I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing,
And the earth is flat, the moon landings were a hoax, O'Blama is a Kenyan citizen, and Chemtrails are loaded with chemicals that emasculate males, and Pizzagate is real and ongoing.
Do go on though, I love what you post. Do you have a newsletter, or at least T-shirts.
Not my problem, the science says I can tell you the truth and you won't believe it. You gullibly believe evolution has selected for reality perceiving brains, when there is overwhelming evidence from religion most human beings were not. So that means there's inequality in perception and hence inequality in accurate perceptions of reality. You've provided no evidence for your position. The US government is known to be corrupt and has a huge history of corruption and that is well documented in academic circles. But it's obvious from your posts your not educated enough to talk about these things.
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing, the whole thing is a sham for those who are educated. Only morons and ill bread non reality perceiving animals like yourself believe in a concept like 'patriotism' and 'traitors' the world is much more complex then your one dimensional worldview. And if it was your ass on the line or your family member being offed by your own government, you might feel differently on how the powerful treat little useful idiots like yourself. You'd finally come to realize - the powerful only care about themselves, you're nothing but rabble in their presence.
Better call the DOJ to let them know that they can't do that.
People like you can't read between the lines, you can't hold a corrupt government accountable when they can make they can classify their corruption and bad behavior as state secrets. So while you are sitting their in a pile of your own festering stupidity unable to see through the lies of the corporate state, people with a brain know how corruption actually works. When corrupt people are writing the laws and making the policies, of course you're going to be "breaking the law" that's how corruption works idiot. The laws are corrupt themselves and can be made to mean anything depending on "who's guys" are interpreting them.
If in doubt just look at what has happened to the public domain in intellectual property law in the united states. It's been totally destroyed.
... to what happened to gaming on PC and mobile? MMO's, drm and steam proved the public is just downright cretins when it comes to technology. The people who care about personal computing are a minority. The rise of steam, mmo's, always online drm and f2p games means the average pc and software consumer is a fucking moron.
They simply don't care and/or are too irrational. Think about what we used to get with PC games in the 90's -- total ownership, dedicated servers, level editors, free maps, mods and skins. The last 20 years with the rise of the masses that has all been almost wiped out because the internet allowed game companies like valve to steal games in comfort and safety from the middle of the continent while their customers were 100 miles away. Everyone with a brain remembers the great betrayal of valve with half-life 2 and cs in 2004 when he launched steam to steal the fucking software and undermine game ownership. The man pioneered walled gardens, then he gets anxious when MS finally gets a clue and makes windows platform and windows store and suddenly he's interested in proton and linux.
The average person on our planet is a god damn uncaring moron when it comes to these issues. Just look at fortnite with kids paying for skids in a game they don't own. Once that happened software companies have zero incentive to ever give software ownership back to users because there's too many stupid people who feed them money.
Just look at the money game companies are making from mobile gaming, they make more money then almost both the PC and console market combined, just off 3% of the people who spend money on gambling for skins/characters like it's going out of style. These people with evolutionary flaws and gambling type minds have allowed game companies to survive indefinitely and totally undermine software ownership.
This is why corporations want to finally finish off general computing on the PC and other hardware:
The last 20 years software has been locked down on the PC starting with RPG's when they were rebranded mmo's and taken hostage
I know, no more RPGs come out any more. Certainly not good ones.
Well, other than The Witcher (1 through 3) And Divinity: Original Sin (1 and 2) And Pillars Of Eternity (1 and 2) And Dragon Age: Origins (and its many sequels) And Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Skyrim And Mass Effect (1 through 3) And Fallout (3, 4, and New Vegas) And Legend of Grimrock (1 and 2) And (arguably part of the genre) Demon/Dark Souls And Tyranny
Yup. No more good RPGs. The genre is dead. They're all MMOs now. We're trapped in this dystopian hell from which we cannot escape.
You missed the fact of the huge amount of mobile games that would have been stand alone rpg's in the past. So yes, many rpg's are now made only for mobile and will never get a stand alone release so they can't be preserved.
You missed the entire point, in the 90's we were getting a flood of games and we owned and controlled them, it's about games being produced where we do not own and control them with no level editing tools, modding, etc... Microtransactions and mmo's have incentivized the undermining of game ownership.
We don't have any technology that can effectively compensate for these phenomenon,.
We already have had 'streaming' games for 20 years, RPG's which were rebranded mmo's and "f2p" games, aka online drm is the same as streaming game. Diablo 3 and path of exile are perfect examples of streamed games over the internet where you have the whole game engineered around a server locked coded mechanism that is totally unnatural, inefficient and un-needed. Compared to say diablo 2 where the whole entire game could run stand alone both single and multiplayer on the same PC.
