Are you practicing digital hygiene in Gaming?

[Pissmaster]

From back in January:

So basically GOG has changed their terms of service to not only clarify you don't own your games (the ol' "license" again) but also said that forum bans can permanently lock you out of your account. Do not support this company.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/16034990432541-GOG-User-Agreement-effective-from-17-February-2024?product=gog

It is always a good idea to make backups of your GOG offline installers for any games you care about.

 

[Finger Pistols]

Then imagine being that same Kid at 27 deciding to run for Congress. But Uh oh. Here comes a Sony lobbyist. With a recording of you saying the "Gamer word" a decade ago. Better do what Sony says if you want to get into congress! For that matter, good luck keeping your job if you end up on the wrong side of a cancel mob and some shit heel at Sony decides to accidentally "leak" your records to drive the nail into your coffin.

Every person that played COD on Xbox Live is now fucked. Imagine years later that you get fired from your job because you called the user "XxxNarutoAMVsxxX" a useless nigger for having a bad kd ratio . Hell, even now on Insurgency Sandstorm I have heard guys throwing insults at each other and a guy calling the other a pedo worshiper for praising Allah.

You should not engage in any sort of political activism or shitposting with your gaming accounts. If you feel the need to do this, create Sock accounts using your PC and a VPN. Then shitpost away.

This happened recently with the creator of the Steam group cataloguing the Sweet Baby Inc. games. The guy wasn't doing anything political, he just made a list, but retards on twitter tried to spin it as gamergate 2.0 and tried to get his account deleted. Imagine getting all your game purchases voided for making a list. Thank god that Steam and Gabe didn't comply with the mob. The day that Gabe dies or Steam is publicly traded, whatever happens first, is the day that the platform will go down the gutter and become just as bad as others on the industry.

Edit: Also, remember if companies want you to own nothing (and eat the bugs) then it's morally justified to pirate your games.

 

[NepNepuNep]

It's not like that those Terms of Service mirror their real-life counterparts...

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Reminder that the origin of the term toxic being used to describe people came from Jeffrey Lin and Daniel Clain of Riot Games who would regularly "Smite" (AKA Ban) people from League of Legends and then post those bans on Reddit to get Upboats even though looking at these bans there wasn't anything wrong with what these people were doing. Jeffrey Lin also from what I remember is a midget who's extremely insecure about his height and wold go to all these weird conferences, and Daniel Clain is not only a turbofeminist but also an actual cuckold.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Reminder that the origin of the term toxic being used to describe people came from Jeffrey Lin and Daniel Clain of Riot Games who would regularly "Smite" (AKA Ban) people from League of Legends and then post those bans on Reddit to get Upboats even though looking at these bans there wasn't anything wrong with what these people were doing. Jeffrey Lin also from what I remember is a midget who's extremely insecure about his height and wold go to all these weird conferences, and Daniel Clain is not only a turbofeminist but also an actual cuckold.

Video about the fucker and his shitty behavior

He spread his poison all over the industry going to other places and peddling his retarded bullshit to Silicon Valley. He popularized shadow banning and eventually was exposed as being abusive towards his girlfriend. He is currently working for Facebook, likely implementing his social engineering shit towards controlling boomers and making the Metaverse the gay retarded Matrix the Elites want it to be.

 

[The Last Stand]

Some companies use AI moderation for voice/text chat. Call of Duty and GTA Online being two examples I can think of.

That sort of moderation is prone to exploitation. All it takes is a vulnerability inside the system to create false strikes against somebody they don't like and watch their account be gone with no recourse.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Video about the fucker and his shitty behavior

He spread his poison all over the industry going to other places and peddling his retarded bullshit to Silicon Valley. He popularized shadow banning and eventually was exposed as being abusive towards his girlfriend. He is currently working for Facebook, likely implementing his social engineering shit towards controlling boomers and making the Metaverse the gay retarded Matrix the Elites want it to be.

