you better hide then >:3

Hey, non-FOSS internet, how is it going?

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Yeah.

everything is fine, shit like this happens to me all the time dude

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Maybe you’re right and I’m romanticizing the evil there. I will remain thankful to Valve tho. I never managed to view proprietary saftware as something particularily evil, tbh, but rather as an annoying obstacle we should eventually overcome.

Oh no, Proton is not just “WINE with extra steps”, Proton is the directX to Vulkan translator, and unlike previous attempts, its so good that some games perform better than on Windows. Not to mention that Valve managed to solve the problems around anti-cheats and all of this works with minimal tweaking. If it were as simple as you say, somebody should’ve already done their own proton before Valve, also, in this case there were no community forks of it, that allows to use its power without the need to launch Steam (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom). And yea, Proton is FOSS. Nice of them, to make a revolution and then just let the people actually have it, don’t you think? If, for example, Take Two were like this, most of modern games could’ve had beautiful procedural character animations powered by Euphoria engine.

The point is that DRM is unethical. I refuse to pay for anything that contains DRM. Breaking it is illegal, requires special skills and sometimes it’s very difficult even for experts…

DRM is unethical indeed, yet, to use them or not is the choice of the dev. Ban modern DRMs today and what you’ll achieve is that companies will try to squirm around and use something even more dirty. Also DRMs are already not the shittiest malware big companies trying to install on your machine, it would be anti-cheat. Why noone talks obout them? There are methods to detect cheaters without installing a rootkit spyware on all the end-users PCs.

…That’s exactly why we need to get rid of proprietary software - so that developers don’t have power over users. I also think that piracy should exist, but it doesn’t solve our issues with software freedom. Nobody should restrict what people can do with their software and their computers.

Lol. Sorry, but the games and DRM are not why. The most important reason to it is that we’re losing proprietary software’s technologies. Technologies that might help advace our modern day of living. Also because what they’re restricting is basically a knoledge, and knowledge shoud be free, not because your poor ass can’t own their games.

And Proton is the example that Valve contributes to FOSS community, unlike literally every other major game company, even CDPR.

Thats not even all of it to why i stand on my point, Steam prices are also the most humane, especially if we mention all this bunch of sales steam is famous for. They were there from the beginning, even though they could’ve done something similar to PSN in terms of pricing policy, given that steam was and still kinda is de-facto monopoly, since other game stores on pc have only the fractions of steam’s profits at the most.

That’s why I said “one of the fairest” and not “the fairest one”. There’s a whole lot of what steam does and other companies won’t ever do, for instance, Proton. I am forever thankful for it especially, since it motivated me to give linux the second chance. Not to say, that this particular technology turned the whole OS table around.

Steam is not perfect by any means, but people behind it offering quite a fair deal both for the devs and especially for customers. There’s basically no alternatives, bc steam has so much more to it than just storing your game library and being a game vendor.

On a page of every game that is sold on Steam, you will see text that says “Buy”. But I’m pretty sure their ToS says that you are only renting games from them. So they are misleading their users.

Not actually owning games sucks, but find me a digital marketplace that doesn’t say that you’re only “renting” them or some other bullshit. Steam doesn’t call it renting, rather, I quote, “As a Subscriber you may obtain access to certain services, software and content available to Subscribers or purchase certain Hardware”, where the subscriber is the word to call any user that has a steam account, nothing less nothing more: “You become a subscriber of Steam (“Subscriber”) by completing the registration of a Steam user account.” https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/#1

Basically, this wording is a backdoor for them, in case their servers will be shut down and they won’t be physically able to provide any game files. Yes, it opens some ways to exploit this, but unlike some other companies like Ubisoft, Valve never seem to use it this way. Also, torrents do exist, and guess what, they’re DRM free, just as you like it, I assume. That’s actually exactly why they should exist, imo: to preserve things.

Tbf, of all unfair platforms, steam is one of the fairest. Humane at least.

А ведь похоже на правду. С какой стороны только обо всём этом не думал, а к такой мысли не приходил. Забавно.

Но, увы, куда теперь от них деться?

В эпоху-то пост правды и информационных пузырей? Было бы желание. Тот же ютуб выдаёт мне исключительно контент на угодные мне же темы. Как ты можешь догадаться, политики среди оных нет.

Может, после какой-то отметки сам разум отстраняется от восприятия реальности которую не может вынести, и всё скатывается в подобное мракобесие.

Ну не на пустом же месте целый термин появился - “doomscrolling”.

В удивитильное время живём, чё

*Делает глоток балтики*

Это ахуенно, как влепить тысячу плюсов?

Кстати, до сих пор охуеваю от военного гуро и обывательского отношения к нему. Насколько же нынче легко обесчеловечить человека другой идеологии. И это говорю я - украинец, ратующий за победу своих соотечественников, вообще-то. Люди будто-бы застряли в двадцатом веке, когда на политическом уровне идеологии ещё что-то значили, а не были пустым трёпом.

*Наносит грим, принимает Беломор и балтику. Закуривает. После пары затяжек открывает балтику, делает с пол десятка глотков, после чего шумно выдыхает.*

Концептуализация [Легко: Провал] - Теперь ты оффициально стал думером. Назад дороги нет. Теперь ты должен, *ты обязан* посмотреть все фильмы с Райаном Гослингом.

интересно, какой вообще процент аудитории здесь - русскоязычные?

nah, I think it’s the ugly creepy faces

What’s the beef with stroganoff? And who is stroganoff?