Friendly reminder since Valorant came up, the game requires an always on core access anti-cheat that you cannot turn off.
I believe you can turn it off now, but you have to both trust them that it's actually turned off AND reboot to turn it back on so it's still horrible.
It's one of the two main reasons I won't play it despite being a huge counter-strike fan, the other reason being it doesn't support ultrawide monitors.
The stupid categories were the best parts of the GOTY podcasts in 2017 and before. If the main reason for this format is to avoid negativity then I don't think it's very successful because they cut the stupid fun categories but kept the ones where people actually get angry at each other (like top 10 and most disappointing, which for the record I still like even when they are negative).
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