Stanley Tweedle is a god
A warrior and a gent.
We are not fit to suck his feet
Or dine on his excrement.
At night we croon
By the light of a moon
Of his courage and his creed.
Hey ho there he goes
Oh woe for his foes
Long live the Tweedle seed.
Stanley, Stanley
Top of the hero class
Stanley, Stanley
We live to Kiss his Ass!
I looked up the game on cs.rin.ru/forum/
The game thread has updates for pirated copies and online fixes. I’m not allowed to link directly but I think this is fine.
Edit: you probably will have to manually patch the game each version up until current though. A real pain in the ass. I usually just redownload the whole thing, honestly.
I don’t think the cached file other people cached on premiumize.me or other debrid services can be tracked but I’d love to know how I’m wrong. Out of curiosity to be clear, I’m not watching Harry Potter.
GameCopyWorld is very web 1.0 but it’s still around if you need No CD cracks.
Serial keys…hmmm. That’s a good question. serials.ws doesn’t exist anymore.
I guess these days you’d look up a game on archive.org and look for a text file bundled into the release that has a key or two.
Fuck. That actually annoys me. We should have a serial / keygen archival website.
Master of hide and seek, never been found!
Given there’s no apparent resistance I lack evidence of an opposing group.
There are a lot of Valve stans on Fediverse. I think here it’s mainly because Valve boosted Linux so there’s stronger emotional attachment than your average Valve reddit stan using Windows who are more focused on Valve’s pathetic PC gaming client competition like Epic, Ubi, EA, etc.
I appreciate:
The gaming compatibility boost enabling me to not have to use Windows hopefully ever again and compared to their competition when it comes to store design, modding, and community features it’s not even close.
I like their hardware even though I wish they’d compete with consoles and subsidise asking prices and be far more friendly to international customers. Since Microsoft’s Xbox is dead, Sony is getting too comfortable. I own a Steam Deck which sees regular use during idle time at work, and I run two gaming desktop computers on Linux because of Proton.
Valve being privately owned has been helpful for long term stability so far.
Since there’s rarely physical game releases on PC it’s nice there’s so many regular sales and demo events. 3rd party keys still being allowed is also nice, I do routinely find games cheaper in CAD on legit sites like greenmangaming or instantgaming etc. Regional pricing headaches idk.
I don’t get attached to brands though like some people do going out of their way to white knight for Valve-kun in this case. This meme: https://quokk.au/static/media/posts/gU/wJ/gUwJWXxHFUmyAHH.gif
I have dislikes. Some of them longstanding:
Notifications are still broken on Linux, rarely appearing at the correct x/y coordinates either partially off screen or no where near the bottom right. Idk why, X11 legacy debt?
In-game overlay DPI is a crap shoot on a 4K TV. If it even opens at all on Linux. Usually fine, much less usually fine than on Windows still.
The Steam Community and Profiles feel stuck in 2008 and have barely improved beyond animated themes/backgrounds. Images and screenshots in general are sluggish to load. Sometimes embedded chromium just randomly dies and doesn’t respond to any input until you manually refresh a page. That happened on Windows too, it’s annoying.
Videos still lag for me on within Linux Steam client with AMD GPU. Nvidia is fine I have two desktops like I said, the AMD one is living room and both run CachyOS. Acceleration enabled/disabled doesn’t help with dropped frames confusingly.
The item gambling and trading features are a big blight upon Gabe’s reputation IMO especially due to enabling children to gamble on jpegs.
Steam didn’t used to force us to update a game before launching. I know how to manually edit manifests but this is lame and I’ll hold this anti user change against Valve for as long as it’s a thing. I like modding games, annoying headache.
Why is Tuesday maintenance downtime still a thing?
Workshop is half baked and I usually avoid using it unless a game actually incorporates it well like Killing Floor 2 did or Golf It! Mainly because updates didn’t usually break old user made content. Shitty to navigate, never cleaned up so it’s full of broken mods, and has a frankly quite shit search engine. One benefit of Valve’s total lack of attention is copyright infringing mods often stay up!
The Store itself is okay but Search still lacks of a lot of sorting options including in the Wishlist.
Valve is American, so that’s a negative point because the USA is in decline and Steam can be more easily censored by nutjobs in powerful positions. I try to buy from GOG first these days because of that.
Lack of Discussion moderation. Full of Nazis and 4channers. Valve doesn’t lift a finger unless it’s a horny anime game. Praise be Visa. Holy art thou Mastercard. Bend thy ass over.
Discussions get deleted after a certain amount of time. Big loss was shutting down the old proper bulletin board forums instead of updating them and incorporating them into Steam Client. Discussions are a shitty replacement even if they were properly moderated.
Steam Deck compatibility tiers and notes on Store pages are half assed. Maybe not as useless as a Nintendo Seal Quality but in the same ball park.
I don’t.
Never understood why the american left doesn’t build their own donor sponsored PAC to bribe politicians and spam ads since everyone else is.
True but the labels are expired, the glue doesn’t hold as well as it used to.
I’ll enjoy my remaining years and die content I didn’t add another life to this stupid meat grinder of a planet.
There isn’t evidence of paedophilia yet. There are leaked photos of him holding scantily clad women around the waist in the files, so the sex slave rapist part at least is likely to be true. Especially when combined with emails to Epstein about him worrying he gave his then wife an STD and asking how to sneakily cure her of whatever it was, and what his ex wife has said about their divorce.
You don’t need a VPN (yet, c-22, different reasons) in Canada. Look up our copyright law. Fines are capped so low that it’s malicious compliance on behalf of our government. It’s so low that it’s not worth taking you to court and they cannot sue per item like they can in USA, only for everything at once. Nobody gets sued in reality for piracy in Canada unless they are profiting off of their piracy by selling pirated material. Or web hosts. Basically, don’t be the owner of Demonoid or sell hard drives full of game ROMs on eBay and you’ll be okay.
What you need to actually consider is your ISP. Don’t use any of the major telecom mafia corps directly like Rogers, Telus, Shaw, Bell, etc. They’ll have strike systems and refuse service potentially. They have conflict of interest running streaming sites, making their own TV shows and such. Use pro end user/net neutrality supporting reseller ISP like Oxio and Teksavvy for example. They exist, just look. Park Power is another local to me. Research your local options.
You’ll still get sp00ky copyright infringement letters from 'muricans forwarded to you. Don’t respond, reseller ISP don’t care either. Print them out on toilet paper and wipe your ass with them.
I keep them like trophies. I have 36 infringement emails from Comedy Central from torrenting South Park episodes alone over the years, lmao. Those are all old since I use Debrid for TV/Movies for a long time now. DDL FTW.