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  • A few general traffic laws apply:

    1: The UFO is not a legally registered road vehicle and they must yield to all traffic.

    2: If you see a hazardous situation, like the UFO not clearly following traffic laws giving you space, you must do your part to avoid injury by avoiding a collision.

    So after you do brake for the UFO, or swerve and honk, you may go to the police and inform them of the aliens’ traffic violation. They may then get a fine.

    If you say “fuck it Im in the right” and crash into them, you are both breaking the law, but you are in bigger trouble for willfully endangering life and property. You get prison, the aliens get a fine.






  • True, with some modifications:

    Some games had online activation built in. Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.

    Regular CDs have a lifespan of 5-10 years, shorter if not stored ideally. Almost all games had sophisticated mechanisms to prevent backups being taken.

    Even if you could take a backup, record associations and publishers lobbied to make it illegal and punishable by severe fines in many countries.

    Sony shipped fucking root kits on their CD that would hijack your PC and screw with backup software. EA shipped CDs with autoexexuting software that would actually delete CloneCD and other CD copying software and prevent new installes from working. My copy of Sims 2 came with that bullshit and OH MAN I was not happy about it.


  • Grey market key seller? Yes you can get your key banned and maybe get your account in trouble on whichever platform (Steam, Origin, etc) you use.

    They sell cheap because they get them illegitimately. Leaked press keys, keys bought with stolen credit cards, keys scammed from developers, datamined keys…

    What all of these sources have in common is that the actual developer gets nothing at best, and a chargeback fee at worst. All your money goes to middle men.

    Just pirate instead. It’s more responsible.


  • It is indeed a systemic issue, but his government is the strongest player in making sure this system is strenghtened rather than weakened.

    In addition to all the bad stuff, there has also been more and more people pushing to make things better: Reduce laws and influence from religious fundamentalists, return land claimed by settlers and spread an understanding that they are doing evil, peace and trade with neighboring countries, etc.

    And he is afraid of them. That is why he is trying to move to what is practically a dictatorship and go into perpetual war.

    With the current government gone, there is at least hope that the non-fundamentalist politics can take the wheel.

    I’m stretching the word “hope” to near breaking point here, I know. It would go from “impossible” to merely “impossibly hard with decades of hard concessions” to fix things.









  • Deestan@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldWhat letter has the best games?
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    • Satisfactory
    • Starcraft / 2
    • Slay the Spire
    • Saints Row
    • Sam & Max (tons)
    • Serious Sam
    • Scribblenauts
    • Shadowrun
    • Shadow Warrior
    • Shapez / 2
    • Shovel Knight
    • Skyrim
    • Soma
    • Slay the Princess
    • Space Engineers
    • Spelunky
    • Sid Meyer’s Everything
    • Stanley Parable, the
    • Stardew Valley
    • Stronghold Crusaders
    • Subnautica
    • Sunless Sea
    • Sonic (all)
    • Super Mario (everything)
    • Superhot
    • Super Meatboy
    • Surviving Mars