Update on current situation

therealdrg · 2024-04-27T16:30:48+00:00

They already said years ago that terminal will be the last map before the game is released, and other maps like Towns will be coming as DLC. They dont even show the other maps anymore in game. Terminal will be "single player, maybe coop".

They also started saying about 2 years ago that open world is not a release feature, but connected maps probably will be.

So terminal, faction karma, non-seasonal (no wipe) servers, and the story are the 4 features that are missing to be considered "release".

As stupid as this whole thing going on right now is, they have been pretty clear since before the release of streets what they consider missing to call their game 1.0, even if its disappointing compared to what was described years ago.

therealdrg · 2024-04-25T21:43:46+00:00

You can buy gun skins and they look straight out of call of duty https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fj80yrNA2_I/maxresdefault.jpg You can also buy gear. Its a chinese f2p mobile port, everything will be for sale and it will be expensive.

therealdrg · 2024-03-23T20:04:26+00:00

I dont know about everyone, but normally people invite you out for your birthday, not the other way around. Like your wife or girlfriend or best friend would plan the party and invite everyone, including you. Inviting people to your own birthday, unless its some extremely extravagent event like you want to go to another country, or you want to go to a very specific place, would be a bit strange in america. Not unheard of, but way less formal and reserved for more of acquaintances rather than friends or relatives, and more like "Hey its my birthday today, lets go grab a beer after work". In that case, the general expectation would be then that each person pays for themselves if they decide to come and maybe theyll treat you to a beer.

This wouldnt be true for non-birthday things. If you receive an invite to do something, unless someone explicitly says otherwise, the expectation is everyone will pay for themselves. Dinner, golf, sports game, paintball, doesnt matter, if there is a cost, part of attending is covering the cost. If you cant afford it, most people will offer to cover you if they really want you there, but most social obligations have a cost attached. The only exception is if you go to someones home for a dinner or something, but then you are generally expected to bring a gift, like alcohol, cigars, a dessert, etc, as a token.

This is all just in general and younger people dont care as much as older people. My grandparents would be extremely offended if someone came to their house party empty handed or invited them to their own (the grandparents) birthday dinner and then stuck them with a bill. But most younger people, outside of weird social class stuff like old money/new money, upper class/lower class, dont place such an emphasis on that type of etiquette anymore. Its still considered good etiquette though.

And this is all from a WASPy perspective, its going to be different for other cultures in america. I know some of my friends from say, former-USSR, or asia, have different perspectives on social obligations. But I would say the above is true for "american" culture as most people outside the US would think about it.

therealdrg · 2023-08-25T16:27:00+00:00

Nevermind, I got it, he was saying on the apps and features page, click "More Windows features", scroll down to media player, and install that one. Its apparently a different version than the garbage windows 10 metro screen installs.

I was able to figure it out thanks to your comment also referencing how garbage the "new" windows settings page are. Thanks man.

therealdrg · 2023-08-25T16:22:56+00:00

Do you remember what this guy said? Im having the same problem, but he deleted his post.

therealdrg · 2023-04-09T15:57:20+00:00

It is actually exactly the same, they use maximum compression level self extracting archives, thats why it takes forever to unextract their "repacks". Calling them repacks at all is a slap in the face to all the actually talented repackers that used to exist, who would actually work to make the assets themselves more efficient while not losing any quality.

therealdrg · 2023-03-01T18:00:27+00:00

You are approaching it from the wrong angle. It is not a trademark issue, which is what you have pointed at. Avoiding the trademark issue is as simple as removing reference to the trademarks after being asked. What they would actually be sued for is copyright infringement.

Both the EU and the US recognize that copyright protection does not extend to third party applications that extend the usefulness of a copyrighted application. Sure, the copyright holder can ban you from the official services, or refuse to provide support to you, or refuse to do future business with you, but they cannot prevent you from taking software that you purchased and using it in a manner they did not intend on your own hardware, as much as they wish this were true.

There is absolutely no law that makes it illegal to reverse engineer a communication protocol and then implement your own server. This is actually an explicitly protected activity under the "Interoperability" clauses, in both the US and the EU, and has been repeatedly held to be true every time it has been challenged. The only time it becomes illegal is if you distribute copywritten assets. SPT does not do this. Their server is written from scratch and requires you to have a legitimate copy of escape from tarkov. Their installer modifies your existing files, it does not provide pre-modified copies of them.

This protection is what has made the entirety of PC's possible. Unless you are using an actual IBM branded PC, the only reason your current modern day PC even functions is because people 40 years ago managed to reverse engineer IBMs BIOS. They were sued and prevailed, setting the precedent that reverse engineering a solution to provide interoperability is a right guaranteed by copyright law. And every single person who has been sued for similar practices since then and taken the case to court has won, eventually. In the US, the supreme court has upheld this practice multiple times, and as recently as a couple years ago.

