I’m an adult with a job, and I don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of affording the recommended system requirements for this game any time soon. RX6800XTs do not grow on trees.

Now imagine how fast they’d be without Denuvo.

Steam system requirements say RX5700 minimum. Recommended is RX6800XT, which was ludicrously expensive last I checked. Also I need a much newer CPU.

In this economy, that’s gonna be a no from me.

Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?

[meme where the hero pulls the mask off the tied-up Firefox’s head, revealing Safari]

“Pirates? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the gazillion sales we’re about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

Why would you want to play a Bethesda game 5 days early? The best time is several months after release, when the community has had time to fix the bugs.

As is Bethesda tradition.

Unless I’m mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process’ memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.

It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren’t known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.

Note that for vector graphics editing, Inkscape is really good. That doesn’t help you if you need to edit photos, though.

KDE has neat stuff, but Compiz was the king of bling.

Linux. I signed up with my first proper ISP as a kid in the '90s. The service included a shell account on their Linux server accessible by telnet. I thought it was really cool and decided to see if I could run it on my own computer, and to my delight, I could.

Sadly, mods can and do remove the horrid dialog wheel thing, but they can’t add more interesting dialog options.

I feel like Bethesda wouldn’t use Denuvo at all, because it would break a lot of mods, and Bethesda games rely heavily on mods to be fun.

ETA: Also, Bethesda games tend to be appallingly slow even without Denuvo, let alone with it.

It costs four hundred thousand Red Bulls to crack this video game in twelve seconds.

I loved Fallout 4…once there were enough mods to fix everything that’s wrong with the vanilla game.

Which is par for the course with Bethesda. 🤷‍♂️

Are Blizzard games worth cracking any more?

Ludicrously profitable megacorporations demand more profit.

What is suffering about that graph?

Eating a plant-based “diet” instead of actual food involves suffering.

If you have no car with which to commute to work in a timely fashion, you have three options:

1. Lose your job, lose your home, and starve to death on the street.
2. Suffer and eventually die from chronic sleep deprivation due to the extreme amount of time required to commute by public transit from a suburban or rural area into a city.
3. Live in an apartment in a city, spend absolutely all of your income on rent, live in constant fear of the apartment manager, and once you’re too old to work, starve to death on the street because you could never afford to buy a home for yourself.

All of these involve suffering and ultimately kill you.