It is a pretty good video and does go into Jeffrey Lin and what he did, but Jeffrey was not the only one involved with it. As I mentioned Daniel Clain was another name involved with it, and I think there should be a video on him as well.

 

[The Last Stand]

If I own a game on one of those services, I just stay quiet and play it like a good little boy, without interacting with anyone.

That's what I do. I rarely use voice chat unless necessary.

 

[Baked Al-Aqsa]

From back in January:


It is always a good idea to make backups of your GOG offline installers for any games you care about.

Holy shit. How did I miss this?

Anyone else remember when GOG boasted about how YOU truly owned your games that you purchased from them? With their not so subtle jabs at Steam? And iirc in their blog they had a whole thing saying how piracy lead to more gamers and therefore more sales and they only started the company because they pirated games as kids?

Lol. Lmao even.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Reminder: this system only works if you speak english so become creative about calling people niggers you زنجي

 

[Rain Team Pepe]

There's about 60 years of gaming. A good specced PC can emulate about 50 of those years. Emulators are mostly straightforward to set up (some require tweaking, I know) and digital storage is the cheapest it's ever been and continues to get cheaper.

I can’t remember the last new game I wanted to buy on launch day. They all need a year to get out of alpha after release. They can keep their overpriced early access micro-transaction trojan horses.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

This thread is just another reminder that corporate tyranny and the fact that corporations can store data should be outlawed. Good luck getting to that point though.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I can’t remember the last new game I wanted to buy on launch day.

For every game released in the last decade I can remember enjoying a lot, I can think of ten that sucked dick despite name recognition, critical acclaim, and sales success.

 

[mindlessobserver]

This thread is just another reminder that corporate tyranny and the fact that corporations can store data should be outlawed. Good luck getting to that point though.

Data is already accepted under common law as property, more importantly though this is becoming a major legal land mine.

Carpenter v. United States 585 U.S. 38 S.Ct. 2206 (2018 ) set the groundwork that personal data was a protected 4th amendment asset, even if held in the hands of corporations involved. the SCOTUS overruled the lower court ruling that the government could access the data held by a third party (the corporation) via its contractual data sharing agreement with the end user. The court noted the grave "privacy" concerns at issue, as well as the fact the government could seek compliance from uninterested third parties to gain access to hardware owned by suspects without warrant. In this particular case, cell phones.

The Carpenter decision could be extended to gaming consoles. The major hitch though, is of course, the voluntary "end user license agreements" every gamer gormlessly agrees too.

Gamers should click the "not accept" at the end of the abominations. Its their right to do so. They should do so.

Will they?

 

[♦️ King of Diamonds ♦️]

Video about the fucker and his shitty behavior

He spread his poison all over the industry going to other places and peddling his retarded bullshit to Silicon Valley. He popularized shadow banning and eventually was exposed as being abusive towards his girlfriend. He is currently working for Facebook, likely implementing his social engineering shit towards controlling boomers and making the Metaverse the gay retarded Matrix the Elites want it to be.

Reminder that the origin of the term toxic being used to describe people came from Jeffrey Lin and Daniel Clain of Riot Games who would regularly "Smite" (AKA Ban) people from League of Legends and then post those bans on Reddit to get Upboats even though looking at these bans there wasn't anything wrong with what these people were doing. Jeffrey Lin also from what I remember is a midget who's extremely insecure about his height and wold go to all these weird conferences, and Daniel Clain is not only a turbofeminist but also an actual cuckold.

These people sound like antagonists in a Zamyatin novel- I had no idea the whole "toxicity" thing and pussification of online gaming started with the League of Legends devs. I mourn the loss of the Golden Era of Xbox 360 squeakers and trolling and being able to call someone a faggot on Halo 3 without the console being bricked, never thought I would be nostalgic for that period of gaming but as they say "he who has not lost his freedom knows not it's value"

 

[ThinkThankThunk]

Kind of preaching to the choir given the big warnings you get on registration have become ingrained in most everyone here, but the reality is that outside of places like here nobody cares. Literally none. Sony could have a family put onto the streets tomorrow for their kids thought crimes and not a single person would bat an eye. They'll say they deserved it, it was in the right, freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequence, whatever.

