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Well, judging by some recent examples where it was removed (either via crack or simple developer decision later in a game's lifecycle) there is regularly a noticeable difference. No idea how often it's a gamebreaking, so-to-speak, difference though. Oh and since apparently Denuvo didn't/doesn't bother recompiling the .exe (or whatever it is they'd need to do to make sure their stuff continues to work) between updates, the crack is said to work even on updated builds, meaning those who downloaded it illegally have access to official improvements to the performance for now.

Well, good for you in that case. I've always heard it's a damn PITA and something one would rather not have to do (which is why a whole industry grew around others doing it for you, with those same companies then lobbying D.C. to keep it a PITA).

Well, true, I kinda glossed over that. Still, beats being dead ... right? Is that what you're doing instead now or is that what "ethically-non-monogamous" is called nowadays? I'm not hip to all these new terms.

Man, why haven't those stupid, corrupt politicians thought of that one yet ? Just get rid of all the loopholes!

On an only tangentially related note: When does childhood end/how long does it last? Do post-puberty teenage years still count? Last year of high school (or equivalent)? Age of majority?

Huh, they added a couple more tiny-ass circles. Also, one teleported and another grew larger. What does it all mean ? On a more serious note, after almost exactly a year of following this war I still don't get why Ookin is continuing these half-measures. Is it plain ol' stupidity and ignorance? Or are the ideas about him pulling out all the stops leading to either a collapse, revolt/coup, NATO escalation or all three sound and this is, somehow, the one dumb thing that his advisors managed to keep him from doing so far? Puzzling to be sure. Disclaimer: I reckon that it's not like he's got good options left and I suspect he's fucked either way so maybe it's just decision paralysis. Keep doing what hasn't worked yet, perhaps tomorrow'll be the day things suddenly turn around on their own!

Did that affect anything relevant? Guns weren't hard to get in the first place if you are a criminal and I don't think mass shooters etc. care about laws to be honest. It certainly doesn't seem to have had much of an impact on ownership: What does that mean? Lighter sentences? Fewer resources made available to solve them? Less prosecution? All of the above? If so, I can see how that would indeed lead to a rise in crimes involving guns. Well, first of all, I urge you to seek out evidence to the contrary because locally it definitely did happen. Secondly, if you are referring to my comment, this goes beyond the actual implementation of those thoroughly [ridiculous] ideas of #DefundThePolice and #AbolishThePolice (and don't @ me with the motte & bailey "Um, akshually, what they meant is ..."). It's also about the way the "mostly peaceful protests"™ were handled in many places. Telling police to stand down so as not to "add fuel to the (literal and figurative) fire", stopping to prosecute "small time crimes" and the like did their part in this dissolution of societal trust which in turn inevitably begets violence. Both the correlation and causal link between low-trust societies and high rates of crime are crystal clear. There's few things I can think of that are as corrosive as inciting people to distrust all authority (ACAB ! And fuck the government!) and each other (Everyone's secretly an -ist until proven innocent!). Quite amazing to behold from afar, really. Or terrifying, rather, when experienced first hand, no doubt.

Not using her pronouns? Tsk tsk tsk, bigot. And allegedly earning six figures a year from her day job at a big tech company to boot (there's some circumstantial evidence to support this). Very strange person if true. Definitely quite likely to be ... uhm, what do you folks call it nowadays ... neuroatypical? Neurodivergent? Is that what that smileys supposed to be ô_o ? I've read that in this instance it doesn't actually disable/remove it, just trick it into "thinking" that it's running legitimately. So the CPU drain would still be there.

Here you have the choice: 1) Fill out a tax form and from then on be required to do so every year for the rest of your working life and MAYBE get some money back sometimes. 2) Never touch that shit and just pay what's automatically deducted from your paycheck each month. I cannot for the life of me understand ordinary people who go with option 1. Who thinks that hassle is worth a few measly hundred bucks at most on average? Like, fine, if you're rich and the amounts are high enough that it's either worth your time or hiring someone to do it for you that makes sense. But otherwise? Who needs that additional stress and work? Just leave me the fuck alone, government, and I'll return the favor, kthxbye. Get on my level, peasant I access virtually any and all search bars that I regularly use on the Internet (hosting sites, e-commerce, dictionaries, wikis, social media, ...) from the search bar via that nifty "Add a keyword for this search" function.

Fuck, don't remind me, @Dodger, I haven't finished it yet either. Not sure what's taking you so long with elk pelts though. You know how to reliably get perfect ones in principle, right? If not, I'll tell ya if you want. The game mentions it at some point but perhaps you just missed it. Me, I'm stuck on those fucking fishing collectibles. I cannot for the life of me catch one of the legendary ones despite having tried it during every weather, from every angle of its area, with every rod and every bait combination. I'm too stubborn to look it up or throw in the towel though so maybe I'll never get to finish the game. I keep trying again every couple of months and then drop it for like half a year again. What I came here to say, however, is that I'm still nibbling away at Dragon's Dogma: Dark Risen. My playtime hit triple digits today but when I happened to look at the bestiary I saw that there's still ~30 enemies I have yet to encounter. Fuck me. And here I thought I was at least half-way done with it. I know that, at a minimum, there's still two more big areas that I'll have to gain access to as well. Curse this stupid mountain of side quests/collectibles.

