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Their stance is that corporate money fits really snugly in their pocket.

How do you feel about GOG.com exclusives? I'm actually okay with GOG exclusivity since GOG is a secure platform, unlike the Epic Store which is a spyware for the Chinese Uh, that's not true? Which part? The part about GoG being secure or the part about the Epic store being spyware? https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/03/16/valve-to-investigate-epic-game-stores-use-of-steam-files I have not seen any sort of evidence that the Epic store spies for the Chinese government specifically, but it's had more than it's share of privacy concerns over the last few months. As far as I know the spyware accusation is based exclusively on the import friends from Steam feature, and it is baseless. The bit about China is just silly. Take a look at the article I linked. It's doing more than just importing friends lists with permission. Epic itself has acknowledged this, but claims it was a mistake and not intentional. From another article... https://www.tomshardware.com/news/epic-games-responds-store-privacy,38835.html "Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney eventually chimed in to explain that "the current implementation is the result of a system that was built quickly and then rapidly modified before launch." (This makes it seem like he's talking about the Epic Games Store launch; in another comment, he said he's talking about Fortnite.) "It's a klunky method that we'll fix," Sweeney said. He also explained that Epic didn't just use the Steam API because "we avoid including third-party code in our engine wherever possible, as it often brings its own privacy, security, and licensing complications (though Valve has a fine reputation)." In another comment, Sweeney cited a report about iOS apps sending private data to Facebook to explain "the general concern of APIs collecting more data than expected." He also said: "You guys are right that we ought to only access the localconfig.vdf file after the user chooses to import Steam friends. The current implementation is a remnant left over from our rush to implement social features in the early days of Fortnite. It's actually my fault for pushing the launcher team to support it super quickly and then identifying that we had to change it. Since this issue came to the forefront, we're going to fix it."" The post that originated the whole controversy if I'm not misinformed: https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq What is described is mostly normal windows software behaviour. Here's a list not by me: Windows automatically hits root certificates trying to validate SSL certificates when you load websites, validating the signing on exes, etc. Given that nothing but Fiddler and ProcMon are hit by the process enumeration, that's likely a side effect of having Fiddler set up to intercept traffic. Same deal for the Fiddler directory DLL hit. Using the windows HTTP stack, depending on the use case, automatically hits internet explorer registry and cookies as a side effect.

How do you feel about GOG.com exclusives? I'm actually okay with GOG exclusivity since GOG is a secure platform, unlike the Epic Store which is a spyware for the Chinese Uh, that's not true? Which part? The part about GoG being secure or the part about the Epic store being spyware? https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/03/16/valve-to-investigate-epic-game-stores-use-of-steam-files I have not seen any sort of evidence that the Epic store spies for the Chinese government specifically, but it's had more than it's share of privacy concerns over the last few months. As far as I know the spyware accusation is based exclusively on the import friends from Steam feature, and it is baseless. The bit about China is just silly.

How do you feel about GOG.com exclusives? I'm actually okay with GOG exclusivity since GOG is a secure platform, unlike the Epic Store which is a spyware for the Chinese Uh, that's not true?

Again, regardless of how you feel about this decision, advocating piracy is not the way to go. Posts doing so will be removed.

I don't think this is at all true but, regardless, you know what this reminds me of? (Where 'this' is people saying "I'll never an Obsidian game ever again!!1!!" ) It reminds of when Steam was new back in 2003/04. The ****storm that was kicked up over it was epic among nerds. Heh.

I don't know how much rents have increased compared to inflation, but what I do know is that effective wages have gone down. So maybe the problem with high rents is more a problem of purchasing power than anything else.

The housing bubble wasn't a construction bubble, it was a lending bubble. Lenders were giving loans to everyone that could breathe which drove up prices, which drove up the loaned amounts, which drove up the premiums, which house owners couldn't pay, which crashed the economy. This may have driven up construction as well, but if so, that was a consequence of the bubble, not a cause.

https://komonews.com/news/local/bellevue-driver-learns-the-hard-way-dont-use-homemade-license-plates Insane libertarian dude?

This doesn't make you smarter. It just gives you internet access, which is essentially just installing a backdoor to your brain. No problem there!

Is English not your first language? I don't get the sense that english isn't their first language, though the formatting is strange, like they typed it up in notepad with word-wrap off and then copied and pasted or something. But can you parse that?

Is English not your first language?

I would love seeing Clinton announced as Sanders' VP. The meltdowns would be delicious

If BioWare can capture some of the Chinese market with Jade Empire reboot, they could make a fortune. The negative reaction to "white folks" making the first Jade Empire is what canned that franchise. What canned Jade Empire is that it wasn't very good.

13 is absolutely true.

Alanschu is around, you guys.

Don't know if I can agree. Most older gamers (who were around for it all) consider Mass Effect 1-3 the best that Bioware's ever put out. lolno

I can try to check. Edit: for what it's worth, social media tells me he is still there.

Many are calling it just that... Or the worst since Crash.

Dialogue isn't necessarily just to listen to, it can be a gameplay loop of its own. Planescape: Torment is the egregious example.

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1098700066150334465 AOC has Guard Dog's vote locked, it seems.

This could go here on in the funny things thread. Watch out for the language, and enjoy Carlson make a fool of himself:

So Judas died from hanging and fell headlong from that hanging position. That's some impressive gymnastics, especially coming from a dead man. Or perhaps it's the mental gymnastics that are impressive. Also, that doesn't address in any way the money issue.

^My Google grab for the night from some former atheist site. After applying some zoom to that passage, it appears that it says nothing at all. Here ya go, in any case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_consistency_of_the_Bible

And I'd ask you to point out those contradictions and agendas (not to argue but just to know where you're coming from out of curiosity) but I think we both know you're not going to answer that and that's fine by me. As I said before, many non-Christians view things they don't understand as contradiction, displacement or something other than believable. The Bible is interesting because you may read one thing abd have a question and then see an answer a thousand pages later. Are you kidding? The bible is filled with contractions, especially between the old testament and the new.