There could totally be an indie game like Uncharted. Why not?

Tell it to download things you don’t like, too! That’s the best way to stop it.

My hypothesis is that Lemmy is very pro-Linux, and Steam has made gaming easier on Linux while also bringing Linux to more mainstream eyes.

As well, the younger crowd on Lemmy are probably on the younger side that grew up with Steam being basically infinite games available at low prices without having to resort to piracy, rather than the older crowd which first experienced Steam as software overhead needed to run a game that was already paid for.

A 40 or even 50 year old having to live the rest of their life behind bars sounds pretty crappy

Damn. The MegaUpload “ringleader” is getting extradited from NZ to the US to serve a 30+ year sentence. Or at least stand trial for it there?

Lmao my bad!

If you’re saying “it’s so hard to find something that isn’t associated with Nazis”, I think the problem is you

EDIT: Got Poe’s Lawed! Lol

That makes sense. Papa having control over what junior sees is probably not very functionally different from Big Brother having control over what an individual sees, lol

Not invested enough to be for or against it personally; just curious…

What are the user-beneficial use cases for it?

I’m not even sure what you’re saying I’m wrong about, lol

Your question was about whether you can get GOG achievements in pirated games.

The comment answered your question and explained why achievements are the way they are…that is, separate from the games themselves.

You’re disagreeing with a tangential point, to someone who didn’t make the point, while seemingly ignoring the fact that your question was answered.

Regardless of why achievements exist, what they’re used for, whether there are better alternatives, etc…GOG’s achievements are hosted on their servers, attached to accounts on their servers.

GOG achievements are one incentive that they use to attempt to persuade people to buy their DRM-Free games rather than copy them. If you want to earn achievements on a GOG account, you’d have to trick GOG into thinking you own the game, which is hard and risky.

Alternatively, you’d have to find some other service that you can use to earn achievements. And that is a service that costs money to run, so it’s not all that likely that it’d exist.

You can check out RetroAchievements, but they don’t have (modern) PC games on there. It’s free, powered by donations and likely self-funding from its core team.

The comment you replied to here actually has your answer, but you gave it your copy-pasted comment you’ve been giving to everyone asking “Why do you want achievements”.

Give this comment here a read

Who’s AI Aaron?

Those kinds of things existed in Japan. The Famicom Disk System is probably the most notable example, but I think there were equivalents for the 16-bit consoles

Don’t you need another dozen or so TB? I thought it was 1024, not 1000, to the next unit

Archiving things that generally aren’t for sale!

Linux is a great example, thank you.

You say this with certainty, so you’ve got me curious. Could you show me some successful international non-profits that reject Capitalism?

We live in a Capitalist world, and like it or not, those CEOs know how to make companies thrive in it.

That’s the idea, at least.

So, I changed my daily driver to linux several months ago and my gf a few weeks ago.

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So, I changed […] my gf a few weeks ago.

How’s the new girlfriend?