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Heh civ 1 was literally the first 3d game i played back in the commodore days . My taste was a bit different at that time so mostly some world builders and fantasy games. Later i threw in with doom hexen and quake and system shock then half-life and for some years the online offshots like quake 3 and counterstrike. Today im mostly into those with a good story to tell . I also played lots of diablo and wow and got quite a legend in one of the bigger wow guilds as a shaman. My char was named beefcan if any of you played that some 10 years back we probably meet.

Yeah im also in that bandwagon. But doing nothing is just as bad so theres atleast that.

I post for the first time since January with a detailed response about an important(ish) topic and I get a laugh reaction. Oh xolvix the laugh was a bit selfironical i do agree for the most part.

Well the so called rioters were actually pretty peacefull until someone started sending in marines and what not , so freedom of speech only applies to some people ? Ouch. Im not familiar with the governor but he seems like an ok guy from what i could gather, but stereotyping people based on thirdhand experiences mostly ends badly so no comment . As for the idea with a non government affiliated judical system i actually believe it would be better than what is currently at hand. Hell even in little denmark it is allmost impossible to get the government higher ups prosecuted for offences because they can just make it legal meaning 99% of judges dont even want to try even if the case is waterproof. Other than that and a somewhat overprotective attitude towards certain things it is not to bad here either. Beating up teslas though is in the wtf! territory. You might not like the man behind the company but the car did nothing to you so in that regard id be on the lock em up boat. But voicing your opinion should be ok for anyone.

With proper oversight and i do not mean government here... im all for it. And by proper i mean normal people like you and me since we are the ones who are mostly targetted. Seing what happens overseas right now gives you an idea why law enforcement and judges should not answer to the state. The state can pin out laws and if these laws are applicable consented to by the judical system, not we say so so heres how it is going to be.

in retrospect the developers are not at fault here the corporations that own them are. i would be thrilled if say EA started to treat there staff as something more than just walking ATM's and start giving them time to actually finish a product instead of forcing the corporate line of time is money so crunch crunch crunch. i lost count of how many tripple A developers got axed by them for not being able to keep up with the shareholder demands . bioware the dead space crew etc etc. also does not help that most modern games have to be hyper realistic and so take a good deal of time to build (no matter what the higher up's say). respect to those who can actually live in an environment like that id be a nervous wreck if i had to.

heh most people would be ok with living in a police state with cameras up their ass just goes to show that as a species we are not as bright as we think. for the record i do not endorse stealing i just think we sometimes accept way to much. gog user myself

well it might make sense for the developers but for the consumer not really. see point about denuvo servers being taken down at some point in the future leaving you with so much scrap cause chances are it will newer get removed as it is tightly integrated with the games source making it a venture i bet most developers would not throw money at removing. older drm while weaker mostly used an external dll as a plugin which made it easier to remove for the most part though i know of a few older models that were rather annoying to do so with (tages for one). and i get the intellectual property part but some corps take it to the extreme clinging to 20 to 30 year old source code that will newer be used again.

yeah though i newer quite got the need to imply drm on a singleplayer game to start with , sure piracy and whatnot but also means you cannot play if you're on a trip with your laptop somewhere with no internet. denuvo is kinda overkill for a singleplayer game but would make sense in a multiplayer one. truth be told not a lot of game companies have been on the forefront of releasing there sources like id used to do so a lot of the workarounds over the years were hacked together and would still benefit from the original source code. one example would be the blood ports. the devs who maintain these did not have the sources so it took more than a decade of slowly hacking the missing stuff into the duke nukem sources and there are still bugs. and we did have the duke3d opengl port from the guy who created the original dos based renderer to start from. luckily this engine was used in quite a lot of older games or things would have looked bleak indeed.

will be fun when the denuvo drm based game servers go down they still havent cracked the version in the callisto protocol so even though the game is single player it needs to phone home or the game simply will not start.

its a slippery slope indeed, the best solution ? maybe let those who actually know what the f... they do take the descisions. but im not holding my breath on that part. big money talks and it talks loudly and with no regard for consequenses. as we have seen with the direction some parts of the world are going.

truth be told a lot of game sources with third party propriarity code has allready solutions to work around those. bink and derivates > ffmpeg, 3ds > lib3ds, tons of cad format libraries and physics libraries some with even better support than what was there at the time. so its not like the community cant handle only being given parts of a code base. for some stuff we have atleast workable solutions for other stuff we have something even better hehe. but over the years the modding community somewhat died because of a new breed of modders who wanted to use the code a lot of us worked our asses of to replace broken engine parts to make money and newer share they're own work. so a lot of us either retired or hid away in obscure parts of the internet.

Im ok with it but it is getting a bit long in the teeth for a ryzen 5900x even the low cost ryzen models have plenty power to drive this card. I would have used my 3070 instead but with 8gb im running into some rather annoying texture loading problems. So a 16gb model will be next project but the lower end while having plenty vram are just not worth upgrading to with such a small percentage. Guess ill donate a kidney for a 9070 or 5070

well my 2080 ti still beats the 5050 so i would get a small improvement from the 5060 ti 5% the 5070 ti blows both out of the water with a 52% performance gain. sadly im not going to afford that one in like ever the cheapest version in denmark is about 1000 dollars.

yeah they will push the envelope on silicon as far as it goes but even with the upped clock speeds the last two generations of gfx cards have fallen far short of a 30% increase in performance (raw performance mind you not raytracing). and with the cost of keeping raytracing competitive + all the cringe with scalpers buying up the entire stock to resell at much inflated prices they pretty much drove the low income segment of the population away from upgrading like ever... tbh the biggest performance increases in the last 6 years have been on the cpu side with AMD actually leading the race now and intel also being in major trouble because of some problems with the later cpu versions (oxydation). for intels part i dont wonder that much they got to cozy being on top for so many years that when the hammer fell they could not respond in kind. greed got the better of them with the insistence on having to change mainboard every 2 cycles of cpu iterations (how many lga versions do they have now ).