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Enshittification sure is fast (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 186 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Here's an alternative version so you can really appreciate the majesty of this dude's belly.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That's the fusion reactor of that gator-kicking machine.

Also the docile look on the companion gator makes me want to caption him. Except I have no immediate ideas and am short on time, so I'll just pretend he's a socially anxious gator doing a 'count to 10' meditation and thinking to himself, 'Come on GatorGreg, you can do this, you deserve to be in this space as much as anyone else, like your GatorTherapist said. Just breathe.'

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

That autistic gator is the Arrowhead dev team just trying to keep their heads down.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

PlayStation players

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i'm desperate to know the context of this photo, and if i'm correct that it's in florida

[–] Carmakazi 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's an AI-generated photo and it became a small-time meme some months back.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That is shockingly good for being generated. I can’t spot a single giveaway. If you don’t count the ridiculous scenario, that is.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

This is the ideal male body. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

[–] Thcdenton 79 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I've quit riot, blizzard, ea, activition, ubisoft, and now sony. There are so many incredible games to play out there and I don't need to waste my time with publishers I can't trust.

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[–] Alk 71 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Beloved by all" Don't be so hasty. I wish I could love games with kernel level anti cheats, but there are far better games with less risky software.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's a really fun game though so idk I don't care (about the privacy concerns, your opinion is valid regardless)

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (16 children)

It's not just privacy. Kernel level anti cheat software opens up a new attack vector for malicious actors, e.g. your computer is less secure. Your system also becomes less stable and is prone to crash more often. This is all dependent on the skill of the software engineers writing the kernel level anti cheat of course.

Unfortunately, most software, if not most of modern IT is a house of cards.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Honestly, they also enshitified it at launch by shipping alongside a rootkit.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sony has been fucking over the AAA gaming market for at least 20 years now.

[–] Zehzin 28 points 7 months ago

Hey that's a little unfair, they've also fucked the music and movie industries.

[–] Dasus 16 points 7 months ago

But this one sure was a doozy.

[–] unreasonabro 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean this pic is beyond epic.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I think it's an AI image.

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[–] 9bananas 36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

nProtect seems to be even worse than it sounds:

https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/helldivers-2-a/625645-helldivers2-anti-cheat-bypass-injection-method.html

no idea if they patched any of that since, but accepting non-validated DLLs is some wild level of neglect...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

I mean if it is a choice between using a Sony account and using nProtect. Would choose Sony account but needing both is a little overkill.

[–] KittyCat 19 points 7 months ago (7 children)

All of you playing on a pc already installed the insane rootkit of drm that it comes with, idk why any of you would complain about linking a sony account.

That drm is why I only got it on ps5, at least there its not on my pc.

[–] scutiger 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's not just about security. It's also about half of the countries in the world not being able to have a PSN account. Anyone in those countries who bought the game can no longer play the game they bought. I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't otherwise care about the DRM who are going to be locked out of their game.

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[–] paddirn 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The decade of epic face-plants continues. Countries, Fortune 500 companies, Billionaires, you name it, they’re all fucking up big time in the stupidest ways possible.