Dookieman12

Gog literally won’t allow you to sell a game if it has DRM

So, Steam respects their customers enough to offer them a choice while GOG doesn’t; good to know.

set whatever environment variables the game needs, create the necessary folders, install the redistributable runtimes the game needs to run,and link the dlls properly

Ok, and? I can do all that on Steam too. I can even launch the game directly without involving Steam at all.

If you only have the game files you have to manage all of that yourself

Yeah, and all that is a huge pain in the ass. Having it to do myself isn’t a positive.

If a game has DRM on one platform, but not another, that’s because the publisher required it. That can be for any number of reasons that don’t have anything to do with the platform.

I guess what I’m asking is, what’s the benefit to having the installer instead of the game files?

You have to be online to download the installer. The end result is being able to play normally, offline, from portable storage if you choose. Besides a few gigabytes, it seems like a distinction without a difference.

If the game itself has DRM, then it has DRM on GOG too.

Steam itself is a form of DRM if you must install it and login to install and/or run a game.

Did you read what I wrote?

How is this not also true for Steam? Unless the game itself has DRM, I can copy game files to an offline machine that doesn’t have Steam installed and launch and play them normally.

Edit: Glazing GOG for this while insisting “sTeAm iS dIfFeReNt” is like buying the cereal box that says “Asbestos Free!” on it.

Ever since that Sony tweet, all these kids are, overnight, developing all these strong opinions about shit they never cared about before, based on nothing but hype, memes, and regurgitated streamer slop.

Physical media has licenses too. GOG purchases come with licenses too. Optical media rots. And Steam isn’t secretly Sony (yet. They probably will be after Gabe dies).

Downvote me all you want, it doesn’t change the truth and reveals much more about you than me.

Depending on your desired level of mastery, practice and consistency alone aren’t enough. Self-taught is the slowest, most difficult way to learn and i only recommend it to those who are interested in coding at a hobby level.

If you want to make a career of it, if you want to be a professional, you also need timely (ideally immediate) feedback from a trained expert who can spot errors in your technique and teach you how to effectively conceptualize and approach the problems you’re solving.

You need a coach, a mentor, a teacher. Harvard university’s CS50 course is free and an excellent way to get access to such experts and other students with similar goals to collaborate with.

“Doesn’t make a profit” doesn’t mean “is run inefficiently”. It doesn’t even mean “doesn’t generate excess value”. It just means excess value is reinvested into the system, like the US Post Office. It never makes money, never has made any money, has always either saved or reinvested the money left over on the balance sheet at the end of the year.

Optical media will eventually suffer bit rot and be useless. Save them to an old HDD, SD card, or USB drive, they’ll last longer.

Company-issued slop muzzles

For anyone thinking of buying the original PC versions of Black Ops 1, 2, or 3 to play online because of this, DON’T. Whether it’s zombies or multiplayer, the vanilla PC games are vulnerable to remote arbitrary code execution exploits that allow anyone in the game you’re playing to run any code they want on your computer.

If you absolutely must play these games online, go download Plutonium and play that way to protect yourself.

This wouldn’t work. Tournament rules may allow multi-language decks, but if a player can’t read the language printed, they also allow that player to call a judge over and ask for the oracle text with no penalty.

I just looked up the Rossi Brawler and it’s only $335, putting it around half the price as your cheapest .44 mag. I didn’t know they were that cheap, but it makes sense given the simple design. You can get it chambered in .300 blackout and it has a threaded barrel, so that’s pretty cool.

That’s still only a little bit cheaper than an AR-15, which is going to be more effective at just about everything, so it’s probably still not something I would go for, but I think I’m seeing the appeal now. If you just gotta be able to put 5.56, .45 colt, or whatever down range, and that’s all you can afford, it sure beats nothing.

Your hand might take a beating, but the gun would be fine. Generally speaking, assuming there are no microfractures from manufacturing defects, if the steel and the design can withstand one shot, it can withstand tens of thousands. Assuming, of course, you perform the required PMCS and don’t fire so quickly as to overheat the steel.

The case basically explodes in the chamber.

Yeah, that’s how firearms work.

When the gun and the cartridge match, the diameter of the projectile is slightly larger than the barrel bore. For example, a .357 magnum cartridge is .357 inches, stuffed into what’s ostensibly a .35 caliber gun. Gunpowder isn’t an explosive, it actually burns very slowly. It’s this very small size difference that allows pressure to build and create the chamber pressures advertised on the ammo box.

Of course a shotgun receiver can’t withstand the same pressure as a .50 BMG receiver, but that’s not what I said. I said a .50 BMG cartridge won’t create enough pressure in a 12 gauge receiver to damage it.

But, by all means, don’t take my word for it. There are plenty of videos of other people doing it and explaining it. Watch one of those instead.

Extraction and cycling are a whole other story, I’m not referring to that. 12 gauge shells are rimmed, .50 BMG is rimless, of course it probably won’t cycle in most shotguns.

I’ve often struggled to determine the use case for these kinds of guns. If you’re hunting, surely a long gun in the same cartridge would be a better choice. If only for emergency defense against large animals while hiking, surely a revolver with a slightly smaller cartridge would be worth having five shots instead of one before having to reload, right?

Besides being a cool conversation piece or range toy, I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to do with something like this.

Actually, the gun is completely safe. Many people have tested and confirmed this.

12 gauge is actually like .54 caliber so most of the expanding gas passes around the projectile without building pressure. The projectile leaves the barrel way slower than normal, but still fast enough to be lethal, and not very accurately.

From someone who has fired a .45-70 derringer, you’re absolutely correct. At a certain point, your wrist is getting torqued whether you like it or not.

It’s kinda hard to tell from this picture, but it looks like some kind of .308 or maybe .30-06 cartridge.

Single-shot handguns that fire large rifle rounds certainly exist and fire much larger rounds than that. Kentucky Ballistics on YouTube has many videos showing his collection of them. The video where Eddie Hall fires them all is a good vid where he shows many of them off.

Can’t think of any that started with 2, but there are many examples of sequels making their way to the states masquerading as the first title in a series.

Shadow Tower released on PS1 in Japan only. Shadow Tower 2 was released in Japan on PS2, but when it was released in America, it was just called “Shadow Tower” since no one had heard of the first one.

Not a 2, but there was Clayfighters 63 and 1/3. But that was just a play on the “[Name] 64” naming convention that N64 games commonly used.