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Comment Re:Boo (Score 1) 207

by Hugo conducts on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:39PM (#62282105) Attached to: Windows 11 Pro Now Requires Microsoft Account and Internet During Setup

I can't believe you're belaboring this point - of course there are cases where Linux or Windows has problems with specific hardware. As a /. editor to submit to the chat that finding compatible hardware for Linux is a challenge in 2022 is either ignorant or malicious.

Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common 349

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @07:48AM from the looking-at-you-games-for-windows-live dept.

The Escapist's Shamus Young recently posted an article complaining about the proliferation of distribution platforms and social networks for video games. None of the companies who make these are "quite sure how games will be sold and played ten years from now," he writes, "but they all know they want to be the ones running the community or selling the titles." Young continues, "Remember how these systems usually work: The program sets itself up to run when Windows starts, and it must be running if you want to play the game. If you follow this scheme to its logical conclusion, you'll see that the system tray of every gaming PC would eventually end up clogged with loaders, patchers, helpers, and monitors. Every publisher would have a program for serving up content, connecting players, managing digital licenses, performing patches, and (most importantly) selling stuff. Some people don't mind having 'just one more' program running in the background. But what happens when you have programs from Valve, Stardock, Activision, 2k Games, Take-Two, Codemasters, Microsoft, Eidos, and Ubisoft? Sure, you could disable them. But then when you fire the thing up to play a game, it will want to spend fifteen minutes patching itself and the game before it will let you in. And imagine how fun it would be juggling accounts for all of them."

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Comment Re:Did Episode III redeem the series? (Score 1) 640

by Hugo conducts on Saturday November 24, 2007 @01:11PM (#21463461) Attached to: When Did Star Wars Jump the Shark?

I know it's unfashionable to say so, but it seems to me that there's an obvious progression of skill and maturity from Episodes 1 - 3. Episode 1 is, admittedly, awkwardly scripted and acted and is almost painful to watch. Episode 2 brought some of the serial-esque cliffanger storytelling back to the series, and Episode 3, I would argue, is a well-paced, emotionally-resonant film. So eff you all. :P

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