Julian LeFay, The Legendary Developer Known As ‘The Father Of Elder Scrolls’, Has Passed Away
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/33372533
He directed and programmed The Elder Scrolls: Arena. For the spectacular sequel, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, he programmed, designed, and led the overall project. He worked in various roles on spinoff projects Battlespire and Redguard, as well as the absolutely timeless third mainline title, Morrowind.For decades, fans have praised him as 'The Father of The Elder Scrolls'. Yesterday, the irreplaceable Julian LeFay passed away at the too-young age of 59.
Farewell To A Legend
In 2019, LeFay co-created OnceLost Games alongside fellow former Bethesda developers Ted Peterson Vijay Lakshman. LeFay had been directing an upcoming spiritual successor to Daggerfall, The Wayward Realms. Six days ago, producer Victor Villareal released a video revealing that LeFay had recently departed OnceLost Games due to a terminal cancer diagnosis.
The video, which included a touching statement from Peterson, explained that LeFay was stepping down from game development altogether in order to spend what time he had left with his loved ones. In a cruel twist that will leave so many of us reeling for years to come, Julian LeFay passed away just five days later.
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Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59, a Week After Stepping Back From Game Development Due to Cancer
Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59, a Week After Stepping Back From Game Development Due to Cancer - IGN
Julian LeFay, Bethesda's former chief engineer known among fans as the 'Father of The Elder Scrolls' series, has died aged 59.Tom Phillips (IGN)
Still not a genocide. There is no war where women, children, and other civilians don’t end up getting killed.
Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq
Also, a lot of people seem to think that this started in Feb. of 2022 when it really started eight years before.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- Washington Post, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Kyiv Post, 2019: United Nations: 13,000 killed, 30,000 injured in Donbas since 2014
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- New York Times, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
The suspensions have more to do with political polarisation than genuine security concerns related to the invasion.Volodymyr Ishchenko (Al Jazeera)
How A False Flag Massacre Led To The Proxy War In Ukraine
New research proves that the "Maidan Massacre" used to justify the 2014 coup in Ukraine was a false flag.The Dissident
Zelda: Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom - Switch 2 Edition Digital Foundry Tech Review
After exhaustive testing, we're confident Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 Editions are technically exceptional and essential
Tom Morgan investigates Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom - how do the original Switch Zelda titles run in upgraded form on Switch 2?Thomas Morgan (Eurogamer.net)
Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 is the top selling new PS5 game of 2025
Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 is the top selling new PS5 game of 2025
Forza Horizon 5's PS5 port has surpassed three million copies sold, making Microsoft's racing game the top new PS5 game…Vic Hood (GamesIndustry.biz)
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The driving is just fun, both the open world and the races are a blast. The map could be more varied, but still has enough variety to play around both on and off road. It looks great and they did a great job of adding content over time.
I thought the story stuff was cringy and painful to listen too, but other than powering through it to unlock races and other things that doesn't get in the way too much and doesn't take that long. Turning off the character voices was the best setting change!
Vocho! Familia! Papa Fernando! Vocho! In mexico, family is very import to us! :3 Vocho!
I'm pretty sure I know which character was written by an outside contractor whose goal was to write diverse characters...
I've bought the game in the recent Steam sale and played it on launch through PC Game Pass before. My biggest complaint are all the loading times and screens, especially when you want to get into a race. Just constant waiting, for hundreds of races.
Back on launch I just eventually did more and more open world stuff, like the XP boards, Danger Signs, Speed Traps, etc. and then quit. I'm kinda doing the same already now on Steam, but I still do want to do more proper races.
And yet it works fine with NFS Heat, and even the early access of Tokyo Extreme Racer is good enough. I don't expect finely detailed force feedback, just to be able to use it at all. It's not hard.
Moza is really getting more popular as well. It's kind of an unbeatable deal for a reasonably priced direct drive wheel, and with the release of the R3 there's really no excuse not to support it.
