Re:Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it pre...
by mft_ on Monday May 04, 2026 @08:16AM
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Does the stealing come from the low-trust society, or does the societal situation drive people to theft, which we then label ‘low-trust’?
Re:Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it pre...
by zorked on Monday May 04, 2026 @09:48AM
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If there are extremely poor, high-trust societies, then trust is its own variable. If not, then it's a post-hoc explanation.
Re:Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it pre...
by mft_ on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:05AM
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I suspect it's an imperfect correlation. Other factors like level of income inequality, efficacy/harshness of law enforcement, societal cohesion, would likely influence.
Re:Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it pre...
by jsiepkes on Monday May 04, 2026 @10:41AM
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> Yes. Hence the stories of people (Brezhnev?) being astonished and baffled at simply walking into an American supermarket.
Way later even; It was Yeltsin who wandered (it was unplanned) into a grocery store in Texas [1].
[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/happy-yeltsin-supermarket-day-0
Of course, one reason why there wasn't much on the shelves was it had been already stolen by other people closer to the source ...
(something of a generic problem of low trust societies, not specific to Communism. I think we sometimes don't appreciate how valuable a high trust society is to us in the West, which is why people trying to destroy it by looting from the top are particularly dangerous: the rot spreads from the top)