The last 20 years has been the theft of PC games by literally taking files and code hostage on corporate servers and coding ways in games that will prevent their preservation.
The last 20 years software has been locked down on the PC starting with RPG's when they were rebranded mmo's and taken hostage, the whole gameplan is to prevent software and file ownership on the PC. Steam and game companies have been getting away with this theft for years on the PC and mobile, where you pay for software, but never get a copy of said game or software making game preservation completely impossible.
Windows 10 already can disable and 'update the os' to disable your games, they want to move to feudal locked down computing where they are constantly checking and spying on you to see whether you have permission to run the software that is running on your PC.
We've already seen PC gaming in the AAA space have level editors and dedicated servers all but wiped out because of the desire for microtransactions and advertising/streaming, they want to monetize the time and attention of end users and that makes no ownership for you.
... the reality is the internet has shown us the true face of the human race - everyones reality is right and it's those other guys who are incorrect. It has been the average human being and the masses getting internet. We've seen everyone come online over the last 20 years.
Watching the last 20 years of slashdot comments has been surreal. The rise in anti intellectualism as more normal people came online and the dumbest shit you can possibly imagine getting upvoted. The outright destruction of PC gaming and the masses falling on their own sword and falling for the mmo scam, drm and steam. As an original nerd from the 90's, the masses getting internet has just shown us how stupid the human race is from every class and every walk of life.
Everything PC nerds in the 90's were worried about came true, and what a gift the internet has been to the corporate world that the average human being is so uncaring and unflinchingly stupid, they'd literally bend over to have their rights and freedoms taken away but do so willingly.
Valve is doing a lot of good for linux gamers with Steam Play and employing WINE/DXVK developers.
Except this is exactly wrong. Valve is the company that literally stole half-life/counterstrike by inserting steam into it. Before the late 90's/early 2000's, PC gamers owned their games and they game with dedicated servers and level editors. That got dialed back hugely after steam in 2004. The rebranding of PC rpg's in development to mmo's to undermine game ownership. Valve pioneered walled garden gaming. We saw TF2 get mtx around 2010.
The only reason Valve is making proton and has any interest in linux at all is because of windows 10 drm and the windows store. Windows app store is a threat to valve hence valve's interest in steam. Valve had no interest in that until Microsoft anounced Windows would become a platform and come with an app store. That scared the shit out of valve and got them working on proton.
The great irony is there we are 20 years later and drm is now in major AAA games out the gate from major AAA game companies so they succesfully stole software from the ignorant masses because the average game buying moron won't stop feeding money to these companies and their abusive practices. Preserving games mobile/pc/otherwise is going to be a nightmare in 20 years or more.
... animation AI for 2D so you can get the hand drawn look artists want. Given that hand drawn animation is a lot simpler in that only the necessary details for the thing being drawin to read well are usually drawn. I have no idea why they'd use photo realism given that many artist want to create from their imagination. It'd be a lot cooler if they perfected 2D animation line art first for traditional cartoons and anime so they'd actually be saving animators tonnes of time and money.
Animators still have a really hard time scaling and animating things we made computers to help with that but we're still stupid ass apes that can't take advantage of all thise CPU power and put it to good use given our natural mathematical dumbness.
but I was just hoping there's a reason somewhere in between the two.
There isn't any, basically businesses are trying to prevent people from owning and controlling the things they pay for to turn it into a racket. The new model is "everything as a service" where you merely rent your existence from these big companies. It's a real revenue generator.
Because this technology's real purpose is stronger drm, anything regarding streaming or 'games as a service' technologies is them trying to perfect trapping software inside the internet and drip feeding you encrypted files so you don't own anything. But I bet you're one of the stupid masses who don't remember how steam was something nobody wanted in 2004 and the last 20 years of videogame history on the PC was the rise of the stupid masses getting internet and how that fucked up gaming by enabling the stupid to give money to the most anti-consumer transactions - microtransactions, dlc, unfinished games, early access, because the average game consumer is basically retarded.
We've lost game ownership and game preservation is going to be a nightmare with increasingly server locked/encrypted games instead of having softare be full stand alone like it used to be in the 90's. The last 20 years of PC gaming has been the corporate world stealing software and calling it a service.
You don't seem to understand the dynamics of political power in capitalist society and all the software we've already invested in being wiped out by microsoft politically engineering the internet putting drm in everything because the population cannot defend itself from these attacks.
The gullible vote with your dollars free market ideology you subscribe to is 100% bullshit. You can't hold accountable a giant mega corporation that has billions of dollars when you are 100 miles away from it and expect to influence their behavior with your not buying their software.
The whole ideology behind it is bankrupt and this has been studied. The modern software landscape is market for lemons.
So you've never read the service agreement for previous versions of Windows then.
