Message from @Coolitic
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mainly that
lol
well im going to play a game now. at least this convo was more fun and less dumb than, for example, media matters articles on how tim pool is right wing
nothing touches leftivists for dumb takes.
if it isn't open-source
it aint "owned"
in my opinion
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.
you get the product
and it can break
Fuck even VAC bans don’t disable you from using the service, just stops you from playing on VAC protected servers
it is even clearly defined *how* it can break
But the thing is most games are steam ARE open source
Literally nobody cares
no they arent
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
uhhh
no
they just run a checksum
That's not what open-source means
Yes Eccles, I know
Which is why I fucking corrected myself
you can literally lock it into a few large pak files
and have a single executable
and the verification process still works
because it's a checksum, that's it
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>
Was
im dreading windows 7 end of life
It was the being forced to change that made me fall out with Steam because of the way they ended the support
Ironically it was Microsoft -sensible- decision to allow the installation of WIndows 10 without a license key that saved me
i dont think win10 will run on my main laptop, and win 10 is a dumpster fire anyway