the first hybrid local and remote event and this dick basically just guaranteed that non-US runners who can’t travel won’t get to participate because now any streamed run is under suspicion.

He “changed his mind at the last second” but also had a spliced together video of his best times for that exact run available at a moment’s notice for him to pretend to play live?

“saying the event will “take a massive hit to their image” for removing “one of the highly-rated runs that was well-received by everyone.”

Of all the times he could have chosen to make a point about the speedrunning community, he had to choose a charity event? An event that most of us would agree is, quite simply, good? Jesus. I hope SGDQ doesn’t have any legal exposure regarding money donated during this particular stream. I mean, this doesn’t seem like…

I truly do not understand what point this dude was trying to make and I’m not sure he does either.

It’s just buying an empty PS5 box, but with extra steps.

Okay but maybe the controller is really, really big.

As a lover of the retro-woodgrain look (seen on old consoles like the 2600 and Intellivision), I was going to was going to say “No woodgrain, so sale!”. Then I realized these assholes would probably just charge me $150 extra during preorder for a fucking NFT JPEG of woodgrain paneling and [not] ship me the black…

You guys are missing one fun detail. They think they can fit the full features of a ps5 into a console the size of a controller.

You can always identify the projects that are primarily driven by marketing and designer types that have clearly had no technical input. They think they can just make whatever claims they want and that engineers are like genies who can make it reality if they throw enough money at them. 

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The honesty of the article is great. The time has passed where any benefit of the doubt is given to such nonsense. I love how they’re willing to give a picture of the console despite knowing NOTHING about it, literally no graphics card specs. I glanced at it and thought to myself “what kind of games does a raspberry…