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Quoting: rea987Enemy Territory: Quake Wars begs to differ. 😬

ET:QW is already id Tech 4. Does that still count as old enough? 😄

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When I read the news, I checked when I last played this game. It was August 2017, some time after I finished episode 2. I probably forgot how to play this game entirely. 😆

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Quoting: williamjcmSame group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

I mean, if they only go for the sure fire cases, there would be no advocacy at all.

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Quoting: omer666Well that's good news, because it was the last legacy id software related game that was missing a source port

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars begs to differ. 😬

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Today I won't believe anyone 😁

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Quoting: EWG(note that social media and social networking are different things. I presume the former to be in reference to facebooger and the like.)

Social media means services based on social interaction around user-published content (or media). So Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. YouTube counts as well, but classic chats and blogs like IRC, Matrix and this site do not. Certain features in some communication platforms like WhatsApp and maybe even Discord might put them in the social media category.

Admittedly there are some fuzzy boundaries and differing definitions. This isn't hard science.

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

The VR market is 80% Facebook, and Facebook have recently reorientated away from VR gaming - closing studios and calling off hardware partnerships, and making their VR ecosystem thing a phone app instead.

It would be quite a good time for Valve to swoop in with a cheap device that can play all those games without any retooling from game devs, but RAM crisis.

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Quoting: Durandalsupported an unapologetic white supremacist..

I would very much like to see examples of this. That's a horrible thing. From anything I've seen, nothing has directly been the offenders words.

He's been vocal on his opinions on social media, so finding things "in his own words" shouldn't be too hard.

There's plenty of articles summarizing it, such as this.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

Thanks for a link. I don't have social media so, it's unlikely I'd be able to find/see anything on such platforms.
(note that social media and social networking are different things. I presume the former to be in reference to facebooger and the like.)

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This was my Tomb Raider 🥰

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Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

Definitely a part of it.
Those old enough will know that this was like the fifth time or so VR was touted as the "next big thing"/"the future"/etc.
And of course it didn't take this time, either, at least not to the level of mass success some were hyped into believing.

But also: Current price & availability for any kind of electronic hardware - within and without the gaming sphere.

Add that to a product like this, basically a free online hangout - these concepts have already failed so many times before (remember the first hangouts of comparable kind in the late 90s/early 2000s, with avatars and stuff?).
It adds this extra step to hanging out together digitally, I am honestly surprised it lasted as long as it did.
And as it turns out, that was because the devs poured their own money into it.

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

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Quoting: XpanderI'm using MATE on arch. The attraction for me is that the thing just works without breakages or problems.

Sounds like the main point here is: "it doesn't change". I can see the value in that, but if everything else around it changes, it will only last so long before it can't continue. Others have mentioned X11 being deprecated - it's barely getting security fixes these days, and mostly for Xwayland.

Quoting: Caldathrasadding Wayland support does not equal removing Xorg support.

It does not. But GNOME 50 dropped X11 support. KDE plans to drop X11 support soon (they already split out the X11 stuff in preparation for it). Any desktop environment planning to stick around will support Wayland, and may drop X11 support if they end up with too few active users. That could take a long time in some cases, sure.

Quoting: CaldathrasI have heard that Fedora and Ubuntu intend to ship with Wayland as default

I think that happened nearly a decade ago with Fedora. Of course, with Nvidia support for Wayland being very poor for so long, X11 continued to be well supported as well. I tried running Wayland a few times over the years (on Nvidia), but it never lasted long - too unstable. But things have improved a lot, and I've been using it for the last couple months.

Quoting: Purple Library Guyextensions tend to break when GNOME gets a significant update

Unfortunately true, but that doesn't happen TOO often, and most extensions either get updated, or forked into working versions. I haven't dug into all the arcane details, but I've occasionally hacked up a few when that happens. From what I've seen, it's mostly user-editable / not compiled code. Of course, most "end users" don't want to do that. But the "official" extensions, including the "classic desktop" ones, are kept up to date and don't break.

A variety of desktop environments is great, and as long as MATE continues functioning for you, that's also great. I keep hearing good things about Plasma 6.x, and 5.x before it; I think KDE 4.x was the last time I spent any time with it. Back then, I found it too Windows-like (in look and feel, and stability-wise).

I certainly disliked GNOME 3.x in the early days, with their heavy focus on biased choices and removing options, but these days I appreciate being able to customize it with extensions. A few I like:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6682/astra-monitor/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4648/desktop-cube/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5446/quick-settings-tweaker/

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Well that's good news, because it was the last legacy id software related game that was missing a source port

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Omelette du fromage!

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Hopefully it can be preserved somehow.

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Quoting: rea987Microsoft has to re-release Heretic II!

I dream that Hyperion Entertainment will come back to releasing games for Linux, and then they will port Heretic II to our system. They did it with Heretic II for AmigaOS in 2024.

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Quoting: williamjcmSame group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

So you're saying France's legal system is just as corrupt as the US? That's depressing.

I feel like you're putting words in my mouth here.

Don't see how. That was the conclusion I came to based on what you said. Not my problem if you want to take it that way.

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"What are your thoughts? Leave a comment,"
RMS was right, join us and share the software...
but at the same time "this ship has sailed", its not enough to fight by making free software alternatives, we need preservation of the softwares and games regardless of if they are free or proprietary, companies shouldnt have the right to take away things from people forever especially if they paid for those things, its stealing.

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Quoting: williamjcmSame group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

So you're saying France's legal system is just as corrupt as the US? That's depressing.

It's much less corrupt than the supreme court but they uphold laws. The laws themselves might not be the best but that's up to the law makers.

As always, I still miss Totalbiscuit as he was a great advocate for gamers as consumers.

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Quoting: williamjcmSame group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

So you're saying France's legal system is just as corrupt as the US? That's depressing.

I feel like you're putting words in my mouth here.

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Quoting: PhlebiacWhat's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

I can move to Cinnamon immediately when it has Classic Menu "applet" (do not know what Cinnamon calling these) menu where is Applications Places and System menus. MATE is good but support is what is it (or not it).

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

seek revenge against your own body after it betrayed you.

What.

You know, a bit like getting a gym membership.

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Unlike many here, I like this company and what they do. They support CachyOS, my favorite distro, and now support KDE, promoting longevity, reducing e-waste, and repairability.

I'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

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Quoting: SakuretsuHope the consumer group wins. That's what Ubislop deserves.

What Ubisoft deserves is bankruptcy. But I take them losing that lawsuit, too.

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Quoting: CaldathrasBeing that I am not a fan of MMOs (or any online games, really), it would seem to me that the most important aspect of an online game would be replayability. Wouldn't an endgame scenario interfere with that?

Once you've finished the endgame, what is there left to do?

A good endgame has no end. Consider a game like Path of Exile: over a decade of endgame expansions, consistent large playerbase every update, emphasizes player interactions but allows you to do everything on your own at the same time if you'd like. It has perfected the infinite grind.

To be fair, Arc Raiders is a baby in comparison to PoE, and in a different genre, but can learn from its success: if players already enjoy the core gameplay loop, Embark can't just pump out new content, but also has to to give players different ways to interact with existing content to keep stuff fresh even years down the line... assuming the game is still popular by then.

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This case specifically is a good test case as nothing in this game should technically be able to run entirely without the servers. Anything multiplayer is entirely optional and therefore having it locked down is clearly just a kill switch.

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