Really, I can see it being very hard to pull this kind of thing off without either losing money or being scummy. Might be easier in a less market-oriented economy, with more mechanisms to pay for things just because people want them to exist.

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Quoting: PhlebiacWhat's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

Well, the attraction over GNOME with extensions is that from what I've heard on this site many, many times, extensions tend to break when GNOME gets a significant update, and I'd rather have something that keeps on working. I do kind of wonder if it would feel like something I'm uncomfortable with, but with an overlay, rather than just feeling comfortable.

Anyway I like Mint, which doesn't really do GNOME. I was actually one of the GNOME 2 users who moved to Mint when I couldn't hack GNOME 3 (and around the same time Mandrake, I mean Mandriva, died). Odd to realize that's ancient history now.

Cinnamon . . . I haven't tried it in a while, so I don't know what it's like these days. It's certainly available to me as a Mint user, so I probably will give it another shot at some point. Back when I was first deciding which to use, Cinnamon was earlyish days and felt kind of . . . brittle, plus there was a function I wanted that it wouldn't at that time do. Probably does that function nowadays and probably feels fine now, but MATE does everything I want the way I want it and feels comfortable, so I just haven't had much motivation to investigate.

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Quoting: DurandalThere's plenty of articles summarizing it, such as this.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/ [External Link]

Whoa. Creepy.

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Greenland falls to the zombie hordes overnight! There is no virus, no cure, only the relentless march of the undead. Can they consume the world?

Not if they're starting from freakin' Greenland they can't.

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Quoting: CaldathrasMate is a lot more common than you think (we have active Mate users on this forum).

Hi!

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Quoting: Eocene84

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

I can imagine it looking similar enough for a lawsuit, but I would have thought the remedy for that would be changing the look, rather than the name.

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Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksBut what if I want it "ON" instead? :P

Oh, sod OFF! 😁

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

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Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

It's not a pay to win game, it's a pay to skip the grind game.

If you have not grinded, and you are in the queue against guy who did - who will win?

Even if you win in team vs team, you - will be cannon fodder and he will be cannon fodder killer. Much fun!

Your comment doesn't really make sense. You get matched up with people around the same vehicle unlock level as you regardless of paying or not.

I haven't played the game, but I think he's saying at an equivalent level of vehicle unlock, the one who's spent grinding hours playing the game to get the unlock will almost certainly defeat the one who just bought the vehicle.

Later edit: Ah, apparently I was mistaken.

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Quoting: omer666Maybe with a 30% cut they could have kept all these people... just saying...

Wouldn't that require them to be actually selling games on their store?

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