Not only that, Russinovich through some magic made them keep this online: https://live.sysinternals.com/ and it’s the best site MS has, no bullshit whatsoever, dates showing when the tools were last updated. If you’re helping some unfortunate soul doomed to windows, it’s a great resource.

Just like Aaron Swartz

You can objectively measure it by asking a person playing for a fixed amount of time how much time has passed and measuring the discrepancy. Games that lately immersed me the most are Intravenous (1/2) and Riftbreaker. Also, Streets of Rogue coop with kids.

That’s true, but it’s also a pain in the ass compared to Steam, was my point. I can click on Dishonored and have it ready in 15 minutes while I make coffee, or I can download like

    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 1 of 5) 2 MB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 2 of 5) 4 GB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 3 of 5) 4 GB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 4 of 5) 4 GB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 5 of 5) 2.4 GB 

and then install it by hand, after which I have double its size in used diskspace and have to delete those files. Also, there may be patches to install. People don’t realize this, but Steam doesn’t actually necessarily mean imply DRM. I 'member the time before Ubishit launcher when you could just take a Steam install of Rayman Origins and plop the directory from steam’s common files onto another computer.

liveservice games completely lost any goodwill

And yet gacha liveservice shit reskins some fantasy into SF or the other way around every few weeks and makes good money.

Since almost 100k people tried it on Steam at launch and the next day it’s a ghost town, I’d say it’s very much whether the game is good or not. And 3 vs 3 on huge maps, with prefight busywork that feels like it could be skipped with no loss, on UE5 (which might be a good engine, but from high-end graphics games I learned to expect smeary upscaled shit with lumen painting everything grainy and blurry, input lag badly disguised with motion blur, etc.). Also, they lost a sizeable chunk of players to their TPM+secure boot requirements, even people who don’t know computers realized it means ad-serving fucking corpos can trust your secure computer, not you yourself.

Not having a launcher is my requirement to buy a game lol

Good luck with that. I need it because I’ve fiddled with my screwdriver adjusting the cassette head position to load Scuba Diver on ZX Spectrum too many times.

Requires both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0

Fuck right off

The very thing racist memes need to stay alive is literally articles like this, great job Guardian

It’s excellent, you can filter network access per app, or per IP, or isolate an app and allow it to access only certain addresses / ranges and the interface is really intuitive and user-friendly.

Up until today I was happy with turning off updates (as a precaution) and restricting Nova’s internet access (all phone network access is proxied through Rethink+), but this made me switch to Lawnchair and leave a 1-star review for both the free version and the paid upgrade token.

8 Wars PLUS

I would still like to see an explanation of why it is bad. Regardless of who will provide that explanation :)

Because they have Occulus’ locked up in their basement and gimmick du jour is worse, now instead of just having a headset where you have to use their account and see ads for their shitty corpo vr chat every time you login you’ll have a mandatory llm paperclip learning your habits and shilling 24/7