My citation is simply experience playing many different online multiplayer games and simple observation skills. If you had the same you’d understand.

I don’t know why these companies think they can talk their way out of this. No one is buying your BS. Just STFU.

Why is it so hard to understand that code on your CPU is far more effective?

Factually wrong.

It’s not. And you didn’t even bother to dispute it.

Eg. if the fire occurs from a runway combustion in the chamber and the engine locks up starving the combustion chamber from oxygen.

😂🤣😂🤣 what? There’s supposed to be fire in the combustion chamber. If it doesn’t leave there, it’s not “a fire”. If it does leave there, the engine locking up does nothing.

More things between you and the fire = more protection overall… period.

If there’s something between you and the fire then there’s not a threat to life.

“Brother” putting words in people’s mouth is literally definition of bad faith.

Good thing no one did that?

I was not speaking for terms of “life”.

I mean that’s pretty clearly the topic at hand, and the most important one.

Lithium fires cause immensely more damage than ICE fires do.

Damage to what? There ain’t gonna be anything left of the car either way.

think of a benign situation like a car catch fire under a bridge

That’s an extremely obscure and cherry-picked scenario to make your point.

I will have more protection by sheer thermal mass in between me and the firey bit

Thermal mass is not relevant. You don’t die from metal contact, you die from smoke inhalation.

The fact that they happen less often doesn’t fix the fact that it ends up being a wash all around.

It absolutely is not, and the mere insinuation otherwise leads me to believe you’re just being disingenuous.

Brother if your life is dependent on someone coming to put out the fire, you’re not gonna make it.

Every study ever done on the subject has concluded that vehicle fires happen far less in electric vehicles than ICE ones. If you want to talk about responsibility we would ban them all.

No problem 👍

It only matters in the sense that you’re allowed to not purchase online games.

Virtually every game in existence has some sort of online element. But what you seem to be unable to grasp is that many of them have single player modes that don’t require any internet connection.

It’s as simple has having a server that checks the version of the game installed before allowing access to online services.

It doesn’t matter if you prefer offline or not or that you CAN play solo, it is online coop.

Of course it does?

Hence it begs the question whether it’s the platform’s fault per se.

There is no question. GOG is proof that you can do it. Therefore if others don’t do it, it’s their fault.

Once again, all of this is beside the point. The point is that those games are effectively gone.

No one said anything about stock.

They have so much money because they’re full of shit? Doesn’t make much sense.

Then why does Nvidia have so much more money?

Saw a guy get a Switch 2 bricked and at the end of the video he was talking about getting another one 🤦

But they’re using USB

It’s complicated, and increasingly so as Nintendo succeeds in intimidating more and more projects into shutting down.

who knows what is true and what not.

Lots of people do.

Definitely wrong is GraphenOS’s claim that Android does not allow access to the device id.

That’s not what it says.

No idea if you need it for a FB message/notification though.

There has to be a way for Google/Apple to know which device to send the notif to.

And condoms are only 98% effective.

Your analogy doesn’t make sense. It would be more apt to say “condoms from Walmart can be compromised!” but it makes no sense because they can be compromised anywhere. If you think shopping somewhere else means they won’t be compromised, that’s not logical.

It’s not to say that you shouldn’t use them, it’s to say that you shouldn’t judge them based on the geographical location they’re acquired.

Why would you think another company doing it better makes Valve not responsible? I don’t understand the logic.

As BL2 offers online-coop, and is also the major selling point of that game, a fragmented market is impossible.

…no? It’s not. You don’t have to play it online.

Gog does it, but Gog only offers a mere fraction of what Steam has.

And that matters for the purposes of this conversation why?

Sure, Valve could enforce that, but…as said…why?

I explained why in my first comment. It’s why we’re talking in the first place.

Fragmentation and the resulting nightmare of customer-support. On steam’s AND the dev’s side.

I don’t see it. Neither of them have to support old versions.

But the vast majority of people are clueless (and still use those devices) and need to be “guided”.

No they don’t. If people are clueless, they don’t need to utilize this feature. It’s call an “option”.