That’s the thing: They don’t care about this. They only care about issues that affect the wealthy. They care more about stopping policies that negatively affect the wealthy than about anything that would help the working class.

It doesn’t take an inside scoop to make that prediction.

It’s not like we’ll ever have money for a private jet anyways.

It’ll be great to see them squirm if they release any that are edited versions of ones that were already released.

They have concepts of a plan.

Imagine if he waits for people to panic and sell off and then buys back into the market.

In this case, I expect that the market is due to tank for real soon, so that would maybe be a stupid move, but it seems like in general someone could literally trade on the perception that they’re an insider (regardless of whether they have real inside information or not) to manipulate the market in their favor.

The fact that “unlimited toilet paper” is a luxury for prisoners says a lot about the way we treat other prisoners.

Yeah, I think that the article’s title and general framing misses an important point that The White House is the source claiming that China made those promises. Which, under normal circumstances, would be a pretty reliable source, but under the current administration is highly suspect.

Isn’t that the standard way titles are written?

Party where I tell all of my kid’s friends about their ADHD diagnosis.

That makes more sense. I can see how it simplifies things. It still seems like a decision that is lazy and disregards the players.

What is the reason for this? Laziness?

Reminds me of the time Google decided that “Don’t be evil” wasn’t their vibe any more.

That sounds like it wouldn’t appeal to me as much.

I’m not particularly interested in ARC Raiders because I don’t like the chaos of FFA (or more than 2 teams in general).

I never played any of the earlier BF games, only One (Which I didn’t care for), 2042, and 6.

For what it’s worth, cheating in BF6 seems pretty rare. So, it seems that something they’re doing is having an effect at reducing cheating. There are probably other methods that they could use, though.

I’m guessing that their decision ultimately comes down to money - they probably figure that other methods would be more expensive to achieve the same result, and that the lost revenue from people who are turned off by the anti cheat is less than that cost.

I almost always am playing games with friends, so it depends on what they want to play as well. We generally rotate through different games at different times, and the choice depends on what we can find that everyone would enjoy. It can already be hard to do that sometimes, so removing more options could make it worse.

Battlefield 6 is one of the ones we have been playing recently, so that one would require Windows (at least as a dual boot option). It’s also hard to know what games might be the group preference in the future.

Regardless of how you see those things or what they actually do, it’s basically certain that the developers do not see them as malware. And I think it’s reasonable to assume good intentions in making those choices, because it is a PvP game where cheating can negatively impact other players. I would give them the benefit of the doubt regarding their intentions.

Many of the things that the Helldivers 2 devs have done could be excused with the benefit of the doubt as well, but they have stacked up a lot of broken promises, and recently there was a case of very blatant deception. It could be argued that it was not technically lying, but it was obviously intended to deceive. And there has been no apology for the deception since then, either.

Well, my choice of game is influenced a lot by what my friends want to play as well, and we tend to cycle through various games at different times. So I’d want to have the ability to play whatever they want to play. We have been playing Battlefield 6 a fair amount recently, so that one would require Windows.

Helldivers 2 works on Linux but we’ve basically retired that for now because of some scummy behavior by the devs. I have hopes that it will come back, but it has a bad taste for now.

Probably most of the other games we play would work (since most of them don’t have over the top anticheat). I haven’t checked all of them, though. It’s hard to know how often I would run across one that doesn’t work.