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  • A few general traffic laws apply:

    1: The UFO is not a legally registered road vehicle and they must yield to all traffic.

    2: If you see a hazardous situation, like the UFO not clearly following traffic laws giving you space, you must do your part to avoid injury by avoiding a collision.

    So after you do brake for the UFO, or swerve and honk, you may go to the police and inform them of the aliens’ traffic violation. They may then get a fine.

    If you say “fuck it Im in the right” and crash into them, you are both breaking the law, but you are in bigger trouble for willfully endangering life and property. You get prison, the aliens get a fine.




  • True, with some modifications:

    Some games had online activation built in. Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.

    Regular CDs have a lifespan of 5-10 years, shorter if not stored ideally. Almost all games had sophisticated mechanisms to prevent backups being taken.

    Even if you could take a backup, record associations and publishers lobbied to make it illegal and punishable by severe fines in many countries.

    Sony shipped fucking root kits on their CD that would hijack your PC and screw with backup software. EA shipped CDs with autoexexuting software that would actually delete CloneCD and other CD copying software and prevent new installes from working. My copy of Sims 2 came with that bullshit and OH MAN I was not happy about it.



  • Grey market key seller? Yes you can get your key banned and maybe get your account in trouble on whichever platform (Steam, Origin, etc) you use.

    They sell cheap because they get them illegitimately. Leaked press keys, keys bought with stolen credit cards, keys scammed from developers, datamined keys…

    What all of these sources have in common is that the actual developer gets nothing at best, and a chargeback fee at worst. All your money goes to middle men.

    Just pirate instead. It’s more responsible.







  • Deestan@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldWhat letter has the best games?
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    • Satisfactory
    • Starcraft / 2
    • Slay the Spire
    • Saints Row
    • Sam & Max (tons)
    • Serious Sam
    • Scribblenauts
    • Shadowrun
    • Shadow Warrior
    • Shapez / 2
    • Shovel Knight
    • Skyrim
    • Soma
    • Slay the Princess
    • Space Engineers
    • Spelunky
    • Sid Meyer’s Everything
    • Stanley Parable, the
    • Stardew Valley
    • Stronghold Crusaders
    • Subnautica
    • Sunless Sea
    • Sonic (all)
    • Super Mario (everything)
    • Superhot
    • Super Meatboy
    • Surviving Mars



  • As a hiring manager for nearly 4 years straight, dealing with way way more than 100 applicants for some positions, I know it takes minutes at most.

    All hiring systems have ways to send batch emails to rejected candidates.

    If you don’t have a hiring system for some reason, it’s still just hitting reply/ctrl-v/send to each applicant you move out of the “possible candidate” inbox.

    Giving a reason “why” tends to hit people badly if they didn’t specifically ask, so a stock response is not only easy to give, but the best response. Whether and how to respond in more detail to people asking for “why”, is a less easy decision but good if you are able to.


  • There are a few benign-ish ways this happens, based on my experience from working on “the other side”. They reflect shittily on the hiring manager, but not on you:

    You got no immediate rejection because they did consider you valid for the position, just not first place. Then they got a match on the first place and stopped giving a shit about the applicant backlog.

    They got too many applicants and threw half in the garbage.

    Upper management put a freeze, or reduction, on hiring right as they put an ad out.

    They have a person already picked for the position, but they will get in legal or corporate or PR trouble if they don’t pretend to do a proper hiring process.

    Their application process, human or computer, lost your CV.