hedgewitch

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by hedgewitch 5y ago
Or perhaps it's just an attempt from straight men to not have to confront the fact that what they say is harmful. Again, it's easy to say that I'm creating a straw man, but the facts are thus. The OP said: - My games of Catan
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
To be completely fair, if you're not a straight white man and people are regularly mistaking you for a straight white man, that generally means only one thing: you're on the wrong side of history. And no, I think you should think
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
It's incredible how men, especially straight white men, can demonstrate their understanding of the point by using all of its parts in twisted fashions to support their argument, but will never concede that the point was correct. Yes, i
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
So, there are two points that you've yet to address and I doubt ever will, which casts an extremely negative light on your argument: 1) You have yet to provide any concrete examples of what it is you mean. You keep going "but I sw
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
This is absolutely not the situation that he has presented it as. Someone else has already stated what is going on here. These people do not identify as a slur. His entire argument hinges on this insane idea that people identify as a slur.
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
No, you didn't. The original person did. You then told me I was making a straw man by calling him out for it. You could have just as easily not commented and I could have been dealing with the original commenter. You decided to comment
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
You can call whatever this bizarre and obviously false claim is what you want, but this entire subthread is very transparently an attempt to justify using a slur. It has very "why can't I say the n word" energy.
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
Nobody can stop you from trying to shut down arguments by telling people that the insinuation that their existence is somehow so controversial that people can just casually suggest that discussing it in public is akin to discussing abortion
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
You know, telling people they're acting morally superior when they're confronting the fact that people are calling aspects of their identity controversial and acting like said parts of their identity simply shouldn't be discu
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
If you don't understand that the problem is that detractors have made simply being LGBTQ+ a political issue, you are not qualified to have an opinion here. I'm curious what you think you mean because there is no good answer. I als
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
> Humanity either needs to "agree to disagree" on wide swaths of things we care a whole bunch about ([...] lgbtq [...]) or we need to go back to not discussing those things in public or polite company. Does this cut both ways,
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
> If I steal from you, you no longer have what I've stolen. If I copy your software, you still have it; I might just have deprived you of profits (if I had otherwise bought the software). Okay, so what is your suggestion here? Make
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
> And what you're missing is that "perpetuity" is a lie. You are now actively misrepresenting my point, which was that someone is going to have to reverse engineer something in order to maintain software. Disks don't
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
> I can list the two I've played: Elite Dangerous and Planetary Annihilation. Another one I can name is The Crew. I don't know enough about Planetary Annihilation, but Elite: Dangerous and The Crew were definitively designed to
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
> Hardly. Diablo 3 is probably the most famous example (partly because it's so popular, partly because it's direct predecessor didn't have an always-online requirement), but hardly the only one. Google "online only si
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
I mean, I know it's convenient for companies, but there are other ways to look at this, namely that it obsoletes actual DRM and provides you with something in return, which DRM doesn't. Or, to say it another way, there are worse f
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
Can't you use the auction house from single-player? If so, this is part of my point. This isn't some grand conspiracy to limit ownership of games. This is the kind of thing that more people want. They want the interconnectedness a
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
Okay, have fun in your alternate reality where users host all of your data and you regularly lose characters or accounts you've spent months on because they decide they can't be arsed to host the server that you were on anymore. A
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
I literally didn't say the network code was different. But server load, internet requirements (have fun hosting an Ultima Online server for your friends on a 56K modem), and more make it impractical for any single user to host a server
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
> So we know the ability to have dedicated servers and in game server browser exists inside the engine. You can continue to spout conspiracy theories if you want, but the fact of the matter is that dedicated servers are a completely diff
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
Ummm...more and more games are forcing you to be online during play because, in reality, that's what people want . People want their universal auction houses that connect with other players and feel more "alive." People want
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
Why do any rightsholders care about anything? Because it's about risk management and looking like they're actively protecting their IPs.
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
> Steam This is a bad example because Steam's DRM is notoriously terrible and even multiplayer games that use Steam's multiplayer services can be played entirely without Steam with a particular open-source emulator (granted the
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
...to push the narrative that piracy is evil and they need to take more measures against it.
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
I think this is the wrong way to be looking at it. WINE is an open-source project that explicitly wants to run as much Windows software as accurately as possible on non-Windows systems. If something's broken, anyone can fix it. This is
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
Not sure if this would help in this exact case, but I've used OTVDM to run some old games successfully. https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
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Virtual Circuit Board – a logic circuit simulator with an assembler(store.steampowered.com)
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
That it would. I don't have access to a Mac or time to get it building elsewhere, so a video would be great.
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
...except the non-deterministic parallelism that this offers. That's the thing. Smalltalk is historically extremely bad at utilizing multiple cores (not because it can't be done, but because no one has - multiple people have thoug
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by hedgewitch 5y ago
It changes daily...like Wordle.

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