First of all, read again, no one is talking about below 30. Secondly, yes, you can definitely notice dips even if for a moment, it makes the game feel choppy, or more precisely like a weirdly encoded video that goes slow momentarily and then catches up.
Perhaps you should read what I wrote again, you clearly stated a regular human won’t notice fluctuating FPS as long as it doesn’t dip below 30, and I’m saying that is bullshit, I (and everyone else I know) can definitely see a deep to 30 fps even if it doesn’t go below it.
I think that, as long as the framerate doesn’t dip below 30, a regular human won’t notice fluctuating FPS.
This is complete bullshit, 30 fps is playable for most games, and I have in the past bumper graphics until fps dip to 30/45 because depending on the game 30 fps on high is a better experience than 60 on low for me. But to say that a regular human won’t notice it is bullshit. There’s a game I play on my deck, for some reason it’s very sensitive to disk usage, so if I’m downloading stuff it dips to 30, and I always have to go and stop the download, because if you’ve been playing at 60, 30 feels very sluggish.
How is a password protected zip file different from an encrypted blob? And a quick Google will show you dozens of devs asking how to do this in different engines, because it’s a very simple way to delay access to something, it won’t be permanent, but it can allow you to do stuff like pre-loading that game/DLC and activate them remotely.
You crypto heads always bring up the Argentinian Peso even though it’s still actually more stable than even Bitcoin.
I bought the Argentinian Peso because I am Argentinian, and lived through the devaluation of our currency, and the Patacones and Corralito, maybe because you haven’t experienced something similar you don’t understand just how much of “money” is based on trust.
People aren’t buying Argentinian Pesos thinking they might become rich one day, because it’s an actual currency, not a speculative asset, which is what crypto is.
You can speculate with anything, the fact that people speculate with crypto has no bearing on it being money or not. Also you might be unaware but people do speculate with dollars/pesos in Argentina, that does not disqualify either of those as money.
But ignoring that, most of the world does actually accept US dollars
No, you’re wrong, outside of Argentina and the US (and a few tourist heavy places) I have never seen stores that accept dollars. This is a misconception Americans have, dollars are not accepted worldwide, you need to exchange it for the location currency, just like how trying to pay for stuff in the USA with Euros or Reais would not work.
it’s the most traded currency in the world.
Bitcoin is more traded than some small countries currency, if that mattered then Bitcoin would be more of a currency than that one.
It’s also safe to say in nearly every country you can probably exchange USD to the local currency fairly easily.
Also possible to exchange Bitcoin, that has no bearing.
If you can find me a city where more stores accept Bitcoin rather than the designated currency, then sure. I’m not sure a single one exists.
Than the designated currency no, but than a specific currency absolutely, I’m 99% sure every city I’ve lived for the past 5 years has more places that accept Bitcoin than Argentinian Peso.
And that’s bitcoin, which actually is well known and traded. What the person in the article lost wasn’t even that, not any other well known crypto like Ethereum.
Still, it’s a problem of definition, money is an abstract concept, one where is very hard for you to find a definition that includes all of the countries currency but doesn’t include Bitcoin.
But here’s the most important thing that goes through everyone’s heads, just because something is money doesn’t mean it has inherent value. People who invest in crypto, be it FT or NFT, are no different from people who invest in gold or art. And scams involving crypto are no different from other scams, you don’t go around saying emails are scam because people use them to scam others.
All of that being said, crypto bros are the other extreme from you, thinking that crypto is a magical solution to everything and can’t see the glaring issues that will make it impossible from being adopted in any meaningful scale (and it boils down to cryptocurrencies having the same attributes than paper money, bit people not taking digital security seriously the same way they do with securing paper currency)
By that definition the Argentinian Peso is not money because it’s not stable, nor is the dollar since the majority of stores in the world don’t accept it (mostly just the ones in the USA do, and a couple of others here and there, but definitely not the majority worldwide). And if you’re going to start randomly limiting locations, I’m fairly confident you can find a specific neighborhood or city where more stores accept Bitcoin than dollars, and worldwide I’m fairly confident more stores accept Bitcoin than Tuvaluan dollar, does that mean that that is not money?
Password protected zip file is also a way to deliver content an indie dev might use to lock content, so that on its own is not enough, but also the “payload” was connecting to a remote server, which is not indication of bad behavior, lots of games connect to remote servers and receive commands from there, e.g. event X starts now, or something. Except in this case it allowed a reverse shell.
No automated scan would have captured this, only a paid professional dedicating some time would (and only because this was an obvious attempt, a more subtle one would go unnoticed even by an expert) and that is not feasible.
That’s not analyzing the code. Also almost assuredly steam does that. Finally that wouldn’t catch this since it was a back door, as long as the attacker didn’t use it it would not be detected by any automated means.
And it is very easy to detect you’re in a virtual environment and not do those things, or have a date to trigger the changes or something. The game had been out for a while when this happened without any issues. I just dug a little bit and it was opening a back door apparently, so as long as the attacker did nothing at that time it would have been impossible to detect. You had to know that it was malicious to look for it, then it was quite obvious, but with Valve needing to vet millions of games it’s not feasible to do a full scan of every update of every game.
I’m not a us citizen, and there’s a big difference between the government uses my taxes for war to a game will use my money for war. You have no choice over the taxes, but by knowing this and still buying the game, you’re saying that your hours of entertainment are more valuable than people’s lives. And yeah, not buying the game won’t bankrupt the Kremlin, but it’s like throwing gasoline to a fire, you’re fueling the war, imagine someone whose house is on fire and throws gasoline in it because “the fire won’t extinguish if I stop throwing gasoline in it”