Not to ride gayben’s cock or anything, but you’re fucking lucky it was steam. Any other platform and they’d have you buy the game again.

The moment you clicked install, that was the only RDM it needed

DRM*

And again as coolithic said, you can play offline

Then what are we even arguing about?

Read the fucking EULA.

Please.

I beg of you.

Please read the EULA.

It is active. Fuck off.

@Eccles I mean, you purchase the games. And you own them.

Steam rarely if ever deletes user accounts, the only ones it does are those that are using them for criminal activity. That’s literally the only thing you can’t do on steam.

Fuck even VAC bans don’t disable you from using the service, just stops you from playing on VAC protected servers

But the thing is most games are steam ARE open source

Well not open source but open

My bad

Nah, let me explain

Because of how steam’s integrity validation works, most of the game files have to be open or otherwise easily accessible so they can be read by the server and then compared to the most recent (or in the case of betas, the cached) version so that it can be repaired or reinstalled

Yes Eccles, I know

Which is why I fucking corrected myself

Fair enough

I’ll take that, I got it wrong

Doesn’t change the fact that Eccles is still an XP using boomer<:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

@system11 Windows 7 has already reached its manufacture end of life, but steam won’t abandon it for a while. A major stake of its user base still uses windows 7

It’s already happened

But both Microsoft and steam realize that many users still use it, so the plug isn’t pulled

It’s already happened. Probably just scheduled.

Ah forgive me, I got my dates mixed up. It’s January 14th, 2020.

Mate the BIOS is just the boot system of the motherboard. Has nothing to do with operating systems.

To my understanding Microsoft no longer offers direct upgrades for windows 10.

You’ll notice I said “to my understanding”, Eccles.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do

Shouldn’t be hard. There’s plenty of resources online

Ehh not shit. Just different.

Also really depends on the distro you want to go with.

To be fair, most computer users aren’t running Linux.

cursed

everyone doing their own thing hurting the platform, you say?

kinda like everyone making their own gaming launcher to make their titles exclusive and unnecessarily difficult to obtain and manage, all the while running continuously in the background to mine data?

golly gee if only there was some platform that took a relatively hands-off approach as a game vendor and aggregate

But it applies all the same.

You say that as if it can't be applicable.

But it is

Sure you don't *need* them, but in this current age of PC gaming, they are necessary to actually play said games.

Often times you can't play games without some form of DRM, which is bundled in that launcher.

I'm not talking about the ideal.

I mean realistically.

Steam is like a water or electric company. Having 5 or 6 different water companies in a moderately sized town will only serve to confuse and agitate the average consumer. They sell a product, a commodity, in this case water. The only thing they do different is the methods and the chemicals used to treat the water. Online vendors sell games to play. They might have different methods of achieve that goal but at the end of the day, a copy of For Honor sold on steam, is just as playable as a copy sold from Ubisoft or EA or whoever the fuck sells it.

It's not my entire life, no.

But it certainly is the most dominant presence in my gaming career.

And frankly as much as I hate a single company having a monopoly on the market like they do, it's kind of necessary to be feasible. Lest you have to go through the hassle of swimming through bookmarks to get updated versions of games or some other method to get updated, especially if those games don't include a launcher in the install (a game launcher, not the storefront). All I'm saying is that steam brings convenience to the table, and just like Eccles doesnt want to fuck with Linux all night long, I don't want to have to spend all night manually installing updates for the games I want to play every time Christmas comes around.

Yeah forgive me for that.

I sometimes fly off the rails. It isn't healthy for me

I give, friend. Never receive.

that is one fat axolotl

"have a 4chan"

ugly by being an annoying bitch

I highly suggest not doing your assignment on a network connected to the internet.

Then you’re good. As a fellow major I’m sure you know that ISPs will report suspicious data transmission regardless of the reason

That literally is cyber security.

Part of knowing how to stop something is knowing how to get in.

You’re being quite obstinate Tim

@EndangeredProdigy what specifically are you tasked with doing? You weren’t given any sort of idea?

This looks like something you’d see in packettracer or something...

You doing CCNA Sec or something?

Ah.

No particularly, I’m afraid. I’m far better at building a router than I am at tearing it down. Best of luck regardless.

Yeah... nice hair but... idk if this server will allow

I ain’t a snitch tho

Fair enough kek

high school’s rough

It’s a necrocracy

The Holy See is technically the leader of the Vatican

Nah it’s probably true

Okay, I guess?

I don’t get why that’s at all relevant. I don’t have any reason to lie or misinform you, and I don’t see how you could feasibly have a hierarchy of trust in a server like this, where we’re all spergs.

What narrative would that be?

lol no

I’m not even European, dude.

No?

Again, no.

wew lad

Trotsky was kind of a national communist, you could say.

Trotsky is dead bruh

Prolly

Sounds like someone’s trying to push a ***nArATiVe***

willing to bet Eu is secretly nazbol

>the independent

Although I will admit. That subheading is pretty based

I had to watch that shit for a theatre class

It was charming... but cringe.

Nah. I was a stagehand so I built shit. Never acted a day in my life.

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