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Byt webbläsare till alternativ som exempelvis Firefox, Brave och Konqueror med flera. Fri och öppen programvara. De flesta använder Google Chrome som webbläsare idag. Det betyder att Google sparar en massa information om dig
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Jag tillhör den första hårdrockegenerationen såsom född vid mitten av 1950-talet. Redan tidigt 1970-tal lyssnade jag och mina kompisar på hårdrock i form av Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath och Mountain. Senare blev det också bland annat Nazareth och Blue Öyster Cult.
Gentrifiering sker också på landsbygden. Det är tydligast i olika kustsamhällen inklusive fiskelägen och gamla badorter.
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Vielen Dank an alle, die gestern beim ersten Linux Café dabei waren. Es ist schön zu sehen, wie groß das Interesse ist und wir freuen uns sehr auf die weiteren Termine.
Sagt es gerne weiter, wir freuen uns über alle Fragen rund um den Linux Desktop!
Yes, but it only migrates posts and comments locally to the incoming instance its moving to. What is needed for proper community migration is the ability to all instances to recognise comment migration. And ideally, the automatic rerouting of all subscribers to the new community.
Effectively making communities modular. Much of this is outside Rimus power (due to the Fediverse still being most Lemmy, but one day... one day)
I am so confused. A "sub" used to refer, on the old place, as a "sub-reddit", but we do not have those here. Did you mean "community"?
(And as already covered, PieFed already has an implementation of this, so what is the "future" referring to there in that case?)
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Repeating myself here, but the community migration tool on Piefed is somewhat incomplete. it only migrates posts and comments locally to the incoming instance its moving to. What is needed for proper community migration is the ability to all instances to recognise comment migration. And ideally, the automatic rerouting of all subscribers to the new community.
Effectively making communities modular. Much of this is outside Rimus power (due to the Fediverse still being most Lemmy, but one day... one day)
Upvoting bc relevance but I somewhat disagree. Many people left Reddit not just bc of ads or poor treatment of app devs but bc of issues regarding "ownership" of a record. If I say something, can Reddit train AI off of it, or make money off of it, without my consent (using Reddit automatically assumes consent, even retroactively).
So applying that same thinking process here, does anyone - not just Rimu but anyone - have the right to simply steal community content wholesale? And who would provide consent - just the current community mods? The past ones? Why wouldn't the commentors have the right to do or not do what they wish with their own comments? Setting aside how difficult it would be to even implement such a thing - like if someone agrees to migrate their comment, but they were replying to someone else, and included a quote from them, then is consent automatically granted for those words?
It is a tricky subject. Perhaps importing the content in read-only mode is the best that could be hoped for, preserving a historical snapshot bc it is too difficult to import something wholesale, especially if not merely every provider of posts but also every single person that ever commented in a community may not have an account on the recipient server - like even if they have a PieFed one would it need to be on the precise exact instance as where the content is being migrated to?
And even more relevant, what if the recipient instance has different rules than the original? Like defederations? Rules about niceness or illegality of stuff (see e.g. Lemmy.world's whole deal with piracy community). Importing an entire community and keeping it all "live" while simultaneously offering pass-through connections from the old to the new seems fraut with such difficulties. Might it not be better to make a hard break from the old, allowing a fresh start on the new? i.e. community migration is just a convenience feature, it was never meant to do all the things that you said.
Tbh I don't have anything to do with PieFed's codebase or policies or anything at all - I am just a user like you, sharing my unqualified opinion here:-). I hope it is useful to see this pushback against implementing what I interpreted your words to mean though.
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So applying that same thinking process here, does anyone - not just Rimu but anyone - have the right to simply steal community content wholesale?
In my opinion this is a mindset issue. You are thinking of communities as integral parts of instances rather than modular concepts. In my mind, a community migration would be mutual and transparent. There could even be a "Community History" button somewhere in the sidebar that details its timeline if it has moved instances at any point. Instances could in theory 'reject' recognition of migration from all other instances or specific instances, but in a collaborative cross-instance setup - ideally I'd imagine most instances would be on-board as it benefits everyone. The purpose of being able to just shift instances like that, to such an extent, is to prevent them from having to completely restart if an instance (like lemm.ee) goes down, or if they find that they're having disagreements with the instance administrators.
