Quoting: FoxStevenWhat I only want is using Adobe Product on linux......

Yeah. 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.

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Must say I like the design of the main character. She has a likeable look--cute, determined, a smidge of "Pippi Longstocking" about her.

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Quoting: EssojeThat said, I'm sure they actually calculated this controversy and aimed to have it explode between disgruntled Game Freak fans and Nintendo fanboys to attract more users. Negative marketing is still marketing and whatnot.

"No publicity is bad publicity"

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Quoting: Dorrit

Quoting: Purple Library Guybig corporations

Yes, I know where the money is coming from.

Quoting: CloversheenSocieties have always (and should continue to) fund culture and arts

That's fine and dandy when gold is money and thus limited. Not with fiat money, that's the root of the rot.

Ehhh . . . there are various strains of economics. There's neoclassical economics, which is the mainstream, underpins most ideas about efficient markets, and is largely bankrupt, but has pretty math as long as you don't look at the assumptions too hard. There's Keynesian, which has some points. There's Marxist and other leftist flavours. There's "Modern Monetary Theory" which is in my opinion not entirely wrong, but much less important than its proponents seem to think--it just doesn't apply to very much and, even where it's relevant, makes less difference than it seems to.

Then there's the kind of economics that thinks we should go back to the gold standard, AKA silly economics.

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Wait, "Naked Snake"? I had no idea Metal Gear Solid 3 was a porn title! :tongue:

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Quoting: reaplyI think the point overall is that this studio is just about copying popular games and releasing them, what now appears to be, really fast. I can’t help but associate them like the developers for mobile apps who asset flip games. Obviously, they are putting more work than that, but that’s how I will classify it and I’ll steer clear from them. There’s more creative stuff out there for me to play with.

As far as I can tell from what people say who play the games, that's only true in terms of art, while the gameplay is quite distinct. If we think art is the only important thing and gameplay is not, then I guess your position is justified. But it's odd--we don't say this about games with interesting art that are identical to existing games in how they play.

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Quoting: GuestYou know exactly what I mean by the statement.

I was doing you the courtesy of assuming you meant what you said--a courtesy you are clearly not extending to me. Good day, sir.

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Quoting: LinasThis time-limited licensing is such bullshit. Basically building a self-destruct timer into the product.

Copyright, patents, etc. are generally misused nowadays. They were intended for individual creators to get compensation and credit for their work, not for corporations to hoard, exploit and fatten their portfolios.

While I agree that should describe the world, I'm not sure it actually does. Whatever nice sounding rhetoric has been said, either now or at the time the laws were first being defined, benefits for publishers were a big, and perhaps the biggest, part of the mix from the very beginning.

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Quoting: GuestI can have whatever opinion I want about software I use without you telling me what I should think.

Um, no. You can have whatever opinion you want, and indeed state it. But by the same token, just as you are telling other people what they should think, they can also tell you what to think. You don't get to have it only go one way. Really, this sounds amazingly bad from someone who just a couple posts ago was telling people

Quoting: GuestWhat an asinine remark.

I think maybe people who live in asinine houses shouldn't throw stones.

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Quoting: GuestAnd the vast majority of steam deck users would benefit if steam deck ran windows by default instead of steamos.

I really don't think they would, though. The Windows UI works badly for that use case and cannot (because it's like, closed source and controlled by a vast unresponsive corporation) be readily adjusted to make it work any better.

Quoting: GuestA locked down linux distro is no different than using a proprietary distro

That statement is categorically false. It most certainly is very different. Nobody so far as I know has claimed Valve is violating the GPL or any other free software licenses. So, the source is available and if someone wanted to grab them and release a version that was identical to SteamOS (with presumably a different name) but not immutable, there is nothing to stop them.

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