No I’m perfectly aware that my opinion about the metaphor isn’t related to it’s point and is perhaps even supportive of it’s idea of unhelpful work distraction in a meta sort of way. I just don’t like scenarios where bikes are positioned as a triviality. I’d pick a different metaphor cause that’s my opinion.

Which I despise because it incidentally normalizes bicycles as trivialities. We build entire forerunner constructs to temporarily house our cars.

Yeah that’s a good point, on second read I see that the only mention of kernel-level anticheat made in the article were by the author, and nothing from the Valve rep themselves. Maybe I reacted too soon, and Valve is just trying to get devs warmed up to the idea of using better and less-intrusive anticheat systems.

No thanks, Valve. One reason I switched to Linux was a game ecosystem absent root-level surveillance software. There are many other, better ways to discourage cheating in games.

I decided that no video game is worth handing over the reigns of my personal computer at a root level to a corporation.

Something about the kind of person who has such a need to prove their ability to shoot other people in a game that they’re willing to give a corporation complete control over their home PC…