Except you seem to not realize that Windows 10 is designed to feed all of your information to microsoft. To gather data on everything you've ever done. Windows 7 does not have that awful feature. Sorry to tell ya and I can forcefully disconnect win7 from the corporate hive mind and still have a functioning computer. Good luck on future versions of windows.
... the thing is a drm ridden piece of spying garbage. The fucking "service agreement" gives them absolute authority to invade your computer. A giant wtf. Anyone with any clue of the great evil of windows 10 wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
To think it only took the stupid and ignorant masses getting internet to allow corporations to steal software and force drm on the planet and the entire world bent over and forked over their money. A Fucking dystopia brought to by the average citizien moron who can't make rational purchasing decisions.
There is always a middle man taking a cut of an electronic transaction. I don't understand why people insist that the way of the future is to fork over a few percent of your income to credit card companies.
Already happened in videogames, people sleepwalked into the theft of their own software to be run on their own computers in isolation from the rest of the internet. Now even windows has drm in it. Shit is disgusting. The average person on our planet is a moron.
We saw this in videogames 20 years ago with the rise of "MMO's", aka the idea of not owning the game software you are buying was idiotic and people fell for it. PC rpg's in development were rebranded and became "mmo's" with that steam was forced into half-life/cs in 2004 to steal the fucking game.
The internet has been the greatest force for corproate fraud, theft, mass invasion of privacy and destruction of human culture in all of human history and it comes down to the fact the average person is just subhumanly retarded with money. The fact that many games are now "live services" that games like League of legends and Dota 2 can even exist and survive off people buying skins in a game they don't own and they don't even get the skin, it just sets a flag to display it. Same goes for the latest fortnite craze, stupid skins and chests making them billions in a game the morons playing it don't own or control.
So if anything free market theory proves - crime pays because the average human being is just subhumanly retarded and will just bend over infinitely.
... to create this mess by getting rid of game ownership and stealing control of software out from under gamers since the internet has made fraud and software theft easy as just keeping the software they've produced at their offices.
Dedicated servers and the lack of forced matchmaking would do wonders to de-toxify gaming instead of forcing everyone to play together without any admin tools or ability to run dedicated servers like ye good old days in the 90's.
So I will cry no tears for corporations and their idiot managers for creating this mess.
... listening ot music consumes resources that the attention system in the brain needs to focus on the problem at hand. More distraction = less resources. A giant no brainer there. But I guess it's a slow newsday at slashdot.
.. the rule of law exists in this world. There are two sets of laws, one for the rich and corporations and another for the rest of us. The reality is the internet and technology has made it cheap and easy to collect data on everyone. Even if you wanted privacy it can't exist due to technological advancement. Our technology is making rule of law irrelevant.
The last 20 years the internet enabled software companies to steal peoples game and OS software (drm) and remove their privacy by force because we can't reach them. The only solution is reconstituting corporations legally so they certain behaviors aren't allowed or they lose their charter, but that's unlikely given the free market fundamentalism that grips the world. The only way out would be for society to have a say in how corporations or businesses are run and given the mass stupidity and huge amounts of money arrayed against that outcome it is unlikely.
... all states and their respective corporate elites fear the political awakening potential of the internet and mass communication technology. Privacy under a capitalist model is a fantasy when the state actor on behalf of the corporate elite will use the state against other businesses who enable resistance to their authority.
All states are preparing for the political awakening of the masses of the globe, they are expecting conflict. Zbigniew Brezinski former nationa security advisor of the united states:
The whole 'they want to make movies' thing is kinda ten years out of date. None of the big publishers are interested in linear, narrative focused games anymore. They're mostly trying to convince us all that online only hamster wheels are the way, devoid of both gameplay and narrative
That only happened as mobile phones got to the point to put gambling inside of games. Gacha didn't become predominant until around 2010's. And big single player movie games are still mainstays. Just look at the latest god of war. Titanfall 2 and TF3 will also have a singleplayer "inside the movie campaign". The single player campaign is not dead. It's just companies now have access to easy money because mobile and internet gave them complete control over the game to put mtx inside it. Microtransactions didn't get added to Team fortress 2 until around 2011.
... CEO's realized the way to expand the market and recoup development costs was to make movies and not games. This trend towards making the game a movie pushed aside gameplay beginning around 2000 with the jump of PC devs to console as PC games were getting costly to develop due to 3D cards making dev costs explode and greener pastures on a locked down platform with less technically informed population.
