cryball

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[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

After watching the video the main thought I have in my mind is that the whole issue could have been subverted by building two sets of executables. One with DRM and one without. The DRM free version could then be stored for potential future use. That way you wouldn't have to necessarily maintain the build environment.

Obviously this wouldn't have occurred to me if I was building the game, but I hope the companies learned as soon as they ran across the issue the first time.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

I sure hope none of those cracks were licensed in a way that would cause trouble for unauthorized commercial use 🤷

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

My bad. You don't need a rocket to launch stuff.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean you could stay in space, if you were to reach escape velocity. Heat might be an issue though.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Tweaking the nuke to achieve a specific orbit might prove to be difficult. Also it's not like Blue Origin has nukes right?

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Do they also have a nonexistent budget?

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like hollywood. Dangling career opportunities as a reward for constenting to unwanted advances etc.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Their government has been trying to keep the issue of aid in the public interest for a reason. Sometimes they might go too far, but I think people underestimate the fear a country would experience if they were highly dependent on outside help. Especially if it wasn't guaranteed to continue due to changes in the political leadership in the other countries.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As always the headline is somewhat misleading.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yes. OSRS reviews on steam are still listed as very positive.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

This was well put and a good summary of the situation!

In a less resilient democracy attempts of interference in the election process might not cause the same uproar it has in the US.

This also works the other way. The prosecution of Trump seems to be handled with care to ensure that the charges are justifiable. In non democratic countries a political opponent would first go to jail and then the prosecutors would try to invent some kind of corruption charge.

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Congress members and senators still showed up to work, and the decisions they took still mattered, even if some of the Republicans were constantly violating precedents and norms. The judicial system still kept churning and mostly following the laws and precedents, even if Trump appointed a lot of unqualified partisan judges.

From an outside perspective this is a good demonstration that while your system is somewhat flawed, it's still resilient. By flawed I mean mainly the two party system and stuff like judges being appointed by politicians. However if your system didn't have some builtin failsafes, it would have been much more vulnerable to influence from unwanted sources.

Even if most trump voters wanted to turn the US into a proper aristocracy, (some right wingers actually do*), the process would have been much more complicated in comparison to countries that have become dictatorships in the past decades.

*I'm referring to a somewhat new trend, where influential people are claiming that the US is suffering from a dumb population, and that experts should be given more power.

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