Quoting: LoudTechieTor-browser and if I remember correctly firefox have their own download folder sandboxing.

Regarding Firefox, not to my knowledge. On my systems, Firefox defaults to my Download folder. No sandboxing that I'm aware of -- unless this is a feature I have to enable.

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Notably, Paradox are only publishing it, the full rights to the series is staying with Urban Games.

Very smart of them, in my opinion.

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Quoting: Jarmer🤔 paradox

Purchase the "full game" on release to unlock all content!!! It's going to be so great!!! "full game" is the opening menu, where you can click on things. DLC is optionally available to unlock actual playable portions of the game. To get into settings, we have a DLC available called TRANSPORT FEVER SETTINGS which will just be a reasonable $45. To get into a new game, you must download the DLC for "play game" button on the opening menu. That DLC is available for a reasonable $87. Once you've unlocked the "play game" button, you can click on play game!!! Difficulty options are all available as one time download DLCs for reasonable prices of $9 for easy mode, $18 for medium, and $99 for hard mode.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyA lot of European countries have proportional representation, which is nice; we should have that in Canada, but don't.

Agreed. That would be nice. While I didn't much care for their social policy, I had hoped that the political and electoral reforms advocated by The Reform Party would have come about. Individual MP recall by the constituency was one them. I don't think proportional representation was, however. Not surprisingly, the party sold out its principles for the opportunity to gain power and those reforms fell to the wayside.

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Seems to me that somebody's lawyers didn't make sure that all the i's were dotted and all the t's were crossed. It will be interesting to learn the final outcome of this little drama.

Is the owner Drecom or Atari? Please keep us updated.

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Quoting: eggroleWhen these things happen (I suspect it is only a matter of time) IMHO the only valid response is to boycott the companies restricting access. Petitions and voting new "leaders" in doesn't seem to work. Violence is always an option, but a terrible one.

Boycotting a few companies into bankrupcy sends a clear message. And given how much hemming and hawing goes on about economics and GDP, I think it is the only language these people understand. Want to restrict the internet, suffer economic losses. All of a sudden the legislature becomes much more receptive and the companies themselves will start actually pushing back because it will now be existential.

people that think voting folks out doesn't work is why we have lazy a$$ people UNWILLING to hold their representatives accountable.. those fools get paid to be in office you threaten their livelihood they will listen when enough people are threatening them

You'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, as I am writing from a Canadian perspective, but there are a lot of countries whose politics are based off the British parliamentary system, just like Canada. At least for Canada, there is no recall option. In other words, the voters can only hold their representative accountable at election time. The politicians know that voters have short memories and tend to gamble quite confidently that the voters' anger will have cooled off by the time the election rolls around. It usually does.

Other issues come up, some politically manufactured, that distract the general voting population from the offense of an individual politician. Generally, the political parties are very careful not to stir up the voters' ire close to election time. So, it is not as simple as "lazy people being unwilling to hold their representatives accountable" -- although it does happen from time to time that a constituency's memory is longer than expected.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI have now seen two or three games where the difficulty factor is about a bloodsucking landlord demanding more. I feel like that says something.

It reflects on real life. We've seen that take down a few businesses where I live. The landlord sees the new business is successful and jacks up the rent, thinking they can take a greater share of the business' success. Instead, the business closes down or moves (rarely surviving the move) and the landlord is left with an empty space that no one will rent after word spreads about the landlord's conduct. We are a small enough community that reputation actually matters.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismValve focusing on scalpers would be a mistake, their goal should be to ramp up supply to meet the demand, not to waste energy going after a small percentage of purchasers doing what they want with their private property.

No matter what measures could be put in place, criminals always find ways around the rules, there's no point in punishing customers who want to eventually own 4+ controllers because someone __COULD__ lawfully resell their private property after they purchase it.

Does Valve provide any warranty on the Steam Controller? In the past, a manufacturer/retailer got around the scalper issue by simply requiring that the customer provide a receipt of purchase from an authorized reseller. Warranty was not transferable to a secondary owner. Surely, that still applies these days?

Of course, whether or not the purchaser cares about the warranty, is a completely different matter...

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Much like the Steam Deck, it's designed to be repairable and easily opened. Just a few screws, and the casing will pop right off. Valve already confirmed spare parts will be available on iFixit, we just don't know exactly when that will be. So it's designed for the long-term and it's your device to open up and tinker with.

I'm mostly a keyboard and mouse player myself but I have to applaud Valve for continuing to support the consumer's "right to repair."

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Curious ... The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is almost always on the list of top Steam Deck games and yet it is supposedly "deck unsupported". Go figure.

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