Microsoft did it constantly to people modding consoles years back, using their EULA as a cudgel to bypass private ownership, and even among serious gamers the consensus I saw at the time was overwhelmingly pro-Microsoft. Why would you want to modify a console or repair it when you can buy a new one, are you a criminal? It is an Xbox after all, why shouldn't they belong to Microsoft after leaving the shelf; are you, dare I say, a communist? I remember the cheering Apple got when they whipped the feds into seizing the house of that Gawker writer when he was given a pre-launch iPhone. Even today I'd say the average person I've spoken to is overwhelmingly against the EU prodding Apple even a little over their preposterously anti-consumer bullshit.

I make no exaggeration when I say that the average person looks at this stuff as a good thing. A sign that they're participating. A sign that they're in strong hands. A sign that they're supporting something that's winning. It's niggercattle shit, but that's what it is.

 

[Halfnium Bomb]

Imagine being a dumb kid at 17, and saying the "gamer word". Then imagine being that same Kid at 27 deciding to run for Congress

I'll say it again, and louder this time.

 

[user176]

Pirate everything and don't play online unless it's user-hosted. As far as Valve knows, I've played like three games over the last 20 years.

This 100%. Piracy is true ownership. No corporation can wirelessly cut off access to the pirated games you've got stored on an external hard drive. Make sure to download emulators, Yuzu and CItra are still available on Based Mods.

To add to this, if anyone here owns any of the current gen consoles, rip out their mics now if you haven't already. The PS5 console has no mics in the console itself. The controllers on the other hand are a different story. The controllers have 2 mics built in, one in the front and the other in the back. Open them up and remove the mics. A few years ago, back when I conned that scalper out of his PS5, I made sure to remove the mics from my nephews PS5 controllers, then did the same for my own.
Here's a video on how to take apart your PS5 Controllers:

I haven't seen anything suggesting that the Xbox Series X has built in mics for surveillance, but you can never be too careful.
I've heard that the new PS5 slim models are always online only. Remember back when Microsoft tried it with the Xbox One and got shat on so hard that they had to walk it back. I guess we can consider that frog boiled now.
Make sure to jailbreak your consoles. This will let you run your own homebrew software and pirate games that currently can't be run on emulators. Try to disconnect your consoles from the internet afterward to avoid any sort of ban. I plan on jailbreaking my PS5 as soon as a jailbreak version emerges that's able to run Stellar Blade, although such a thing is a good few years off.

 

[Sneedfully and Peacefully]

For Steam games and similar libraries, you download the software and then run it and I'm sure there's some lock and key file system to tie it to your account as the one who owns it. Is it possible to jailbreak or override this system? If not I'm hoping such a thing gets made, the thought occurred to me that if there's ever a doomsday scenario where I want to GTFO steam I would like to be able to download my entire library (at least everything that isn't an online game) to storage so that I have the executables and files on my end.

 

[The Last Stand]

Microsoft did it constantly to people modding consoles years back, using their EULA as a cudgel to bypass private ownership, and even among serious gamers the consensus I saw at the time was overwhelmingly pro-Microsoft. Why would you want to modify a console or repair it when you can buy a new one, are you a criminal? It is an Xbox after all, why shouldn't they belong to Microsoft after leaving the shelf; are you, dare I say, a communist?

I don't like that comparison. Modifying an Xbox 360 back then would allow unauthorized modifications onto games for cheating purposes and illegitimately obtaining access to video games. Or, in laymen's terms, JTAG their Xbox to use for modded lobbies and the like. That's why the Xbox One/Series S|X OS is currently impenetrable from modifications.