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put it on switch cowards
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Mar 14, 2019 01:50
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Fallom posted:put it on switch cowards put everything on switch
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Mar 14, 2019 01:53
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btw in case you haven't kept up with the lowtax thread hes at like 12k and david cross is his friend so this happened Lowtax posted:Ask and ye shall receive Nostalgia4Butts fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Mar 14, 2019 02:25
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I tossed Lowtax some money. I would hate to see this place go, it really is a special corner of the internet as much as I'm embarrassed to still be using it after almost 15 years
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Mar 14, 2019 02:33
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The "Documentary/making of" is p good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40jdpzrpIps Nostalgia4Butts posted:btw in case you haven't kept up with the lowtax thread hes at like 15k and david cross is his friend I dont remember saying that
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Mar 14, 2019 02:34
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Fallom posted:I tossed Lowtax some money. I would hate to see this place go, it really is a special corner of the internet as much as I'm embarrassed to still be using it after almost 15 years im trying to save all my money and sell my house so I did my twitch prime sub to his channel i dont watch twitch anyways, so why not give him the tiny amount of $ for the sub
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Mar 14, 2019 03:03
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Didn't think of that. For some reason I can't use prime to subscribe until 9 April, but ok.
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Mar 14, 2019 03:25
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I upped my monthly Patreon donation from 4.20 to 6.90 (actually 6.92 because it was the next tier or whatever). I'll probably donate another 30 or so when I get paid. It's not much but I'd hate to see SA go, it's literally the only online community I've ever been a part of.
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Mar 14, 2019 10:02
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:im trying to save all my money and sell my house so I did my twitch prime sub to his channel What's his twitch channel?
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Mar 16, 2019 02:58
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TCD posted:What's his twitch channel? Lowtax posted:Okay this has turned into quite a different thread that I ever intended it to be and it's weird and awesome now, so I was asked to post these links here
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Mar 16, 2019 03:00
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Awesome - tossed him my prime. Currently saving like a motherfucker due to a house purchase in NOVA.
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Mar 16, 2019 03:07
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Lee Carter, Virginia House of Delegates member, DSA member, and former Marine, playing KSP on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/carterforva https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1106769855464857601
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Mar 16, 2019 05:52
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My angels/Bobs factorio games continues to be a poo poo show. So much that i had to cheat to reveal some of the map because no coal spawned next to me and that is bullshit.
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Mar 16, 2019 07:16
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I'm bummed as hell that Satisfactory doesn't release until Tuesday. Why would you not release the game on a weekend, you dinguses 
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Mar 16, 2019 09:12
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I'm still waiting. The things I read about the alpha bothered me, and this news about the Epic Games launcher snooping is concerning.
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Mar 16, 2019 16:36
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EBB posted:I'm still waiting. The things I read about the alpha bothered me, and this news about the Epic Games launcher snooping is concerning. What was it you read that bothered you? Also, that latter part is getting me all up in that concern a bit as well
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Mar 16, 2019 16:46
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Duzzy Funlop posted:What was it you read that bothered you? Apparently it was also scraping the file steam stores your library and login session information.
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Mar 16, 2019 16:50
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Well, that's...uh, less than cool 
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Mar 16, 2019 16:54
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Laranzu posted:Apparently it was also scraping the file steam stores your library and login session information. Not just that, but actively indexing what root certificates you have installed for Internet Explorer (think CAC card) and your IE history/cookies.
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Mar 16, 2019 16:55
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Anywhere you're getting this information from that I can read up on?
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Mar 16, 2019 16:58
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Anywhere you're getting this information from that I can read up on? WSJ article from november 2017: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-tech-giants-have-a-second-job-helping-the-government-see-everything-1512056284 https://outline.com/hpDNDe - Non Paywalled Version Late December 2018 reddit post that first laid out Epic's TOS for their launcher and Store: https://www.reddit.com/r/theprivacymachine/comments/aarvc9/epic_games_store_is_literal_spyware_and_worse/ Most recent cause of controversy showing the actual nuts and bolts of how the launcher is actively snooping. https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq/epic_game_store_spyware_tracking_and_you/
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Mar 16, 2019 17:06
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jfc thats enough to stop me from pc gaming in general
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Mar 16, 2019 17:17
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poo poo like this is why adults still pirate games. At least Russian malware is polite enough to just skim your keyboard strokes for CC numbers.
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Mar 16, 2019 17:31
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Epic had a variety of excuses but Valve has stated that they were pilfering private Steam user data inappropriately lol
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Mar 16, 2019 17:38
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And uninstalled Epic.
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Mar 16, 2019 17:53
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There's the irrational part of me viciously trying to rationalize that "it's probably not that bad" and "lol, what are they gonna do, target-market poo poo based on my Steam library to me", but jesus gently caress I'm probably just gonna ask for a refund for the pre-purchase on Satisfactory, and reconsider if they actually address this poo poo
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Mar 16, 2019 18:38
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And this is after the irrational part of me that didn't want more than one games platform out of convenience was overruled by my rational side because competition is an overall benefit for future games development and may turn Steam into less of a pressuring dick loving Christ, Epic Games
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Mar 16, 2019 18:46
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They didn’t even bother to implement email verification for their account system so people are finding that their emails were already used to register accounts without their consent. It’s like Epic was in a rush to put out the shittiest store possible.