Lemm.ee shocked everyone, but the passage of time will lead to more instances slowly dropping and forcing their communities to find new homes. That isn't a slight on the fediverse system, it's just what will happen naturally as some instance owners just lose interest over time.
Why wouldn't the commentors have the right to do or not do what they wish with their own comments?
I mean I don't know why I would be bothered if my own comment history on "television" (for instance) suddenly publicly changes from television@piefed.social to television@piefed.world. It would still be the same community, and describe itself as such. You could even add little disclaimers in automatically migrated comments for transparency.
And even more relevant, what if the recipient instance has different rules than the original? Like defederations? Rules about niceness or illegality of stuff (see e.g. Lemmy.world's whole deal with piracy community).
Presumably a piracy community wouldn't migrate their community into an anti-piracy instance. The host community and instance would have to consent to migration.
Might it not be better to make a hard break from the old, allowing a fresh start on the new? i.e. community migration is just a convenience feature, it was never meant to do all the things that you said.
Depends on how built-up your community is. It sucks to have to start all over again.
It just seems like you are placing a LOT of trust in community mods to make decisions on behalf of the community for its own well-being rather than to feed their egotistical desires. However, I am recalling the semi-recent controversy of the 196 mods attempting to forcibly move their community from blahaj to Lemmy.world and people got insanely angry and started a whole new 196 (again, which is how 196 had moved to blahaj in the first place).
A lot of people came here from Reddit to get away from such practices, not subject themselves to an army of little fiefdoms within which each mod is in control of their own community. If Reddit was an empire, then your model sounds like a peaceful, hopefully loving (sometimes, but... perhaps not always?) kingdom, whereas I am talking about a democracy where the individual people who submit their content get to control their individual futures, even if their past submissions are carved in stone and their own control over it mostly released.
It's something to think about anyway!
It just seems like you are placing a LOT of trust in community mods to make decisions on behalf of the community for its own well-being rather than to feed their egotistical desires.
To be fair, community mods have any number of ways to behave badly as stewards even without such a system. I also don't see what is immediately potentially corrupt about moving instance in a way that would inherently annoy the audience.
However, I am recalling the semi-recent controversy of the 196 mods attempting to forcibly move their community from blahaj to Lemmy.world and people got insanely angry and started a whole new 196 (again, which is how 196 had moved to blahaj in the first place).
Well, I mean there we are. I suppose in that event someone else would co-opt them entirely.
But supposing community migration did exist then, the blahaj administrators would have to give consent - and if the community clearly rejected it, I doubt they would give it.
A lot of people came here from Reddit to get away from such practices, not subject themselves to an army of little fiefdoms within which each mod is in control of their own community.
To be fair, the current piefed migration system relies on the consent of the new instance. You can't just do it unilaterally. And I assume a piefed to piefed community transfer would require the consent of the old instance too, so you can't just do it uniltaterally. And in a general sense we are already all at the mercy of corrupt instance owners as it is.
If Reddit was an empire, then your model sounds like a peaceful, hopefully loving (sometimes, but... perhaps not always?) kingdom, whereas I am talking about a democracy where the individual people who submit their content get to control their individual futures, even if their past submissions are carved in stone and their own control over it mostly released.
I mean as I said, the ideal migration system would leave public records of movement - and people would post knowing full well that all communities are modular and could be moved.
I also don't see what is immediately potentially corrupt about moving instance in a way that would inherently annoy the audience.
Read more about the attempted forcible migration attempt, against the wishes of the community members, here:
Let's just move a whole community to a new instance without asking!
Oh yeah I appreciate that, but under an official migration system - they would have to get blahaj's approval. Which they wouldn't give if the community erupted.
But again, this happened without a migration system anyway - so what difference does it make?
