Quoting: LanzFascism is actually just the dialectical inversion of Marxism. In both fascism and Marxism, the state is God - the only difference is what you're collectivizing. They're almost the same ideology. China is the dialectical synthesis of Marxism and fascism to make neoliberal communism.

One of my favorite bloggers put it more clearly. Fascism and Communism (not Marxism, which as PLG notes is more philosophical than political) are opposites on the political spectrum of Socialism. What's the primary difference? In simplified terms, the ownership of the resources. In Communism, the resources are owned by the state. In Fascism, the resources are owned by private (corporate) interests. Otherwise, both systems tend to be dictatorial in nature and infringe on personal sovereignty.

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We've all been there right? You paid for a game, it required an active internet connection and a couple of years later the publisher decided they're done with it and shut it down leaving you with a broken game.

Not to sound like a GOG fanboy, but this is often where GOG steps in. They convince the developer/publisher to drop the always-online DRM on a single-player game and put it back on the market (the "compromise" being that any multiplayer components are usually disabled :sad:).

Quoting: CatKillerFull automatic refunds for every copy when a company kills the game is much simpler, and removes most of the financial incentive for that undesirable behaviour.

Love the simplicity of this idea. I suspect the end result would be that, rather than having to refund all purchasers of the game, the developer/publisher will simply remove any DRM that will kill single-player gameplay. The game is still playable, so no refunds required ...

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One of my favorite FOSS games. They provide an AppImage too.

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Looks like I have motivation to upgrade to Linux Mint 22 earlier than I normally do.

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Quoting: devlandAmazon probably paid gog to do this since they are struggling financially.

GOG is struggling financially??? I'm out of the loop here, since when were they struggling?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/gog-to-go-through-some-reorganization-after-suffering-losses/

Old news.

That's one of the problems with the Internet is that it's too easy to mistake old news for current news. GOG posted their financials for 2022 back in May 2023. They made a $1.2M USD net profit in 2022.

GOG Facts & Numbers of 2022 [External Link]

I think that the media and the investor community overreacted somewhat, viewing things in the short-term as they do. GOG did an excellent job of bouncing back from what amounts to a blip in their annual financial results.

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Nothing wrong with third party solutions, especially if they make things easier for you.

I use AppImageLauncher [External Link]. It integrates the AppImage file into the main menu, prompts to move the file to a default folder (Applications, but it can be changed) and I think it can even monitor for updates as well.

Quoting: dziadulewiczyou have to setup the system to handle AppImages, after that downloading each AppImage package one has to chmod it too for running.

Every distro I've used has needed no configuring beyond setting the file as executable. Some do this by default.

No need to CLI, most GUI file managers allow you to right click and set the file to executable via Properties these days.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAs the saying goes, capitalism is a terrible economic system; it just happens to be better than every other economic system that's been tried.

That's just the propaganda of capitalism. There are other options that the elite just don't want us to look at. Try syndicalism (businesses are co-ops owned by the workers), distributism (Gandhian economics) or social credit (banks owned by the state). The info is all online.

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What hardware is currently supported? Turing (RTX 20XX and GTX 16XX) and later GPUs, with plans to go far back even to Kepler (GeForce 600 and 700 series).

Looking forward to the future Kepler support!

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I played Diablo 2 Classic exclusively for nearly 3 years, only stopping to dabble in Dungeon Siege, before I discovered Morrowind a year after its release. It took TES 3 to dethrone my addiction to single-player Diablo 2.

(Sorry, I am not a fan of multiplayer gaming.)

Titan Quest - Can’t speak to this one, as I haven’t played it

Based on my recent experience with the 2006 Titan Quest demo, I have to say that you really missed out. This game is so good that it is reigniting my interest in action RPG games. I particularly like that it is not gothic-themed like the Diablo series.

Based on your recommendation, I will have to investigate Grim Dawn at some point ...

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Quoting: dziadulewiczNowadays i don't know should i install this normal Wine, or should i use Lutris? But, when i tried Lutris: there is no "normal Wine" available to choose from at all but all kinds of customised or "unofficial" Wines.

There is no flatpak or a snap for Wine either (if there was, users could run Wine happily in a sandbox without any fear?)

I can't see the need to sandbox WINE itself. WINE is a translation layer, not an application, after all.

WINE offers the ability to create prefixes within which to run Windows applications. Tools like Lutris, Heroic, Bottles or PlayOnLinux exploit this feature by creating individual prefixes for each Windows program. Using tools such as Winetricks (under Change Settings) or Winecfg (Desktop Integration tab), it is possible to further sandbox those prefixes, which should achieve the goal your looking for.

Lutris also has a configuration switch to sandbox its prefixes but that does not completely isolate the prefix as it leaves access to your Downloads and Templates folders open. I use Winecfg from within Lutris to disable those mappings.

I haven't played much with flatpaks, but it is my understanding that if you've installed the game launcher via flatpak, it is, by default, sandboxed already. In theory, any prefixes it creates should also be within that flatpak's sandbox.

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