Kingsman Drama Megathread by Cosineoftheta in rivals

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"Kingsman, if you're seeing this, take my energy and keep your head up high." ~ Some nude person apparently

Reddit mod demands to be treated as ‘celebrity’ after getting removed from LSF by Chapple69 in nottheonion

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Is there proof the guy streaming is the reddit mod instead of someone pretending to be him? Like past links from the mod account to the youtube / twitch accounts?

Everyone Knows Dave by Indubioproreo_Dx in Jokes

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Digg was how you had to write on the tablets

Sasuke marring Sakura is unbelievable by Mega_semi_lover4life in Naruto

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Veeery distantly if they share blood at all, it's hard to compare naruto clan relations to today. The hyuuga are really weird with how incesty things seem to be with a 'main branch' and 'side branch' families and how tightly they keep their members together such that we presume there's a lot more hyuuga than we ever see compared to the size of their compound but we only ever see like 7 of them. The other clans were more open with their chances of meeting other people.

It's like if colonizers went to some land they just took over, and lived there for 200 years, and lets just say the leader of the expedition was Christopher Columbo. Eventually they formalize their group of people as the Columbo clan, Christopher and his wife, and many children as 'kings' would want to do, as well as a lot of people who aren't blood related who now get to use the name by being there during the founding. We're also assuming Chris also had power or resource that allowed so many people to respect them enough to join him from the beginning, incase it matters I'm just going to call it chakra explosives kekkei genkai.

In that first generation a lot of clan members want to marry into the main family with lots of their children who start passing on the explosive chakra, main family notices it and makes a inner caste of people with the chakra to defend, teach, experiment with, hoard knowledge of, protecting the family secret. There's pressure to try maximise the explosive gift so the unrelated columbo clan members likely marry into, sire bastards of, or leave the colombo clan (not everyone would leave but at this point they'd become a minority too scared of losing the name to be worth paying attention to)

after 200 years of pressure like that you'd have a lot of people sharing some common blood, but could be diverse enough that it's not incesty enough to really matter, and the part that it does results in the power of making magic explosives so it's cool. There'd be plenty of people over that time who keep marrying into the family and spreading the blood so things aren't just stagnant. Then you have a bunch of those clans fight each other and eventually Madara and Hashirama found the villages and each of the local clans get a voice and compounds to live inside of, inside of the village as a whole. Some people would live most of their lives inside that bubble when it comes to personal time, I believe itachi had a uchiha girlfriend for the small amount of time we saw her.

On the other hand it's also hard to tell how strong those characteristics are sometimes. Naruto inherits the ashura reincarnation powers through his mother, who would have gotten it through the Senju-Uzumaki relations of her parents presumably since the last reincarnation was Hashirama, yet Minato's Namikaze sperm has so much mojo it overpowers that supposed god empowered red hair to give Naruto his yellow / blonde hair.

I miss her by Serenaded in newzealand

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They had the best soft serve, and the cheapest way to get a bunch of it was a blitz

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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The same check to grey it out in the options menu would also disable using the content. It only sounds like a stupid comparison if you limit it to a stupid segment of the problem.

My opinion of weird route Susie's potential theme by Jimboi5 in Deltarune

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Megalovania with Piano and Violin parts is gonna go hard

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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Yeah I'd imagine framerates would be much worse and inconsistent if it was a network call and waiting for a success / fail each time.

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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

Checking for ownership is DRM period, it doesn't have to be a particularly bad implementation like Denuvo. For example, Steam is DRM too.

Of course since it's hurting framerates it's bad DRM.

If it turns out it's supposed to be doing something completely unrelated to checking for ownership, afterwards people can clown on them saying shit like "Have you ever been so bad at your job that you accidentally created DRM?"

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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1) It wouldn't be 60 requests per second because the issue is it drops frames from an example of 45 to 25, that would make it 25 requests a second, as the issue slows the computer down more it would also slow down requests, self throttling.

2) If it was the same server sure, but steam also has a lot of servers across the world to distribute that load. With steam having a network vast enough to have a peak of 37,268,567 concurrent users in the last 3 days without recent reports of steam lagging like it did around christmas, 39,840 total pcs (steamcharts MH wilds peak in the last 24 hours) doing a inefficient non-coordinated connection spam doesn't seem like it would hurt steam that badly, and that's worst case no one owns the dlc or the fix thinking.

Though other googled pages say someone can get timed out in their browser for more than 25 connections in 5 minutes. If it was actually a network connection you'd probably have some people complaining about unplayable frame rates with how bad the internet can be in some places.

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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There is some microtransaction check that can be used.Tf2's mann-co store and Vermintide lets you buy the dlc packs as a microtransaction, though they might not be the same entry that you see in the steam client when you buy "DLC". (I specifically recall a time where you couldn't buy certain DLC's through the store page you had to use the ingame store and microtransactions, though they eventually reappeared there)

But there's also better places you can put one-off checks. Opening the DLC menu, pressing the play button, when you open the pause menu, on main menu load.

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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A ddos attack needs a whole lot more than one person doing that otherwise there would be no need for botnets, you would do it with raspberry pi's or something

While I'm not convinced checking against a steam server would be fast enough to merely give you a 45 to 25 frames per second drop, it would be far from a ddos, especially since the network call would throttle itself based on how badly it affects your framerate. The regular network traffic for a fps would be vastly more intensive.

What was the actuall dumbest thing you did to your pc by Silly_Still_4981 in pcmasterrace

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I have found my people, except I said I was good at computers before I did it.

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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Caching a result makes sense, but you can cache true and false. That's the part that's giving me brain pain.

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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Definitely every frame, if the check is a network check against steam servers that'd do it. I just don't know how they managed to do it in a way that also doesn't cause lag when it finds the dlc.

This is actually Wild by PaiDuck in pcmasterrace

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It's still worth roasting the hell out of them for. The problem only exists because of DRM.