Because it illustrates the underlying issue: who owns the community, who gets to decide what happens to it, who gets to decide whether each individual user gets to use it, or to be moved elsewhere to a different instance entirely that they may know nothing about?
I am saying that the choice should be at the level of the individual users - as in democratic. Example implementations may include a pop-up box appearing, notifying users that the community has moved and asking (requiring consent!) if the user would like to subscribe to the new one?
Currently it belongs to the mods, as too happened on Reddit, and to the admins. Lemmy is extremely authoritarian in nature btw, even more so than Reddit, e.g. Reddit does all of: (1) notifying users of a moderation event (e.g. post/comment removal) while Lemmy users in contrast may never find out that anything ever happened to their content; (2) providing a means of appeal or at least communication with the people responsible for that removal, chiefly the modmail but also similar means to contact admins; (3) in lieu of a modmail, people on Lemmy used to DM the mod who was reported by the modlog, however a long time ago now that was changed and now the modlog can simply say that it was done by a "mod".
Users have little enough control over what happens to their content as it stands now. And as the 196 situation reveals, and the Rexodus likewise did long before that, people do not enjoy that feeling.
Your way, if you have a great and responsible set of mods and admins, would work great, just like a kingdom or dictatorship - very effective, very efficient, but with little to zero control over what happens to someone below the authority at the top. i.e. once you make a post to a community or subscribe to it, you automatically get ported over to the new place like a commodity that the owner decides to shift around as they please. If I am understanding you correctly, you wouldn't even ask the user? I don't mean in a nefarious way! It is totally "for their convenience", of course... and it genuinely would work that way, if the mods and admins in question are trustworthy. But that is not always the case.
But the trustworthiness of the mods is not the strongest point imho, and rather it is the question of who owns their own personal accounts, who gets to decide what communities someone subscribes to or not? Are followers the property of the celebrity being followed, or of the follower? Systems that aid in migration - e.g. a pop-up box with a question asking for consent - are one thing, but systems that attempt to force migration cross a line that should not be crossed, imho.
Because it illustrates the underlying issue: who owns the community, who gets to decide what happens to it, who gets to decide whether each individual user gets to use it, or to be moved elsewhere to a different instance entirely that they may know nothing about?
I mean again, this is just down to a fundamental difference between how you and I view communities. I view them as modular concepts essentially temporarily on a server space, being able to move if they do please. And the federative nature of the Fediverse means that badly run communities can be abandoned for another one with the same name.
An example here that's relevant: I unilaterally just moved obscuremusic from lemm.ee to piefed after lemm.ee shut down. It's a small community, but was it wrong for me to do that?
I would be in favour of automated prompts going out to all users informing them of community moves.
Currently it belongs to the mods, as too happened on Reddit, and to the admins. Lemmy is extremely authoritarian in nature btw, even more so than Reddit, e.g. Reddit does all of: (1) notifying users of a moderation event (e.g. post/comment removal) while Lemmy users in contrast may never find out that anything ever happened to their content
Reddit mods can absolutely silently remove posts without telling the poster. I don't know why you think they can't.
(2) providing a means of appeal or at least communication with the people responsible for that removal, chiefly the modmail but also similar means to contact admins
I don't think this is specifically omitted, just modmail infrastructure doesn't exist properly. You can still do it the old fashioned way by DMing mods.
You are a good actor, but I was speaking here about bad actors that choose to do things differently. Small communities by their nature definitely have differing dynamics, especially in situations such as when the original founder is the only or primary mod, or the chief poster. Communities change dynamics as they age though, and the question of ownership gets much more murky then.
Reddit mods can absolutely silently remove posts without telling the poster. I don't know why you think they can't.
REALLY? I was a mod of a couple of different small to medium sized communities and I never heard about that. I definitely would have tested it too, by removing my own content and seeing if I received a notification event. Then again, Reddit has changed since the Rexodus so perhaps that is what you mean? Or shadow banning? (But that was done by admins, not mere mods.) And there was most definitely a modmail on Reddit, whereas on Lemmy there is no such method of connection provided.