Now that the market has expanded to the bottom half of the bell curve we get shit games and mind blowing levels of stupidity like mmo's, drm, steam, etc. The internet brought the stupid masses online and being stupid didn't withhold their bucks from game companies stealing games out from under them which is why videogames are in such a dystopic state. The average gamer is a fucking mouthbreather. It began with ultina online, everquest and wow back in the late 90's to early 2000's as big videogame companies started stealing games and calling it drm. Up until around 2000 we got complete games both muli+ single player to run on our local machines. The internet has enabled the biggest theft and destruction of videogame culture in all of human history thanks to the ignorant masses getting internet. To think the internet would unleash the PC game nerds worst fears from the 90's... and now even windows 10 has drm in it. A giant wtf to how fucking stupid our species is.
The reality is now most gamers hate actual gameplay and you have hack devs who are also part of the 'new generation' of gamers with shit taste and it is reflected in the games they make. We went from complex games like Civilization, Starcraft 1, Quake 3/w mods, UT2004 to microtransaction ridden garbage with diablo 3 and SC2 held hostage on the other side of the internet with always online drm where you can't run the game fucking completely stand alone. Shit sucks.
The Console has one major advantage over the PC. Uniform Balanced Hardware.
Sorry to tell ya, but games were made better in the 90's before the internet allowed people with impulse control problems to allow game companies to take control of the software. The fact that windows 10 has defacto DRM in it is the worst possible outcome for a PC game nerd who games in the 90's. The console advantage isn't, since console gamers are on average more stupid and less demanding then PC gamers. They are the ones who ultimately forked out for "multiplayer subscriptions" (dumb shit) and stuff like horse armor.
As the masses got internet the bottom of the bell curve came online and their idiot decisions changed gaming forever for the worse. Microtransactions directly incentivized the attack on game ownership which is why multiplayer of most modern games is so fucked up beyond all recognition. Watching quake as a property devolve into some f2p microtransaction ridden game means we are in the worst of all possible gaming futures because the average person today is a fucking mouthbreathing moron.
The last 20 years has been the biggest heist and theft of videogames in all human history while the masses fell on their own sword and put mouth to corporate CEO dick and sucked it. Once the gaming public fell for the mmo scam, the rebranding of PC rpg's to get gamers to pay more then once for the same PC RPG, it was over, it proved the average gamer is a fucking moron. Which lead to steam and then finally leauge of legends - league of legends taught the game industry a powerful lesson - the internet focused the worlds stupidest, richest and those lacking impulse control and concentrated them all in once place. Since telecom reaches everyone that meant corporations had 24/7 access to the dumbest members of our species and those motherfuckers voted to destroy videogames because most of them are irrational and technologically illiterate.
Watching PC gaming subreddit on reddit is watching idiots engage in their moronic thoughts not realizing the battle was lost as soon as you accepted mmo's... AKA not seeing that as soon as they control the game software they were going to rape us six ways to sunday.
It's hilarious seeing the stupid masses think they are getting a deal when their hobby has literally already been invaded and destroyed because they are too dumb to realize when you don't control the software and make sure you own and control 100% of it, that means corporations no longer have to focuse on making the best games they can now just exploit the weak minded half of the population which internet gives them 24/7 access to.
Everything us PC nerds feared in the 90's simply came true as the internet was the greatest gift to software corporations allowing them to steal software from the entire world from the comfort and safety of their offices. Like the world as a giant highschool where the evil nerds used the jocks and normies of highschool to rob from the other nerds. Shit is sad watching gmaing history being destroyed over the last 20 years because of drm and "always online" software nonsense has been a downright tragedy.
Once internet penetration reached the tech illtierate morons of the globe everything went to shit. The fact that steam, mmo's, xbox live subscriptions and drm even exist is a testament to how fucking stupid the average person is on our planet.
... an individual problem. The fibre optic cable we've laid over the planet has given private businsses trivial ability to defraud and force policies on the population. Online drm in videogames and the theft of PC games more generally over the last 20 years starting with rebadging PC RPG's as mmo's and steam in 2004 with half life.
The public cannot hope to defend itself when they are 100's of miles away from these companies. The idea that any one individual can hope to fight off the attacks of every company on the globe is nuts. Nobody is "free to choose" anything, reality is pre-internet people got physical products shipped to them that provided them privacy, now everything is tracked and monitored because it is delievered online. The very act of watching a video on hulu, youtube or any other videosite means they know where you live, your IP address, etc. You can't expect the public to fight off companies who have billions of dollars that also pay other companies to pro actively deanonymize their users. The individual does not have the time, expertise or monetary resources to fight off the entire corporate sector. It's whole thoguht process is not even wrong.
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I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing,
And the earth is flat, the moon landings were a hoax, O'Blama is a Kenyan citizen, and Chemtrails are loaded with chemicals that emasculate males, and Pizzagate is real and ongoing.
Do go on though, I love what you post. Do you have a newsletter, or at least T-shirts.
