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Out of curiosity, how can opening a png file allow someone to access your steam account or PC?
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Jan 13, 2015 14:22
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It's not a PNG. It's a server side script (probably PHP) maskerading as an executable .scr file. When you download it and try to display it from your Desktop/Downloads folder, it will infect your computer. It's been going around for two months now I think.
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Jan 13, 2015 14:24
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Breadallelogram posted:weren't people just giving you poo poo yesterday for linking that site? I was getting the message "don't link to your dumb articles, just link us to cool deals". If nobody wants me to post about Steam key competitions then that's fine.
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Jan 13, 2015 14:43
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Saoshyant posted:maskerading I wish less people had spellcheck so I could run into more adorable typos like this.  Edit: Arnold of Soissons posted:you will get that feel I'd rather avoid petty semantics arguments than be anal-retentive about grammar, and then follow up with a meme. Are you Aiden Pearce? In all seriousness, I'm just saying it's a cute way of spelling that work. I wasn't mocking the guy. Morter fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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Jan 13, 2015 14:47
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Morter posted:I wish less people had spellcheck so I could run into more adorable typos like this. If you learn the difference between less and fewer you will get that feel even more often 
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Jan 13, 2015 14:50
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Did Steam Machines just sort of fizzle out? I'm moving soon and was wondering if there's an easy way to stream from a PC in one room to a front room without having to build my own little cheapo machine - is there anything purpose built for doing this sort of thing?
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Jan 13, 2015 14:54
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PoshAlligator posted:Did Steam Machines just sort of fizzle out? They're releasing in 2015.
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Jan 13, 2015 15:09
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PoshAlligator posted:Did Steam Machines just sort of fizzle out? Some recent rumors claim that Steam Machines will be heavily featured at GDC this year. Edit - Intel's releasing a PC on an HDMI stick pretty soon for $150... this may turn out to be a decent way to stream games onto your TV. Link: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/intels-compute-stick-is-a-full-windows-or-linux-pc-in-an-hdmi-dongle/
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Jan 13, 2015 15:10
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CerebralDonut posted:Some recent rumors claim that Steam Machines will be heavily featured at GDC this year. Nice, I'll keep an eye on this. It says there's an $89 Linux variant. If I could get SteamOS on a stick to stream to for $90 (inevitably £100) that would be pretty solid.
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Jan 13, 2015 15:14
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Phenotype posted:Out of curiosity, how can opening a png file allow someone to access your steam account or PC? File extensions are entirely meaningless on the web. It's just an indication of the file type for convenience, but it's incredibly easy to override by defining a MIME type when the server serves the file to the server. When you follow that link, you're not getting a png file. This is also why Imgur links work regardless of whether you add .png, .jpg or .gif to the url. http://i.imgur.com/IL7FHVI.gif 
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Jan 13, 2015 15:32
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PoshAlligator posted:For me Watch_Dogs is that game I really kind of want but keep passing on whenever there's a sale. I don't think I fully understood the rules: 
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Jan 13, 2015 15:58
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Ragequit posted:I don't think I fully understood the rules: I love it.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:10
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Cross-posting from the GTA thread: GTA 5 system requirements announced. Delayed to 24 March. http://www.pcgamer.com/gta-5-system-requirements-announced/ 
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Jan 13, 2015 16:11
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Croccers posted:Cross-posting from the GTA thread:
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Jan 13, 2015 16:13
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Croccers posted:Cross-posting from the GTA thread: Sucks that it's delayed, but nice to see my fairly cheap mid-range PC is just a smidge above the recommended specs.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:15
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No guys it's totally coming out on the 27th. - Rockstar literally two days ago
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Jan 13, 2015 16:15
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65gb. Aaaaaaaa, I hope there's a retail PC version.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:16
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Croccers posted:Cross-posting from the GTA thread: Do they even make hard drives that are 65gb? The specs seem reasonable in general though. It seems Assassin's Creed Unity will quickly be dethroned as the largest game I own data-wise. What is the actual biggest Steam game? Is there any database that checks that?
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Jan 13, 2015 16:16
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Croccers posted:Cross-posting from the GTA thread: "No plans to delay the release at this time"... "...okay some plans to delay the release." Oh well, in better news we're getting Grim Fandango remastered on GoG on the day GTA V should've been released, so there's that.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:17
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PoshAlligator posted:Do they even make hard drives that are 65gb?
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Jan 13, 2015 16:25
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So, how's the Rockstar's PC port track record?
