This and all the SpringRTS games look very interesting. I haven't looked at Total Annihilation in over 20 years. Its "descendents" look amazing! That being said, I've always leaned more to the style of Warcraft I/II and the Age of ... games myself. Might have to take a peak at these games and see what they're like.

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Quoting: Ehvis

I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point, ...

My number of played FF games is still ..... 0! And this has denuvNO, so guess the total will remain like that for a while longer.

Same here.

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Quoting: PyreticNVIDIA still doesn't support Gamescope

Correct me if I'm wrong but but that no longer appears to be true. At least, not since May of 2022. Straight from the website [External Link]:

It runs on Mesa + AMD or Intel, and could be made to run on other Mesa/DRM drivers with minimal work. AMD requires Mesa 20.3+, Intel requires Mesa 21.2+. For NVIDIA's proprietary driver, version 515.43.04+ is required (make sure the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter is set).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAll political systems are also in the end economic systems and vice versa.

Maybe we'll have to agree to disagree. I do not believe that they are one and the same. Political systems are basically about governance and power. Certainly, most governments involve themselves with economics at some level (despite the delusions of Free Market pundits) but that does not make a political system an economic system. It certainly blurs the lines between the two, though.

Capitalism itself is not a political system. Instead, it's power-brokers mostly utilize a variant of democracy -- which is a political system -- to influence governance and power.

I would agree that an economic system can be a means to accruing wealth, which, in our society, tends to convey power. This is one place where things can overlap with a political system. Wealth and power seem to go hand-in-hand.

We live in a society that takes a very polarized view of things. It is not all black and white. There are many more economic systems than just Capitalism. Social Credit comes to mind as a recent example. What blurs the distinctions is that it often takes a political system to impose a new economic approach. Those who enjoy political and economic power in the existing system will generally oppose/resist any changes that might impact their influence and/or wealth.

I can only agree with your points about responsibility. I think you are spot on.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe Soviet system is an odd sidebar

Of course, let us not confuse things here. Capitalism is an economic system whereas Communism is a political system. Communism is more realistically compared to Fascism, which is another political system. The primary difference is who owns the resources -- private interests (Fascism) or the State (Communism). Obviously, the goals of Capitalism are very compatible with those of Fascism.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat last is not strictly true. If you look at the history of humanity, we've been doing that for under 300 years, out of at least tens of thousands.

PGL has a very valid point. It is not Capitalism or Communism that is the issue here. We are actually talking about Industrialism. In the West, Industrialism has been so closely tied with Capitalism that it's not surprising that someone might confuse the two. Industrialism has only been around for 300 years but it has transformed our society's way of thinking and viewing the world.

Quoting: Artenif you look what humanity did before that, you see lot of farming which replaced original nature, with food "factory" known as fields... Changing world for producing goods is what humanity do.

The flaw here is that you are judging history from within the bias of the Industrial/Consumer society you live in. Certainly, now, the majority of farms are run like factories. That was not always the case. Farming was one of the last to be subjected to the specializations required for industrialization. Before that, farms were quite diversified. A single farmer kept a variety of livestock, grew a variety of crops -- doing this on a much smaller footprint than the modern industrial farm -- all of which made them more resilient to the vagaries of the market. Most farmers practised a subsistence lifestyle, which used to be considered quite respectable until the negative propaganda when the governments decided they wanted to industrialize farming. Subsistence living is not compatible with consumerism (which is necessary to industrialism's success).

Another example I can provide is the coppiced forests of pre-industrial Europe. Industrialism is all about the exploitation of resources. Prior to its advent, governments (and private interests, I imagine), used to maintain forests in a sustainable manner with long term goals of supplying timber and firewood without "strip-mining" or devastating the forests that supplied these products. Mankind worked with nature, nurturing rather than exploiting its resources.

There is a significant difference between the approaches and it is simplistic to conflate the two as if they were the same.

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All of these games are available on GOG. Too bad Humble didn't make the bundle available with the choice of either GOG keys or Steam keys.

Edit: Changed wording for clarity.

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Pro-consumer initiatives put forward by the EU in the past have positively impacted the global market. I might live in North America, but I am definitely rooting for the EU citizens and their efforts to bring this to pass.

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I'm playing on desktop Linux, not Steam Deck, but ...

Age of Mythology. I wanted to get it before the remake was released. I am rediscovering my love of RTS games.

When I'm not playing AoM, I am playing short periods of The First Templar, which I got free from GOG, to rebuild my tolerance of 3rd Person POV (1st & 3rd Person POV often triggers motion sickness for me). I rather like the game, actually.

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Quoting: CatKillerPeople that are interested in computers also have no real trouble with Linux.

This would be me. After MS drove me to Linux when I had to replace a failed HDD, I have positively enjoyed learning from the new experiences and challenges that Linux has brought me. I am kind of glad that their backup tool failed on the drive swap.

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