@Cley_Faye

You took the words right from my mouth. That was my experience with the original Sacred games too. So much potential but poorly realized ...

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@Tevur
Dude. Have you even been paying attention to what's going on here? The activist group claiming responsibility for this is Collective Shout, a group of feminist extremists from Australia. It's not the Americans this time.

It's "Fascism" by the way, not "Fashism". And believe it or not, the spectre of fascism is a bigger problem in the commonwealth nations than the USA right now. While you've been focusing on the antics in America, they've been sneaking their agendas into Australia, New Zealand, Canada and even the UK. Probably other countries as well ...

I'm not American.

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I've been dual booting from 1998 to 2014.

I went cold turkey in 2014 and ran Linux Mint exclusively for about 2 years after my HDD failed and the Windows backup wouldn't install (part of the backup was stored on the failed HDD -- brilliant idea, M$). I eventually had to reinstall Windows in a dual-boot after my preferred tax software stopped supporting WinXP on my old netbook. I maintain dual-boots on all my systems now but only use Windows for software that will not run on Linux.

Linux Mint 13 & LibreOffice showed me that Linux had become a serious contender against the M$ Windows behemoth. Linux has been my primary O/S ever since.

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@Mohandevir

I'm just wondering how many of these new Linux users are running old pcs that will be left unsupported by Win11, when Win10 will have been buried by Microsoft.

Ah, but M$ is just discontinuing free support, not burying Win10. Win10 will be continuing, but you will have to pay for the support instead.

I keep getting these notifications on the Win10Pro systems at work telling me this.

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@edo

Why is he not using flatpacks? that should solve the issue

Apparently, the dev does not like flatpak for a number of reasons. Cyril provided a detailed explanation behind a click to view long quote toggle at the bottom of the comment, six comments above yours.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/developer-of-playstation-1-emulator-duckstation-threatens-removing-linux-support-entirely-but-not-yet/?comment_id=281690

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@Linas

Ha ha, I thought it said:
Windows 95 23% -0.44%

That was my first thought too. I had to reread the line to clarify. :grin:

@PixelDrop

I've still never been asked on my any Linux or macOS systems that I have steam installed on and use it on, only my windows systems.

Funny. My experience has been the opposite. I've been asked on all my installations except Windows. It seems to be quite random. I always say yes.

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Well, the backlash against the payment processors and Collective Shout has begun. Consumers, and especially gamers, are pissed. Unions, trade groups, online retailers and the developers are getting involved. Visa and MasterCard are getting flooded with cardholder complaints.

https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-about-the-censorship-of-nsfw-games-and-theyre-fighting-back/

https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/game-developers-alarmed-censorship-nsfw-games-1236473119/

It has been intimated that delisting these games is a prejudicial attack by Collective Shout and the payment processors against the LGBTQ+ and marginalized creators of these games.

I can't find the link but I even read an article calling for the establishment of an international movement to fight Collective Shout and their overreaching activities. It would seem that the general populace has had enough of this, after all.

"Do not go gentle into that good night ..." (Dylan Thomas)

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I kinda think of the evilly evil villain, who just revels in his evilness, as a comic book trope embraced by Western culture. Fits well with the somewhat black & white view of things that seems to dominate Western culture these days.

But, in the real world, the individuals seen as the bad guy don't think of themselves as bad. They just have a different point of view on matters. Many times they see themselves as the good guy.

I think that Miyazaki gets that (and probably better than I explained it). So, he sets up the audience to see this individual as the evil antagonist and then flips that view on its head and shows us a different interpretation of that character's nature. He also shows us the possibility of redemption, something seen a lot more rarely in Western stories. We seem to want to punish our villains rather than redeem them. Vengeance seems to be imminently more satisfying as a conclusion to our stories.

Any way, those are my deep thoughts for the day ...

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I doubt I'll ever play it myself

FPS games are not my cup of tea either.

For the challenge

I get that. It is certainly more of a challenge to have to implement from scratch. I was just curious about what led the developers to that choice.

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I wonder why they chose the GZDoom engine for this? You know, as opposed to modding Fallout 3, NV or 4 instead.

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