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I've clocked 332 hours in Borderlands 2..

My start in Mafia 3: The water is weird. Bell bottoms just casually reading the news.

I just started Mafia 3 (a side-effect from buying a Christmas present: I got a code for Mafia 3 for myself) and it's.. surprisingly good! I was expecting a bug-fest, a dull open world and half decent graphics. What I got is a bug-fest, a great open world and fantastic graphics (although a bit uneven in places, especially water). The story also seems very well written and done in a kind of a movie-like style (cut scenes from 20 years later recapping my story and such). I'm looking forward to continuing this game.

Btw, kind of on topic.. I was active in a thread on another forum (for my phone like the complete nerd I am) and one thread was about designing your dream phone. So I made up some specs and drew a rough sketch of how it should look and submitted it. Then I started reading everyone elses submissions.. and people were like "I WANT A 5.5 INCH SCREEN WITH 4K RESOLUTION" and it annoyed me. Why on earth would you want 4k on a screen that small?? No-one can see detail that small! So to prove my point I wrote a post about Apple's Retina screen that's 330 ppi and that's around the limitation of the human eye (5.5 inches and 4k resolution is like 800 ppi) and that's why it's called retina blah blah. I also wrote about how more than 1080p is not necessary, and as a test I made a picture. A white picture, 1080x1920, with black text ranging from 8 points to 12 points and was about to post it and challenge people to read it on their screens.. until I actually tried reading it on my own 5.15 inch 1080p (428 ppi) screen.. and it turned out to be fully readable.. Even the 8 point text. To eliminate the possibility that I've somehow been blessed with the eyes of Australian aboriginals I tried it on several of my work colleagues and most of them could also read it. WTF APPLE?? I'VE BEEN USING YOUR RETINA SCREEN AS AN EXAMPLE IN SEVERAL RESOLUTION DISCUSSIONS! I FEEL TRICKED! So yeah, I had to come to another forum to vent my shame.

I started playing Stardew Valley recently. I haven't slept or eaten in days. Send help.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-zen-cpu-benchmarks-official/ Here's 7 more where the base model (the 8 core, 3.4 GHz flat, 95W version) outscores Intel's i7 6900K (8 core, 3.2-3.7 GHz, 140W). Another benchmark: http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-zen-cpu-benchmarks-leak/ We'll see. I'm definitely interested.

I liked the leveling system in Wasteland (1988).. A lot of skills to choose from, no classes. You used a skill and it got better. That simple.

Closing your source is to stop people from tampering with it. Whatever reason you have for doing so has **** all to do with anything. It's not my definition, but feel free to provide a better definition of anti tamper. --- To the annoying mod: go smoke something in your ****ed up country instead, you're adding nothing.

Yes. The very definition of anti tamper is closed source. You close the source to stop people from tampering with it. Seriously, why do you think not all code is open source? Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tamper_software --- Developers say there's basically no performance penalty to Denuvo, no online activation and they don't destroy SSD's. Pirates say every bug is Denuvo's fault, Denuvo wrecks SSD's (which has been proven wrong over and over again) and takes a lot of performance. I tend to believe developers, you tend to believe pirates. Also, I love that Doom (2016), that's considered to be one of the best optimized games ever, uses Denuvo. Imagine that, with all the performance Denuvo is stealing encrypting/decrypting everything in real time while also secretly connecting to servers! I'm sure that's the reason. "You commit logical fallacies! I'm courteous, you're on a cycle of insults and fallacies! I will not link my secret sources, you just have to trust me! You've made me tired, I will leave now!" Trust me, I'm not going to cry myself to sleep from not having to deal with this level of discussion any further.

So, to sum it up: your knowledge about Denuvo comes from pirates/pirating (where I'm sure Denuvo is a real problem, unlike for legitimate users). You have no links/articles/research to back up anything you say. You're still having problems distinguishing between digital rights management and anti-tamper. Did I miss anything? Oh, and to quote the new low in the discussion, "I don't want anti-tamper solutions in my games either". Do you honestly think you have ever bought a game that did not have any form of anti-tamper on it? Seriously? You think you have bought a game with the source code clearly out in the open for everyone to see? You really don't understand the concept of anti-tamper, do you? Might as well be oranges to you.

