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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI can see it's a disturbing thought. And I'm willing to believe you are, say, less greedy than many or most other people. But you are constrained to be motivated by money; it's the game in town. Do you prefer buying things on sale or full price? If you have retirement savings, do you want them to make a high rate of return? Would you like a raise? Would you like to win the lottery? Do you worry about either the poor, or the rich, taking all the money (via social programs or immigration for the former or tax breaks/evasion and subsidies for the latter) and leaving none for your kind of people?

I feel you're hurting your point by using the wrong term. Greed is not the same as seeking your own advantage. Yes, most of us are often driven by monetary advantages (which is probably good enough to prove your original point). Greed is the exzessive, antisocial variant, which I don't think most people adhere to.

I can't speak for him, but I feel that trying to find a less negative term would hurt my arguments. I do consider the system inherently antisocial, and very much based on unhealthy competition and manufactured scarcity, ultimately leading to unnecessary unhappiness for all parties involved and outright suffering for some. "Greed" might not be the best term, and clearly carries different connotations in different cultures, but until someone suggests a less "accusatory" word (and I'm accusing the system, not individuals here) that is still explicitly negative, that's what I'm sticking with.

Oh and if you're wondering, I'm not advocating pure socialism or any sort of hippie utopia here. There must be something better that what we've got, but I'm not smart enough to come up with a proper plan. It's much easier to recognize faults than it is to fix them. Also, political discussion is all fine and dandy, but we've completely derailed the thread again. :D

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Quoting: kuhpunktDon't you share things? Don't you gift other people presents? Don't you think others should be treated and compensated fairly?

Of course I do all of this and more, but the point was that in the end, all of this works outside or even against the system, not for it. Thankfully, most of us aren't mindless cogs in the machine.

Quoting: kuhpunktIf you think that's how all people are... that would be just sad.

Yes, it would be sad. Good thing I don't think that way. It's perfectly possible to see faults in how things work without falling into abject despair. Otherwise nothing would ever get fixed.

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Quoting: HoriHowever I wonder when will the big elephant be addressed - namely the house's cut on each sale. That thing should definetely be more open (read: reduced), as it actually does affect the consumers. Devs aren't happy with it, at all (and for good reason) and decide to sell elsewhere, which is not ideal at all for the users.

How does affect consumers? Because Greedy devs wants a bigger cut

Well, of course they're greedy. It's capitalism, everyone in the game is greedy. That's the point. Developers are greedy, portal owners are greedy whether Valve or EGS or even GoG, and we consumers all want cheaper games, we're greedy too. Everyone is, in effect, forced to be greedy.

That seems like an overly negative attitude :dizzy:

It's also quite an accurate summary of capitalism. You can call it the pursuit of personal gain instead of greed if you prefer. But in the end, we have to be greedy if we want to be (financially) successful in a capitalist system. That's something we should all be able to agree on, no matter our political leanings.

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Some of the features look a bit... experimental, and could end up detracting from the single player RPG experience. On the other hand, I'm all for another gorgeous RPG with turn based battles. Definitely going on my wishlist.

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Quoting: tofuheadhmm, I tried the "__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 %command%" thing, but it gave the exact same FPS here..

That probably means your i7 is perfectly capable of feeding your modest GPU even on a single thread. I guess D9VK might be worth a try. (As explained in the article and the comments, the background is actually supposed to look like that.)

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Quoting: linuxcityfor those of you saying if they don't put a native i won't buy it well then you won't be buying many titles then.

The ~140 native titles on my wishlist beg to disagree. And I buy more games than I have time to play.

I'm happy Wine exists though.

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Quoting: F.UltraBought and launched Mad Max so I'll guess that I'll be stuck with my computer for 100-200hours. Don't know how my employer will react though...

Took me less than 90 to get all but one of the achievements, and I wasn't exactly speedrunning. But I guess 90 hours is plenty.

I have a tendency in games like this to spend 10+ hours on infiltrating some outpost just to realise that I probably need to level up first :)

My personal compulsion is to comb through every nook and cranny and avoid anything that looks like it might advance the story until there's absolutely nothing else to do. I guess I have an irrational fear of accidentally missing out on some optional bit of content.

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Quoting: gabberJust played 'Human Fall Flat' this weekend to find out they dropped Linux support. Same talk:

Unfortunately we've made the decision to discontinue Linux support so we can focus on new content and features for Windows and Mac versions.

Breaking product after release? Isn't this illegal, like fraud or something?

They didn't exactly break it. It still installs and launches, but won't get any updates and doesn't advertise Linux support in the store. I do remember it being a bit broken for some people though, but probably not intentionally.

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Quoting: F.UltraBought and launched Mad Max so I'll guess that I'll be stuck with my computer for 100-200hours. Don't know how my employer will react though...

Took me less than 90 to get all but one of the achievements, and I wasn't exactly speedrunning. But I guess 90 hours is plenty.

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I did a bit of Euro Truck Sim 2 to check out the new event and to relax after work on Friday. Played some World to the West, the excellent Zelda-like followup to Teslagrad. Finished the lovely A Short Hike and finally started a playthrough of good old Planescape: Torment tonight. (Enhanced edition of course.)

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