“Recently there have been a number of reports about the plymouth boot splash not showing properly on PCs using AMD GPUs.

The problem without plymouth and AMD GPUs is that the amdgpu driver is a really really big driver, which easily takes up to 10 seconds to load on older PCs. The delay caused by this may cause plymouth to timeout while waiting for the GPU to be initialized, causing it to fallback to the 3 dot text-mode boot splash.”

Maybe they should publicly boast about having no anti-cheat and tell everyone that they are doing it for cross platform compatibility reasons. And because they believe kernel level stuff is also bad.

I’d love to follow along and see how things go.

Reviews being a message board for grievances and memes really sucks. It reflects badly on gamers. Makes everything look trashy.

The op said they don’t stop cheaters. Implying it makes zero impact.

They do make a difference. I’ve been party to the difference that bringing these tools to a platform does.

Server side is beatable too.

My point is anti cheat will never be perfect, and you just rattled off a bunch of text to say that.

Anti-cheat efforts do make an impact on the pervasiveness and culture of cheating, general hacking and griefing.

If stopping any and all cheating 100% perfectly and forever is your only metric on “stopping cheating.” Then you have a distorted view on the effectiveness of current anti-cheat tools.

This would be quite the compounded shitstorm if these were still being used in Macs.

“I already beat the game, why would I pay for it?” This must be especially common for big AAA games too.

I have gigabit, and struggled to stream. Turned out I had the Quality of Service (QoS) /traffic priority settings on my router misconfigured.

This might be something to look into.

Can a remote user download something from your network at a reasonable and consistent speed? (Not using Plex)

Can you upload a large file somewhere and monitor the speed and see if it maintains speed as expected?

For me, these two things were also performing at unexpectedly low speeds, or being wildly inconsistent until I fixed my QoS settings.

It’s a bummer that hard drives are priced this way. It’s been common for a few decades now.

“What! It was 95%!”

huh, I didn’t know these Lego sets existed. I looked them up and now I understand why they would be exploring this. The creatures look great as Lego.

There’s no way he’s dogfooding the micro-transactions. It’s impossible for him to do so.

The Darkmoon Fiasco

Summary from getrecall:

April updates on campaign to stop game destruction

Campaign Progress

• The UK petition to stop games from being destroyed by publishers has reached 10,000 signatures, and the [[Australia | Australian]] petition is expected to open next week.
• Players who received [[The Crew (video game) | The Crew]] for free can still submit a complaint to the DGCCRF, but it’s recommended not to volunteer that information.
• Cases where players clearly owned the game are preferred for complaints.
• The [[Canada | Canadian]] petition is facing challenges due to a lack of response from Canadian Parliament members.

Crowdsourcing and Data Management

• Setting up an official Discord server is being reconsidered due to concerns about potential infiltration by PR firms working for publishers.
• [[Crowdsourcing]] efforts are needed to update and maintain a list of game shutdowns and at-risk games.
• A spreadsheet export option for the list would be beneficial for data analysis and sharing.

Legal Actions

• An [[Australia | Australian]] law firm has been secured to file an official complaint to the ACCC on behalf of Australian owners of [[The Crew (video game) | The Crew]].
• A website called torn.com has offered to fund the legal fees for the Australian action and potentially for the [[Brazil | Brazilian]] lawsuit as well.
• More [[French language | French]] and Brazilian owners of The Crew are needed to join the mediation process.
• The Brazilian lawsuit is likely to happen, and an affected owners list is being compiled.

Focus on The Crew and Digital Game Preservation

• The focus remains on The Crew as it presents a unique opportunity to address digital game preservation.
• [[Nintendo]] and [[Sony]] shutting down multiplayer components of games may not be actionable, except in [[Australia]].

Ubisoft’s Response

• Ubisoft has not responded to the campaign, and the blanket response from Ubisoft emphasizes their unwillingness to support continued game operation.
• Ubisoft removing licenses from accounts does not affect the campaign’s plans or goals.

Piracy and Consumer Protection

• The argument “if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing” indicates a misunderstanding of the issue.
• Piracy may become less relevant in the future due to increased game protection measures.
• The focus should be on the fact that the game is inoperable and that it was purchased as a one-time purchase.
• If a [[Consumer protection | consumer protection]] agency notices the violation of inoperability, it could potentially help raise awareness of the issue.

I’m holding out for matter over thread, personally.

This is why we hear about this same thing happening with Linux distros all the time.

Huh, that’s unintuitive to me. I remember people talking about too many hard drives in a case using too much power before. Overloading it, etc. 1-2W each would not overload a normal power supply. 🤔

Did hard drives just quietly get super efficient when I wasn’t paying attention? Or is something else going over my head here?

How Roblox is Exploiting Young Game Developers

Roblox Pressured Us to Take Down Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.