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Quoting: Xpanderflatpak

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users.

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

I love AppImage because I can treat my applications like data. I can organize them in my own custom structure, back them up, copy them between any of my Linux machines including my kids Steam Decks and they just work most of the time.

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After the whole fiasco with Three Kingdoms and the cancelled sequel I will not be buying anything from them again.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/17k6y1t/the_sequel_to_three_kingdoms_allegedly_was/](https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/17k6y1t/the_sequel_to_three_kingdoms_allegedly_was/)

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This is so great to see!

@numerfolt do what now? Can you link me to some info? Oh it's the hyprland/omarchy toxic communities. I have never been there or spent any time with either, so I have no personal experience but from what I've read: they can F right off and I know for sure I won't be using either ever.

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The ultimate crime is how Zazlov (sp?) gets to run one of the biggest, oldest, most storied media business straight into the ground with pure idiocy and incompetence, then get to cash out a GIGANTIC check at the end as a reward.

He should get exactly $0.00 and all of whatever was supposed to go to him should instead go to all the employees of wb who've been royally fucked over throughout the past years with him in charge.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
[https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part49.html](https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part49.html)

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Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.

I used to think the same, but I kind of gave up on that fight. Technical issues with maintaining my own server coupled with [how long this meta-issue has been open](https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/discussions/723), plus their list of paying customers (who, of course, really drive their development)... honestly, good old Mumble is probably still my favourite, with just running my own Nextcloud instance with Talk/Spreed what I'm currently trialling.

I still deleted my Discord account entirely last month, though - my friends are fine just pinging me directly on Steam, which apparently has similar drop-in persistent voice channels in group chats, now?! It's still janky in the same way that the Steam client itself is janky, but still.

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Goonswarm... do they originate from the eve online faction with the same name? If so, then i have no questions anymore. :)

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Quoting: BoldosSo, if I understand it correctly: People/users do not like AI stuff in games?

They also appear to be iffy about people concealing and then blatantly lying about it when called out.

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> Official links:
> GOG
> itch.io
> Steam

I own Nuclear Throne on itch as a result of bying it in four charity bundles over the years, but the downloadable binaries have not been updated since 2016, and I doubt they will this time either. I also own the game on Steam so I don't much care but I would not get it on itch.

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That's the current moment for you--even when you get to watch people you don't like fighting, whichever of them wins, we lose.

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> pre-pre-production

they're probably assessing genAI models

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That's good to see.

Unfortunately they lost quite some people that now thinks that framework is fine with sponsoring fascists :/

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I long ago gave up using the actual client, I don't need fifty different browsers disguised as apps running.

Works fine, and frankly better performance-wise, as a pinned tab in Firefox.

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It's in pre-pre-production. Terribly exciting. In the current industry climate that leaves at least half a decade of dodging cancellations, and that's assuming Sega doesn't get profoundly sick of CA regardless of how well the Medieval 3 development is going.

This entire announcement reeks of insincerity, desperation and damage control.

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Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.

There is an open source discord clone (not 3rd party client, it's own thin called "stoat"

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Call of Thunder! CodThunder! Battlethunder!

If they get this right, I suspect it will swell the War Thunder numbers significantly!! We'll end up with videos like that @GnarSasquatch guy on Arma Reforger!

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Wine really had huge progress this year, so many things got fixed and implemented especially for winewayland.

What's so far is broken still is this:

* https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57456
* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461063

But formally, it's a KDE bug.

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[Adversarial Interoperability](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability), for those interested.

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Too bad. I was looking forward to this one.

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Finally more developers using Flatpak ;) That's a good sign.

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Have had the MX Master for a while, and dunno if I would be able to go back now.

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Wow, I wonder how many other mainstream projects switched gears because of Valve's Steam Machine and Steam Frame announcement.

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Stremio-ing was never easier.

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Since Medieval III is in pre-production stage, maybe we'll get a Medieval II remaster before that. Just wishful thinking. Medieval II on a 64-bit engine would do wonders for the modding community.

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Great game! Someday I'll beat it. Or not, as this is the kind of game that gets harder and harder to do well as you age and your reflection time goes down. Oh well...

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Quoting: Xpanderflatpak

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users.

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

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It's hard to be upset at the Hyprland donations, I suppose, in the face of the all the good they're additionally doling out on a monthly basis. Still wish they'd drop Gnome for KDE though (and by extension, also drop Hyprland), as this feels like the direction of travel these days.

I might just be blinkered there though. I suspect Gnome still has a huge mindshare, probably as a combined result over decades of Ubuntu and Fedora.

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Quoting: BoldosSo, if I understand it correctly: People/users do not like AI stuff in games?

Incredible, eh? Who'd have thought?? /sarcasm

Specifically though, it's genAI that's so hated. ML/AI has been around for decades without burning the planet, stealing jobs, pirating books, abusing copyright, talking kids into bad situations, or kick-starting a new nuclear era during a climate crisis. I could also point out the price of Nvidia GPUs, or 32Gb of RAM, I suppose, but I feel like it's already earned its derision by this point. Screwing up gaming/computing generally is just icing!

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The "creative" part of their name is becoming increasingly less relevant.

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Selfishly, I have Netflix (albeit debating keeping it much longer after I ditched Spotify a couple of months ago), and won't ever take Paramount, so hopefully this hostile bid fails completely. Also, as others have noted, this is backed by Jared Kushner apparently - Trump's step-son, with additional backing from the middle east.

According to the FT, Paramount are on the hook for only (!) $12bn, while $24bn is secured through several middle eastern sovereign wealth funds (who are still separately diversifying from oil through initiatives like PIF's investment in EA e-gaming), and the remainder is a debt through a combined commitment from the Bank of America, Citigroup, and Apollo.

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