yes indeed, i’m talking about the second definition, and as much as you may disagree with that, it’s even in the dictionary (i checked the very same one before making my point), as you just illustrated yourself, and so it is what it is, and it is indeed a meme
since when is an obvious fake-news story, a joke, an actual news story?
Has this been reported as news by any actual news outlet?
you’re actually arguing that anything reported, regardless of the form it takes, its intention, or the authenticity of what is said is “news”
in that case, Chrono.gg is a news outlet, cuz it reports on a new game deal every day
and in that case, every single twitter account is also a news outlet, as well as every facebook page and everything else online, cuz all it takes for that is that they have “reported something new”
Who cares? Is news only news if it’s provided by a company?
I reported on it, today!
Jeremy Kaplowitz (the guy in the picture) wrote it in 2017 AS a joke news story.
Whatever it is, it looks like a news story so for the purpose of categorization I put it in the thread about crazy news stories.
Definitely not a meme.
By no means have I even insinuated that. At most I’m saying that anyone CAN write news, without being a news outlet.
I may be a bit late, but I also believe that parody news stories should be in their own thread, not this one. I’d appreciate if a mod would go back and separate them (IIRC the first parody one was about the general proven to hate everyone equally).
You all set up a new thread and tell me which posts to move and I will do it. I am not going through over 200 posts. I don’t have the time to research it.
yet, there were ice ages both before that and after that
it almost seems like Earth goes through cycles of global warming and global cooling and has been doing so long before humans were around and started driving cars and shit
Yeah these ring 0 anti cheat systems are a terrible idea, worth noting that Black Desert Online uses a similar thing XingCode which also do not uninstall itself and keeps running forever until you take a weed-whacker at your system folders.
Also worth pointing out that Riot is not the first company to try to use these things. Sony tried to do it to prevent people from copying DVDs and that was a real shit storm.
Ironically enough my Sony DVDs probably run decently enough (well the Sony Home Entertainment logo stutters but peeking back makes it run normally) compared to my Isle of Dogs DVD on VLC. Or maybe that dvd was defective to begin with.
I have Black Desert Online sitting in my Backlog , been wanting to try it out for some time now once i have some time for it , but if it does install some harmful shit along side it i might as well just remove it from my acc all together.
Well that’s a good question and the answer is we do not, can not, know. Anyone who asks the question tends to get shouted down by people ridiculing the idea that people should be concerned about privacy and cyber security at all.
The few decent threads I’ve managed to dig up on this sheds some light at least. I think it is safe to assume two things about it, it uses the USN Journal to keep track of all changes done to files and folders on your hard drives and it sends SOME sort of data back to the developers of the anti-cheat program.
What is sent back and what they can or can’t do with it is unknown but largely pointless to quibble about. It’s spyware and you have to trust that there’s no one malicious or incompetent at the other end of it. Considering that ALL major companies providing online services have been breached at one time or another that’s really not a gamble an ant-cheat system should make on my opinion.
My personal take on it is that I probably already own more games than I will have the time to play in my life time and so I do not have to trust BDO or Tencent owned Riot with this sort of thing in order to play their games.
I know everyone is worried about their online security. But then I see people still using google chrome and think that google is not pulling their data?
As far as riot games, I recently found out that Hytale has a “relationship” with riot games. And that really worries me that they will ruin the game that I’ve been anticipating since I found it a year ago. They tried to allay our fears with this FAQ but who’s to say what will really happen. It really bums me out.
I can already see it. No bones. No blood. No ghosts. No pro-HongKong messages. And all those other censors. The only way I can trust the game is if they get banned in China like Animal Crossing.
that’s some next-level shit you’re on, dude