cyberfancom: спасибо gog за то, что помогает всем россиянам сделать правильный выбор. одно время я надеялся, что смогу отказаться от пиратства в пользу лицензий без drm, воодушевившись этим. но видя ситуацию в мире, что происходит с простыми россиянами (большинство из которых категорически против войны, вплоть до того, что хотят ее проиграть), я могу только поднять Веселый Роджер до конца жизни.

thanks to gog for helping all russians make the right choice. at one time i hoped i could give up piracy in favor of drm-free licenses, encouraged by this. but seeing the world situation and what happens to ordinary russians (most of whom are adamantly against war, to the point of wanting to lose it), i can only raise the Jolly Roger for the rest of my life.

al281442: Wouldn't that in consequence mean we'd actually have to make sure to prevent him getting into this position of maybe being overthrown? Wouldn't we have to support his iron grip on the country because he is that one weirdo with the big red button...?

Call me an interventionist but I can't follow. If we always let the bullies have their way to enjoy one more moment of peace and quiet in the present it won't get us anywhere better. It's that Munich 1938 thing.

Indeed the stakes are high right now. It's kinda balancing on a knife's edge.

I surely don't think it's fair to ask everyone to be like Nawalny (who is miraculously not dead). But for example in Russia if you want to do just one little thing tell friends and family to read Nowaja Gaseta / Новая газета instead of Vlad's papers. Do it privately. Thankfully surveillance in Russia is not (yet?) as strict as in other authoritarian systems. They don't have spies at every corner like the old GDR. They don't have cyber-whatnot like today's China.

It's got to start at some point.

_kepel_: Ты хотя бы спиратить можешь. А для меня покупка лицензии единственный выход на данный момент. И то я остался ни с чем. У меня просто отобрали возможность играть. Столько денег потрачено впустую

cyberfancom: В самом деле жаль тебя. Надеюсь, что у тебя всё получится, что ты сможешь насладиться прекрасными фантастическими мирами видеоигр хоть когда-нибудь. Так то у меня тоже слабый и очень старый комп, собранный ещё в 2010-2011, но я выхожу из положения старыми играми)

Really feel sorry for you. I hope that you will succeed, that you will be able to enjoy the beautiful fantasy worlds of video games someday. I also have a weak and very old computer from 2010-2011, but I'm getting out of it with old games)

Так как форум англоязычный, то все свои сообщения стоит если не писать, то хотя бы дублировать на английском

Magnitus: I think it's a jarring game of opposing him (otherwise he'll feel like he can do whatever the heck he wants), but not to the point where he gets so desperate that he'll want to press that button.

We need to make him afraid, but not desperate.

That's the kind of crazy distinction you get to have to make when a psycho gets his hands on the launch codes. Ain't it fun?

Personally, if I was the US/EU, without actually attacking his troops in Eastern Ukraine, I'd stick my troops in Western and center Ukraine and dare him to advance further. I'd think he's back down somewhat, but lets be real, the fate of the world would be on that gamble so I kind of understand that they don't want to do that (try to explain to your constituents that you're willing to risk most of them dying over the fate of another country ;). I have a temper. Probably wouldn't make the best of leaders anyhow.

_kepel_: Я человек с очень слабым ноутбуком. Он не тянет игры с 13 года. Уже очень давно я хочу собрать себе ПК, однако финансы не позволяют. Пару дней назад я познакомился с сервисом GFN. Моей радости не было предела. Не думал, что скорости моего инета хватит для комфортной игры. Я обожаю жанр киберпанк. Всей душой его люблю. И очень сильно хотел поиграть в Cyberpunk 2077. Вчера я купил игру, оформил подписку на GFN. Прихожу с работы два часа назад. Запускаю ноутбук и не вижу эту игру в своей библиотеке GFN. Они пишут, что у купивших доступ останется. Но я купил, мать вашу, эту чёртову игру! И где она? Я заплатил деньги за сраный кусок кода, который чисто физически не могу запустить на своём ноутбуке. Какого черта? Деньги на ветер.

UnrealDelusion: It's a low blow to punish citizens for actions which are beyond their control.

kalirion: It's not a low blow to give them incentives to make actions which ARE in their control. Such as deposing their Glorious Leader.

KetobaK: My previous thread was censored.
I stood up for our Russian Users friend, those who take part in the forum for years, people that help many other users and always were kind with everybody. Think is not fair to punish them because the simple fact that this users are not part of the war, they are just splitting our community for not reason, that excuse that taxes revenue will go to war is not true, after SWIFT Bank restrictions most users couldn't purchase games anyway, so what is the point of divide our community? Of discriminate users that were part of this community for years? Let's not make GOG Community part of the war!

kalirion: It's not a low blow to give them incentives to make actions which ARE in their control. Such as deposing their Glorious Leader.