Not my problem, the science says I can tell you the truth and you won't believe it. You gullibly believe evolution has selected for reality perceiving brains, when there is overwhelming evidence from religion most human beings were not. So that means there's inequality in perception and hence inequality in accurate perceptions of reality. You've provided no evidence for your position. The US government is known to be corrupt and has a huge history of corruption and that is well documented in academic circles. But it's obvious from your posts your not educated enough to talk about these things.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing, the whole thing is a sham for those who are educated. Only morons and ill bread non reality perceiving animals like yourself believe in a concept like 'patriotism' and 'traitors' the world is much more complex then your one dimensional worldview. And if it was your ass on the line or your family member being offed by your own government, you might feel differently on how the powerful treat little useful idiots like yourself. You'd finally come to realize - the powerful only care about themselves, you're nothing but rabble in their presence.
It's really cute that some people think that you can publish Secret documents from any nation
Meanwhile, Slashdotlawyers should probably read this https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/1...
Better call the DOJ to let them know that they can't do that.
People like you can't read between the lines, you can't hold a corrupt government accountable when they can make they can classify their corruption and bad behavior as state secrets. So while you are sitting their in a pile of your own festering stupidity unable to see through the lies of the corporate state, people with a brain know how corruption actually works. When corrupt people are writing the laws and making the policies, of course you're going to be "breaking the law" that's how corruption works idiot. The laws are corrupt themselves and can be made to mean anything depending on "who's guys" are interpreting them.
If in doubt just look at what has happened to the public domain in intellectual property law in the united states. It's been totally destroyed.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
... to what happened to gaming on PC and mobile? MMO's, drm and steam proved the public is just downright cretins when it comes to technology. The people who care about personal computing are a minority. The rise of steam, mmo's, always online drm and f2p games means the average pc and software consumer is a fucking moron.
They simply don't care and/or are too irrational. Think about what we used to get with PC games in the 90's -- total ownership, dedicated servers, level editors, free maps, mods and skins. The last 20 years with the rise of the masses that has all been almost wiped out because the internet allowed game companies like valve to steal games in comfort and safety from the middle of the continent while their customers were 100 miles away. Everyone with a brain remembers the great betrayal of valve with half-life 2 and cs in 2004 when he launched steam to steal the fucking software and undermine game ownership. The man pioneered walled gardens, then he gets anxious when MS finally gets a clue and makes windows platform and windows store and suddenly he's interested in proton and linux.
The average person on our planet is a god damn uncaring moron when it comes to these issues. Just look at fortnite with kids paying for skids in a game they don't own. Once that happened software companies have zero incentive to ever give software ownership back to users because there's too many stupid people who feed them money.
Just look at the money game companies are making from mobile gaming, they make more money then almost both the PC and console market combined, just off 3% of the people who spend money on gambling for skins/characters like it's going out of style. These people with evolutionary flaws and gambling type minds have allowed game companies to survive indefinitely and totally undermine software ownership.
This is why corporations want to finally finish off general computing on the PC and other hardware:
https://newzoo.com/wp-content/...
It's all about profits.
The last 20 years software has been locked down on the PC starting with RPG's when they were rebranded mmo's and taken hostage
I know, no more RPGs come out any more. Certainly not good ones.
Well, other than The Witcher (1 through 3)
And Divinity: Original Sin (1 and 2)
And Pillars Of Eternity (1 and 2)
And Dragon Age: Origins (and its many sequels)
And Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Skyrim
And Mass Effect (1 through 3)
And Fallout (3, 4, and New Vegas)
And Legend of Grimrock (1 and 2)
And (arguably part of the genre) Demon/Dark Souls
And Tyranny
Yup. No more good RPGs. The genre is dead. They're all MMOs now. We're trapped in this dystopian hell from which we cannot escape.
You missed the fact of the huge amount of mobile games that would have been stand alone rpg's in the past. So yes, many rpg's are now made only for mobile and will never get a stand alone release so they can't be preserved.
You missed the entire point, in the 90's we were getting a flood of games and we owned and controlled them, it's about games being produced where we do not own and control them with no level editing tools, modding, etc... Microtransactions and mmo's have incentivized the undermining of game ownership.
We don't have any technology that can effectively compensate for these phenomenon,.
We already have had 'streaming' games for 20 years, RPG's which were rebranded mmo's and "f2p" games, aka online drm is the same as streaming game. Diablo 3 and path of exile are perfect examples of streamed games over the internet where you have the whole game engineered around a server locked coded mechanism that is totally unnatural, inefficient and un-needed. Compared to say diablo 2 where the whole entire game could run stand alone both single and multiplayer on the same PC.
The last 20 years has been the theft of PC games by literally taking files and code hostage on corporate servers and coding ways in games that will prevent their preservation.