It connects to Denuvo's servers, sends your current hardware hash and ties the game's copy to it for either an arbitrary period of time or until hardware changes, whichever comes first. This fact got mentioned multiple times throughout this very thread, that's what's so hard to understand about it not being DRM. When it connects to the internet to authenticate copy of the game, it most certainly is DRM. Additionally, the entire reason for Denuvo to exist is to protect other DRM schemes from getting circumvented. It's literally an online activation that exists to protect other online activations. You're right that Denuvo will work with whatever developers decide to implement alongside with it, but when a system works as an integral part of DRM and serves no other purpose, I'm going to call it what it actually is as opposed to buying into Denuvo's PR bull****. I also don't think I really need to mention how exactly is it bad that many games now need two independent online services running at all times to function. It's all good tho, thus far all major releases containing Denovo got cracked. This is also false. Denuvo does not need to connect to anything, neither when installing the game nor when running the game. I will try this again (since it really seems to be more difficult to understand than I anticipated): Denuvo is anti-tamper (means: stop reverse engineering). Nothing else. It does not "connect to Denuvo's servers", it is not "an integral part of DRM", it doesn't install drivers, impose activation limits or require an internet connection. All those aforementioned things are part of the actual DRM that the publishers decide to implement on their products, not Denuvo. Denuvo protects the code (including any eventual DRM that's baked into said code). That's it. By the way: you seem hilariously sure of how Denuvo works, writing about hashes and what not. Could you link me to where you have learned all this about Denuvo?

MK is bigger than HR, and it does some very cool stuff, but I'd still put it closer to HR than the original. Thanks. Yeah, I kind of figured so I gave it a miss.

What's so hard to understand about this? Denuvo is anti-tamper, meaning it checks the integrity of the files. Nothing else. You could theoretically install a Denuvo application on thousands of different computers at once because Denuvo don't give a ****. Steam is DRM, Securom is DRM, all those other digital rights management programs are (duh) DRM. These are the systems that are stopping you from installing your games on thousands of computers at once. These are the systems that will give you problems in the future. Denuvo is protecting your files. DRM is protecting the publishers rights.

Denuvo is not DRM.

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The original? The original Deus Ex is one of my absolute favourite games of all times. If it's like the original it's an essential purchase, if it's like Human Revolution I'll skip it.

I saw that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is 25€ on Steam right now. Worth it? I might add that I didn't really enjoy the last Deus Ex: Human Revolution since it felt too small. Small levels, small character progression, small ambition.

That's uh.. a well placed arrow.

I'm not sure what they've done with the graphics in the Special Edition of Skyrim, but I like it. It looks like an oil painting.

I'm playing the Special Edition of Skyrim and I'm actually enjoying myself again! I have no idea why since the last time I played it I was all Skyrimmed out.

So.. I give sources from people with knowledge about how Denuvo works (actual developers and tech folks), but you dismiss it them by claiming they're rubbish (without offering an explanation why) and instead counter with.. your guesses. "They can't do blah blah because I don't understand how to do it!". Since you're so sure that Denuvo does indeed affect performance negatively (up to -20%, right?), could you link me to your non-rubbish sources?

Last summer I found this huge, black spider crawling around in my bedroom. My first instinct was to scream like a little girl and squash it in panic, but I kept my cool and watched it instead. Turned out it had built a large net behind one of my window curtains where I always have a small window open. That net was brimful with gnats and mosquitoes and flies. I let him protect me for the rest of the summer and by autumn he went away without even saying goodbye. I miss him.

Yeah, I bought the 256 GB Samsung 850 Pro for my OS and most commonly used applications. I use a 4 TB expensive Hitachi (tired of HD's crashing on me) for my storage needs. I have not yet filled even 1 TB of that though.. The Pro was only $20-30 more than the Evo and I felt like getting the best of the best (at the time), but I would also recommend the Evo nowadays. There's almost no difference between them in reality.

Fixed that for you. Because, you see, Denuvo does **** all if you buy the game. Just internet neckbeards who blame every bug/problem/mental issue on Denuvo without ever backing up why Denuvo would be the root of the problem. It does go back to the earlier iterations of Denuvo and Lords of the Fallen, it seem that the constant encrypting did ruin some SSD and cause performance problems. They're probably past that now, but considering how buggy AAA releases have been I would say that they're not even worth pirating. They'll never be past the performance problems. Encrypting/ decrypting uses CPU cycles and system resources, no two ways about it. The SecuROM on TWitcher2 was a fully mature product yet if you replaced it with the DRM free GOG executable you got an instant performance increase for free (up to 20%, so not insignificant). OTOH SSD problems were unlikely to be caused by Denovo anyway. And as usual the sheep keep bleating without thinking... Regarding SSD:s, there are a lot of articles pointing to this myth being false. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX379zScuZE Regarding performance impact, you obviously don't understand that Denuvo is not encrypting anything in real time. It's not even a DRM! Here's what Digital Foundry/Eurogamer found: Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-12-19-denuvo-anti-tamper-drm Check out what the developer's themselves say about Denuvo regarding performance. Total War devs (for example) have stated it does not have any impact on performance. But feel free to link to a Reddit post/Kotaku forums/[insert random pirate rant here] to prove your point. The only legitimate point is that Linux users are screwed and that sucks.

Fixed that for you. Because, you see, Denuvo does **** all if you buy the game. Just internet neckbeards who blame every bug/problem/mental issue on Denuvo without ever backing up why Denuvo would be the root of the problem.