Man, Alaskans better watch out, one day R*ssia might feel compelled to liberate all the people with R*ssian ancestry there from globohomo oppression as well. I mean I probably shouldn't be surprised anymore by them trampling international law but it's still baffling how brazenly they assert that they have the right to invade anywhere under the pretext of "muh ethnic R*ssians being oppressed". They should've learned to take a note from the United States' playbook and be at least a little more subtle about their actual intentions.

But why wouldn't gun-related suicides rise proportionately? Did it fall out of fashion or something? People too poor to afford them? At least naively I'd expect their number to increase uniformly with the general number of suicides. And many citizens, unfortunately. I had the misfortune of witnessing that second-hand here as well.

Didn't say they were. I'm just pointing out that the problem may be overblown in the minds of people. Sure, every death is one too many and overpolicing is also something to be addressed. But at least to me it's crazy to see seemingly disproportionate outrage over issues that are overall LESS prevalent than in the past. I forgot where I read this, maybe someone here knows more, but there's a phenomenon in psychology where the more uncommon a danger becomes, the more neurotic the response to it. Perhaps this is that phenomenon in action. It's also been cited in regards to the increase in outrage over various -isms which have measurably become less of an issue over time. I guess it kinda works in part like "if it's common you're bound to get used to it and pay it little attention, if it's unusual you are naturally gonna pay more attention to it".

Not that you lot don't still have a massive problem with your poorly trained police force but since you mentioned the shooting of unarmed black people, wasn't that basically a non-issue statistically these days? Like, ~20 cases a year or thereabouts? To put that into perspective, it's a whole order of magnitude fewer deaths than the number of people who died from falling from trees or got killed by lawnmowers in the United States. Not that "unarmed" even automatically means "unjustified" but that's a separate issue. I also don't get this obsession with black victims of police brutality in [CURRENT YEAR]. From what I remember last time I looked at the stats black people are LESS likely on a per-police encounter basis to be killed by them when compared to, say, white people. Guess all those decades of sensitivity training paid off in the end. Anyway, there were some polls a while ago that polled people on this topic and the distorted view people have of the magnitude of the problem is mind-boggling. Like, a perception 10,000% off from what's actually happening. Good job, media. Also, it's interesting to see that the number of fatal shootings by police officers does not appear to really follow the homicide trend that I posted above.

I was just looking up if this was more of an uptick in reporting or actual cases and ... just w e w. Looks like the pandemic did a number on the U.S. Although it's weird that suicides did not spike correspondingly. I wonder what other factors might have contributed to the drastic increase. #DefundThePolice nonsense maybe? That started around the same time, with obvious results.

Aaaaand it's been cracked. With a ... ehem ... rather spicy NFO to boot Also, apparently it's even got console-exclusive stuff enabled. Illegal download chads winning yet again, it seems.

I bet she did, too

Askin' the real questions.

It's worth a try. I actually asked a coworker of mine to supervise me since he had done several builds in the past and, again, this was my first one. He didn't really end up needing to do anything other than pointing out a step or two that I accidentally skipped (connecting some cable or other). But it was reassuring just having them there. He got a restaurant visit out of it by the way.

I see. Some of those smaller screws can be a bitch, especially that tiny one for SSDs.

As someone who also assembled his PC entirely from parts for the first time the last time I upgraded, I can only recommend facing your fears and doing so. In hindsight there was nothing to be scared of. It really is pretty much like building with LEGOs and the Internet is flush with helpful tutorials that will cover any and all questions you might have. Plus, you have dozens of veterans here who'd also be happy to help. Sure, since it was my first time doing it and I was double-checking everything it took like 45 minutes until I got it to POST but afterwards I felt like the experience (and cost savings ) was worth the anxiety. I probably wouldn't have tried it had the website where I usually ordered not more than doubled the fee for sending you an already pre-assembled, fully installed machine. When it was ~50€ for that service there wasn't really any sense in doing it myself but at a ~120€ price point there was ... to me at least.

Noise-canceling headphones, mang.

How so? It's well-established in psychology that you do people a disservice by coddling them. Even (and especially) those with actual traumas. Only by having them confront those issues do they have any hope of overcoming them. I'm sure you've heard of exposure therapy before, it's been successful in treating all kinds of psychological (and even physical) illnesses. Safe spaces and constant, unconditional affirmations of their feelings are all well and good during moments where a person is at a serious low and just needs to recuperate. But it cannot be a regular feature of their daily lives, let alone their default mode of being. That's only going to cripple them mentally and emotionally and is about the worst thing you could do to them out of "compassion". I don't know what "we" are going with () but I was going with the "What she's doing isn't actually harmful to an extent that is even remotely close to how beneficial her advocacy and philanthropy is". The insulin example was exemplifying this. Yes, people have died from using insulin but far, far more have been helped by it. Take another drug if you have an issue with that in particular. The "b-but it's only harmful when you take too much of it" rebuttal made no sense because that is true for virtually everything, by definition.

Hm. Must just be small-scale stuff then or I'm following the wrong people. The last news about that which I can remember is some local official who collaborated with the R*ssians getting killed via car bomb. And I think this was in pre-liberated Kherson even. Since then I heard zilch.