I swear, we get these so often.. desktops are dead / desktops are dying..
Yeah yeah, sure the vast number of phone/tablet/mobile users are a significant portion of traffic.
You don't seem to understand why companies want to get rid of freedom and general computing on the PC, we're seeing the big lockdown with windows 10.
See these numbers, this is what they want the lockdown that produces profits.
https://newzoo.com/wp-content/...
The last 20 years software has been locked down on the PC starting with RPG's when they were rebranded mmo's and taken hostage, the whole gameplan is to prevent software and file ownership on the PC. Steam and game companies have been getting away with this theft for years on the PC and mobile, where you pay for software, but never get a copy of said game or software making game preservation completely impossible.
Windows 10 already can disable and 'update the os' to disable your games, they want to move to feudal locked down computing where they are constantly checking and spying on you to see whether you have permission to run the software that is running on your PC.
We've already seen PC gaming in the AAA space have level editors and dedicated servers all but wiped out because of the desire for microtransactions and advertising/streaming, they want to monetize the time and attention of end users and that makes no ownership for you.
... the reality is the internet has shown us the true face of the human race - everyones reality is right and it's those other guys who are incorrect. It has been the average human being and the masses getting internet. We've seen everyone come online over the last 20 years.
Watching the last 20 years of slashdot comments has been surreal. The rise in anti intellectualism as more normal people came online and the dumbest shit you can possibly imagine getting upvoted. The outright destruction of PC gaming and the masses falling on their own sword and falling for the mmo scam, drm and steam. As an original nerd from the 90's, the masses getting internet has just shown us how stupid the human race is from every class and every walk of life.
Everything PC nerds in the 90's were worried about came true, and what a gift the internet has been to the corporate world that the average human being is so uncaring and unflinchingly stupid, they'd literally bend over to have their rights and freedoms taken away but do so willingly.
Valve is doing a lot of good for linux gamers with Steam Play and employing WINE/DXVK developers.
Except this is exactly wrong. Valve is the company that literally stole half-life/counterstrike by inserting steam into it. Before the late 90's/early 2000's, PC gamers owned their games and they game with dedicated servers and level editors. That got dialed back hugely after steam in 2004. The rebranding of PC rpg's in development to mmo's to undermine game ownership. Valve pioneered walled garden gaming. We saw TF2 get mtx around 2010.
The only reason Valve is making proton and has any interest in linux at all is because of windows 10 drm and the windows store. Windows app store is a threat to valve hence valve's interest in steam. Valve had no interest in that until Microsoft anounced Windows would become a platform and come with an app store. That scared the shit out of valve and got them working on proton.
The great irony is there we are 20 years later and drm is now in major AAA games out the gate from major AAA game companies so they succesfully stole software from the ignorant masses because the average game buying moron won't stop feeding money to these companies and their abusive practices. Preserving games mobile/pc/otherwise is going to be a nightmare in 20 years or more.
... animation AI for 2D so you can get the hand drawn look artists want. Given that hand drawn animation is a lot simpler in that only the necessary details for the thing being drawin to read well are usually drawn. I have no idea why they'd use photo realism given that many artist want to create from their imagination. It'd be a lot cooler if they perfected 2D animation line art first for traditional cartoons and anime so they'd actually be saving animators tonnes of time and money.
Animators still have a really hard time scaling and animating things we made computers to help with that but we're still stupid ass apes that can't take advantage of all thise CPU power and put it to good use given our natural mathematical dumbness.
but I was just hoping there's a reason somewhere in between the two.
There isn't any, basically businesses are trying to prevent people from owning and controlling the things they pay for to turn it into a racket. The new model is "everything as a service" where you merely rent your existence from these big companies. It's a real revenue generator.
Gawd people, why the negativity?
Because this technology's real purpose is stronger drm, anything regarding streaming or 'games as a service' technologies is them trying to perfect trapping software inside the internet and drip feeding you encrypted files so you don't own anything. But I bet you're one of the stupid masses who don't remember how steam was something nobody wanted in 2004 and the last 20 years of videogame history on the PC was the rise of the stupid masses getting internet and how that fucked up gaming by enabling the stupid to give money to the most anti-consumer transactions - microtransactions, dlc, unfinished games, early access, because the average game consumer is basically retarded.
We've lost game ownership and game preservation is going to be a nightmare with increasingly server locked/encrypted games instead of having softare be full stand alone like it used to be in the 90's. The last 20 years of PC gaming has been the corporate world stealing software and calling it a service.
You don't seem to understand the dynamics of political power in capitalist society and all the software we've already invested in being wiped out by microsoft politically engineering the internet putting drm in everything because the population cannot defend itself from these attacks.
