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Quoting: voxI would kindly ask to stop promoting games with "killing nazis" tagline, that's not about actual nazis and more about killing political opponents that extreme left calls nazis.

I watched the trailer. Sure looked like the main character was killing a bunch of actual cartoony Nazis. But if you see your "side" in that . . . Ehhh, tough. Meanwhile, games where the enemies are Communists are so common it's not even really remarked on.

Quoting: voxAlso I was under the impression that this site's position was somewhat apolitical.

Far as I can tell, this site's position is an insistence on common decency. It just so happens that a lot of things the modern far right like to say violate that. That's on them. But I don't see what you have to complain about here except that commenters disagree with you. That isn't a site policy. People rubbishing nonsense is not a free speech violation, it's the other people also getting to speak.

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Quoting: eggroleFurther, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme?

[sarcasm] Well, and is rounding them up and shooting them really extreme? Compared to torturing them slowly and then eating them - an actual extremist view? [/sarcasm]
You can always pretend (X) isn't extreme if you can find a vile enough (Y) to compare it to. What's not extreme is justice and equal rights for all.

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Quoting: eggroleExtremism is created when there is a lack of communication

No it isn't. Different political camps never communicated much and probably never will. Extremism is created when the system as it is fails to meet the needs of large and increasing numbers of people, when lives become precarious and even those who are doing all right fear that this might not be a stable situation. At that point, people look for someone to blame, and there are two basic answers:

Answer 1: Blame the people in charge. This is the obvious answer since the people in charge are, well, in charge. If things are screwed up, who else would be responsible? But this gets more radical if people notice that the current situation, bad for them, is actually enriching the people at the top (as it is today). At that point you start to think they're not just getting things wrong, they're screwing you over deliberately.

Answer 2: Blame groups who have no power, but who seem different. Outgroups, aliens, people who trigger xenophobia. This is the stupid answer--like how are these scapegoats supposed to have caused any of the problems--but it is the answer that gets the propaganda funding, because the people in charge really want everyone who's upset to believe it's the fault of anyone but them. And when people are afraid and angry, blaming the outsider is a strong instinct, so it works pretty well. But it is simply wrong, not to mention evil.

(It's particularly wrong in today's world, where if there are a bunch of immigrants it is because the exact people siccing you on immigrants ruined the countries people are fleeing, whether by war or predatory trade practices or coups and destabilization. For instance, if the US and Europe hadn't deliberately broken Iraq, Libya and Syria, the mass immigration to Europe from those regions would not have happened. Anyone who doesn't want lots of immigration, the last thing they should do is vote for fascists, because they're always militarists who will create crises that cause immigration.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Re-re-enable Bluetooth Wake for Steam Deck LCD

So…they enabled it, disabled it, re-enabled it, disabled it again, and are now re-enabling it for the second time? 🥴

Yes.
I can kind of remember the GoL articles for most of those events, so yeah, pretty sure that's exactly what happened.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe duration does make things interesting legally. I mean, hypothetically there would be two avenues for going after OpenTTD: Copyright and Trademark. Copyright lasts forever but it's pretty specific . . . infringement requires verbatim copying of extensive amounts of stuff; the mere fact that you called it Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, for instance, wouldn't be a copyright infringement, so it would depend how much specifically TTD stuff was still in the game. Trademark on the other hand is short duration and requires this sort of ongoing maintenance thing. OpenTTD would surely violate any trademarks involved, but the mere fact that it has existed all this time without being bothered could quite likely invalidate the trademark if I'm not mistaken. And it might have lapsed after all this time anyway. Not that the merits matter much when someone with money takes someone without money to court.

Probably better that everyone's playing nice.

What? Copyright doesn't last forever.

Sigh. What I meant is for practical purposes forever by video game standards. Like, about three times as long as video games have existed--the very earliest possible video game would still have like 80 years or something to go. It was amazingly mild hyperbole.

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The duration does make things interesting legally. I mean, hypothetically there would be two avenues for going after OpenTTD: Copyright and Trademark. Copyright lasts forever but it's pretty specific . . . infringement requires verbatim copying of extensive amounts of stuff; the mere fact that you called it Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, for instance, wouldn't be a copyright infringement, so it would depend how much specifically TTD stuff was still in the game. Trademark on the other hand is short duration and requires this sort of ongoing maintenance thing. OpenTTD would surely violate any trademarks involved, but the mere fact that it has existed all this time without being bothered could quite likely invalidate the trademark if I'm not mistaken. And it might have lapsed after all this time anyway. Not that the merits matter much when someone with money takes someone without money to court.

Probably better that everyone's playing nice.

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Makes me wonder . . . like, who actually chooses the "chosen one"? It always seems to be pretty vague.
(calls over barmaid)
"Matilda, could we get a couple more pints? And also, could you choose me?"
"Choose you? Told you last week I'm not interested. I think you've had enough already, dearie."

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Quoting: Linux_RocksRemember when you had to pay for Opera back in the day and it was a worthy alternative? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember when stupid gimmicky web browsers weren't everywhere either? Pepperidge Farm also remembers.

I'm going to be so disillusioned the day I find out that Pepperidge Farms doesn't actually remember any of the stuff.

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Quoting: Wolfgang RoseThese days I always checkout 'who owns' a particular software. I checked out 'Opera Norway' and noted that the company was floated on the NASDAQ, ergo it will have lots of American investors and will likely cater to US tastes and business norms. In my experience as a developer/tester/project manager, I know most US firms will make all the noises to comply with GDPR, but will often breech intentionally as 'part of business'.

To American corporations, "The Law" is just a tax on doing what they want anyway. A small tax.

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