But now I feel like you are ignoring what I said: no you can't DM a mod, on Lemmy, when the modlog merely says that the action was done by a "mod" - unless you message every single mod listed in the entire community, one by one. Which for a small community with one mod is of course easy, but some of the largest communities have much larger mod teams, showing that just because something works under one set of conditions does not imply that it will work under all of them. Anyway DM mods definitely is not the same as a dedicated modmail. Perhaps I am not the best one to communicate this to you but you will see over time as you notice how Lemmy works on the large scale.
Absolutely. That example shows how mods do not always act with full concern for the community members, and much turmoil and drama ensued as a result of that mismatched set of expectations between the "rulers" and the ruled, consent by the governed and all of that.
Maybe there is a friendlier way - like the mods move and a notice offered to those still visiting the old, without necessarily blocking the old... which as I say this I realize can't happen, bc an unmoderated community would instantly become a source of literal spam sent out to the entire Threadiverse, as sadly happened to Kbin.social.
196 on blahaj tried that forcibly once, it did not go well for them.
Let's just move a whole community to a new instance without asking!
I have been mostly out of the loop with the development around PieFed (and I would like to be in the loop). So can you give a few examples which showcase their speed of development?
I went through the project’s commit log and the only observation I could make is that many of their commits seem typical of a project in their nascent stages.
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My own method was to join a PieFed instance (although just visiting one without an account can yield some partial data) and watch how many things change on a weekly basis.
The number of times that I saw the transition from "feature X does not exist" to "feature X now exists, or was tweaked to be improved" has been ~~too damn high meme~~ just perfection.
(The latter is anecdotal, as I have not looked myself but hear it often from others who have)
Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks
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An experiment exploring whether frontier models can close the books for a real SaaS company.accounting.penrose.com
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I quit my job in public accounting for many reasons, but the primary one was the forceful adoption of LLMs to replace associates.
I told the dimwits at the top that it was a mistake, because LLMs are incompetent even when the information fed to it was perfect, and that was rarely the case in practice.
Our ultra wealthy clients were notorious for giving us the most incomplete and asinine information, and it often took someone with decades of experience to decipher what the fuck their personal assistants are even talking about.
They went ahead anyway because of the high cost of wages, of course, and I made my exit because I did not wish to be complicit in such a monumental mistake.
Lmfao the LLM they laid associates off and paid half a million dollars for made up fake ledger accounts when accounts didn't reconcile, and none of the dumbasses left noticed in time because they hadn't done associate-level work in decades.
It also lied all the time, even when you asked it not to.
The damage was done and the biggest clients started leaving, so they begged us all to come back but I got obsessed with baking bread and I ain't about to neglect my sourdough starters to help a group of people who would lose a battle of wits against yeast.
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To be fair, not all knowledge of LLM comes from training material. The other way is to provide context to instructions.
I can imagine someone someday develops a decent way for LLMs to write down their mistakes in database and some clever way to recall most relevant memories when needed.
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You're describing neurosymbolic AI, a combination of machine learning and neural network (LLM) models. Gary Marcus wrote an excellent article on it recently that I recommend giving a read, How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI.
The primary issue I see here is that you're still relying on the LLM to reasonably understand and invoke the ML models. It needs to parse the data and understand what's important in order to feed it into the ML models and as has been stated many times, LLMs do not truly "understand" anything, they are inferring things statistically. I still do not trust them to be statistically accurate and perform without error.
How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI
Neurosymbolic AI is quietly winning. Here’s what that means – and why it took so longGary Marcus (Marcus on AI)
Compounding tasks like accounting where operations sound easy but create a chain of counter entries and balances need to be organized by account is none of AIs business until they can prove that multiple sequential steps can have over 99% accuracy and the checksum of the accounts is balanced.
Multiple sequential steps with six operations where we assume 99 PCT of each, is right can equal 90% accuracy.
This also reads at least 10% errors if they all six go wrong.
How many different entries are in a company over a month's closure?