The gullible vote with your dollars free market ideology you subscribe to is 100% bullshit. You can't hold accountable a giant mega corporation that has billions of dollars when you are 100 miles away from it and expect to influence their behavior with your not buying their software.
The whole ideology behind it is bankrupt and this has been studied. The modern software landscape is market for lemons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So you've never read the service agreement for previous versions of Windows then.
Except you seem to not realize that Windows 10 is designed to feed all of your information to microsoft. To gather data on everything you've ever done. Windows 7 does not have that awful feature. Sorry to tell ya and I can forcefully disconnect win7 from the corporate hive mind and still have a functioning computer. Good luck on future versions of windows.
... the thing is a drm ridden piece of spying garbage. The fucking "service agreement" gives them absolute authority to invade your computer. A giant wtf. Anyone with any clue of the great evil of windows 10 wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
To think it only took the stupid and ignorant masses getting internet to allow corporations to steal software and force drm on the planet and the entire world bent over and forked over their money. A Fucking dystopia brought to by the average citizien moron who can't make rational purchasing decisions.
There is always a middle man taking a cut of an electronic transaction. I don't understand why people insist that the way of the future is to fork over a few percent of your income to credit card companies.
Already happened in videogames, people sleepwalked into the theft of their own software to be run on their own computers in isolation from the rest of the internet. Now even windows has drm in it. Shit is disgusting. The average person on our planet is a moron.
... is a moron that will not punish companies.
We saw this in videogames 20 years ago with the rise of "MMO's", aka the idea of not owning the game software you are buying was idiotic and people fell for it. PC rpg's in development were rebranded and became "mmo's" with that steam was forced into half-life/cs in 2004 to steal the fucking game.
The internet has been the greatest force for corproate fraud, theft, mass invasion of privacy and destruction of human culture in all of human history and it comes down to the fact the average person is just subhumanly retarded with money. The fact that many games are now "live services" that games like League of legends and Dota 2 can even exist and survive off people buying skins in a game they don't own and they don't even get the skin, it just sets a flag to display it. Same goes for the latest fortnite craze, stupid skins and chests making them billions in a game the morons playing it don't own or control.
So if anything free market theory proves - crime pays because the average human being is just subhumanly retarded and will just bend over infinitely.
... to create this mess by getting rid of game ownership and stealing control of software out from under gamers since the internet has made fraud and software theft easy as just keeping the software they've produced at their offices.
Dedicated servers and the lack of forced matchmaking would do wonders to de-toxify gaming instead of forcing everyone to play together without any admin tools or ability to run dedicated servers like ye good old days in the 90's.
So I will cry no tears for corporations and their idiot managers for creating this mess.
... listening ot music consumes resources that the attention system in the brain needs to focus on the problem at hand. More distraction = less resources. A giant no brainer there. But I guess it's a slow newsday at slashdot.
.. the rule of law exists in this world. There are two sets of laws, one for the rich and corporations and another for the rest of us. The reality is the internet and technology has made it cheap and easy to collect data on everyone. Even if you wanted privacy it can't exist due to technological advancement. Our technology is making rule of law irrelevant.
The last 20 years the internet enabled software companies to steal peoples game and OS software (drm) and remove their privacy by force because we can't reach them. The only solution is reconstituting corporations legally so they certain behaviors aren't allowed or they lose their charter, but that's unlikely given the free market fundamentalism that grips the world. The only way out would be for society to have a say in how corporations or businesses are run and given the mass stupidity and huge amounts of money arrayed against that outcome it is unlikely.
... all states and their respective corporate elites fear the political awakening potential of the internet and mass communication technology. Privacy under a capitalist model is a fantasy when the state actor on behalf of the corporate elite will use the state against other businesses who enable resistance to their authority.
All states are preparing for the political awakening of the masses of the globe, they are expecting conflict. Zbigniew Brezinski former nationa security advisor of the united states:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The whole 'they want to make movies' thing is kinda ten years out of date. None of the big publishers are interested in linear, narrative focused games anymore. They're mostly trying to convince us all that online only hamster wheels are the way, devoid of both gameplay and narrative
That only happened as mobile phones got to the point to put gambling inside of games. Gacha didn't become predominant until around 2010's. And big single player movie games are still mainstays. Just look at the latest god of war. Titanfall 2 and TF3 will also have a singleplayer "inside the movie campaign". The single player campaign is not dead. It's just companies now have access to easy money because mobile and internet gave them complete control over the game to put mtx inside it. Microtransactions didn't get added to Team fortress 2 until around 2011.
... CEO's realized the way to expand the market and recoup development costs was to make movies and not games. This trend towards making the game a movie pushed aside gameplay beginning around 2000 with the jump of PC devs to console as PC games were getting costly to develop due to 3D cards making dev costs explode and greener pastures on a locked down platform with less technically informed population.
