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  • I skimmed through this, and some other stories from the same “news author”. Either the author, Matt Wales, is actually bipolar and needs to seek treatment, or he just angles his articles about the given topic based on whichever third party threw him some chump change to buy a coffee.

    I’ve never seen someone be so anti-steam, and pro-steam at the same time. One article is praising steam as the best thing that happened to humanity, the next one is talking about how terrible they are and how much they just want to censor games and kill studios they don’t like.

    One article is praising Nintendo as the greatest gaming company ever, and the next is talking about how evil they are regarding the palworld lawsuit.

    I know publications have their bias, but at least most of them are somewhat consistent in their bias…

    I did find this comment under one of his articles regarding this game. (Yes, he’s made three articles about this game, one after the other), and I thought it summed up my short experience with eurogamer. (most other comments were very anti-steam, but that’s to be expected since everyone else that threw up in their mouths quickly clicked off the article)

    Deejay#4435 1 day, 10 hours ago

    15 years ago, Steam was a curated walled garden. Every game was manually approved for sale, and if they didn’t like your game and didn’t think it was good enough, then you didn’t get to sell on there. It was gutting when my game was sold on XBLIG, GOG, Green Man Gaming, and some other stores that I can’t remember, but Steam just gave us a flat-out “no”.

    To be fair, the game was pretty crap (Eurogamer gave it an 8/10).




  • When I was in college ~2011, I had a neat little software installed that allowed me to sniff wifi networks. Turns out, the school did not locally encrypt your password before it was sent to the server. Meaning, Students could have had super complicated passwords. And it wouldn’t matter. Because I got to see it in plain-text. The school allowed you to link a secondary email since they correctly assumed people might not check the school email as much as their personal. Which basically everyone did. And lots of people also use the same password to everything. You can see where I’m going with this…

    Facebook did hash and salt their passwords, but I managed to crack a few using a dictionary attack on a pretty shitty laptop. Though if I remember correctly, if you were automatically logged in due to session cache or via cookies, I could not find your password because that handshake had nothing to do with your password. Maybe I could have used the data some other way, but I didn’t know how.



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    2 months ago

    Yes it is very weird. When I worked IT, there was a period where I was often 10m late in the morning, we had Flex hours so I didn’t think too much of it, my hours were 40+ every week anyhow.

    It was noticed and I was politely asked to make sure I’m on location at 8 since others might have issues when starting their computers. My bad, I’ll do better. And that was that






  • Hold on… You think shadowhearts bigotry is too much but you can tolerate Lae’zel? The girl who take every oppertunity possible to let everyone know how primitive, uneducated, and stupid they are compared to gith.

    Anyhow, Shadowheart can go either way in terms of dark vs light. It’s up to you. I think she has the most character development of any origin character, if you let her.

    Don’t quote me. But I think shadowheart will, on her own, make a pivitol choice regarding nightsong, depending on your choices leading up to it. If you try to do good. She will choose light on her own. If you do evil things, she will choose dark. You can manually steer her towards that decision. But if you leave it up to her. It will be a reflection of your choices so far.