[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People need to stop watching this clickbaiting asshole. No shit kernel anti cheat doesn't work in Linux, it's been a thing forever, that's never gonna change. Did he use mesa or amdgpu? RADV or proprietary? Wasn't that long ago that windows had similar problems. Not surprised the windows and Nvidia shill doesn't do basic research.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Anyone with half a brain could see this coming from a mile away. My conspiracy brain almost thinks this is some concerted and calculated effort by Microsoft to artificially lock games to Windows through anti cheat. It's disgusting, isn't needed, and just plain isn't effective. They can spew all the metrics out of their ass, we all know that it's just not effective.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's a little much to compare it to spousal abuse, but it's honestly not far from the truth. As for asking for more privacy, you're absolutely well within your right to ask for it, but it's well within Microsoft's right to say "fuck you I'll spy as much as I want because you agreed to be spied upon when you agreed to our EULA that you probably didn't actually read".

    Microsoft windows is an advertising platform now and nothing more. Windows as a home operating system is a drop in the bucket for Microsoft, they want you spending money on subscriptions for O365, Xbox gamepass, and Azure Cloud. They want enterprise SQL licensing and azure cloud licensing, they couldn't give fuck all about some butthurt dudebro who plays call of duty, they want copilot subscribers and to be the driving force behind LLMs and AI not Meta or OpenAI. Your privacy is the last thing Microsoft will ever care about, and if you don't take the initiative and stop using that piece of shit intrusive OS, then idk what to tell you.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Guild wars 2, it's free to start and B2P for every season and expansion with no FOMO or P2W mechanics, only convenience. I see a lot of recommendations for FF14, but one thing most people don't tell you is that the vanilla game is absolutely terrible. The main story quest (MSQ) for vanilla is just bad and boring, to the point where they actually cut some content out of it because that content was unnecessary. It's still long and boring though, and I really wish they would just give people the option to freely skip the vanilla game with a recap video and go straight into Heavensward because that's when the game gets really good. If you can power through the vanilla story of FF14, then I guess try it out, but my vote is GW2.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Love cachyOS, I don't pay much attention to the claimed performance improvements. I just think it has some really good defaults and in-house tools for beginners that make navigating an Arch distro easier.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    They coined the term "HR in the room" with dragon age veilguard and called the entire dialog tree in every scenario terrible when they only took a single dialog path. As I have personally played the game and enjoy it as do several people I know, it's pretty clear they were upset by the fact that they weren't included in review copies. Now that's not to say veilguard doesn't have problems because it clearly does, but dialog in my current playthrough has been perfectly fine. There have been other reviews like this as well for lower profile games, DAV unfortunately was a very high profile game reviewed by a disgruntled YouTuber with a large platform to voice their opinions. The real tragedy is that the meme stuck and veilguard will always be labeled as this terrible "woke" entry into the franchise when in reality it was perfectly fine.

    To put it simply, Skillup is not genuine in their reviews and in some cases very clearly have an "agenda" to push. I'm not a fan of that behavior, so I'm not a fan of Skillup.

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