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Playing games on Duckstation it just clicked with me that I only ever see this screen on bootup in the few PAL roms I keep around when I remember seeing it in most PS1 games as a kid. (Being a dumb kid I thought PIRACY in all caps was some kind of sinister organisation) The spellings of "offence" and "unauthorised" definitely point to this being something coming from Sony's UK branch.

I wonder why only PAL games have a warning like this and whether it had something to do with the UK and Europe having a pre-existing thriving culture of copying, downloading and cracking games thanks to the popularity of computer gaming where those things were trivial to do.

Imagine calling Sony's Customer Service in 1998 to tell them that you suspect that the copy of Metal Gear Solid that's a CD-R with METALL GER SOLID CD 1 scribbled on it you got off your classmate isn't genuine

have any other information about pirate product

It's completely inconsistent with traditional Windows design language and there's no "Cancel" button or an X in the corner to click on so you can't cancel out of it with your mouse and have to reach for Esc on your keyboard

It also tries to funnel you into a shitty Microsoft service

I see people asking why this is happening. I figured I’d give a quick update.

For those who don’t know, Capcom is a family business. Has been for a very long time. It’s a father/son combo with many of their leads being part of this circle of trust.

About 5-10 years ago the dad started passing more and more tasks off to his son, grooming him to be the successor. This got jumped forward when a lot of the dad’s projects which involved western studios failed.

The son is the one who brought the company forward, he’s the guy behind MonHun. He’s the one who pushed for new Street Fighter/DD2/return to the roots.

And things were going well!

And then during a major tournament one of the hosts/streamers was using a naked Chun Li mod. And it showed up everywhere.

Now for a normal company you’d expect a ha ha whoops and the streamer might get banned. This however blew up in Japan big time. The dad and the board apparently stripped the son and his friends of most of their ability to influence things. They’ve had a few behind the scenes since where it’s all but said they will not allow modding in any of their games going forward.

The father has completely taken control of the company again and apparently has zero faith in the younger leads anymore. Fully expect Capcom to go back off the rails again until things cool down. But having one of their major IPs/characters get disgraced in this way killed all the goodwill/progress.

I would not be surprised if Capcom games get removed from GoG in the near future also. Or at the very least stop showing up on GoG.

This isn’t about DRM. Capcom doesn’t care about that. He’ll, their old games are already cracked. They want to destroy the modding community, and make it so yeah you could download the pirated version but nobody is going to be upkeeping these mods anymore because they won’t work. There has also been rumblings they may attempt to sue many of the mod creators. So expect mods to go down mysteriously.

Don’t expect Capcom to make good business decisions for awhile, and I hope you didn’t like any of their IPs.

It could very well be some redditor's Capcom exec fanfic, as they had a whole long presentation last year about how they want to have more DRM solutions in their games, but it would be really funny if the Chun Li incident going all the way up the chain to some crusty old Japanese executive caused all this

I saw a guy with a pepe avatar gripe about something called Sweet Baby Inc on a video about the live service Suicide Squad game and googled it to find people complaining about them on places like NeoGaf and the AsmonGold subreddit

Expect to hear endless conspiracy theories about this consultancy firm along old favourites like BlackRock

For context, Lidl also had Nintendo and PlayStation mugs come in before Christmas, both of which have long since sold out

I just want to dump on Microsoft for their shitty mug design. Whereas the Nintendo mug had Mario on it, this mug is dedicated to... the Series X console, not the general Xbox brand or iconography people might have nostalgic feelings for.

How is this design even evocative of the Series X or Xbox? What do the monochrome green Corporate Memphis landscapes have to do with either?

The mugs should have probably just have had "Game Pass $10/mo" scribbled on them with a sharpie

Here's a channel that got recommended to me last year where a jovial British guy takes apart and repairs broken electronics, most often game consoles and controllers. He sometimes bumbles and fucks up which makes the videos more entertaining.

CW: VIDEOS CONTAIN EXPLICIT SCENES OF A MIDDLE-AGED WHITE ENGLISHMAN SINGING AND RAPPING

They always give you a scare since it looks like Windows is booting into a recovery environment. Just had one, and the only options I had were "Remind me in 3 days" and "Continue".

It's always about Microsoft wanting you to set Edge as your default browser as well as trying to get you to log in on a Microsoft account and you have to individually decline every suggestion since you can't just skip the fucking thing.

Piss off, Microsoft

A brand new board game is being released this weekend to mark the three year anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riots in Washington DC.

The right-wing podcast TrueAnon has created the game “Storm the Capitol – TrueAnon Edition” where players can “relive one of the funniest days in American history!”

Despite the day not being particularly funny for the Capitol staff and law enforcement officers who were faced with an angry mob of far-right activists and Donald Trump supporters seeking to overturn American democracy, the game celebrates the violence of the day – with players able to pretend they are “battling” their way through the Capitol building.

Players take on the role of a “Patriot” and try to “collect ballots, take hostages and fight the police” in a re-enactment of the riots.

Other players can take on the role of the Capitol police, aiming to stop the so-called “Patriots” from getting to the roof with enough ballots to “Stop the Steal”.

The game comes with cards such as Capitol police attack dogs, which leads to a “Patriot” losing points.

Players can gain points by stealing “AOC’s shoes” or “Pelosi’s laptop”.

At the end of the game, if the “Patriots” win, former president Donald Trump will be waiting to take them in his helicopter to change the results of the 2020 election, according to the game.

If the police win, President Joe Biden will be victorious.

The controversial game is being sold exclusively for $64.99 on the far-right podcast’s merchandise website and will be released on 6 January.

In a podcast episode announcing the game’s release, the host Brace Belden recalled seeing the riots covered in the news, saying it was “the best day of watching TV I’ve ever had in my life”.

He also falsely claimed about those who died that day that “most of them died from being too excited”.

Fellow podcast host, Liz Franczak, boasted about how fun the game is, calling it a “riot of a time”.

The hosts even went so far as to humbly say the board came could “heal the nation,” putting their product up with the invention of the wheel or the discovery of fire.

The podcast hosts wrote on X that they hope the game will bring back the “amazing feeling” felt on 6 January 2021.

The TrueAnon hosts claim the game is designed for everybody in America on “every single side of every single political issue” – as long, of course, that you are comfortable attacking police, taking hostages and upending democracy.

Over a thousand rioters have so far been arrested for their parts in that deadly day, with many being handed long prison sentences.

Still losing to Vista and Windows 7 though

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Why would you still use Vista

"Not much is known about Generalleutnant Fritz von Kraut. We know he was a brave and competent military commander, but we don't know about his political beliefs or his attitude towards national socialism."

ie things you'd think the gammons scaring themselves shitless about the concept would care about

When I order something online (as long as it isn't something huge like a grand piano), it gets delivered to a nearby corner shop or supermarket, either to be held by staff or placed into an automated locker that opens via code you get sent via text message

Very convenient and I don't need to worry about being home when the mailman's at my door and there's less need for delivery vans to drive to specific addresses