My ultimate wish:

I want a Star Wars RPG that is a mix of Kotor and Star Wars Jedi Survivor, with Ghost of Tsushima/Yotei combat (switch between the 7 light-saber forms) and Souls like elements. A morality/faction system that is a mix of infamous (dark/light side or a middle way have different unlocks and abilities) and Fallout New Vegas (you can join any faction, no matter who the good/bad guys are).

very disrespectful for that good boy

I mean, yes that would be ideal, but its never going to happen, unfortunately. Even physical media has DRM and has had it for a long time now.

If it was possible to lend/borrow and resale digital media that would solve most of the problems. You could still have DRM that makes sure the game is only installed on a single console at a time and what not.

Another problem would also be that the servers could shut down which would mean you can’t download the game indefinitely. But that is kind of already the case, even with physical media, as a lot of games already require Day 1 patches to be playable. So its a related and also important but somewhat separate issue. I hope Stop Killing Games is successful in that department.

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I use it everyday and it works great 99% of the time and usually YouTube itself is to blame and the App gets an update a couple days later that fixes everything

Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable

Seems like its always the same core that is creating the error. Could be a bad overclock. Try reseting the bios to default. Also try reseating the RAM (and clean out the slots with compressed air) and rerunning the test. I’ve had similar issues in the past that were fixed by this.

Once stable overclocks can fail after many years as it slowly wears out some transistors.

Its a pun that doesn’t translate well

Zu warm = too warm

Zuwarmi sounds like tsunami in German

=> This isn’t a heat wave its a heat tsunami

I can confirm that the Sparkasse Mobiles Bezahlen in Germany works with GrapheneOS (Pixel 7 Pro)

While the other response is pretty funny if you know what it means, its entirely unhelpful if you don’t.

/s = sarcasm

There isn’t a completely objective criteria, from Wikipedia:

Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke also defined the term in 2010: “A too-big-to-fail firm is one whose size, complexity, interconnectedness, and critical functions are such that, should the firm go unexpectedly into liquidation, the rest of the financial system and the economy would face severe adverse consequences.”

NVIDIA currently makes up nearly 7.5% of the S&P 500 (not to mention that they have invested a lot in the other companies and those companies have invested in NVIDIA). If they were to suddenly be liquidated I’d say that would cause ‘severe adverse consequences’ to the economy.

And it would likely cause a ripple to other tech companies, which which make up roughly 1/3 of the entire US stock market.

From the utility company, fuck bottled water

But were they selling Steam Keys? Sounds to me like Ubisoft was selling a UPlay version of the game for cheaper than the Steam version, which probably didn’t include a Steam Key.

If the UPlay version also included a Steam Key, then yes, Ubisoft would have broken the terms of contract, but that seems unlikely to me.

I think its fair enough for Valve to require that Steam Keys, which use Steam infrastucture, are not sold for less than Steam sells them for, since Valve wouldn’t be making any money on them, but would still have some of the costs associated with delivering the product (and depending on how much Steam infrastructure they use, matchmaking, anti-cheat and other things).

But requiring that keys for other Stores, with their own infrastructure, are never cheaper that Steam is definitely monopolistic, shitty and probably illegal.

Its weird to me that all articles I have found about this issue don’t actually mention this crucial detail.

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