Now this wouldn't be and issue if it can balance the statements of consolidated accounts and find where are we missing entries or misallocations. That sir is why we pay someone with experience.
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I had to help my parents connect up the TV as a kid, and now I have to help my kids connect up their TV/PC.
Obviously a lot wrong with that statement (I. E. Not everyone leans techy) but it does make me feel like my age group is the only ones that have a vauge idea what is going on
If it wasn't for piracy I would have just kept reading books. Instead, I just watch all the bullshit.
EDIT: Most of the time, the people who make shows have a much better imagination than mine
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I think it's probably being in the age range that kinda straddled the time between now - when it's all an unshakeable piece of daily life - and the time before it existed / was commonplace. Having grown up before all of these world changing tech advances, and then being there for the ride, is just a singular experience and perspective neither our parents or our kids can possibly have.
I'm really grateful for having gotten to take the ride, but it does strike me as sad in a way.
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I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low.
At the moment there isn't even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4.
Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
On the other hand movie and shows piracy is rising for the anti-consumer platforms, who can pay $200 a month for seeing all decent shows and movies without ads? Very few people, and even then you own nothing.
I have a feel that music piracy will rise soon too. As Spotify already have started the anti consumer route. I'm pretty sure in a few years it's subscription won't be as worth it as it used to be, and a lot of people will find out that they have been paying for years and still own nothing.
She retired two years ago from cracking, and started a cult.
I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low. At the moment there isn't even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4. Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
I don't know the numbers so I can't comment on that, but you do realise the vast majority of games don't launch with Denuvo right? And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it's a subscription for them, before taking it out...
I've played Baldur's Gate 3 and Avowed recently, pirated, right at launch, because they didn't have DRM. Isn't it still true that nothing on GOG has DRM at all?
And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it’s a subscription for them, before taking it out…
Sega, Ubisoft, and Atlus being notable exceptions. They just leave that shit in forever.
There's a workaround for Denuvo: buying a copy of the game with pooled funds and sharing the game with all the participants using online activation. It's not exactly cracking, but it is one way around it. The issue is knowing where to find such groups, or starting one yourself. I can get you into one, If anyone is interested. Just send me a PM asking to join.
You can get older stuff for free as well. Practically everything is free, but you'll have to wait longer with the newer titles because people who donated funds take priority.
Note: Unfortunately, this takes place in a Discord group. You'll have to use Discord and you'll have to have an account that is at least one-month old to be able to participate.
Sure, that's always an option. But we're not talking about buying here. To be precise, yes, a copy of the game is still being bought, but then it gets distributed among 100s of people. It's pretty much like old-school piracy: VHS tapes and burning copies of games you own onto CDs.
That being said, you aren't missing that much if you're completely avoiding Denuvo games. Out of all the uncracked ones that I've tried using this method, only two games out of the last decade or so were worth the trouble (Wukong and Hi-Fi Rush).
I don't know if universally but I think all that use basic steam drm.
I found in cs.rin.ru. There is even a post explaining how it works.
If you ever downloaded a game with a basic steam crack you already have it. The files are the same for all games.
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By comparison I don't feel as predated as in other shops.
Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn't fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don't get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don't have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.
We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.
Yeah, music piracy is kinda niche these days: mostly just people who want a local library and who have a modded iPod or similar. I use Soulseek to get flacs of the music I play on my radio show, just so I can be sure I'm offering the best possible quality.
But to be honest, I straddle both camps. I have a modded iPod full of music, but I also have Apple Music mostly for convenience.
Listening to the music you like instead of the music you are told to like
that's what music piracy has become today !
YouTube (via yt-dlp) is my fallback for if I can't find what I need on Soulseek.
The quality is fine, but I likes my FLACs.
I was thinking this while setting up RomM a few months back. Each media stack I'm running has a bit of a different reasoning behind it, but at the end of the day it's more about convenience and owning my own library than anything cost-related.
My Jellyfin server exists because streaming services are a nightmare. Overpriced as hell, extremely limited libraries, things constantly coming and going.
