Figured I might as well make some use of my 15+ years of experience tinkering with PCs while I have same spare free-time. Limited slots due to case-by-case variances in work-load & required prep-time.
Dm me on Discord for more details.
@sama Nice. A sycophancy generator to turn everyone into sociopaths while concurrently feeding ChatGPT information about children so that it can more accurately target ads at them as they grow up.
To everyone asking: I'm doing just fine. Walking 10 miles to the nearest hospital while impaled was less painful than playing a single Premier game in Season 5. 👍
Honestly hard to be excited about the updates when the end result is always the same as long as cheaters get a free pass to play this game. The games I'm playing in Season 5 are the least skilled games I have ever played in CS2...
Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.
Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.
By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.
That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.
I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.
So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.
But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.
@Brparadox Unbranded bronze power supply?? Advertising on social media that you use Chinese firecracker parts for otherwise expensive hardware is NOT a good way to advertise yourself