Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

A one size fits all "judgement" about "people" comes off as arrogant in this context, and white knighting for a billion dollar enterprise against peasant coders isn't a good look.

But to give the benefit of the doubt -- how many decades have you been a gamer for?

People here who have been since the 80s, 90s have seen dozens to hundreds of beloved video game companies go out of business in their lifetime. The community validates that reality as a realistic argument and scenario. Google Stadia, Sega Channel, 7th Level Games, Looking Glass Studios, Rareware, Acclaim Entertainment, Sierra Entertainment...

Conflating tools with crimes is nonsense, it's a slippery slope to think that all kitchen knives "could" be used in a crime so therefore they must be disallowed. This modern "Safetyism" revolution is a scam.

Where does the scam end? Cars need to be illegal because they "could" or "are" an accessory to manslaugher in "some" instances.

Perhaps your comments were vague and directed at a more specific group or person though.

Everyone wants to be "on the side of the big battalions", but this "safetyism" and billionaires beating up on peasants is bullshit.

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Quoting: emphyThe age of cultural piracy, where big companies try to lock down human culture behind so-called "intellectual property" laws, is in full swing.

If you don't want future nostalgia be held hostage by such, do not play their games. They are much overhyped and overrated any ways.

1000 times this. This time period may become a "Lost Age" if preservation is hostily sabotaged using lawfare.

Quoting: Mountain ManHow dare Nintendo protect its intellectual property!

I gotta believe this is a hot take, or chaos bait for popcorn, shits and giggles.

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Couldn't get my Index to work on Linux. Ended up needing to buy a new harness cable. Lesson of the story -- never let family or friends borrow. I look forward to trying these updates (since I haven't tried since the major update)

The Cheese app screenshots from the Index webcam are really surreal and pretty stylistically interesting.

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If the Internet got together and gave Nintendo the Shrek Treatment and made all their franchise characters creepy and hilarious as retaliation to this mickey mouse shit I mean, I wouldn't shed a tear for Nintendo after what they've done.

Humor Noir

Spoiler, click me

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=u4BcpJfMvAQ NSFWish

https://youtube.com/watch?v=W2dxblz6m54

https://youtube.com/watch?v=enRM2TifKls

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Side Note: ANYTHING NINTENDO TOOK DOWN IS NOW OFFICIALLY NINTENDO CANNON

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Quoting: ToddLAs long as Nintendo doesn't come after Ryujinx, it sounds like something I may checkout in the future when I get done with my never ending backlogs

I have a broad question to the emulation community -- wouldn't it be better to split up the development, chat room and maybe even website under different names and groups?

If you think about it what goes on in the chat room should have near zero connection to development besides bug triage.

Doesn't it create a liability to have it all under 1 umbrella?

And even documentation to an extent too -- my understanding is other emulators had documented processes to do various grey-area tasks -- why not modularization and export that a different umbrella.

It would only make sense to me.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: amataiHow is it spelled through ? Is it the Spanish Libre of Cuba Libre, a English libre (no idea ho it is spelled in English) or something different ?

I don't think there's an English world "libre". There's a French word, but in the context of open source software it's almost always the Spanish that's being invoked. Don't know why--either there's more Latin American involvement in open source than French involvement, or US Americans sometimes speak Spanish but rarely speak French.

Wild guess but this might relate -- RSM -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

I'm not sure about other english speakers but I have always taken the word "Libre" to be short for "Liberty" as in "The Statue of Liberty" -- or to mean 'freedom for the individual'

I'm guessing this is part of what the french were conveying when they gifted the Statue of Liberty to USA + New York?

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It would have been nice if the naming schema could have followed the other Libre names.

Libre Chat

Libre Office

Libre Worlf

Libre tro ;P

But in all seriousness in my opinion LibreVoxe is way better than VoxeLibre and easier to remember and rolls off the tongue better IRL speech.

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That thumbnail makes me happy.

They should just rehire 2K for SS2, System Shock and Bio Shock are siblings after all from the same developers.

Edit: For people who don't know 2K was based in Marin California, and the inspiration for the games is basically Eugenices -- same for the movie Gattica.

Additionally, the MK Ultra (Mind Kontrol) experiments occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area which includes Marin as per the document leak.

It all coincides with the West "buying up" all the LSD on the planet in the 1960s and the cult experiments that were done.

The MK's are worth a read. No wonder the horrors of such ideology translated so perfectly into System Shock and Bio Shock.

Edit 2: If memory serves me right, for all you UK'ers out there there was a connection between those things and Pink Floyd lead singer, the symbolism is very apparant in Pink Floyd "The Trial" music video from that time.

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I was gifted a "Smart Mug". (No physical buttons of any kind to control cup temperature. Instead it required a Bluetooth connection and a Phone App)

I politely told them I wouldn't really use it. How much was it?

USD $100-200.

[Que Ejecting Coffee From Mouth.jpg]

It was still returnable, so I told them to return it and keep the money -- they put it towards a new cellphone that broke that week.

You couldn't pay me to make this nightmare tech part of my existence. Life is already miserable enough without the implications of always on invisible tech tracking every time you want to use a toilet, a cup, or whatever else.

We used to call this shit fucking creepy, and people who peddled it creepy.

Edit: Imagine a world with a "Smart Shower" designed to give you your water ration -- complete with IoT Camera and Motion Sensor -- just to turn on and off the water and totally not to collect data on your junk and sell you penis pills lmao.

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Quoting: BumadarAmazing how a thread about a backdoor in xz ended up posts about windows 95, the law and killing people.

This kind of underlines the point the limitations of Linear Conversation Threads like this one.

I think nested is better, but I find the whole upvote/downvote system a little nauseating and limited -- nested with reactionary emojis in place of voting like Misskey or something would be my dream go-to.

That way it would be possible to filter threads by light hearted "Funny Votes", "Technical Votes", etc... and have robust discussions while filtering out unwanted content.

It would be sick if private groups could have emojis exclusive to that group -- so Linuxers could have a penguin that we put on posts when we like that content, that would be sick.

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