I use Navidrome because Spotify supports genocide and Tidal felt too limited, and neither pays artists well. While most of my library is pirated, I make it a point to buy directly from the artists whenever possible - whether that's digital downloads, vinyl, or merch, direct support goes much further than streaming services ever will.
RomM is about preservation and convenience for my emulation library. These aren't hard to find online, sure, but knowing I have my own copies feels like a safety net in case of more shutdowns and lawsuits.
While most of my library is pirated, I make it a point to buy directly from the artists whenever possible - whether that’s digital downloads, vinyl, or merch, direct support goes much further than streaming services ever will.
You might already do this, but I'd suggest to further prioritize buying from up and coming and independent artists. You don't need to support whatever random person/corporation owns the rights to the discography of a dead musician unless you have a compelling reason to so, and you don't have to deepen the pockets of already loaded superartists/bands. Is there a Bandcamp Friday coming up, then you can wait until then to make sure a larger chunk of your money goes directly to those who made the music.
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They are the criminal. Like man and domination. You aren't winning either even though that other person/people died because of you.
That means you will have all your life stolen from you until you beg Ma to ressurect and summon you out of the void at least two big bangs from now.
Give these fucks a dozen if they're lucky,
Speaking personally, it's literally that. I used to pay for Netflix, HBO, Prime and Disney+, now I don't pay for anything.
The reasons are quite simple:
- everything got more and more expensive
- some of the services started pushing ads down my throat even though I paid for them (usually the higher tier)
So I got back to torrenting + self-hosting (had to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin because even self-hosted solutions are turning to shit).
Oh that's definitely in there, but you feel a kind of resentment and 'why the fuck do i need these people?' On top of it, right?
plex to jelly fin
If you pay for it, you do not own it. Only that taken with lead steel or lies is ever really yours.
Or what's freely given, i guess, but corporations can't do that.
me pirating everything for the last ten years
"it almost died?! On my watch!?"
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Hell my most played steam game, rimworld, I initially pirated and dropped before trying again later on and buying.
Back in the day you could buy Rimworld directly from the developer's website and that shit was portable. I played it off a flash drive on my high school computers. Did the same thing with FTL as well. Most of my hours in those games are not logged, lol.
The corpos:
"This is outrageous! This is unfair!"
That's because you think your death ends life.
Life can never end. It might do so here, but we live in an infinate number of infinately variant universes. That doesn't even touch Strange 'verses which also happens. You can escape reality. Even when you die.
/Makes a Ledger laugh
In all fairness variation and work toward the the Doc's understanding, knowledge and perception has been explicitly my objetive in study.
Thy asked for it.
/shrugs
Funny that, I do know, I have alraady seen a whole big bang roll 'verse by with absolutely zero acknowledgement or respect for the nonsense of "money" at all.
ends life
People always use these words, but the one is just a way to break line of sight and the other nobody can agree on when you really dig in.
It almost died when?
Any pirated content that I've looked for over the past 20 years has been easily accessible.
The only reason I've slowed down is due to the quality of today's media, not because of availability of content.
That is called engagement farming, pretty common on YouTube, there are probably 50 videos like this released in the past month, they just copy paste from each other, each getting hundreds and thousands of views.
The only noticeable decline in piracy came in the year when Netflix got famous, which got reverted in the next few years due to the launch of another 100 Streaming sites and netflix's enshittification.
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cancel big media streamers
find all the shows on the high seas
take the money you would have paid to peacock, paramount, et al
donate to pbs and npr passport :)
Why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i
The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i
Column: The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissionsRik Myslewski (The Register)
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chuds hate science.
it keeps proving them wrong. whether that's lies about lgbtq folk, lies about the climate, lies about the economy, it keeps presenting facts that they cannot spin.
The damage this admin has already done to science are manifold:
- cutting research across the board
- cutting funding for education, so there are fewer people who can pursue a career in science.
- attacking immigrants that fuel our science based economy.
