About Calm Thesis
Calm Thesis publishes one thing: a five-step reading course for people in Australia who are about to install an online PC game for the first time, or who are helping somebody else do it.
Who publishes this site
Calm Thesis is published by HH PROSERVIS s.r.o., Vosmíkových 930/12, Libeň, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic. Company registration: 24412333. VAT number: CZ24412333. Correspondence of any kind can go to info@calmthesis.online.
Where anything on this site is attributed, it is attributed to the HH PROSERVIS s.r.o. editorial team. There are no named authors, instructors or contributors, because the material is general reading rather than anyone's personal account, and a name on it would add nothing a reader could check.
What the course is, and what it is not
It is a sequence of five pages, each ending in a checklist, written to be read in order and finished in about an hour. It covers what signing up for an online game involves, whether a particular computer can run one, how to look up an Australian classification and read the spending mechanics, how to set up an account and its settings, and what living with an online game looks like over the following months.
It is not a course in the institutional sense. There is nothing to sign up for, no account, no certificate, no record of who has read what, and no tracking of progress. It is not professional advice, legal advice or security advice. It is not a news publication, and it does not report on companies or events. It is not written by, for, or with the approval of any game publisher.
How the course was structured
The five steps follow the order in which the decisions actually arrive for someone starting out, which is not the order a vendor's sign-up page presents them in. The sequence was fixed first; the pages were then written in order, with a rule that no step may use a term that has not already been defined in an earlier step or in that step's own glossary.
Each step ends in a checklist because a checklist is the part a reader can carry away and use at the computer. The checklists are deliberately printed rather than interactive: this site stores nothing, so a tick could not survive a reload, and a control that silently forgets is worse than paper. All five are gathered on the checklists page.
Where a step could have been padded with detail that changes frequently — version numbers, prices, menu paths inside a particular game — it was cut instead, and replaced with how to find the current answer yourself. A page that tells you where the figure lives stays useful for longer than a page that copies the figure.
What sources each step relies on
Three kinds of source are used, and the course tries to keep them visibly separate.
The vendor's own published material is the only source used for facts about a specific product: what it is, what it requires, what it costs, what is in it. Those facts are not restated here, because a copy on a third-party page goes stale and a reader cannot tell when it did. The course sends you to the vendor instead.
Australian public bodies are the source for anything about classification, consumer rights, privacy and online safety: the Australian Classification Board for classifications and consumer advice, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for consumer guarantees, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner for privacy, the eSafety Commissioner for online safety and gaming, the Australian Cyber Security Centre for general account security advice, and Scamwatch for current scam warnings. The course links to them and describes what they are; it does not restate their guidance as its own, and it does not quote legal thresholds without pointing at the body that sets them.
General practice covers everything else — how a requirements table is read, why a drive that is nearly full causes trouble, how to write a useful support request. Claims of that kind are phrased as guidance rather than as findings, because that is what they are. The course contains no statistics, no test results, no benchmarks and no survey data, because it has run none.
The commercial relationship, stated plainly
This matters more than anything else on this page, so it is not buried. One product is named repeatedly in the course: World of Warships. HH PROSERVIS s.r.o. earns a commission, through the affiliate network that operates the link, when a reader follows one of those links and creates and activates an account. That is the commercial reason this site exists.
Three things follow, and the course is written so a reader can check each of them. The commission did not decide what the steps say; every instruction in them works with any game, and most of the course would be unchanged if the links were removed tomorrow. The links appear in two places only, Step 1 and Step 4, each with a note beside it saying what it is. And nothing in the course requires a reader to follow one: the checklists can be completed end to end without leaving the site.
What does decide the content is the sequence of decisions a beginner actually faces, and what the Australian bodies above publish about them. The full explanation, including how the money works, is on the affiliate disclosure page.
No company has reviewed, approved or sponsored the wording of this course. All brand names on Calm Thesis, World of Warships among them, are the property of their owners.
How often it is reviewed
The whole course is read through on a fixed schedule, twice a year, and also whenever an Australian body the course links to restructures its site or changes its guidance. A review checks three things: that every outbound link still reaches the page it is described as reaching, that nothing in the text has been overtaken by a change in how games are distributed, and that no product fact has crept in that should have been left to the vendor.
The date of the most recent review appears at the foot of every page, including this one. If you find something that is out of date or simply wrong, writing to info@calmthesis.online is the fastest way to have it corrected; corrections are made to the page rather than announced separately.
What this site collects about you
Nothing beyond the ordinary access logs kept by the web host. There are no forms, no accounts, no newsletter, no cookies, no analytics, no advertising tags and no third-party scripts, and the site makes no requests to any other server. The privacy policy sets this out in detail, and the cookie policy lists each storage technology and states that it is not used.