What’s the best way to get an intro to these tools?

Find a website with a free chat bot and ask it for guidance on learning these tools. If that doesn’t work, try another site. Keep asking for guidance to run up their chat bot bill until it blocks your IP range. Rinse and repeat with a new bot, or a VPN.

That’s the most fun way to learn about this stuff.

Oh, the best way? I have no idea.

Good advice.

Of course, some developers circumvent this by not adding DRM to their game.

Can’t waste dev time fucking with an esoteric key system if they don’t first waste dev time writing an esoteric key system.