monster99

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by monster99 7y ago
The rise of internet enabled microtransactions and the masses bought drm laden games they didn't own like mmo's... Once the masses fell for mainframe/dumb client, companies now controlled the software and could insert bs mone
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by monster99 7y ago
Cut out sugar, bread, and liquids with empty calories. Eat meat, fruits, and veggies -- even frozen ones. You'll drop weight very fast switching to high meat and veg, and dump the carbs/sugars. For those of you who are skinny an
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by monster99 7y ago
Article is a load of cobblers. The mods tend to be no different then milquetoast centrists because most of them work in the corporate world. HN is very america centric and anything that goes against "the american narrative" that
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by monster99 7y ago
That's kind of the point George carlin said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q The whole educational establishment is to create an ignorant slave class.
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by monster99 7y ago
It's hard to feel sorry for anyone pushing apps and the removal of local app computing. It's like a theif accusing the other theives of being a theif. The modern SaS enviroment is scam central taking advantage of the publics comp
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by monster99 7y ago
Man it has very little to do with government and everything to do with your worship of free market nonsense. In a capitalist society capitalists own the government. AKA private power. So the judiary being corrupted to benefit corporate i
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by monster99 7y ago
America has robbed it's own population blind for the last 200 years, all cultural works have been sucked up into an international criminal oligarchy. Software is being stolen en mass and coded fraudulently to remove your basic rights a
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by monster99 7y ago
I don't believe in the ideologies of the time, call me a doubting thomas that the human race is actually intelligent. I know too much about how human beings and corporations actually function to believe in free market mythology. See h
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by monster99 7y ago
Difference is, one is about the populations health. Given that the US is backwards when it comes to healthcare. Given the sea of corruption inside the US since it is an oligarchically run state where the citizens basically have no rights (
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by monster99 7y ago
People who don't sellout to the corporate agenda... watching HN'ers downvote me for pointing out the videogame industry has been stealing PC games for the last 20 years was alarming. We went from owning diablo, warcraft and starc
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by monster99 7y ago
Dude the fact that the industry is stealing games and openly gloats it wants to make all games "services" (aka never give you a local application). Is the end goal. So yeah, you need to know about the state of the industry to und
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by monster99 7y ago
Sorry to tell you there was a golden age... The age before the internet and monetization where we owned are games and internet penetration hadn't allowed companies to steal videogames functionality with drm. The 90's AAA game modd
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by monster99 7y ago
RTS exist, they collapsed and were renamed by the new generation "MOBA's" League of legends, dota 2 and Heroes of newerth were just real time strategy games with the heroes and the lack of complex base management. They collap
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by monster99 7y ago
You're not just getting old. The rise of the internet fucked up gaming because it allowed game companies to control the software and insert all sorts of abusive monetization inside it. The internet allowed game theft by EA, activision
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by monster99 7y ago
That's kind of the point, the upper class is at war with the masses, hear it in their own words: Zbigniew Brezinski, former national security advisor of the United states: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY &q
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by monster99 7y ago
The long term trend in PC gaming was to slowly move parts of game programs onto servers in corporate offices so they could control them and extract monopoly profits. The goal for any capitalist organization is monopoly profits. You can do
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by monster99 7y ago
It is because the internet collectivizes the ignorant public and you can use them as the army of the ignorant to defraud me of my basic rights to general computing. The game industry and microsoft are well ware of the publics lack of unders
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by monster99 7y ago
Uhh, lets remove the progaganda shall we MMO = marketing term for computer program instructions Is there any reason as a gamer for any program to be split between two computers when companies goals are to maximize profit, not produce the be
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by monster99 7y ago
It is fraud because I have no power to modify your bad behavior, when you code a game fraudulently. You can sit in the middle of the continent and get the lay public to buy software infected with privacy and consumer rights violating progr
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by monster99 7y ago
It is when they are stealing the game files and code using public internet infrastructure, aka selling you incomplete software.
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by monster99 7y ago
It is because that means you control my PC from your server in your office and force me to use software in a particular way, that's what I call fraud buddy. You can shut off a piece of software or deny me access to the files I paid go
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by monster99 7y ago
MMO's were the propaganda to sell you the same RPG's without having to give you ownership, if you can't see that when Guild wars had 8 player multiplayer but jury rigged a login/drm system on their PC RPG, you're cl
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by monster99 7y ago
No it isn't, there is no reason for any piece of software to be split between your computer and another company. If you buy the argument, you obviously never gamed during the 90's during the heyday of level editors, free maps and
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by monster99 7y ago
Steam was essentially a small company in 2004, in fact they grew too fast for their own good. Let us remember until the steam patch nobody wanted in 2004, valve had only released half-life and a few other odds and ends, until half-life 2 i
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by monster99 7y ago
You should all check out overload by the original descent developers. https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/