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Jan 13, 2015 16:28
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SelenicMartian posted:So, how's the Rockstar's PC port track record? Mostly good, with a slight control and coding blemish in Bully, and a This poo poo Barely Works blemish for the launch of GTA4. OF COURSE THEY NEVER PORTED RDR SO gently caress THEM.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:29
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SelenicMartian posted:So, how's the Rockstar's PC port track record? Lately it's been pretty good, their last released game (Max Payne 3) ran totally smooth on PCs and this is apparently being ported by the same team. Hopefully the extra two months of delay is a good sign.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:30
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SelenicMartian posted:So, how's the Rockstar's PC port track record? I seem to remember something similar happening with the GTA4 release and that's a pretty bad port. Basically anything after San Andreas is a pretty bad port, and they've even retroactively hosed San Andreas.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:38
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Max Payne 3 runs bizarrely well and has poo poo ton of bells and whistles you can turn on. My 560ti could keep cranking up everything until I had everything maxed except for SSAO (I don't care for it) and it kept being CPU throttled at ~90fps with like 60% GPU load. So if that is an indication to the port quality we are in for a treat.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:41
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The Kins posted:According to developers Nihon Falcom, the PC port of Ys Origin has sold 200,000 copies by the end of 2014. And before you raise the obvious suggestion, it was never made available in Japan since they weren't sure if it'd sell even 1/100th of that figure in their homeland. Falcom just has to come back to their roots and start making PC games again now that there's a legit market for them....at least outside of their own country.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:42
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This thread is a lot calmer then the official GTA forums, everyone there has threatened not to do buy GTAV over the delay. The system requirements are very reasonable. I was expecting much higher since this is a port of the PS4 version. 65GB though.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:44
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Ddraig posted:Basically anything after San Andreas is a pretty bad port, and they've even retroactively hosed San Andreas. To be fair, a lot of games with licensed music are having the music patched out as the license runs out. It happened with 'Fuel' last year, when all the licensed music was replaced with some session stuff.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:51
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Sivek posted:Falcom just has to come back to their roots and start making PC games again now that there's a legit market for them....at least outside of their own country.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:56
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I said come in! posted:This thread is a lot calmer then the official GTA forums, everyone there has threatened not to do buy GTAV over the delay.
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Jan 13, 2015 17:03
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Palpek posted:I'm guessing fanatic forums have different entitlement issues. Witcher 3 got delayed, GTA 5 gets delayed, who gives a poo poo. It's mostly just funny because Rockstar said just a few days ago "GTA V will be coming to PC on January 27th. We have not announced any changes to this date at this time." Which was, of course, a lie of omission because you do not decide to delay a version of your billion dollar franchise over the course of a few days, especially if the delay is for two months.
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Jan 13, 2015 17:14
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Kibayasu posted:It's mostly just funny because Rockstar said just a few days ago "GTA V will be coming to PC on January 27th. We have not announced any changes to this date at this time." Which was, of course, a lie of omission because you do not decide to delay a version of your billion dollar franchise over the course of a few days, especially if the delay is for two months. This just gives more people a longer amount of time to preorder the game. Win win!
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Jan 13, 2015 17:15
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Palpek posted:I'm guessing fanatic forums have different entitlement issues. It's probably due to the fact that as "fans" they feel that the creators owe them everything. "We're the thing keeping you afloat, you're just as co-dependent on us as we are co-dependent on you! Right? Right?!" Love us
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Jan 13, 2015 17:17
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Eh more delays, it's not like PC gamers aren't used to it by now and hopefully they use that time to optimize the port.
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Jan 13, 2015 17:27
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They're trying to lock down the online payment system for the GTA:O cash-cards.
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Jan 13, 2015 17:32
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Wow what shitheads, how can they delay the game? Wow what a poo poo port, couldn't they have delayed the release a couple of months to smooth it out?
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Jan 13, 2015 17:32
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Saoshyant posted:It's not a PNG. It's a server side script (probably PHP) maskerading as an executable .scr file. When you download it and try to display it from your Desktop/Downloads folder, it will infect your computer. It's been going around for two months now I think. Just to make sure I am paranoid enough to safely surf the net for all eternity: -I clicked the link and it started to open a tab, which I clicked to close right away. -To get infected you would have to let the tab load, and then some file looking like it was a .png file would be downloaded to your Desktop/Downloads folder. -And THEN you would also have to click it to run it, yes, and it would only then infect you? So I should be SUPER SAFE, right? Especially since I used the better part of my day to update my Antivirus / Malware software, search my laptop for poo poo and also changed the password for both my Steam account and Gmail account. Please tell me I'm correct about something IT-related, still feel retarded for clicking that chat link. Downs Duck fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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Jan 13, 2015 17:34
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King Vidiot posted:It's probably due to the fact that as "fans" they feel that the creators owe them everything. "We're the thing keeping you afloat, you're just as co-dependent on us as we are co-dependent on you! Right? Right?!" Love us All Rockstar Games fans are basically Lazlow.
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Jan 13, 2015 17:35
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Downs Duck posted:Just to make sure I am paranoid enough to safely surf the net for all eternity:
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Palpek posted:If you clicked the link it's all over. You have space aids now. That's cool, I always wanted to go to space. And I'm known for spacing out anyway, so no harm done.
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