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New comment by integricho in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:47:18 +0000

How were they allowed to "sell" those titles in the first place then? Because it was never implied that access might be lost or restricted,it was very much sold to customers,not rented.

As for Destiny not working,this is a related but different problem, stopkillinggames tries to tackle it, but both issues go hand in hand.

1. If we give up physical copies,we lose ownership,as simple as that

2. Server side components must be released by the publisher once they take offline a game, as long as that game was "sold" to the customer

So ownership is a very important component in this, don't make it sound absurd.

New comment by integricho in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:27:37 +0000

Because Sony and all digital publishers with the exception of GOG are lying thieves. This is just another step in getting rid of ownership, and we are too naive and passive to stand up against it. Physical copies are a must to retain any sense of ownership over purchased games. If this is done, it must be forbidden to show "Purchase" on playstation store as that implies ownership,which it will never be. Also just look at the parallel issue that happened exactly these days with Sony deleting purchased movies from libraries. The same will happen with games. This is legalized theft.

New comment by integricho in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:48:30 +0000

Sure, just to clarify, I am not arguing that c++ doesn't work, only that c++ produced binaries are either having more dll dependencies, or are more bloated (in size). I also tried clang-cl and MingW, and while both work, the binaries produced by them are even larger then any MSVC produced (regardless of how I try to optimize it). C is a winner when it comes to binary size.

New comment by integricho in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:43:47 +0000

Even trivial stuff causes the linking to vcruntime, this is an extra dll dependency that I don't tolerate, no msvcrt, no vcruntime, nothing except core Win32 dlls are allowed on the platform. Static linking can relieve some of this pain, but that bloats the binary. C++ simply does not allow the same level of minimalism that can be achieved by C, and for many these are unimportant details, for me they are deal breakers and this is a core pillar of my architecture.

New comment by integricho in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:14:19 +0000

Understood, yes, but I described my reasons in my reply to another comment already. Your proposed solution is not equivalent to what I am doing, it cannot work on all the systems I support, and would never be as dependency free.

New comment by integricho in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:52:41 +0000

Have you checked what dll dependencies you get if you build such an app? And have you actually tried running such an executable on win9x?

New comment by integricho in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:51:02 +0000

For the last couple of years I got into retro computing, realized how much more I enjoyed the 9x era Windows systems compared to anything that came later, and made it a personal goal that if I build anything, it will have to work on Windows 95 as well. I realize the actual number of 9x users would be really small, but they still exist, e.g. seeing the vogons community, they are still using lots of such apps and would value support.

New comment by integricho in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:14:38 +0000

Yes, I am building GUI apps. This "standard library" of mine is built from the ground up in a cross platform manner, such that it compiles on Windows wrapping Win32, with Windows 95 being the CI machine, making sure it works on the whole Windows family upwards, and it wraps POSIX under Linux/MacOS/any POSIX system. The goal being to reuse the available shared library dependencies that are always present on these platforms anyway, giving me these ultra small binaries.

New comment by integricho in "Claude Sonnet 5"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:54:30 +0000

I believe you are miscalculating the effect of skill atrophy, there is benefit and actual experience gained by doing the work yourself. You are an experienced dev and already have a lot of tools and knowledge under your belt so at the moment it is hard to see the actual issue, as this is just a productivity multiplierfor you. But give it a couple of years working under these conditions, your tech savvy nature will be severely diminished.

New comment by integricho in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

integricho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:48:04 +0000

Agreed, I thought this is a wrapper for STL under Python, what does the py prefix stand for here actually?

As for the why c++ at all, as long as one falls into the "don't care" category, it works fine.. lately I found myself I rather build my apps in C with NODEFAULTLIB (under Windows at least), and creating my own size-optimized standard library which on Windows wraps the Win32 API wherever possible. The size savings are incredible, my executable is in the ~500KB range, ultra small and ultra fast. This is unattainable with normal modern C++.

New comment by integricho in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

integricho — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:28:46 +0000

But they haven't been good performers, and don't deserve joining s&p, and that is the point, do not make exceptions just because Elon Musk or whatever delusional billionaire says so.

New comment by integricho in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

integricho — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:41:08 +0000

Most of the teagames flash games are sadly lost, never found them archived even here, yet they were among the best for me, e.g. Top Dog II was so fun back in the day. Teagames was taken over I think and the old games are all lost.

New comment by integricho in "I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

integricho — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:45:49 +0000

I believe it supports only projects having a working cmake setup, no extra magic

New comment by integricho in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

integricho — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:31:55 +0000

what are you talking about?

New comment by integricho in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

integricho — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:51:18 +0000

It is so rich hearing that America can attack anybody, but godforbid an attack on the "homeland" is an unforgivable act that will invoke nukes immediately.

New comment by integricho in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

integricho — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:37:09 +0000

I came here for the article, stayed for the drama.

New comment by integricho in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

integricho — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:04:08 +0000

I thought this is a sort of campaign / kickstarter site to prioritize which dead games are in highest demand, in pursuit of reverse engineering and building servers for them.

New comment by integricho in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

integricho — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:16:10 +0000

So you are an anthropic / openai employee, actually.

New comment by integricho in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

integricho — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:02:56 +0000

I periodically check if Top Dog II (from teagames, now nonexistent) has been added as it was one of my favorite flash games, but it still isn't there. I admire the work and I really support preservation projects. Hope Top Dog II can be rescued one day, along with other teagames titles.

New comment by integricho in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

integricho — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:16:41 +0000

Written by an anthropic employee, I mean how seriously can you take that piece? pure hype