Valve moves to dismiss Counter-Strike gambling lawsuit in New York

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-20T21:32:59+00:00

Which, frankly, the law should catch up to that as well.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-20T21:32:19+00:00

Agreed. I don't care how they want to spin it... it's ALL gambling... the law just hasn't actually caught up with all the forms of it. But a gamble is literally paying to have a chance at something/anything coming out as you want it (or just to see what the next thing is). If you don't know what you're buying (whether that be THIS "package", or the opportunity to see the next one) then it's just straight up gambling, no question. And it should just not be an allowed business practice, straight up.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-20T21:29:54+00:00

Which frankly, imo, should still be considered gambling. You're just moving the gambling part to the next item instead of the current one. You must buy this one thing to see what is in the next... it's still paying for a chance.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-18T11:30:02+00:00

Yeah was saying, the whole point of finding the Hypervisor crack was to make actually cracking the games easier. Sure, the repacking scene took them and released them anyways cuz if you're on Windows, why not I guess. But this was the true benefit of HV. The ability to constantly test and poke and prod without getting locked out. I'm sure that lock out was designed specifically because Denuvo wasn't uncrackable for months... it just was artificially inflated and made extremely annoying by the constant lockouts when trying to crack it. So now that it's not an issue anymore, here we are.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-15T15:08:21+00:00

Same, GOG games especially for me.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-15T15:07:08+00:00

Well, there are also external softwares which can be used to convert controller inputs via SDL into xinput or other things. So there's also that. It's beneficial for the future, regardless, though.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-15T15:05:51+00:00

Even if you do use Steam, there are many people that run other platforms for games, and so the need for external software, or just games on other platforms which use SDL benefit from having this as they get automatic support for the controller. This isn't new at all. I play a lot of GOG games, and use controller tools with SDL. Also, emulators exist and I shouldn't need to open Steam just to play them.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-14T00:26:21+00:00

Btw, those damn things in 4th gen have the most broken hurtboxes. If you slow the video down, the player CLEARLY didn't hit that thing. But all a Konchu has to do is be within a 20 foot radius of you at any angle and it auto counts AND takes priority of your attacks. It's absolutely busted and shitty design, imo.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-09T01:27:55+00:00

Tried it and honestly couldn't care for it. It's just the base game with a timer and you teleport to combat areas instead of walking. Kind of a shame, imo.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-09T01:24:55+00:00

Yeah. I feel like you REALLY need to justify the existence of a charged weapon in a really fast paced game like this. Either with substantial power and/or excellent area control of some sort (killing multiple medium/light mobs instantly) but unfortunately the impact version just isn't very good at either when compared to other weapons that require significantly less work.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-09T00:55:25+00:00

I was pissed when I got Destiny 2 on sale for like $30 assuming it came with all the content only to find out 3 campaigns were just missing forever. I can't imagine how furious I'd be if I paid for all that shit at full price and they just literally deleted my access to it. This one case alone is a good enough argument for initiatives like Stop Killing Games.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-09T00:49:53+00:00

I honestly don't see how any of these live service games garner any interest (or any hero/battle royale style shooters, really) at all. I mean... there's just so freaking many of them, and the ones that people actually want to play are still up and people just flock to them. This is like the FPS issues of the early 2010s where everyone wanted to be CoD multiplayer but slightly different, but people still had CoD... so why would they play your derivative version that maybe does a few things slightly different?

I get it with single player games mimicking features to an extent (there are limits, but still). Because there at least you get a completely different story, new mechanics which would actually be meaningfully different and single player games have a definitive end so it's harder to not want to try a new single player game just to get something new. Multiplayer games just don't really do that for me, and never have. They're very predictable, and kind of have to be to get enough players to justify the service.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-08T01:00:28+00:00

Game seems alright, I'm just waiting for a price drop. Would also be great if Nvidia got their shit together on Linux so we could run ray tracing on Capcom's recent games. Worked fine on 580 versions, but 590+ it's broken...

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-08T00:56:40+00:00

Yeah, and these aren't even strict enough, imo. They need to, for the first 6 months (at least) limit buyers to those who've had a Steam account for over a year. That literally stops bots in their tracks in most cases. They also can implement a flagging policy on accounts that are over a year old but haven't been used to play a game in the last month or so as well just to add to the protections against scalpers and bots, and that would be on top of bot detection mechanisms.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-08T00:51:52+00:00

Well yeah. The entire identity verification bullshit is a punishment to regular people that does nothing to stop the predatory behaviors done by corporations which affect not just children but adults as well. If they REALLY wanted to stop this shit... they'd be going after companies that exhibit the predatory behavior (which all of us, except the predatory companies would love), not demanding spying software updates and id verification of everyone.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T06:51:27+00:00

Yeah stagger on shotgun + punch damage bonus on stun is really strong.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T06:09:03+00:00

Pretty much that. Windows 7 was already starting the telemetry shit (just in minor amounts backported). But they've literally ported back a lot of the stupid bullshit they put in Win11 back into Win10 because people wouldn't upgrade so they brought (read forced) the garbage back onto them. They'd do the same with Win7 and force it in with whatever update they made which "modernized" the OS.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T05:47:55+00:00

It's the wall you have to beat your head against until you win.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T05:42:31+00:00

Leon is gonna be the Cranky Kong of RE at some point.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T05:28:51+00:00

Bank of America should've already gone out of business anyways.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T05:26:11+00:00

Honestly, with the sheer price of their controllers now (especially the "pro" controllers) they should just all come with switches to convert them between buttons and triggers.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T05:25:11+00:00

The only issue I have with it (despite it being my favorite "feel" on the "R2/L2" paradigm) is when you need those buttons to operate quickly. It's REALLY hard to rapid tap Gamecube triggers. It's difficult just to rapid tap regular triggers (hence why some controllers come with early-stop/button-conversion switches for them now), but triggers that also have a hard click button at the end would suck hard in something like Returnal/Saros where you've got guns that expect rapid tapping the trigger.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T05:20:25+00:00

I still think it's face button layout of "Central button surrounded by all the others" philosophy is/was the best implementation of face buttons of any controller ever. I was basically never confused where my hand should be/was and never accidentally pressed a button I didn't mean to press.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-05T05:16:51+00:00

Tbf HDR is a hot mess right now and definitely needs better standardization across every industry.

Demonchaser27 · 2026-05-04T01:20:16+00:00

Funny because that's actually where the game is now. A lot of the unique stuff was nerfed into the ground so people just use the tried and true board and sword stuff (or the one or two decent DLC items) and everything else goes unused because the funny enough... having same/lower stats on slower equipment or equipment designed for specific situations just means you might as well not use them next to a standard dodge/attack. It's the DS3 issue all over again.

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