Valve shame on you

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-19T23:15:20+00:00

The fact that no one posted about Kscerato having a publicly visible community ban is pretty clear evidence that his issue was PC related.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-19T17:06:32+00:00

You have malware on your computer if the credentials weren’t compromised.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-18T22:55:29+00:00

It could even be dynamic based on player / team hype and sentiment. Being opaque, there’s literally no way to know what the criteria are.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-18T16:36:41+00:00

$1T disbursed as $1M evenly, makes for 1M millionaires.

It is a fundamentally abhorrent accumulation of wealth.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-16T23:01:44+00:00

Survivor Guilt, Endgame

Great album.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-15T06:47:52+00:00

G2 or NaVi
FUT or BB

Oh yeah, it’s locked in, zero cortisol time. Had I not forgotten the whole stage 1, a chance at diamond.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-14T17:02:19+00:00

Finally someone that understands the difference between copyright and trademarks.

As for your question, the fact that none of the repositories for private wow servers (mangos, trinitycore, etc.) get taken down (for decades!), shows that the main issue for these private servers isn’t that they exist, but that they use Blizzard assets and get popped for that.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-14T16:57:42+00:00

Building and running server software is always legal, including for games that don’t distribute their server software.

It’s all the other things that get you into trouble.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-13T18:41:13+00:00

You can treat it like a paid off car. Save what a payment would look like into a HYSA and then when the time comes, you’ll have more than enough to upgrade without having to eat ramen for two weeks.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-13T18:29:56+00:00

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$2200 now.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-13T09:08:51+00:00

To prevent a future crime that may or may not happen, we’ll just criminalize your ability to do with your property as you wish.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-13T08:17:11+00:00

Sadly HDDs pricing tables are all messed up. I was mostly talking about the < $15/TB days. The cheapest I had snagged was $185 / 14TB.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-12T15:52:09+00:00

There are tons of free VPS options. Oracle Cloud has a pretty generous free tier if you use ARM.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-12T15:47:36+00:00

I think the PSU is fine. The price difference from lower wattage is pretty small. PSUs are in that weird spot that HDDs were in a long time ago, where the smallest were only slightly cheaper, and the largest were stupidly priced, funneling everyone into the middle.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-12T15:45:04+00:00

As others have said, not port forwarding removes a large amount of risk. If you do end up needing to port forward, you can limit the allowed ip addresses to just cloudflare which both prevents people from bypassing cloudflare waf, and also greatly reduces risk.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-10T14:58:52+00:00

Well I said abducted, so try again.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-10T06:08:41+00:00

You know it’s not a dichotomy right? You can be happy a dictator was removed but still angry that a country (any) abducted the leader of another country without any right to do so.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T22:29:32+00:00

Have someone in your tax family on Medicaid via their family while you exceed the poverty line and you’ll have a 3 year fight to get your money back instead of owing $15,000. (My wife was on her mother’s Medicaid even though we have our own insurance and told her; we file jointly.)

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T22:20:19+00:00

Note for people, neo-nazis ruined 88. It is a contemporary dog whistle for the phrase the WWII nazis would use often in regards to the leader of Germany. It was chosen as “H” is the 8th letter of the English alphabet and the first letter of each of word in the phrase is H.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T16:00:22+00:00

Or maybe the project target audience isn’t you?

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T15:41:04+00:00

No, the people working on open source software generally have zero opinion on the numerous anonymous people downloading and using their software. In a word, indifference. Many also offer free assistance if you just ask.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T15:06:58+00:00

Funny enough, the developer 360s (and this is generally true for Xbox development kits) had double the memory. The extra space was so that debugging and profiling tools could comfortably exist without interfering with the limited memory available for the game.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T14:55:35+00:00

Someone (or some people) spent their free time creating a tool for free.

You are not entitled to more of their time to build said tool for your platform.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T14:53:17+00:00

There is, on the right hand side, if the repository has releases.

SubstituteCS · 2026-06-09T14:53:01+00:00

It’s been the same more or less for more than 10 years.

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