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CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

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Re: CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

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Post by ryandrake »

weinzierl wrote: post #48
valvar wrote: post #24

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This may be a stupid question, but isn't it standard practice to require that employees use VPN? Why would they expose servers to the internet?

At least not unusual for many companies but there are proponents of a different philosophy [1]. The idea is that drawing a clear line between outside and inside became futile and you are much better off with an approach that recognizes that fact. Their somewhat provocative slogan is: "The perimeter is dead" . For those working at FAANG: Do you have a corporate VPN? Do you use it? Do you need it for your daily work? […

Yea, your threat model needs to include machines that have legitimate access to your corporate network, either by being on it physically or through VPN. If you only have defense at the perimeter, you are vulnerable to insiders, such as employees who are about to rage quit and want to do damage on the way out.

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

garretraziel wrote: post #131
mvolfik wrote: post #63

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It doesn't always have to be like this though. Look at Factorio – the devs are happy (looking from the outside, but they are always very enthusiastic about how they love the game), the community loves it (there are infinite remarks of people who sunk thousands of hours into this game, all for a single payment of 25 €), and they don't seem to have any financial issues either. I have not seen many disappointed people a…

When it comes to Factorio, I've seen some backslash/hate from gamers for dev's decision on never putting Factorio on sale.

Steam's reputation for sales has ruined me. It is now extremely rare for me to buy a game at full price. Even a $20 game, I'll wait for a sale, as if I'd even notice the $5 I saved.

That said, once I had discovered that the Factorio devs said it would never go on sale, I decided to pick it up and was glad I did.

I'm looking forward to picking up Cyberpunk whenever it goes on sale. By then, maybe it will be a much smoother and more enjoyable experience.

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Post by reader_mode »

pca006132 wrote: post #89
reader_mode wrote: post #85

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> requiring less attention span How ? Competitive gaming requires intense uninterrupted focus for 30 min to 1 h periods (which is what got me out of it).

I don't think it is really uninterrupted focus for 30min, but rather a lot of very intense focus for a few minutes or so? I think that is similar to videos in youtube/tiktok (not tiktok user, just heard from the others) that attract users watching a lot of videos, where each is That said, I'm not a gamer and I rarely play games now.

You really need to focus for 30+ minutes, there are 30 sec/minute downtime periods every few minutes, but especially in MOBA games where one mistake can snowball enemies lead, you need to be paying attention the entire match.

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Post by bathtub365 »

me_me_me wrote: post #187
bathtub365 wrote: post #129

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They absolutely support their practices by doing business with them. Not only did they list their game for sale on their store, they took their money (earned via those business practices) to give them the exclusive right to sell the game on their store for a period of time. This has the goal of driving even more customers to Epic. They don’t do these deals out of benevolence.

Have you bought a Nestle product? Is so you support child slavery. By your logic: > You absolutely support their practices by doing business with them. Life is not black and white.

I try to avoid Nestlé products and would not enter into a major business relationship with them if I had the choice. The extent to which I decided to entangle my life or business of theirs would change the degree to which I felt like I’d be supporting their business practices. I agree, it’s not black and white, but I don’t understand how you can say a company doesn’t support Epic’s business practices when they choose to accept their money and help expand their share of the marketplace they operate in.

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Post by reader_mode »

2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #112
reader_mode wrote: post #85

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> requiring less attention span How ? Competitive gaming requires intense uninterrupted focus for 30 min to 1 h periods (which is what got me out of it).

> Competitive gaming requires intense uninterrupted focus for 30 min to 1 h periods This is technically true, but in most team based multiplayer games you actually get much shorter focus intervals due to breaks and pauses like dying (time to respawn or end of round, which can take up to multiple minutes) or running to the action from spawn (games like Overwatch). Also the team aspect hides much of it so a lot of play…

That's true but still doesn't back his argument that these games cater to short attention span people. People sink hours straight into these games.

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Post by theshrike79 »

bloopernova wrote: post #155
theshrike79 wrote: post #82

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Just figured out that I can start a custom map and turn off the biters. Been playing into the wee mornings for a week now. Got into the logic system heavily. I'm optimising production in my sleep now. Send help. Can't stop.

Off topic: what do you use logic for? I am at a loss on how to use it effectively.

I run a logistic robot based system with individual buildings receiving and sending items with chests.

With logic I can connect the input or output inserter to the roboport and only feed items to the chests if the total number of items in the robot network is under a certain amount.

The other big use is cycling power between solar and steam. Plug in the steam power's water pump to an accumulator and set it to turn off when the accumulator capacity is over, say, 50%. This way you won't feed excess power to the network and waste fuel.

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Post by torgian »

SSLy wrote: post #147
torgian wrote: post #101

Sucks. I liked cyberpunk, if only because of the story. I like games with decent - excellent stories. Sure, I wish cyberpunk could’ve been even better but it was enjoyable. It’s hard to find games with good stories and lore nowadays, I think.

>It’s hard to find games with good stories and lore nowadays, I think. Let me introduce you to Disco Elysium. You're welcome.

I hear good things about that game, and I really need to buy it one of these days.

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Post by torgian »

naosouumapessoa wrote: post #145
torgian wrote: post #101

Sucks. I liked cyberpunk, if only because of the story. I like games with decent - excellent stories. Sure, I wish cyberpunk could’ve been even better but it was enjoyable. It’s hard to find games with good stories and lore nowadays, I think.

Is it though? Out of the top of my head: pillars of eternity, divinity original sin 1/2, what remains of Edith finch, firewatch...

Well, I think I’ve been waiting for a good sci-fi game that has a good storyline.

Cyberpunk kinda filled that void a bit. Battle tech is another that I enjoy, but the story was mediocre at best.

I think one of the other posters here put it plainly; the cyberpunk story was just ok, but the characters really stood out and I got emotionally invested in them.

Maybe that’s what I’m really after. Characters I actually care about.

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Post by mippenhappen »

RGamma wrote: post #224
mysterydip wrote: post #95

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There are indie developers who are making games that aren't the corporate monstrosities you speak of, some mentioned elsewhere in comments. The problem is there's a lot of cruft too, and the advertising budgets of the good devs are small if existing at all. I wish there was a boardgamegeek equivalent for indie games to help with the discoverability problem.

I always turned to TotalBiscuit for indie recommendations while he was still around... Just had to vent a bit because in my mind CDPR are (still!) the good guys who attempt to hold high standards of old, not least due to GOG. And then they receive this amount vitriol that they publicly apologize (what for? that they made a competent and highly relevant game?) and now this attack. Can we please banish consumerist enti…

>Can we please banish consumerist entitlement and corporate nonsense from the videogame world please?

That's gonna be a "no" from the world.

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