Technically, when installing a fitgirl rip, it is doing an extraction only, just with some extra UI elements and other features like installing dependencies.

lol, ’cause ð last 2 r installŋ malware on ur device.
Just checkd The.Blood.of.Dawnwalker-RUNE
& only 2 of ðs matç ð pre.

Lol, where is "download from steam, hit play"?

You ok?

it would have a few step more: go to work, work for 5 h, get your minimum wage 60$, enter you credit card info, pay steam

I’m. u?

With the added complexity that it can fail for reasons I don't comprehed. If it was just extracting that wouldn't fail under any circumstances.

What are those symbols?

ð is a thorn, it means "th".

No idea about the others.

That isn't a thorn. A thorn is þ.

Edit: I looked it up and ð is eth.

Hahahahhaha $12 minimum wage, you're a riot.

that can't be good for screen readers

ð is edh, it represents a voiced dental fricative, like the "th" in "them"

ŋ is eng, it represents a voiced velar nasal, like the "ng" in "sing"

ç is a "c with cedilla" or "broken c". It's used in several languages with different readings, but they seem to be using it as a voiceless aveolar affricate, like the "ch" in "match"

why does it require admin rights to run, then? right at startup, and if you try to run it with a tool that fakes admin rights, it will crash (unlike other installers it can successfully make run)

denuvo won't run on operating systems that don't try to fuck you over, and makes the game slower on windows

They need admin privileges to write to directories such as C:/Program Files, if I had to guess - I didn't need privileges when installing Halo: Combatevolved Butworse on Linux

Denuvo runs on Linux.

Erm, acþually, t'w're refering t't'ct þat y' deliberately write in a barely parseable manner

The only times it has failed on me was because either the storage device or RAM were faulty. It's definitely worth it to check both for errors every once in a while, as financially devastating as it is to replace either.

but I always installed them on my other drive where it did not need such privileges. it works on linux because here everything runs as admin (in the wine world, it's not admin in the linux world)

I wouldn't pollute my Linux OS with that shit.

With the added complexity that it can fail for reasons I don’t comprehed

The lovecraftian installer

That's ancient 'Moronic'. Like Ancient Greek, but written by morons.

It's not that Wine runs things as an administrator, Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;

with Windows, if you have a separate drive and *you* create a folder in it, even if you call it "Program Files", it's going to let you access it freely because it's yours.
However, the existing Program Files folder in your OS drive (C: by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by... I have no idea, actually, but it's a system account, not yours.

The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less tech literate when I was still daily-driving Windows.

fact | xenoglossphobia?

International phonetics??

Dropping vowels and substituting a few characters does not mean you are using IPA.

It's not that Wine runs things as an administrator

yes, it is that

Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;

I was always installing fitgirl games to my other drive, where I owned the entire thing. I know because I remember I set the ownership.

However, the existing Program Files folder in your OS drive (C: by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by... I have no idea, actually, but it's a system account, not yours.

The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less

I have never installed fitgirl games there.

I wish every game was like that AND the game saves were always in the directory.

I want to download, play, backup after I’m done without needing to manage all the save locations.

I'll trust you on the Windows side of things, but you ought to explain how Wine is running things with admin privileges

It's your RAM bro

That can easily accomplished by running each game in its own WINEPREFIX.

You are misunderstanding him. Wine has not implemented any UAC dialogue like windows; when the application requests it, it just gets "elevated" as if the user had pressed that UAC button under windows; but Wine does this automatically, as there is no need for something like that.

As stated in comment 50, applications requiring unelevated privileges can be run directly, without the need for "runas" or any similar manual intervention.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613#c50

Explanation of the last panel?

I must say I had the same experience, even on cs.rin. Almost all of the blood of dawnwalker releases had malware in them. The only clean one was the GOG version.

That's why I mostly grab the clean steam files and configure the emulator myself.

Wine acts as if it has admin on the Windows side, but that's unrelated to admin on the Linux host, very likely wine is just running with user privileges there.

I'm a big fan of weird symbols and phonetic semiotics, but I'm sure it's annoying for people who aren't expecting it or aren't able to read it.

Can't tell if you're joking or not. US federal minimum is still $7.25 but places like California and Connecticut have higher minimums in the $16+

username checks out, keep up the good work 🏴‍☠️

unless you know who this guy is and what he is talking about: SLSsteam

All the other ones would need that too for buying the hardware you're playing on

Communication is a two way street

plus they are other country than US, each with different minimum wage. I ballparked it.

the point being: whatever you buy, you sacrificied a lot of time for it (some more than other, obviously)

Who said you have to pay? 🤣

Will do, thank you :)

My state voted for and passed a minimum wage raise, which would continue incrementally for the next few years, and paid sick time ballot initiative. The state legislature repealed the sick leave and removed the minimum wage increases from the future. Yay democracy. Cunts.

then communicate🤣

Wait. This is genious! Why haven't I thought of it?

How to use SLS steam for piracy? It doesn't look like a piracy tool

try looking for Midrags/SFF and Deadboy666/h3adcr-b