It would be beautiful if he just handed the keys over to a true believer when it’s time. Just a quality, stand up person who already has a pocket full of cash and just wants to help gamers get games and indie devs distribute them without squeezing every drop of profit they can at every step.
edit: it’d be even beautifuler if he turned it over to a trust managed by a panel of elected employee representatives
I’d be surprised if Bill had written anything substantial in decades tbh.
Magazine is just the nomenclature in the fediverse, this is a “magazine” not a subreddit.
I back up pretty much everything, I guess a lot of the confusion is based on my phrasing, I was considering a RAID in your closet a physical backup while obviously the media there is being stored digitally.
Do you not back that thing up once you have it?
edit: it’s assumed you pirated it initially as this is a piracy magazine.
It’s weird to me that apparently nobody backs up their pirated stuff and just assumes they’ll able to torrent it again in 10 years.
That’s what in saying, you store it on media you control. If you need to migrate it every decade or so to avoid loss/degradation so be it. Unless you physically have that data it’s not yours and access can be lost at any time.
How do you backup the game you pirated so you’ll still have it in 20 years.
I didn’t say anything about purchasing the media only that a physical copy is the only way to ensure you retain access. Online checks are trivial to bypass (see: them being bypassed constantly.)
How do you back up the games you’ve pirated if not to a physical media? Further “physical media” doesn’t mean “only dvds” but means “hdds” as well. Some of you people are just so eager to argue and correct someone you don’t even think about the comment you’re replying to, have fun with that.
edit: I’m not arguing against piracy, I’m arguing for making backups and not assuming that torrent (or infrastructure to activate software) will always be there. Unless you control the data (physically) it’s not yours.
Physical media is the only way to ensure you retain access to it.
Let me guess, every time a user breaks your app you blame the network don’t you? Typical dev.
IRC is a completely open source protocol that anyone can develop clients and servers for, it’s been around for decades and has an army of dedicated fans and devs.
Discord is a program owned by a private company that everyone is using to chat while the company slowly implements pricing and walls their proverbial garden off.
I like this idea as it could all be done in-browser client side.
Being unable to carry out your plot doesn’t absolve you from guilt. The intention was clearly there and that’s all that matters. The people in charge were trying to commit a coup and disregard the democratic process.
Make no mistake, they had a very complex plan to seize power and it nearly worked. Had Mike Pence played ball there’s a very real chance they would’ve succeeded and it would’ve ended up going to SCOTUS who’d stop any recounts ala Bush v. Gore circa 2000. This wasn’t a one-off plan, this is the rightwing plot hatched by shadowy billionaire-funded thinktanks, remember their fascination with George Soros? They’ll try again. America is in very real danger.
All the ringleaders are traitors and should be made examples of, they should all swing.
Yeah Sega was way ahead of its time. Dreamcasts had a built-in modem so you could go online and access (the very new) game services, it also included a browser able to access (at the time) most websites.