Now that the market has expanded to the bottom half of the bell curve we get shit games and mind blowing levels of stupidity like mmo's, drm, steam, etc. The internet brought the stupid masses online and being stupid didn't withhold their bucks from game companies stealing games out from under them which is why videogames are in such a dystopic state. The average gamer is a fucking mouthbreather. It began with ultina online, everquest and wow back in the late 90's to early 2000's as big videogame companies started stealing games and calling it drm. Up until around 2000 we got complete games both muli+ single player to run on our local machines. The internet has enabled the biggest theft and destruction of videogame culture in all of human history thanks to the ignorant masses getting internet. To think the internet would unleash the PC game nerds worst fears from the 90's... and now even windows 10 has drm in it. A giant wtf to how fucking stupid our species is.
The reality is now most gamers hate actual gameplay and you have hack devs who are also part of the 'new generation' of gamers with shit taste and it is reflected in the games they make. We went from complex games like Civilization, Starcraft 1, Quake 3 /w mods, UT2004 to microtransaction ridden garbage with diablo 3 and SC2 held hostage on the other side of the internet with always online drm where you can't run the game fucking completely stand alone. Shit sucks.
The Console has one major advantage over the PC. Uniform Balanced Hardware.
Sorry to tell ya, but games were made better in the 90's before the internet allowed people with impulse control problems to allow game companies to take control of the software. The fact that windows 10 has defacto DRM in it is the worst possible outcome for a PC game nerd who games in the 90's. The console advantage isn't, since console gamers are on average more stupid and less demanding then PC gamers. They are the ones who ultimately forked out for "multiplayer subscriptions" (dumb shit) and stuff like horse armor.
As the masses got internet the bottom of the bell curve came online and their idiot decisions changed gaming forever for the worse. Microtransactions directly incentivized the attack on game ownership which is why multiplayer of most modern games is so fucked up beyond all recognition. Watching quake as a property devolve into some f2p microtransaction ridden game means we are in the worst of all possible gaming futures because the average person today is a fucking mouthbreathing moron.
The last 20 years has been the biggest heist and theft of videogames in all human history while the masses fell on their own sword and put mouth to corporate CEO dick and sucked it. Once the gaming public fell for the mmo scam, the rebranding of PC rpg's to get gamers to pay more then once for the same PC RPG, it was over, it proved the average gamer is a fucking moron. Which lead to steam and then finally leauge of legends - league of legends taught the game industry a powerful lesson - the internet focused the worlds stupidest, richest and those lacking impulse control and concentrated them all in once place. Since telecom reaches everyone that meant corporations had 24/7 access to the dumbest members of our species and those motherfuckers voted to destroy videogames because most of them are irrational and technologically illiterate.
Watching PC gaming subreddit on reddit is watching idiots engage in their moronic thoughts not realizing the battle was lost as soon as you accepted mmo's... AKA not seeing that as soon as they control the game software they were going to rape us six ways to sunday.
It's hilarious seeing the stupid masses think they are getting a deal when their hobby has literally already been invaded and destroyed because they are too dumb to realize when you don't control the software and make sure you own and control 100% of it, that means corporations no longer have to focuse on making the best games they can now just exploit the weak minded half of the population which internet gives them 24/7 access to.
Everything us PC nerds feared in the 90's simply came true as the internet was the greatest gift to software corporations allowing them to steal software from the entire world from the comfort and safety of their offices. Like the world as a giant highschool where the evil nerds used the jocks and normies of highschool to rob from the other nerds. Shit is sad watching gmaing history being destroyed over the last 20 years because of drm and "always online" software nonsense has been a downright tragedy.
Once internet penetration reached the tech illtierate morons of the globe everything went to shit. The fact that steam, mmo's, xbox live subscriptions and drm even exist is a testament to how fucking stupid the average person is on our planet.
... an individual problem. The fibre optic cable we've laid over the planet has given private businsses trivial ability to defraud and force policies on the population. Online drm in videogames and the theft of PC games more generally over the last 20 years starting with rebadging PC RPG's as mmo's and steam in 2004 with half life.
The public cannot hope to defend itself when they are 100's of miles away from these companies. The idea that any one individual can hope to fight off the attacks of every company on the globe is nuts. Nobody is "free to choose" anything, reality is pre-internet people got physical products shipped to them that provided them privacy, now everything is tracked and monitored because it is delievered online. The very act of watching a video on hulu, youtube or any other videosite means they know where you live, your IP address, etc. You can't expect the public to fight off companies who have billions of dollars that also pay other companies to pro actively deanonymize their users. The individual does not have the time, expertise or monetary resources to fight off the entire corporate sector. It's whole thoguht process is not even wrong.