That video says "Flatpak is the future". Well, I'm willing to believe Flatpak is (the future of proprietary software on Linux). I don't think it would be such a good idea for every damn application and utility, the open source ones, the main Linux software ecosystem, to be using Flatpak instead of normal package management.

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Quoting: JpxsonYou wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't right click on a NFT jpeg an save as

Heh. If I could right-click on a Tesla and duplicate it, I would be driving a Tesla right now.

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Quoting: CorbenNice to see Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the verified list, I'm wondering though if they also test against some of the reported issues on github. As the game itself runs fine, also when joining a session I had no issues. But when I am the host of the session, it happened annoyingly often that the game froze [External Link].
And looks is looks like to be an issue for more than just one game, as I observed this behaviour with GTFO as well. Works great when joining other sessions (mostly hosted on Windows), starts to hang when I am hosting. Not easy to reproduce as it's kinda random, but it definitely happens too often to be just a fluke.

I suspect that particular problem is not going to lead to revocation of verified status. Just doesn't seem to me that Steam Deck is something people will be hosting from much.

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Quoting: PhlebiacManufacturing compatible hardware seems like opening the door to lawsuits; Nintendo in particular likes to lawyer up.

While I agree, Nintendo isn't making NES, SNES, N64 or Gamecube consoles anymore. And since this is hardware that depends on physical media (cartridges/discs etc) Nintendo has no legal standing to prevent them unless RetroArch screw up and copy BIOS code etc which I don't see them doing.

they made nes mini and snes mini recently, and put an n64 emulator on switch...

Do they take their respective cartridges?

no, but it affect their business model, not sure on how an lawyer would interpret that

A lawyer would interpret it how he was paid to. :grin:
The question is more what interpretation a judge could be persuaded to buy.

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All means of increasing Administrative Capacity have been removed. While there are ways to reduce the Empire Sprawl generated by various sources, empires will no longer be able to completely mitigate sprawl penalties. Penalties and sprawl generation values have been significantly modified.

What?! Dammit!
This sucks. Guess the "Wanna go tall" agitators got their way this time around. No doubt somewhere around 3.6 Wide proponents will get something that makes wide viable again. And back and forth.
All this kind of tall vs. wide stuff should be options, toggles or sliders, so the tall mongers can go do their thing after flipping the switches they want and let the rest of us actually do all four Xes in a 4X game.

The Edicts Cap system has been removed.

I could never figure out what that did anyway--nothing ever stopped me from issuing all the edicts I could afford and was interested in doing.

Toggled Edicts will have monthly Unity Upkeep which is modified by Empire Sprawl.

Uhhhhmmmm . . . I'm not stoked about that. Bad enough I have to pay Influence for most of them when I've got star systems to grab.

. . . Looks over the rest of it . . . So, lots of stuff costs Unity instead of Influence, lots of stuff costs monthly Unity . . . but you can't boost Admin Cap . . . guess I'm going to be building a lot of Unity-making buildings instead of administrative buildings. I mean, it sounds rather annoying and kind of pointless, but I suppose it won't be that big an adjustment really. I'll just have Cultural worlds instead of Administrative worlds. Except I'll be constantly annoyed at the increase in Sprawl if I want a decent sized empire.

All in all, I think I'll probably be sticking to previous versions--I REALLY hate the idea of not being able to do anything about Sprawl.

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I guess it's time to D-D-D-D-D-D-Duel!!! (Did I put in enough D-D-'s or was I still short a few?)

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Wait, is that the sequel to the acclaimed Hellish Pint? :grin:

Actually, it does look rather good. Clearly an interesting game in that nobody's mentioning the Steam Deck aspect 'cause our attention got grabbed by the game.

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All in all, my reaction to this comes down to,
Short term: Meh. Whatever.
Long term: Fear of monopolistic shenanigans

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This guy seems kinda vanilla for Warhammer. I guess you have to have someone like that, though.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI do hate this.

But what did Microsoft spend this buttload of money on? Maybe 5 franchises, some of them on their last legs.

I guess we'll find out whether they have enough extra to buy some spare legs. :wink:

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