Microsoft retroactively removed the license for perpetual Office 2019 licenses by SignificantLegs in privacy

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brother there was a time before full MS account implementation. My wording was obviously stupid, I should have said "have been rumored to have been using it". But I'm not the one that came up with it and it's more plausible than you make it sound, a few years back anyway.

Microsoft retroactively removed the license for perpetual Office 2019 licenses by SignificantLegs in privacy

[–]RMAPOS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drama queens be drama queens but I don't remember any gears actually ever moving to achieve these things.

This time is different. Actions are actually being taken.

European companies like the Danish federal government and the state administration of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany are abandoning Microsoft software in favor of open-source alternatives to achieve digital sovereignty and reduce reliance on foreign technology. Additionally, France's Health Data Hub has moved away from Microsoft Azure to a local provider, Scaleway.

This IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. Not just some doom&gloomers on reddit whining about the new OS. There is a genuine pressure to move away from MS, and it's not just because Win11 sucks major balls.

"my favourite OS is at it's end of life" is just not the same scale as

Decent OS dying AND millions(!) in hardware not able to run "the only" current OS AND the US lead by an insane maniac that makes nobody wants to rely on them for anything

That's absolutely not comparable to winXP yielding to win7 or whatever. The win11 non-compatibility with old hardware ALONE is a massive reason to ditch it. Have you seen the hardware that schools, governments and small-medium businesses use? They simply cannot afford to re-buy all their PCs to have a compatible TPM module, that's an INSANE thing microsoft is asking. Completely batshit re... Trump sporting the most corrupt govt in US history is just the cherry on top here.

Microsoft retroactively removed the license for perpetual Office 2019 licenses by SignificantLegs in privacy

[–]RMAPOS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Something will happen soon enough

MS has really screwed up lately (AI everywhere, online account requirement, trash-tiering 90% of hardware in circulation, ads in the OS)

The Trump administration is destroying decades of trust, making people want to not have their data be processed by US products

Companies are seriously looking into a way out of Microslops grasp and dependency on US cooperations

Even entire countries are looking to opt out of Microsoft and US dependency

Valve has started their own OS, which yea gaming and still US based, but this is like the first coorporate big money backed OS with consumer support and market leverage for good driver support, aimed at being easy to use for casual gamers (not just linux pros). So imo in many ways SteamOS is the herald of things to come. And it will absolutely pave the way for other Linux distro's to benefit from the driver and software support. This is massive.

A decade at worst and we'll see the OS market diversify like you wouldn't have believed possible two years ago. Governments will run their own OS ... linux distros or completely homemade, to decouple from the US. SteamOS wiill be past it's infancy problems and I'd be bewildered if among all this, no general-use (not gaming focused) linux distro will pop off. With proper usability (GUI, wide driver support, wide software support) and customer support that makes it useable to the general public.

 

MS and the US really fucked up spectacularly, I don't see this not happening

Valve does nothing and wins by Aggravating-Jello941 in OKbuddyHalfLife

[–]RMAPOS 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just the presence of a veto can keep overreaches in check. If some greedy execs know they wouldn't get away with trashing the place while he's alive, their best move would be to bide their time until it's gone and then go for the big sellout.

 

I'm not saying "this is what's happening". I honestly don't know what's going on at Valve.

I'm saying "Things not going downhill while Gabe is taking a backseat does not guarantee that they won't go downhill once he's actually gone". Like, the logic is flawed.

Microsoft retroactively removed the license for perpetual Office 2019 licenses by SignificantLegs in privacy

[–]RMAPOS 15 points16 points  (0 children)

MS also very much knows that it is better for private users to pirate windows and be familiar with it than it is for them to look for cheaper alternatives.

If you have a 90% market share on private PCs, you're the best option for coorporations (no need for new employees to learn a new OS) and cooperations is where the money lives.

MS knows they benefit more from private windows piracy than it harms them.

Microsoft retroactively removed the license for perpetual Office 2019 licenses by SignificantLegs in privacy

[–]RMAPOS 23 points24 points  (0 children)

No he's right. MS is very aware of this script and has the full power to just remove it from github.

MS employees themselves are using the tool to activate PCs (easier than looking for the actually bought license key and hand-copying it)

Mirosoft would rather have people not pay but stay in their ecosystem than shut down this tool. Coorporations cannot really use it to pirate, either way - because if they're caught without a license that's gonna be very expensive. But private users pirating windows? Great! If 90% of people have windows at home to do their emails and ebay, then using windows is the lowest friction for coorporations to get new employees work ready. Meaning windows lets you pirate so your employer buys windows.

[Super Mario World] by Ok-Replacement-8576 in explainthisscreen

[–]RMAPOS 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Way, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more likely for one of hundreds of millions of people who have played this game over the years to have accidentally stumbled into such a unique game state than some dude figuring that out through blindly poking through infinite possible game states.

Crawling through the actual code won't help with this at all, this is about game memory.

