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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat's not extreme is justice and equal rights for all.

In our current, somewhat distopian times, it seems to me that the ideal of "justice and equal rights for all" IS an extreme viewpoint, verging on utopian in nature. Our society more accurately reflects a paraphrase of George Orwell's famous quote from Animal Farm: "... some are more equal than others." Our society definitely allows certain individuals to hold more power and privilege than others.

Quoting: George OrwellAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

We are a hierarchical species. If you look back in history, this is how it has always been.

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And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.

So, Linux support?

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Quoting: SalvatosWait, they support Icewind Dale 2 even though Beamdog said they couldn't make an Enhanced Edition for it? Huh!

From what I heard, the source code / assets of IWD2 were lost, and the EEs Beamdog did were all based on the original stuff.
GemRB on the other hand is a rewrite from scratch, so they never had the original code for any of the games to begin with.

Doesn't mean Beamdog couldn't have possibly reverse engineered the bits required to make IWD2 work on top of what they already had, but I guess it may not have been cost-effective, and if they got it wrong they'd piss off their paying customers.

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Quoting: TightRopeHow much did Tim Sweeney cut his own compensation? Responsibility starts at the top.

You don't understand how corporate management works.
If a business is doing well, it's ALWAYS because of the hard-working, visionary CEO.
If a business is not doing well, it's ALWAYS because of external factors outside of the CEO's control.

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Sad for all those people losing their job in the current market situation. Might be tough to find something in games, and possibly in other software industries, too.

Though the thing I always find fascinating in instances like this: what did those 1000 people do that doesn't need doing any more?

Having myself always worked in smaller companies (or within smaller departments of large companies), where projects rarely had more than a dozen developers (and at times only one or two), I wonder how much efficiency is lost due to bureaucracy and coordination required between all those people. Though to be honest, in my current position as one of six, I spend about 80% of my time with coordination, reviews, meetings, presentations and support. The other 20% are then divided between coffee breaks and coding. I guess in a much bigger team, you'd have people specifically dedicated to coffee breaks only ;-).

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No tears will be shed for Tencent Timmy.

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Quoting: eggroleAdd to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. […] Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another.

Other commenters already (civilly) pointed out issues with your comment, but I have to say I agree with this point A LOT.

Calling people names is the worse way to make them change their minds. The only thing you get out of it is validation from people who already agree with you anyway.

I'm in France, in my 20k-people city the far-right party got 20% of the votes, their main selling points were (in descending order of priority according to their website):
1. more police, more weapons, more cameras
2. more parking space for cars near the city center
3. less money for thing they don't like (mainly pointing out subsidized housing and immigration-related associations)

And the non-written selling point is that their leader is a 19-yo woman studying law, ie a young Marine Le Pen.

Now I disagree with all of these points, but is calling 1 out of 5 of my neighbors nazis or fascists going to change their minds in any way? Or should I go to them and ask “Okay, why do you want cameras in the street? When do you think it would have helped you? I don't like that kind of surveillance because it can be misused for X, plus example Y shows it isn't even effective in the case you just described, what do you think of solution Z instead?”?

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Back to article's subject, I don't really like this kind of games, which I place into the name calling category. They're fun only if you already agree with the point they're trying to make* and won't change anyone's mind.

(*or are we reading too much into it, associating it with currently raising far-right ideas?)

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Send in the clones!

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shame, I actually really enjoyed Fortnite in my pre-Linux days and was hoping it'd finally come here someday. looking less likely by the day. Sweeney you damn idiot.

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How much did Tim Sweeney cut his own compensation? Responsibility starts at the top.

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Quoting: apocalyptechHuh. I'd have assumed that Fortnite was one of those things that was just gonna keep on making All The Money, but I guess not.

And you're not the only one that thought that. But it is unreasonable to think that any game has an infinite lifespan. People will inevitably grow out of games like this and go on to try other things. Any potential new audience find themselves in a landscape with much more choice than people had in the time that Fortnite exploded. It will be impossible to recapture the peak. If any game will ever grow to a degree that the older big ones did, it'll have to be something radically different.

