Hmm… Endlessly give money to someone and own nothing in the end while paying for someone else’s loan, or repaying a loan over something you own and not have to pay once you’re done. I wonder which one is best.

Dungeon Master was distributed on a floppy disk that had a specific weak sector that would randomly return 1 or 0 when read. The game would periodically read that sector and, if it returned the same bit x times in a row, it would kill your entire party. When copying the disk, the original would read either 1 or 0 and then write that value in that specific sector, meaning the copy would always return 1 or 0.

The check was random, hidden in graphics files, and this, combined with some obfuscation and some more copy protection, meant it took over a year for the game to get cracked. A record at the time.

The dev claimed that the time and effort spent on the protection scheme was worth it as it allowed the game to keep selling through typical sales channels for much longer than usual.

Look I didn’t get a job because I needed work, I got one because I need money.

I would absolutely trash my subordinates for pulling that shit.

It’s not even about their health or whatever, it’s just straight up illegal and I could get in so much trouble for allowing it or not putting an end to it. Also because it’s dumb, don’t do that.

“Oh teddy, why hath thou forsaken me”

You can’t dehumanize what isn’t human in the first place.

I don’t need to believe nazis are people to not do nazi shit.

Treating nazis as if they were people is how you get nazis all over the place. You don’t put cancerous tumors on trial. You excise and demolish that shit no questions asked. You cut it off and throw it in the biological refuse bin and then incinerate it.

Let’s stop pretending nazis are people. They’re not. If they were people, they wouldn’t be nazis in the first place.

This weird ass belief that nazis somehow are people is what gives them credibility and validity. It’s how you end up with a nazi infestation. Let’s move that Overton window. Let’s make it normal to talk about how nazis need to be punched in the face. Then there will be nothing stopping us from punching nazis in the face.

They’re not people, they’re nazis. We already went over this please try to keep up.

All I hear is excuses.

Nah, the moment you think of them as people, they win. They’re not people. They’re a cancer we need to excise and need to stop being squeamish about the surgery.

You can only beat cancer by completely and violently destroying it.

I’m not dumb enough to share important private information on websites that don’t require it.

Also didn’t he try that a few years ago and French winemakers didn’t notice the difference?

I can also bike most places and there’s a bus stop 10 meters away from my house. I don’t need to rent a car because I can afford one from not spending 90% of my income on housing :D

How arrogant lmao. Typical city rat who thinks nothing happens outside of their concrete hellscape. You know nothing about where I live.

There’s plenty of things I can do here with the added bonus of not having to deal with shit neighbors.

Tbh, lore in XCOM is that back in XCOM EU they were still infiltrating and had to pretend to be human, so they genetically modified the vipers to look human. In XCOM 2 there is no point to disguise anymore.

I use it for important things that require actual security. Everything else gets the one password treatment.

Everyone loves the idea of super duper dense housing until they actually have to live there.

This is exactly why I looked into home automation lol.

Having to alter my one generic password I use for random ass website because there’s a stupid extra rule is usually annoying me enough that I don’t register lmao.

Linux was at that point two decades ago. The dogmatic infighting between Linux developers users is ultimately what prevents Linux from being actually useful as a desktop OS.