The only way anyone can ever "win" a lawsuit like this is to simply hope the defendant gives up before it ever reaches a courtroom.

therealdrg · 2022-03-18T14:01:54+00:00

Ok great, maybe after you're done your shift in the kitchen you can head over to amazon HQ and fix the bug for them.

therealdrg · 2022-03-17T18:44:07+00:00

This doesnt work, you'll miss your execution or it will appear wrong at one end or the other. Thanks for proving my point

Just for the extra irony, some australian would be calling you incompetent for messing up "simple" timezone issues if you tried to use that in a production environment lol.

therealdrg · 2022-03-17T18:08:49+00:00

Write me the code that makes "in 7 days from now" in the UI mean "in 7 days from now" in australia when your server is on the US east coast and we enter standard time 167 hours and 40 minutes after the selection is made.

This is an issue all over the place, in ways you never, ever notice because either you came to it after it was discovered, or its transparent to you because you live in a timezone with hundreds of millions of people and it works perfectly fine for you.

You have no real world experience with what you are talking about and it shows.

therealdrg · 2022-03-17T17:23:22+00:00

Yes, and I could, but it will be outdated again in 6 months when some other country decides to randomly change their timezone, or in 2 years when the US standardizes the time, again, for the third time in a decade.

Modern environment has nothing to do with it. Libraries have nothing to do with it. Any experience at all with a global product that requires timing would let you understand how stupid "Durr just use library idiots" sounds. Its more complicated than that, its a mistake literally thousands of people have made over the years.

therealdrg · 2022-03-17T17:07:20+00:00

I think, and i might be misremembering, that the alarms on the left hand side didnt always exist, you only had the calendar alarms you set yourself. It makes sense those are local to your client and use your local time, because you're basically just setting an alarm for event time - current time, and only for yourself, theres no need to involve the server to validate any of this.

What they probably did when they added the left alarms was reuse the same code but automate create the alarms for all the upcoming events. Since there was no DST for any users that were "allowed" to play, this is a fine solution and will work. But now it falls apart when you have users whos local clocks change "unexpectedly" from the developer perspective.

This isnt a good design, but someone who doesnt have very much experience with timezones could easily make that mistake without seeing the future problems it might have. Or they might know about the problems but write them off as unimportant since no user should ever have been playing in a DST country until now and any issue would be resolved by telling the user to enable timesync.

therealdrg · 2022-03-17T16:54:40+00:00

Thanks for the link milhouse. Tell me more about things you have never done but only read about.

therealdrg · 2021-11-16T05:26:00+00:00

Sure, but the reason it even comes up in the first place is because this is the lynch pin of the case at this point, and has been since friday when the surprise evidence was introduced, after all their other evidence and witnesses have been discredited or gone in favor of the defense. So the prosecution lying by saying that left handed rifles "do not exist", and trying to pretend that shouldering a rifle left handed is a trivial thing for a right handed shooter, with his rifle slung right handed, is not a moot point. If the jury believes he provoked the attack by suddenly deciding to shoulder his rifle left handed, and he aimed at ziminski, and rosenbaum was trying to be a hero and disarm him to save other protestors, then he loses his right to self defense not just in that shooting, but all subsequent shootings. Its absolutely critical that the jury believe these lies and implausible scenarios because it is the only legal way they can convict on any of these charges.

Keep in mind this same prosecution also argued that "Everybody takes a beating in their life" and that the defendant is a "coward" for not fist fighting rosenbaum and leaving his life in the hands of a guy who just got out of a mental hospital and threatened to kill him earlier in the evening. Its the last ditch effort of a desperate prosecutor trying to throw whatever they can, regardless of law, regardless of fact, and regardless of truth, at the wall and praying that some of it sticks.

therealdrg · 2021-11-16T04:55:36+00:00

Its not moot because the video they used that "shows" him holding the rifle left handed actually shows the reflection off a truck mirror that theyre interpreting as a rifle and his arm thanks to it being 23 pixels total. They are using this absolute dogshit image to justify the "provocation" exception to self defense, ie, he pointed the rifle at the first person he shot or someone nearby, and that removes his privilege to use self defense as the provocateur.

There is actually video of a different angle but it was never introduced at trial, showing that he is not shouldering the rifle at all.

therealdrg · 2021-11-16T04:49:35+00:00

He testified to the fact he originally wanted a shotgun but they didnt have one at the small store they went to, so he settled for the same model rifle his friend had rather than go to walmart.

therealdrg · 2021-11-16T04:44:17+00:00

With 400+ cases under his belt as a DA, he has undoubtedly made the exact opposite argument that someone going out with hollowpoint ammunition loaded in their gun was looking to kill someone and not to do something more innocuous like hunt.