- enabling idiots like RFK to gut the CDC, vaccines, and worse.
the chuds HATE science and want to punish this country by gutting it's economy and educational institutions. make no mistake, it's all down to the facts not agreeing with their lies.
Nah, it's not hatred for anything. They mostly don't give a shit about anything and anyone but themselves.
All this has only one reason: money and power for themselves and their friends.
The goal justifies the means, so they'll throw their own mother in the grinder if it means they get a little richer.
Don't forget the recent EPA news:
npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-s1-54743…
nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate…
Just... The best. So awesome.
All part of the War on Science.
Authoritarians hate anyone who knows more than they do. And that's just about everyone.
Netflix and Apple are backing away from great games
Mobile subscriptions are shedding unique indie games in search of a bigger audience
Netflix and Apple Arcade were once havens for premium indie gaming experiences but are now retreating to casual, big IP, family-friendly games.Ash Parrish (The Verge)
No, we don't: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshit…
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
A key component to this is being locked in, which didn't happen here as most of these games are still available elsewhere. No one is stuck with a games subscription where the quality of games is dropping. This is just a business realizing it's not viable and paring back their offerings.
People on Lemmy seem to have a tendency to overuse enshittification, which sucks because it refers to something real and also actionable. If you dilute the meaning, you make the solution less likely. Lemmings should be among the forefront of people familiar with the real meaning, since Doctorow's suggested solution is open standards for interoperability, like ActivityPub/Lemmy.
From the Wikipedia article:
Doctorow argues that new platforms offer useful products and services at a loss, as a way to gain new users. Once users are locked in, the platform then offers access to the userbase to suppliers at a loss; once suppliers are locked in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders.[11] Once the platform is fundamentally focused on the shareholders, and the users and vendors are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.
And when discussing the solution:
The second is the right of exit, which holds that users of a platform can easily go elsewhere if they are dissatisfied with it. For social media, this requires interoperability, countering the network effects that "lock in" users and prevent market competition between platforms.
It's a made up word that was defined by a specific article by the person who made it up. So yeah, it is.
I’ve always been a bit skeptical of Apple Arcade’s offerings because you do have to sort through so many kids games.
The offering probably exists because parents were getting fed up with their kids bothering them to buy gems in pay to win games.
Russian troops liberate Novotoretskoye community in Donetsk region over past day
Russian troops liberate Novotoretskoye community in Donetsk region over past day
The Ukrainian army lost more than 1,180 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hoursTASS
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A lot of eastern & southern Ukrainians see it as liberation. The people of the Donbass oblasts & Crimea seceded from Ukraine in 2014 after the coup, and many had been requesting Russian intervention ever since then, especially given the years of fascist paramilitary attacks from western Ukraine, with tacit & overt support from the Ukrainian state. Previously. Previously.
It was the year that Ukraine was couped; the year that Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk voted by referendum to secede from Ukraine; and the year that Crimea voted by referendum to join Russia.
How A False Flag Massacre Led To The Proxy War In Ukraine
New research proves that the "Maidan Massacre" used to justify the 2014 coup in Ukraine was a false flag.The Dissident
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ZeniMax staff lambast chaotic Xbox layoffs: 'It's difficult to work when you're looking at a graveyard'
ZeniMax staff lambast chaotic Xbox layoffs: 'It's difficult to work when you're looking at a graveyard'
Employees at The Elder Scrolls maker ZeniMax explain how Microsoft's latest round of colossal layoffs unfolded and what they mean for the studio and its developers.Chris Kerr (Game Developer)
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Supermassive lays off 36 staff and delays Directive 8020 to "first half of 2026"
Supermassive lays off 36 staff and delays Directive 8020 to "first half of 2026"
Dark Pictures and The Quarry developer Supermassive has delayed its horror game, Directive 8020, and announced a number…Vikki Blake (GamesIndustry.biz)
Here's everything announced in today's Pokémon Presents showcase
Here's everything announced in today's Pokémon Presents showcase
Everything announced, including trailers, during the July 2025 Pokémon Presents showcase.Matt Wales (Eurogamer.net)
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