Hey, leave Primitive Technology out of this. He's just a chad trying to build shit with the soothing sounds of nature.
p03locke
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Given how great this year has been for games, I'm just going to press X to doubt.
Star Citizen fans and their donators drink a gallon of copium every day just to survive. Sunken cost galaxy, indeed.
A grift implies that someone is making bank off of it.
Chris Roberts and the rest of the exec team are making bank off of it.
God, I remember the commercials where some dumb kid would push this narrative: "AOL is the Internet!" They would just directly say the lie outright. And after polluting the world in AOL CD-ROMs, it worked for a time.
Such a scummy corporation. I'm glad Time-Warner got burned when they bought them for a high price, right at the peak where they were going to drop like a cliff in popularity.
Developers have been creatively messing around with pirates for decades now. Serious Sam had that invincible scorpion. Talos Principle had an elevator that didn't actually go anywhere after playing the game for several hours.
Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back had phantom sector copy protection that the game would periodically check to make sure the reads were random. If the checks were always the same, after a while, it would kill off your party, and not give you the option to reload. (You could still reboot the computer and reload that way.) I remember playing this game as a kid, with a pirated copy, because we were poor, but had good pirate connections. I figured out how to fool the system by taking out the disk when it was trying to read it, and only putting the disk back in when it really needed to load, like when I'm going up or down stairs. According to the pirates that finally cracked the protection, it was the hardest challenge they ever had.
Alternate Reality: The Dungeon had FBI agents that showed up as soon as you started playing your character.
GPL and Artistic both needed a bunch of legal help to get them where they are.
Don't roll your own cryptography and don't do the same for software licenses.
Combine that with the odds that you're going to survive a car accident because of the airbag alone.
With those kind of numbers, we would call a death from airbag a "freak accident". Regulators really don't need to waste time on this when there are so many bigger and better targets to pour resources into.
I think the developers are working on a solution for this, if I’m not mistaken.
Yep, still working on that solution. Still waiting. Probably going to get fixed in 12 months at this rate.
Maybe don't live in Saudi Arabia?
Also, some of his conversations strongly suggest he knew he was breaking the law and did it anyway.
NYT really has gone downhill if they are going to call him "just the IT guy".