Feb 28th, 2025

I got AC:Odyssey during one of the sale cause I dig Greek mythology, had to get cheat engine and spare me the grind for upgrading gears and ship. Like sure you can just keep picking up randomly dropped Epic/Rare and replacement them when you leveling up(there are even player quest that put in specific spot to give you resource for those upgrades, just so other players can farm it) But I ain't get any time for that, I just cheat engine in max out resource and upgrade my Legendary gears I found through out the game. And you know what? By the end of the game(and I didn't find every Legendary, like maybe 60~70% of them) it would take me setting the resource to max twice to fully upgrade all my legendary + epic(with perks I like) gears. It would take probably months of my gaming time should I got it on console and can not use cheat engine.

No, upgrade gear is not required to finish the game. But after this experience I decides to never get another Ubisoft AC game nor any RPG on console or with always online feature(which means all transaction are done and authenticated to prevent cheating. ) I've done plenty open world, RPG, Monster Hunters without having to cheat. But the recent single player grinding + selling time saver booster pack make me whip out the cheat engine again. And I only cheat those stupid resource gating game that are designed to pad hours in to your play through.

Capcom is testing it and see if it would work, and if you find the website that describes the tech it's basically a encryption container + virtual machine(for whatever code module you decide to put into that, don't know how much customization is that.) probably works in a way to prevent current straight de-compilation tools because it's inside a sign/hash checked vm. I wouldn't doubt that it works well for some word processor applications, but for games it's gonna be very pita, I don't even know how they are gonna profile their shipping build properly.

I hope Capcom have some senior engineer get the numbers and then tell the dumdum that said this is good idea to eat his words or maybe just avoid this shady looking product. (use a container tab)

https://www.enigmaprotector.com/

It looks exactly like those spamming computer protection, optimization, virus removal, shady softwares.

vs the infamous Denuvo

https://irdeto.com/denuvo/

I honestly don't know why any one would have approved this "trial" run.

take a very big fistful of salt when reading those data mining firms. They might have paid access to dbs from steamspy or steamdb but as we all know they are not accurate reflection of actual sales etc, only steam and the developers has those data from their analytics.

They are trying to sell you charts and predictions, they are not there to provide accurate information if you read the charts or * carefully.

LOL, most followed in a prediction chart, they don't even know you can buy follow/wishlist as marketing strategy.

Yeah, I don't get it, the 2nd one is also kinda meh compare to what other contemporary games were already doing at the time. (tech/style/game mechanics). Like yeah you don't have to follow the trend, but it still feels like a quake era game in the Assassin's Creed era(don't know what other games to better show the 2010s open world trend).

lol, exactly why I wouldn't renew end of year.

Look how Justine Bieber dropped off the radar over the years you know even the teenagers will come to their senses after grown up. The current gen teens all witness how China treated HongKong(almost 10 years) and how they deal with covid(<5 years), then more recently how they deal with the flood. They probably have to bank on future teenagers, like no fuck up or political attacks against Taiwanese for another 10 years then they can try again.

Honestly economical assimilation/control might be a easier way.

I have to agree with this cause I have run into not a couple but many in recent years where when a proper answer is given, the accepted one despite being flawed or not recommended(Python 2->3 changes for example) anymore, it's still the highest voted one. And proper answer is in 3rd or 4th place. And it's where the old r/science shine cause you can properly ask some really specific domain question there and a qualified scientist might just pop up and answer you in detail. ( not that they can't be wrong, just highly unlikely in current understanding of those topics. )

It's blasphemous to mention heroin and FPS but didn't name Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever.

honestly if not for DirectX and whatever windows specific thing, I would have use linux for a long time cause I am heavy gamer. I know this version of windows OS is probably experimenting offering stuff that are directly on the cloud(like office/team etc), I don't see them suddenly throw away local OS market and just let whoever wants to take over. (oh, and all the telemetry data, right? )

I like chat bot IF it actually tries to help you and sort through/filter simple DIY support issues. There are some chatbot I think just leading you around the circle or just there to frustrate you so you give up.(basically like the voice command phone menu or waiting queue that auto disconnect you.)

On a side note, if a company/service really like to keep their customer, they should just implement that keep queue place and call back system.

That was a very long article trying to "carefully" talking about porn. The thing is it's "NSFW" is what the guy did wrong, he watch porn on working computer. All the rest is bullshit cause even back before computer exists, we have "magazine clip" fake, aka, cut carefully chosen head off celebrity and paste it on to whatever your local playboy variant. Now we just have tech that can paste any head to any video.