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Warthog is a ground support aircraft. Flies low altitude and provides cover fire for infantry, at least that’s its traditional role. Why was it deployed to Hormuz? Are they planning a ground invasion?

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Why won’t you fix those internal websites? I wouldn’t think it is that hard? It is just html and css isn’t it?

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This is not scary at all. You must trust any code that you execute on your computer. Pirated games, if they were malicious, can already get whatever they want done on your computer, because you are giving it arbitrary code execution privileges. Fortunately there is a vast network of p2p and scene crackers that are trustworthy, who you can trust (even more so than some publishers) to respect your user rights.

The level of access hardly matters. If you were a malware developer masquerading as a legitimate cracker, there are many privilege escalation tricks you can use once you have any amount of access to a machine. And even if you didn’t, the lowest level of access is typically enough to do financial crimes (stealing browser cookies to access your bank account, or ransoming your documents folder).

Piracy gives you a better user experience than paying for games. Take steam - you have to run a proprietary application to launch your games, which can take these games away at any time, can modify your games to remove copyrighted music, leave them in unplayable states etc. Not to mention the performance impact from DRM, and the constant badgering about accounts/updates/logins/restrictions.

With piracy, everything is seamless. Go to your trusty repacker, click download, click install, and now you have a game that you cna enjoy for the rest of your life.

There is no universal law that makes it so that DRM will always be broken. In many cases they are, but in many other cases they aren’t. At the end of the day, they could offload so much of the processing to remote servers that you would basically be playing a cloud game, and that would be the end of bypassing and removal of DRM because they would control the hardware.

Comrade Joe Bidet

I suppose if it’s your brother’s then you wouldn’t want to sell it and get a PC instead for the sentimental value of it.

You can set up your PC for couch play just as easily. If you’re invested in a wireless mouse/keyboard instead of a PS5, or spent 5 minutes setting up steam big picture, you could have saved a whole lot of money.

You could also pirate your games on PC (which you should be doing). You could have saved thousands if only you weren’t brainwashed by console manufacturer propaganda

“Next generation” “Tim Walz”

Consoles are more expensive than PCs for equivalent performance for most of a console generation.

When a new console generation starts, they are price competitive over PCs for a year or two, but even then, they are not price competitive in terms of the total cost of ownership. Games on PC are significantly cheaper. Online services are free as opposed to a subscription on consoles. And I haven’t even touched piracy, which you can’t do on consoles.

They are arguably cheaper

No they are not. The total cost of ownership is much higher with consoles. That is even if you don’t pirate. Not to mention that the buying price for consoles is only competitive in the first few years of a generation.

they’re plug and play,

No, you wait around inserting a disk, and for a 100GB update to finish.

no reinstalling windows/Linux Most gamers never reinstall their OS.

You don’t have to fiddle with the settings,

This is a bad thing. On PC, I can decide to play it how I want. Do I want to trave in fidelity for performance? I can. Do I want to do the reverse? I can.

check fps

They don’t let you check fps on consoles because of you knew how pathetic it was, and if you ever had any experience playing on PC, you’d know how much of a rip off consoles are and switch over.

it’s poorly optimized for your specific piece of hardware

This is never the case. A wide range of hardware work with PC games. PC parts are interoperable by design. The two main GPU vendors - AMD and Intel, optimize the hell out of their drivers. If a game is optimized, it is automatically optimized for all hardware.