My only real complaint about existing DOSBox is that when I use it to play, say, Master of Orion 2, I can't alt-tab out of it. Could I with this?

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It has become a fairly widely known fact that Monopoly was originally invented to teach people about the evils of capitalism--to show how as somebody gets rich, everybody else ends up broke. I reckon they were a tad disappointed when everyone just embraced the game.

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Quoting: fenglengshunNice. Heroic remains the GOAT for me.

For me, it's Goat Simulator. Very Goat.

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They seem like cheerful little robots.

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Quoting: _spiffyI hope they make a good choice to change their Anticheat provider, but I wouldn't be surprised if we were stuck with this mess for good. I'm torn, part of me wants to get a refund, but the other wants to hold out and see if they actually fix it.

Well, if you get a refund, you can always buy it again if they fix it.

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Quoting: SeegrasLooks good, but.. is it intentionally "Stalker"? Even the Region is called "Exclusion Zone" too...

Well, yes, but presumably this one is full of zombified athletes . . . sprinters, javelin and discus and hammer throwers, weight lifters and whatnot . . . it is the Olympic Exclusion Zone, after all. :grin:

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Gyro enable buttons don't get no respect.

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That seems rather a lot for an addition to a game. I mean sure, it's technically three additions . . . but each of the three, while interesting, doesn't really seem very core. I'm generally fine with the Paradox approach to DLCs, but I could buy a major game for that money, or more likely three indies.

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Looks like fun. I like the way the streams of goo-aliens look so relentless. Well, no goo, no glory!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYeah. Although what I really really want is alternatives to Adobe products that work about as well, because I really dislike Adobe. Specifically for fiddling with .pdfs, I have no need for anything more powerful for image stuff than the GIMP and various other already available open source things.

Have you tried acrobat.adobe.com? I haven't, so this is a genuine question :grin:

No. I only get halfway serious with .pdf for work, and at work we've got subscriptions to Adobe Creative Cloud, which has nothing to do with a cloud, you just download the software. It was the only software I've ever used at work where systems people had to come down and walk me through the process of getting access--not because I called them up or was having particular trouble or anything, just because they had to do this with everybody who needed to use the damn thing. Basically although we bought X many licenses or whatever, every single person had to log into their website which I guess they're calling a cloud even though it's just a server you're downloading their software from, and authenticate directly with them as a person who's allowed to get their software, I guess so they can track you specifically and presumably turn it off if you try to keep using it after the subscription is over . . .

Anyway, I think they're assholes. But I can't currently get away from them. A couple years ago during Covid I was working from home from my Linux desktop, and everything else was fine--LibreOffice was fine for the office stuff, our library system is browser based etc., but no Linux things I tried would do what I wanted with .pdf files. Luckily there was a remote desktop setup thing, so I was able to use Acrobat via that, but that was the only thing I needed to do that for. Master PDF, you say? Hadn't heard of that, I should give it a shot.

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