Quoting: einherjarIt gives the impression that the pillory is coming back in the form of social media.
I think it has something to do with civilization and thinking in terms of the rule of law that you don't simply condemn people and publicly pillory them without having at least heard the arguments of both sides.
To carry on the accusations of people "because it will be true" without even hearing the accused I feel very uncivilized.

I will certainly not agree with either side here, but I find it deeply questionable that this is apparently done by a majority.
The mere spreading of accusations that cannot be verified by oneself is a cause for concern to me, if this happens in a way that gives the impression that it is the truth.

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Fortunately some his bad behavior is publicly documented because he tweeted his bullshit. Additionally an entire group of his workers quit their jobs at his company, not on hearsay, but in direct response to his continued unrepentent toxic behavior. And pilloried? He's not locked anywhere for all to see or take physical abuse from. There is no fines or governmental punishment involved which is what pillory was. He's paraded himself naked around town so to speak, in keeping with your metaphor.

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Quoting: randylI really liked Tower of Time and did not know they added a Linux port. When I first switched back to Linux as my main desktop a while back ToT didn't have one and didn't run well (or at all really) through Proton, which was really new at the time. I just reinstalled Tower of Time and added Dark Envoy to my follow and wishlists.

Tower of Time predates Proton by like a year, Tower of Time came to Linux in 2017, Proton was 2018.

Sorry about that, I got it confused with Shadows: Awakening which I had done a review for around the same time. Eep, I'm seriously losing my memory. I realized that last night when I reinstalled it. ToT is still brilliant though. I do wish Shadows had been ported. It has an interesting character unlock and switching mechanism. I had started using Proton and Ubuntu full time in September which was when I stopped writing. I apologize for the confusion and my horrible memory. Time is so wishy washy timey wimey for me. :dizzy:

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Quoting: PatolaFrom the said joke, I had not understand at the time I read this was an allusion to George Floyd, indeed. Anyway, this look like dark humor to me, insensitivity to George's death, not necessarily racism only because George was black.

I keep my point that this is cancel culture, which tries to skip trial and due process.

You know, I'm in my fifties. Back in the 1970s or 80s I don't remember anyone thinking you had to have a trial and due process before you were allowed to say something nasty about someone. So I don't think saying nasty things about people without first holding a trial represents "cancel culture". It's kind of incoherent as an idea--how do you try someone for the right to say nasty things about them without first saying the nasty things you want to be allowed to say?

If you're so hung up on trials, it seems to me the shoe is on the other foot--if they're lying, let him sue them for libel.

I'm also in my fifties. I remember back then we called it "burning your bridges" and people were held accountable for making vulgar comments in business. This isn't something he said 2 decades ago and has changed his heart and mind. Then it would be "cancel culture" to make him pay, like Canadian "conservatives" tried with the blackface and Trudeau fiasco. No, this is him reaping the consequences of his obejctionable behavior with those he directly affected.

I hope he learns his lesson and changes his ways. None of us are perfect and I believe we all deserve second chances, once we've actually changed our behavior, but not until then. I don't care about the games either way since they're not really my jam so it won't affect me, but I can empathize with those workers being forced to decide between their careers and income or putting up with a hostile environment. I applaud their courage.

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Wow, this is a lot nicer with a much lower price tag than expected. I was expecting the kind of price you see from System 76 or Falcon Northwest (my local boutique builder) with the hardware options I was looking for. Impressive.

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I really liked Tower of Time and did not know they added a Linux port. When I first switched back to Linux as my main desktop a while back ToT didn't have one and didn't run well (or at all really) through Proton, which was really new at the time. I just reinstalled Tower of Time and added Dark Envoy to my follow and wishlists.

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The list looks pretty good. This is what the Stadia team needs to do on a monthly basis give the value of the Pro sub some more weight.

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You find some real gems Liam, thanks. I added both to my Steam Wishlist.

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Quoting: grigiI think you may be confusing the issues here.
There is distinctly different "fragmentations" being spoken of here:

1) Fragmentation of the administative environment. Debian/RH/Gentoo/Arch bases all administrate very differently. This fragmentation is being felt, but RPM/APT and Portage/Packman solve different problems. So we actually need much of this.

2) Fragmentation of the app environment. Other than having to load styles seperately for GTK/Qt, we don't really care here. An app built for Gnome/Unity just works in a KDE enviroment.

3) Fragmentation of APIs. This has been a much bigger issue in Windows (DLL hell) than in Linux, and we have a few interfaces that are stable (kernel-userspace + libc) and you can just bundle the libraries on there, and problem solved.

One claims that fragmentation-3 is a non issue, and the other claims that is false because of example fragmentation-1.

This is about an app summit, so they are mostly concerned with fragmentation 2 & 3, and not 1.
If you solve 3, then it will run on any distribution (and run on future ones), and if you solve 2 then the experience will be consistent on any desktop.

Maybe you don't use Windows but 3 is not fragmentation and isn't really an issue at all. Multiple DLL versions (e.g. Microsoft VS C++ runtimes, .net version libraries, etc) can live side by side.

There is no real fragmentation in the Windows ecosystem because it targets a consistent framework and they put backwards compatibility before all else, even when it appears stupid and clunky. Even now with IE11 being deprecated for future development it will be supported and backwards compatible going forwards for the foreseeable future.

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Quoting: NeoTheFoxWelp, I promised I bring my server up after the update, so stay tuned. Let's test if my hardware could take it..

I am tuned! OK, if you get a usable server running, please share creds! I was thinking of starting up a server and sharing the creds in a forum post here and hosting it as an event. That way, we can hopefully get a handful of people to start and play at the same time! Longevity of the server would depend on interest. The gist is I wouldn't set out to start a new club or something and try to get regulars. They just fall apart. But it would be fun to have like a game party.

Quoting: randylI wish they supported Steam then I could choose to use either the Proton Windows OS compat layer or the SLR Ubuntu OS container. It would make things so much easier.

I think the only dependency I had to install was mono.

Thanks for the info. Installing Mono seems reasonable. I'll keep it on my radar. It does look interesting.

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Quoting: apocalyptechAha, lovely! I've always loved these. Nice to see a new paint job on 'em! My one minor quibble is that the more-noticeable border on the area-effect hexes, which was in Infinite but not Plus, seems to be gone -- I'd sort of hoped that Plus would get a patch to support Infinite's style, but they seem to have standardized on Plus, instead. Well, we'll see if that ever gets tweaked to my liking. Looking forward to re-playing them, regardless.

And, not that I want to deflect attention from Hexcells itself, but if anyone liked the Hexcells series and was looking for more, I'd recommend Globesweeper: Hex Puzzler - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121530/Globesweeper_Hex_Puzzler/ [External Link] It's sort of "Hexcells But 3D," but also adds in a bunch of other mechanics not seen in any of the Hexcells game. (There's one instance of Globesweeper using a notation which is used in Hexcells for something completely different, which will take a bit of getting used to once you run into it, but it's easy enough to adjust.)

I have Globesweeper and I like it a lot. It does have a lot of complexity in shape and game options. So, I picked up the Hexcells bundle due to the similarity in puzzles and I'm enjoying it a lot. The clean UI is appealing in a logic game and, along with the dark them option, helps remove visual distractions on screen. So far, it's been a great experience and just shows how well some games age.

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