Clearly the police have too much power!

Best case they’re going to eat it.

Worst case you can buy warm coat meat off them later in a flat roof pub so they can buy heroin.

Sounds like overkill tbh, can’t you run those things on a £200 mini PC?

That’s why I avoided the 4060s and stuck to my 1060 for now

I thought that was their biggest way of gathering evidence

1. No. You can with physical. Well, before that just meant a steam key with a disc.

2. That come much later. Try to keep up.

Grand Theft Auto 3.

You had to be there to see how absolutely groundbreaking that was at the time. Gaming had suddenly grown up.

It was like all the obvious limits in other games all just got pulled away at once. Explore a full city in 3D, drive around, shoot people, steal a tank.

And the sequel only improved on it, but I’ve honestly never been so awed by a game before or since. It’s like they were the first dev to finally figure out what the PS2 hardware was for. Everything before just felt like a slightly nicer version of what had come before. This was new.

He did dress as a cop. The clues were there.

He didn’t even pay his lawyers, and he actually needs those.

Realistically anybody who can take control of a country is a bit of a ruthless cunt, and ones that take over in an armed uprising especially so.

It’s not a massive shock that some of them don’t want to give up the crown once they’ve got it.

Even in so called democracies, we basically get to choose our “king” from a heavily vetted list. It ain’t going to be people like me and you rising to the top.

There are apparently 270 million Epic Store accounts made.

Now most of them don’t buy anything and are probably installed on a whim for one free game ad now they’ve forgot their password, while a good chunk of them are probably 12 year olds playing Fortnite who don’t even look at it and hurl all their pocket money into V-bucks so the rest of us get free games, but it’s not an insignificant amount.

When Half Life 2 launched, you had to register your game with Steam before you could play it. You had to give up your physical ownership of the product, and lock it to yourself. You couldn’t sell it to anyone else, or even let them play it.

That’s what you were encouraging by buying from that shitfest of a platform.

I really don’t see how bunging devs money for publishing rights is worse. The devs clearly don’t see it that way.

So it would be better if it was a permanent exclusivity deal, like traditional publishers have?

They’ve been paying out in advance in some cases (Epic Mega Grants, I think) so the devs can finish the game. That’s basically the definition of what publishers do, but when Epic do it it’s somehow “not publishing”?

A guy at work used to use a cloud service called Shadow PC.

They’d basically rent a gaming PC out and he’d just torrent them right on to the cloud machine. Pretty sure mods would have worked there.

It felt a touch laggy with a mouse, but a controller would probably have been just fine. It’s a shame there’s a disconnect between what gamers want (a gaming PC that’s just somewhere else) and what providers want (a walled garden).

Valve kills physical ownership of games: I sleep

Games exclusive to Origin: I sleep

Games exclusive to whatever the fuck Blizzard made: I sleep

Games exclusive to Microsoft Store: I sleep

Games exclusive to Epic: REAL SHIT

I didn’t use it, but I’m still salty that publishers had a fit about that. It’s honestly none of their fucking business where you run your games.

I’m not investing in a cloud only platform like Google’s abandoned attempt, so the only hope is a hybrid like Geforce Now.

A lot of it will have been because half the game optimisation code was often inside the drivers.

So Intel devs may not know what they were doing, but game devs are often worse.

Effect and Cause is one of the best levels in any videogame, period.

How is compatibility with older games now?

Because I’m not buying a GPU unless it works with everything.

Imagine being a straight white man and feeling underrepresented in videogames.