Highly recommend Hidden Folks, one of the best hidden object (or well, hidden people) games I've played.

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Quoting: NezchanI'll be damned. I've been using Linux since RedHat 5.2, but today I learned I'm not a real Linux user.

... Is that what you got out of my comments? How? If you don't mind me asking?

Quoting: NezchanAnd yeah, I raised my hand when you asked who hadn't bricked their system because they were fucking around under the hood. Another shared experience I don't share I guess. I'm a fraud.

You've been around since RedHat 5.2 and you've not screwed up your system even ONCE?! Wow! Again, not sure why you believe that makes you a "fraud", but I can't help bu thinking you're a rare breed :D

Hell, from what I recall I used my entire 2-3 first YEARS breaking my system. Tweaking like a madman, installing packages east and west, trying to force packages not compiled for my distro to work, digging and punching through config files and file property settings and thinking I got the hang of things.

Essentially doing everything I never experienced Windows giving me the opportunity to do.

Zero times. There have been a couple of updates over the years that have more or less bricked things, and there have been times I've had to do a fresh install because of some fuckup or another introduced when upgrading to a new version of whatever it happened to be. But nothing because I've been fucking around under the hood because I absolutely avoid fucking around under the hood if I can at all avoid it.

I don't want to tinker. I don't want to tweak. I don't want to have to use command line if I can get away with it, although that's sometimes not possible. I just want to use my computer like a normal person on an OS I feel comfortable with. All the stuff you list there sounds beyond unpleasant.

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Quoting: BeamboomThis is something that new users - ergo us all, every single one of us - has experienced on our Linux system during our first year for DECADES now. And then some celebrity (whom I have no idea who is but it seems the rest of you are on first name with) whines about it on youtube (or Twitch or wherever he's "influencing") and all of a sudden the entire Linux community jump like puppets.
Pathetic, is what it is.

I'll be damned. I've been using Linux since RedHat 5.2, but today I learned I'm not a real Linux user.

And yeah, I raised my hand when you asked who hadn't bricked their system because they were fucking around under the hood. Another shared experience I don't share I guess. I'm a fraud.

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Quoting: scaineI like the look of this - reminds me of Invisible Inc, which I raved about in my PIN review (THREE YEARS ago?? WTH!!). I'll be wishlisting this for sure.

I was just thinking about Invisible, Inc. Hopefully it doesn't have that damned XCOM-style global timer nonsense, I hate that mechanic, and it kinda killed my desire to play when I finally got it for my tablet.

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Quoting: scaineBTW - Mate can be quite pretty, but I felt that it needed quite a lot of customisation to be be so. The absolutely tiny window grab handles were also an issue, especially on 4K. Haven't used it in about two years though, so maybe they fixed both!

MATE is something of a comfort zone for me, so I'm unlikely to be swayed by pretty and shiny. I used Linux for quite a while before briefly changing to Windows for practical reasons for a few years. At the time I left, Gnome2 was the the big thing and, finding MATE after a while of using vanilla Ubuntu (with Unity) it was kind of like coming home.

I have done the tweaking to make it prettier and more comfortable though, worry not.

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And here's me sitting back on MATE with a bowl of popcorn, watching the show.

Does KDE still have all those large, ugly desktop widgets that were still around a couple of years ago when I last checked it out?

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Okay, I actually did the unheard of and looked up what "attention economy" actually is. I know, I'll report to the gulag after this.

Anyroad, it's a real thing. Basically the idea is that there's only so much attention to go around, people will focus on one product or another, and there's competition for that brainspace, very much like there's competition for dollars. What companies like Facebook do is aggressively try to capture and monetize that attention. FOSS projects like Mastodon on the other hand do try to capture attention to some degree, but there's not a focus on monetization.

How does this apply to Godot and why would someone in the NFT space want to break away from the attention economy? Frankly, I haven't a clue, since Godot products are also competing for attention and a good deal are for profit (selling your game) and it's to Godot's best interest to have a lot of attention paid to them so they'll keep getting the big donations. As to NFTs, and crypto in general, being akin to MLMs where they rely on getting new suckers investors in all the time, the attention economy is vital. Breaking free of that would basically sink them in short order.

So in short...I dunno. I think they're just throwing around buzzwords they think might resonate with the FOSS crowd.

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Amusing to see an NFT group decrying the "attention economy" when so much of its own economy relies heavily on attention-getting stunts.

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Yeah, from what I've seen of it so far, there's still no reason at all to pick it up. From what I'm seeing it seems like even though they're making it less superfluous, it's still quite unbalanced, buggy, and frankly expensive (more than 2/3 the price of the game itself) for what you're getting.

Honestly, if they just made spreading plant life in Green Planet a bit less grindy and slow compared to the rest of the terraforming, I'd be happy with that.

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In a way, this reminds me of the Japanese film After Life, where the staff are tasked with discovering the most cherished memories of the deceased and making short films of them, allowing their souls to take that with them to whatever the next step may be. Really tempting to look into this one, although it's gonna depend on how the writing holds up.

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