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Quoting: voxI would kindly ask to stop promoting games with "killing nazis" tagline, that's not about actual nazis and more about killing political opponents that extreme left calls nazis.

I watched the trailer. Sure looked like the main character was killing a bunch of actual cartoony Nazis. But if you see your "side" in that . . . Ehhh, tough. Meanwhile, games where the enemies are Communists are so common it's not even really remarked on.

Quoting: voxAlso I was under the impression that this site's position was somewhat apolitical.

Far as I can tell, this site's position is an insistence on common decency. It just so happens that a lot of things the modern far right like to say violate that. That's on them. But I don't see what you have to complain about here except that commenters disagree with you. That isn't a site policy. People rubbishing nonsense is not a free speech violation, it's the other people also getting to speak.

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Quoting: voxI would kindly ask to stop promoting games with "killing nazis" tagline

No.

Quoting: voxAlso I was under the impression that this site's position was somewhat apolitical.

You can't have read much from us over the years then. We've never been apolitical.

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Since you're not going to officially support them anymore, it's time to fully open up the Pascal and earlier GPUs to the open source community, Nvidia ... so the community can do your job for you.

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hopefully they fixed numerous crashes in unreal engine games that were introduced in 590. even today I tell people everywhere to downgrade to 580 and it helps, for any unreal engine 5 game basically. maybe for unreal engine 4 games as well.

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Grim Dawn is absolutely goated in the isometric ARPG genre. both DLCs are also on sale (though not as steep as the base game's current discount, if you feel hooked after the first couple hours just get the DLCs too) and a third DLC is currently in development. if you enjoy Diablo, Path of Exile, Torchlight, Titan Quest, and/or Last Epoch, I'd say it's a must-play.

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Huh. I'd have assumed that Fortnite was one of those things that was just gonna keep on making All The Money, but I guess not. Really sucks for all those devs; that's a fairly staggering amount of people to be left without a job, into a market which doesn't seem replete with other options. Like other folks here, I'm not especially fond of Epic the company, but as always it's a shame that the people bearing the brunt of stuff like this tends to be the feet-on-the-ground devs.

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Ehi, Sweeney, how's like when you piss off with your dismissive remarks and game strategy one of the few demographics still growing in this messed up industry?

-- Linux users

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One of the things I love about this site is learning about open source projects I didn't even know existed. This is almost as amazing as the open source Cannon Fodder I read about here... Thank you, I <3 Open Source and having some of my favorite games in a timeless, platform-agnostic version always makes me happy.

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the next generation of Epic

What could that even mean?

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I would kindly ask to stop promoting games with "killing nazis" tagline, that's not about actual nazis and more about killing political opponents that extreme left calls nazis. And all of the comments reflect exactly that. We had one such killing in recent times IRL of the man who werent a nazi, but was named as such by his political opponents. If there's a problem in a modern politics - it's this rhetoric. Also I think that this "game" is a lazy shitpost in gaming form and personally, I'm not interested in such content. This rule will also apply to any "sucking off Adolf simulator 5000" or "kill many communists", just in case.

Also I was under the impression that this site's position was somewhat apolitical. But those types of postings (this is second of such case in my memory) generate "political discussion" that I would consider faux pas and maybe even extreme. It's not nice in any way, shape or form.

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I feel sorry for the people who lost their job, but otherwise, I can't see anything bad about Epic not doing well...

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I'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

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Pay to win game got expansion, hooray!

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Sweeney notes how this round of layoffs is not related to AI noting that "Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI

Translation:

Totally down to AI usage within the development processes!

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Fortnite can't last forever. The kiddies are growing up and moving on.

Sucks that this is the state of the global economy in most industries though. Layoffs everywhere the past couple of years. The pandemic response really fucked the economy and we're still paying for it directly and indirectly (like politics.)

If their game store didn't go balls deep on exclusivity and kept it simple like Stardock's Impulse did before they sold it off, odds are they would be swimming in money. The masses hate gatekeeping.

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Not a huge fan of the EEs seemingly taking priority over regular ol' PST polish, but it's always nice seeing a GemRB update.

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Very very interesting, but I am not sure about the multi player bit, rest looks good though

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Good.
Now I just need to wait for Fedora to update their packages.

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