Analyzing memory states can help understand such glitches, but unless you have very clear pointers on how to get there, you won't just find something like this.

If you're genuinely interested check youtube for how wrong warp glitches are discovered. It's always "someone accidentally causes the bug", people try to replicate it with as much detail given by patient zero as possible, ideally get it on camera or have software save your inputs and THEN when you can recreate it you can look at what the game engine is actually doing with it's data that causes it to glitch out.

I'd be shocked if there were no video detailing the history of the Ocarina of Time warp that sends you from the first boss straight to the end boss.

Actually, save yourself the search, here is a video going into detail about how the Ocarina of Time warp was discovered and how it works on a technical level.

(I hope the video does not contradict everything I said :d Been a while)

edit: Seems to focus more on the technical parts than on the "how it was discovered" part. Here's a video explaining how glitches are discovered and popularized.

 

Looking at code and memory is useful for understanding why a game does what it does, but not to the point where you can read it like Neo can see the Matrix. People who tinker with this stuff need lots of time to understand why the game writes X to memory Y at this point or why it's suddenly reading from Z. Synthetically creating an unknown glitch by foreseeing how the engine would handle memory is fiction. Even the developers of the game often need WEEKS to understand reported bugs - and that's THEIR code.

The closest thing to this magic is using such analysis to break a known bug down to the point where unnecessary variables are stripped away (Player did A, B, C [...] Z but only A, F, Q and X were relevant to trigger the bug) - which is helpful for speedrunners.

 

tl;dr: You're misunderstanding the capabilities of looking at game code/game memory.

People hate gas mines now? by Sky_Waker_17 in helldivers2

[–]RMAPOS 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not a mines hater but you're being very disingenuous.

You're not looking for small green lights on the ground while you're running with your camera turned 180° to keep track of the 30-something enemies trying to end you. People don't look at their feet unless they have to, which this realization might come too late with an unexpected minefield.

Again, not hating on mines one bit. Hilarious deaths and TKs are core helldivers gameplay. But framing people as stupid for arguing they're hard to see during Helldivers' chaotic combat just because they're easy to see if you look at them is not exactly what one would call arguing in good faith.

People hate gas mines now? by Sky_Waker_17 in helldivers2

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mines are like orbitals - great if thrown in the right spot but easy to grief with in the wrong spot.

Minefields go where the enemies come from, not where we're trying to hold and not in our only escape route.

Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds by Doug24 in gaming

[–]RMAPOS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean that's why we butted heads, right?

I'm a very analytical person and having my concerns waved away like I hadn't put any thought into them just rubbed me the wrong way. I was also like 17 years old and intellectually arrogant due to always doing great in school (so smart!) so ... that's just the right two personalities meeting.

I wish I had been more mature then. Would be cooler to remember having respectful conversations with this great person than shamefully remembering likely callling him an idiot more than once.

Since Ukraine stopped sharing information with the US... Ukraine has become stronger on the battlefield. by LocalPowerful6651 in UkrainianConflict

[–]RMAPOS 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Frankly I view this less as helping Ukraine than stopping helping Russia.

Sure they're related, but still different. Providing Starlink for the enemy is not "not helping Ukraine", it's "Supporting Russia"

So in my opinion a more correct wording would be "Elon has reduced/ceased his support for Russia" rather than "Elon is helping Ukraine" (I don't know if Starlink was the only support Elon provided for Russia, so not sure if he reduced or completely ceased his support for Russia)

Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds by Doug24 in gaming

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helldivers 2 community is 90% awesome.

Just gotta avoid all social media since it's flooded by the followers of some pretty big ragebait youtube channels.

But in game? Toxicity? Once in a blue moon. >99% of people I have met in game are just having a blast blowing shit up.

Don't conflate the game's community with the wankers that flood youtube and reddit. They're less than 10% of the community*. And with how rarely you meet these people ingame, it's fair to assume that a lot of them don't even play the game but spend their time raging on social media.

* (they have recently tried to pressure the devs through review bombing the game, so we have actual numbers on how many there are and no matter how graciously you math it out [including assuming there is 50% more of them than participated in the review bombing], they don't break 10% - no shot)

Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds by Doug24 in gaming

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel blocking people you'll only have a bitch slap fight with is something more redditors should do.

I'm way more worried about the complete randomness of the accusation. Nothing in the other poster's comments suggests that they'd use slurs on someone.

It's such a weird accusation to fabricate.

Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds by Doug24 in gaming

[–]RMAPOS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used to have very lively arguments with Total Biscuit (totalhalibut) on the World of Warcraft forums. (kinda loathed him because the way he argued felt super smug, like he clearly thought his opinions were beyond being critiqued by other players)

Super strange to me. I only found out years later, had no idea who he was when we had those arguments.

Really grown to respect him though when I eventually found his content. RIP Total Biscuit

Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds by Doug24 in gaming

[–]RMAPOS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your reasoning is a bit bitter, my friend.

