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What does this have to do with piracy

For what it’s worth, I tend to agree with you. It’s definitely about the propaganda value and the perceived “moral high ground”, but the real question is how much are those things actually worth in the current state of the conflict. At least in my view, sadly very little.

over 40,000 palestinians are killed in revenge for october 7th

1 israeli hostage is killed by their guard in revenge for the murder of his children

We will have to agree to disagree, I think.

You seem to be under the false assumption that the Israeli government actually cares about bringing any of the hostages home safely, when it’s pretty obvious they don’t. Their actions have shown this very clearly. The hostages can’t be useful leverage if Israel doesn’t give a shit about them in the first place.

Given that Israel’s current governmental coalition is predicated on the continuation of the war, along with Bibi’s own impending legal peril once he is forced out of his position, why would you think they would ever agree to any kind of deal? It’s pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that all these elusive “ceasefire negotiations” Israel has “participated” in, have been in bad faith the entire time. They literally assassinated Hamas’ own lead negotiator! It’s merely a carrot they can wave around to convince the western audience to keep supporting them, “See? A ceasefire deal is just around the corner so keep those weapons and money flowing!”

This so called “division and turmoil” caused by the demonstrations sounds great and all, but it’s ultimately inconsequential and amounts to less than nothing unless they plan on putting an end to the current regime.

Were there no hostages Israel would never agree to a ceasefire. They would claim they need to eradicate Hamas no matter the cost.

So… you mean like how things are already? That’s the exact point I’m making, lmao.

The massive demonstrations for a ceasefire inside of Israel are to get the hostages out. Not because they care for Palestinians.

No shit. But what good is a “ceasefire” if it doesn’t actually end the war? Hamas has no incentive to agree to hand over hostages if Israel is just going to resume bombing the shit out of Gaza as soon as they’ve been released, which is what most of the demonstrators actually want.

I’ll be honest, at this point it’s no longer clear what purpose the hostages are serving anyway. The Israeli government is not negotiating for their return in good faith, and they haven’t deterred the wholesale glassing of the Gaza strip. There is seemingly no legitimate interest in getting the hostages back alive. Even if you consider the token Israeli “protests” being organized, most of those people aren’t actually demanding an end to the war. It’s fairly obvious the hostages are no longer serving as useful bargaining chips (if they ever were). I can’t say I really blame this guy.

In fact, one may even argue this was an act of mercy compared to the alternative of being indefinitely held prisoner in presumably pretty poor conditions, just waiting to be murdered by the IDF.

It was finally just starting to find its footing too, dang. Don’t get me wrong, the show was a hot mess. But the 2nd season was much better, relatively speaking.

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They are running a large community in the middle of Europe, in plain view and being personally known, and as such, liable.

skill issue

Lmao, that’s news to me. Where is my pay check, Denuvo??? Nothing I said is incorrect, even if you don’t like it.

ehh, without hesitation I would choose Denuvo over being forced to install and run yet another third-party always-online launcher (Uplay, EA client, etc.) just to start the game.

Unpopular opinion, but I don’t really get the amount of hate Denuvo receives tbh. I actually do reverse engineering for a hobby and a living, and honestly there are so many much worse DRM schemes game publishers could be pushing on consumers. People act like Denuvo is the most invasive, terrible DRM ever lol. It lets you activate the game offline, and also gives you a huge amount of machine activations per day, more than any reasonable person would need.

All the performance issues people complain about are just the game developers being dipshits in how they integrate it, by not reading documentation, etc., but that’s not Denuvo’s fault. Like, yes by all means blame the publishers for forcing their developers to slap Denuvo on as an after-thought 2 days before launch, but let’s not pretend it’s Denuvo that is the problem. They’re providing a solution to publishers, and if it wasn’t them it would be some other company with probably even worse tactics. I don’t think its unreasonable for a company to want to protect their IP, when without it games would be getting cracked and pirated on day 1. I also don’t think its unreasonable for pirates and crackers to do their thing, but to be so entitled as to expect that you should be able to easily pirate every new game the second it comes out is silly.

So are you saying you think western sanctions have been working as intended, then? You haven’t actually stated anything that refutes what others in this thread have said. I only ask because Russia seems to be doing fine economically, all things considered. Germany and the rest of Europe that were/are dependent on Russian exports, though, not so much…

Care to elaborate?

for Windows another good one is https://github.com/audiamus/BookLibConnect

IANAL (and am not a lawyer)