Maybe?

Lots of older games never get updated to 64-bit.

Besides the only operating system to not support 32bit code anymore is macOS, which even Valve treats as not worth bothering with anymore.

Yep! The security guard is also given a bunch of rules to follow such as “don’t let anyone outside of our neighbourhood (aka your local network) contact door 22”, which will also determine whether messages get delivered or not

Imagine your computer is a big block of flats and your applications are all people who live in the building.

Mail sent to the building address alone isn’t going to reach the intended recipient, because the postman doesn’t know what flat to post it to. So they need additional information such as ‘Flat 2C’

That’s the basic concept of ports. It’s basically additional addressing information to allow your computer to direct internet traffic to the correct applications.

When an application is actively listening on a port, it means that they are keeping an eye out for messages addressed to them, as designated by the port number. While an application is sending or receiving messages using a given port number, that port number is considered ‘open’.

Now, all sorts of applications do all sorts of things. Some are for the public to use and there are some that are useful within trusted circles, but can be abused by malicious people if anyone in the world can send messages to it. Thus, we have a firewall, which acts as a gatekeeper. A firewall can ‘block’ a port, denying access to a given group of people, or ‘unblock’ it, allowing access.

VPNs are a totally different thing. They are literally middlemen for your internet traffic. Instead of directly posting a message to somewhere and receiving a direct reply back, imagine you flew out to Italy to use a post box there and receive replies from there.

In the long term it might have a bad effect on the market, as it further helps to cement Microsoft’s control over multimedia APIs, since game developers now have little incentive now to target anything other than DirectX…

However, there are others that would argue that Microsoft’s control over multimedia APIs was fully cemented since decades ago, and developers have never had much incentive to target anything other than DX since then.

Back in 2014, Valve tried to bring Linux gaming to the spotlight by offering solid and targetable APIs for developers to port their games. This approach failed hard, and most games had serious deficiencies because most publishers would rather stick a half-assed DX wrapper (like DXVK only infinitely worse) than actually do the work for a proper port.

So, with only a handful of games and what did appear was usually worse than on Windows, releases stopped coming after a year or so.

This is why we have DXVK and Proton today.

Yeah, unless I was cracking it myself I just can’t justify pirating on my phone. Too much sensitive shit on it lol

Bear in mind that the Switch version of Civ6 is a port of the iOS version, not the PC version (but still quite good). If you have an iDevice, consider going that route

“oh damn, you guys didn’t know? I feel bad for you but it’s probably too late for you now. Guess you’ll find out soon enough.”

Then: complete radio silence.

The only thing we can do is live the lives we have.

For as long as I’ve been alive we’ve always been on the brink of one thing or another. Worrying about the bits that you cannot change will only do you harm.

Remember that we see this scene through Snape’s memories - something wizards are able to distort to varying degrees.

It may well be that we aren’t seeing the full story. It is revealed later that tit-for-tat behaviour was quite common to the both of them.

Rebooting a franchise successfully needs a lot more thought than what they put into new Frasier.

Mario. Also Zelda

It’s been milked endlessly but definitely not disrespected a la Sonic. You know when you pick up one of these you’re in for a good time. It’s the kind of reputation Nintendo knows it relies on.

You could, in theory, play with two screens. However the controls are hardwired onto the device and IIRC it doesn’t have Bluetooth .

Having two screens for stuff would be better handled on the renderer’s side with OBS and screen overlays. Unless you are talking about two seperate streams at the same time? (eg: one from your PC at home and another from your Xbox)

It’s a streaming device. Think a WiiU gamepad except it can also operate over WiFi connections.

Of course. If they can get a PSP emulator running, a streaming client is even easier.

It comes from the phrase “ate it up” (meaning to gullibly believe something) and The Onion, one of the most famous satirical ‘news’ outlets.

It means to believe a satirical news piece.

One of the things about Java is that it is stupidly easy to decompile back into java source code.

Obfuscation can make it harder to do but not impossible. There are also performance and licensing implications too.

What it would REALLY hinder is mod development, which is where a huge amount of it’s diehard fanbase is, not to mention advertising via let’s plays comes from. There’s only so much material you can make out of simply building blocks, and the mod scene helps keep Minecraft relevant in Let’s Plays and streaming.

The mod scene has been incredibly instrumental in keeping Minecraft as a whole relevant. Most footage and screenshots you tend to see today usually has a mod applied that you can see in the footage. Ever seen Minecraft with realistic lighting? That’s a mod. Seen those weird survival challenges? Also done by mods.

If that dies off, Minecraft’s word of mouth and relevancy dies with it. And from that, so do the console versions.

I think the worst thing we do is basically shut down non-harmful outs.

We attack therapists who don’t outright vilify non-offending pedos, without considering the fact that said pedos come to them because they don’t want to offend, don’t want to hurt.

If these people don’t have harmless outs, they will instead turn to harmful outs and covering up their crimes.

That pedos shouldn’t be subject to extra-legal punishments. Think being lynched and shit. I also don’t think they should be getting their own special cases in the law beyond those with a clear purpose of preventing reoffending.

Don’t get me wrong, I think they are pure scum.

But things we allow on the basis of the accused being a pedo or terrorist have a habit of spilling over and affecting the general population. A lot of bad laws have made it onto books by blaming these two groups, for example.

Unfortunately there isn’t really a full list because that shit changes so often. Previously accepted phrases become slurs and yesterday’s slurs get reclaimed.

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My position was always that this is a bad idea.