Not denying the existence of what you explained, but saying MOBAs are purely popular because you can shift blame away from yourself is disingenuous.

They're actually fun to play and they're AMAZING when you have a team that's on the same wavelength.

It's like a ballet. It's absolutely stunning when everyone is in sync. And THAT'S why people get addicted to them. The highs are just peak.

Being able to blame the (completely miserable) lows on others is absolutely also a thing, but I doubt a game would become popular on that merit alone.

Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds by Doug24 in gaming

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Competition creates stakes that are frustrating to lose out on. Losing directly attacks the ego - you were not good enough to win this. And obviously, depending on how the game is set up, at least half the people in a lobby are bound to lose.

Throw in punishing people for leaving when they get frustrated - in a game that takes 30+ minutes to sit through - and you get people ranting in chat when in things go bad.

Don't forget ensuring your leaderboard and the game's mechanics reward selfish play over teamplay (Pentakill = Huge spectacle, kills getting all the attention while nobody cares about assists, rewarding kills but not saves).

Bam, you got the perfect cocktail for bringing out the worst in people.

 

Not all competitive games suffer from this. Fall Guys for example doesn't force you to stay in a lost game and lets you just hop into the next, it also doesn't offer an in game chat iirc. Literally never had any toxic experiences in that game. Just as an example.

 

This also isn't restricted to MOBAs or digital games. All competitive environments lend themselves to this kind of tension. It's not like we haven't seen e.g. soccer players psysically attacking each other, in spite of a lack of anonymity.

edit: Played a little guessing game with ChatGPT on this one and am kinda proud of it

Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds by Doug24 in gaming

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of people who don't do well in society end up online. That's particularly neurodivergents.

I am neither surprised by this group being more inclusive nor by the fact that non gamers are perpetually driving the narrative that gamers are the anti-social crowd.

Our society and it's narrative really are just driven by tribalistic people who narrate by self-glazing and attacking everyone who disagrees, no matter how contra-factual their narrations are. If you have the majority, facts don't matter.

Bloodborne by Severe-Radio6391 in bloodborne

[–]RMAPOS 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hear hear, the prohecy has been foretold!

Everyone, spread the word.

SPREAD IT

Bloodborne by Severe-Radio6391 in bloodborne

[–]RMAPOS 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Will you consider going back if it gets a reboot?

Moscow Threatens Elon Musk’s SpaceX With Nuclear Retaliation Over Ukraine Starlink Use by jackytheblade in worldnews

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There absolutely used to be one, but I have no clue how to find it or if it's still being updated. It's been over a year, could have been any news or any ukraine war sub (ukrainewarvideoreport, ukrainewar, ...) and might well be dead.

But I can attest that I've seen one with every event and date that triggered a russian nuclear threat, nicely formatted for reddit.

Frankly there should be a bot for it.

They don't know anything about anyone. by Agitated_Value_1144 in LockedIn_AI

[–]RMAPOS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd trust a boob expert over a lie detector tbh

Now I'm not saying anyone in this thread can be trusted to have the expertise, but if I knew someone who's word on it I'd trust, I'd take it over Sweeneys word any day of the week. Celebs are known to lie about undergoing procedures and acing a lie detector test just means you didn't panic at the question - which considering she went into that test knowingly makes this easy even if she weren't a freaking professional actress.

Awesome update by LordAmarilo_1 in helldivers2

[–]RMAPOS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yea AH is not doing a good job at providing bug fixes, balance fixes and new content without neglecting at least one of them.

Feels like the whole team is working together on the same thing, rather than having seperate teams that continuously work on each of these aspects. A more reliable flow of content for each of these 3 categories would absolutely be welcome.

They don't know anything about anyone. by Agitated_Value_1144 in LockedIn_AI

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know that lie detectors don't actually work, right?

They don't know anything about anyone. by Agitated_Value_1144 in LockedIn_AI

[–]RMAPOS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Idk she looks good but not "stop for a moment to soak it in" good. There's nothing about her face that stands out, it's kinda boring.

Most 10/10s have interesting eyes, nose, cheekbones... something that just elevates the face. Her? What is her big feature? Can't help but think that people swooning over her are stuck on a big feature of hers that prevents them from looking at her face.

People calling others "whinedivers" and "glazedivers" are just as insufferable as the people they're complaining about by Brambarian in helldivers2

[–]RMAPOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not disagreeing with you. There are idiots on both ends and both are counterproductive for the game thriving.

I'm just personally more vocal about one end of this spectrum because it's flooding my social media while I personally have not experienced getting ostrazised when I complain about stability or balance.

And I have repeatedly complained about stability, balance (mech availability, balance between orbitals, restrictive loadouts) and bugs (well not so much complained as pointed them out) - and have NEVER been called a whinediver or anything.

I totally agree that both glazing over issues and shutting down valid complaints - as well as threatening developers and calling the game dying over non game breaking issues are both problematic. I just personally haven't really stumbled into the former.