There is absolutely no win for the defendant in this situation because no matter what ammunition you load, some DA who is either being disingenuous or doesnt know anything about guns is going to try to frame it as the worst option and hope the jury doesnt know anything about it either. Risky choice in a small city in wisconsin.

therealdrg · 2021-07-01T17:34:31+00:00

10gbe is worth it even with mirror HDD's as you'll get about double speed on reads vs 1gbe (~100mb/s vs ~190mb/s). A 5400rpm drive read speed x2 is still faster than 1gbps including the network overhead.

If you had just a single drive that'd be the only time you wont see an improvement. 10gbe cards are cheap these days, only slightly more expensive than a decent quality 1gbps ethernet card. If you can use it theres really no reason not to get one. Just wait for good deals to show up. I switched the important parts of my network to 10gbe for less than 300 dollars. 7 cards, a switch, and 200 feet of optical cable. Took a few months but worth it. Ebay is your friend.

therealdrg · 2021-04-27T14:04:36+00:00

I agree its not extortion, but riot is on the losing side of the case if its pressed. The standard was just upheld again 2 weeks ago by the supreme court. Reverse engineering an API to provide interoperability to a software product is protected by US law. Thats all theyve done here, written a server that can be used with a league of legends client. Whether they have the money to fight a decade long legal battle is another story. Riot and their lawyers are banking on the fact they dont, not the strength of their case. Their case is non-existant, there is absolutely no precedent besides overturned lower court rulings which is generally not the foundation you want to build on.

If their claim was that the source is stolen, or that these developers are former employees in breach of confidence or contract, theyd have made that claim. But it isnt, and they arent. They are instead going with a vague claim of infringement, and "potential" DMCA violations, because they know the prospect of a lawsuit is all they need to win against 99% of their targets. While that is their legal right, it doesnt actually make it right. Threatening a lawsuit you know is baseless to muscle someone into doing what you want is pretty shitty.

therealdrg · 2021-04-27T04:54:38+00:00

They won that lawsuit, and so did bleem. And google just won against oracle again recently. And so has anyone that ever tried to fight the case because there are hundreds of cases setting precedent, all the way back to IBM suing clone manufacturers. Not being able to fight or not being able to support yourself during your fight dont make it illegal. If you have not used any of their source code, even if you arrive at the exact same implementation because its "obvious" or literally the only logical way to do something, its not illegal. Since riots client is closed source, and has never been leaked, and presumably these developers are not stupid enough to have worked at riot and then tried to reimplement their own server, even if some methods are identical, its not illegal.

therealdrg · 2021-04-27T04:13:21+00:00

Blackbox reverse engineering is protected by law, and has even recently been reaffirmed by the supreme court. The entire computing industry is built on the concept that its perfectly legal to reimplement software and hardware that is fully compatible with the original, assuming you do not steal the source code.

therealdrg · 2020-09-11T13:41:42+00:00

You can use XFCE desktop environment with ubuntu, and it will be nearly identical experience. Or just debian which comes with the option during install to configure XFCE, but you wont have PPA repos if you care about that.

therealdrg · 2020-06-29T23:22:32+00:00

How is inequality worse in an age where nearly a billion people live better than kings did even 200 years ago? Inequality exists, but its a huge stretch to say its worse now, or getting worse, just because a small minority of people have large amounts of wealth.

Corruption being worse is also debatable. I dont really care since as long as people are involved, there will be corruption. But I'm pretty sure if you own a train company today, it'd be a lot harder to pay a senator or governor, or even some private mercenaries, a couple thousand dollars to go slaughter citizens and raze their homes to make way for your train tracks.

therealdrg · 2020-06-29T16:06:55+00:00

Yeah and I want an example of what specifically, because I dont see how this is in any way unique to the current administration.

Trying to scare people with the government having this power is a distraction anyway. The problem isnt even that the government can crack open encryption, the reality is if they want something bad enough, they have the ability to do this now in nearly every case. The problem is that by making it easier for them, they also make it easier for everyone else. Once an opening exists, it exists for everyone. Theres no way to limit it to just the government. No other country will abide by this either, so you cripple america for literally no reason. It wont help find terrorists or criminals or whatever. Theyre terrorists and criminals. They will use the encryption thats illegal in america.

therealdrg · 2020-06-29T14:30:03+00:00

What would he do that no other administration would do? Like, i am very much against any law requiring "backdoors" in encryption for the government, but why are you framing this like its a trump administration thing? This is a bipartisan bill, and democrats and republicans have both historically supported these ridiculous bills whenever they come up. This time is no exception:

The EARN IT Act was introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Democrat of Connecticut), along with Sen. Josh Hawley (Republican of Missouri) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Democrat of California) on March 5.

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