Quoting: WorMzyI hardly think Valve's lootboxes are to blame for the US' unhealthy obsession with guns, but I'd agree that they encourage gambling. In the same way that e.g. Pokemon card booster packs do, at least.

Quoting: scaineSure, go after loot boxes, they're rotten to the core, mostly. Although as someone has already pointed out, it would be nice to see some consistency - also get rid of Magic the Gathering packs, Pokemon packs, Pannini packs, or anything else that's marketed to kids that is a lottery.

This is what I find so absurd about this lawsuit. Back in the earlier nineties, I was working at a comic book shop when the collector card craze started to heat up (which attracted the speculators). Both adults and kids where buying up packs of sports cards and other collector cards, hoping to get one of the deliberately-made-rare cards in that randomly purchased pack of cards. Often times, if they did get lucky, they would immediately offer to sell it to the store they bought the pack from. It was no different than the lootbox phenomenon -- with the stores selling the card packs and serving as the marketplace to sell the rare ones.

No effort was made by any level of government to control this on moral grounds. I find New York State's stance on lootboxes to be hypocritical.

Keep in mind that this was before the early days of the World Wide Web revolutionizing the Internet. Magic the Gathering entered into this market at the height of the card speculation craze. In a small city with a population of just under a million, we had nearly 100 collector card retailers. When the speculation bubble crashed, it crashed hard. Businesses went under. The speculators then moved on to collecting toys. And so it goes ...

Don't get me wrong, I kind of hope that the lawsuit does shutdown the lootboxes. I wasn't all that impressed with these early analog equivalents either. They left a swath of destruction behind them when they inevitably broke.

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Quoting: WORM

Quoting: tmtvlHow big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

over 390 terabytes according to this article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

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Quoting: TarosWhat is a sniper runtime?

"Sniper" is Valve's codename for Steam Linux Runtime 3. Linux Runtimes help with running Native Linux games, by providing particular versions of Linux libraries that might be missing.

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Quoting: memvirusI have a problem with nvidia-driver-580 after it has been automatically upgraded via sudo apt upgrade
but it seems like I just cannot install anything else anymore, if I do sudo apt install nvidia-driver-565 (which was working amazing for me) it just installs 580.........

This happened to me as well. I commented about it here on GoL. @CatKiller kindly answered:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/nvidia-driver-580-105-08-out-now-for-linux-as-the-new-recommended-version/?comment_id=285291

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Quoting: _wojtekAlso: all those Firefox "forks" would probably cease to exist once Firefox is gone so keep that in mind…

Of course, but I'd say the odds Firefox being gone are pretty slim. Plus, there will always be other options. I'm glad you're happy with Firefox. That doesn't mean others can't disagree with the way Mozilla does things. That is the reason for forks. Linux Mint exists because not all users agree with Ubuntu's focus or direction. Vivaldi exists because there are those that don't like Google's focus on advertising and data-harvesting. There are (and should be) options for everyone.

Keep in mind that Firefox won't be around once Firefox is gone, either... 😏

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Ardenfall looks so interesting. A "first-person RPG inspired by Morrowind" which, according to the Steam forums can be played in third-person as well -- just not always in combat. I'm old school -- I absolutely do not need nor desire complete voice dialogue.

I am just under the graphics card requirement. I might see if it will still run regardless. The GeForce MX150 is supposed to be the equivalent of the GeForce GT 1030 ...

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I can't help it, it makes me think of Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle -- except on wheels instead of feet.

I don't like deckbuilders, but I might check it out.

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This is good but I'll be sticking with LibreWolf and Vivaldi.

Quoting: EhvisLibrewolf is a Firefox version, so still lives or dies by what happens to Mozilla. So I don't see that as much of a difference.

LibreWolf is a Firefox fork not a version. To me, that's a big difference. They are not part of the Firefox organization and they have a very different philosophy and approach to the browser compared to Mozilla. With LibreWolf, I get everything I like about Firefox without Mozilla's negatives. That LibreWolf depends on Mozilla's future is not the issue here.

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You'd think that GOG, in the interests of game preservation, would want the original version too, not just the "slightly upgraded" version.

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Quoting: CaldathrasWhether I go back to Lutris remains to be seen. There are some nice QoL features in Lutris that are not yet available in Heroic (like launching the game from its Windows shortcut, for example).

Well, Lutris has made the decision easier for me. I haven't even upgraded to v0.5.20 yet and they managed to piss me off. Lutris has this "feature" where the devs can change the default WINE version, overriding the one I chose manually. This would be fine if it only applied to new installs but, no. Any game prefix that used the old default WINE version gets switched over to the new default as well! I always find out when I launch a game that worked perfectly fine before, only to have it lock up and/or crash now. It usually corrupts my prefix and I have to reinstall the game.

This is the third time I've been hit by this "default version override". Other than the odd exceptional case, I am done with Lutris. I will begin migrating all my game installs over to Heroic Launcher. I discovered with my test migration that Heroic Launcher v2.19.1 supports the Windows shortcut. The migrated game even performed better than it did launching from Lutris.

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