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Mar 16, 2019 19:05
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Everyone wants to be Steam, but won't learn the lessons Steam already learned.
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Mar 16, 2019 21:09
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It doesn’t help that one, Tim Sweeney is a full on chud, and two, Epic is owned by Tencent. I can’t imagine they are not misusing data, especially when their excuse for scanning was it was less cumbersome than any other method, despite Steam REST API giving up access to your friend list for integration into other services like Origin and Discord.
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Mar 16, 2019 21:29
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I've been on steam for over 10 years, not really interested in acquiring a collection elsewhere. If it's not on steam I'm probably not going to bother playing it.
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Mar 16, 2019 22:07
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Mustang posted:I've been on steam for over 10 years, not really interested in acquiring a collection elsewhere. Ah, brand loyalty lmao
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Mar 16, 2019 22:39
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More that I'm not really interested in having a bunch of apps installed on my computer just so I can play whatever exclusive game is out there. Epic, origins, etc haven't really given me a very compelling reason to have their stores installed for their exclusives on PC.
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Mar 16, 2019 22:44
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I've been doing my best to keep up with GOG Galaxy's sales, personally. GOG doesn't actually require you to install their Galaxy thing so none of the games require that you have it, or have it on. It's just for convenience and easy store access, which I like.
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Mar 17, 2019 02:16
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You don't have to keep all the launchers running but that just means the next time you want to play a game on one you'll probably be hit with a mandatory 50 gb patch that wasn't able to download in the background.
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Mar 17, 2019 03:24
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Mustang posted:More that I'm not really interested in having a bunch of apps installed on my computer just so I can play whatever exclusive game is out there. Command and conquer man, the closest you'll ever get to leading an army
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Disclaimer: I'm making an Unreal Engine game.Oxygenpoisoning posted:It doesn’t help that one, Tim Sweeney is a full on chud, and two, Epic is owned by Tencent. I can’t imagine they are not misusing data, especially when their excuse for scanning was it was less cumbersome than any other method, despite Steam REST API giving up access to your friend list for integration into other services like Origin and Discord. Tencent is a minority investor, they don't own Epic. Sweeny is apparently the majority owner and has denied that any investor, including Tencent, gets access to any user data. warsow posted:WSJ article from november 2017: The first article is probably invalid, at least until Tencent were to buy a majority share of Epic. The second article repeats the misinterpreted Tencent association. I'm not a lawyer, but the User Generated Content thing probably sounds more excessive than you'd expect until you realize that the Epic Launcher is also used for distributing Unreal Engine to game devs and also hosts an asset store for said Unreal Engine, which has free assets on it that are released by users. The third article ALSO misrepresents the association with Tencent. Some of what's going on here can probably also be explained by the Unreal Engine dev side of the Epic Launcher. I know I installed the source for Unreal Tournament, which uses a different distribution system, to a different folder/drive from my actual project and it showed up in the projects list in the Epic Launcher without me adding it, so it can definitely scan your hard drive for .uproject files. It probably does to see what games in your Epic Store library you have installed, too. Since I've got a vested interest in how this turns out, I've been watching what's been happening. I think Epic would probably be well served to separate out the Unreal Engine dev stuff from the Store stuff and it's still really dumb that they didn't use the Steam API for friends list integration. There is a massive amount of gaben fanboy misinformation flying around, though.
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Mar 17, 2019 08:58
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Yeah, I kinda figured a part of the story may be fanboys on Reddit dogpiling and blowing it out of proportion, but if there were absolutely nothing to it, I don't think it'd be getting this level of traction, or an admission of the CEO that there's still some poo poo in the launcher from the early release days fishing around. To be perfectly honest, the Tencent issue doesn't bother me as much as some of the other stuff. Your user data is always at risk of being compromised in some huge hack/leak like we see every other year, you can't really insulate yourself against that, especially not against being target-marketed to. What you can and should do is keep sensitive stuff either separate and/or behind multi-step authentication like I do with personal documents, banking stuff, etc. In other news, Dwarf Fortress is apparently coming to steam in 2019, along with integrated mod and workshop support. Not entirely sure what that means, but I'm assuming it's going to make it a lot easier to get into the game without massive walls of  in forum posts and Bethesda-esque mod setup fuckery.
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Mar 17, 2019 09:55
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In non-surprising news, MRA idiots on social media apparently have been trying to stir up a shitstorm because you can't play Satisfactory as a male character 
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Yeah, I kinda figured a part of the story may be fanboys on Reddit dogpiling and blowing it out of proportion, but if there were absolutely nothing to it, I don't think it'd be getting this level of traction, or an admission of the CEO that there's still some poo poo in the launcher from the early release days fishing around. Yeah, pretty much. There's some problems to fix, but Epic seems pretty responsive to criticism, from what I've seen. I do think it's a little strange that a bunch of people are up in arms about Epic reading a Steam file to import your friends (which was definitely the wrong way to go about it, certainly) but I have seen exactly one person, in a comment, bring up the point that Steam has the file sitting there in plain text to be read in the first place.
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