I've actually read the original book, "Captain Blood", by Rafael Sabatini. It's fun. Originally published in 1922, I got it off Project Gutenberg.

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I might wishlist this, sounds like fun. But I suspect one reason it's being overlooked is the graphics are more rudimentary than Pong.

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It's kind of the way laptop computers tend to cost more than desktops even though they have dinky screens and lousy little keyboards and not much power under the hood.

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I wonder why the numbers get so much . . . bouncier, starting late in 2022.

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Mild West

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Wild West cosy life . . . so, "Tame West"?

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Especially if cheaters are a relatively small minority of users. Like I mean, this is probably way low compared to reality, but imagine you have 1% of users are cheaters, and the anticheat thing has an accuracy rate of 99%, then I think that means about half of the people it nabs will not be cheaters . . .

Meanwhile, I find it odd that they called this thing "Javelin". Like, it's the wrong metaphor. Javelins are attacking, piercing things, whereas anti-cheat is supposedly a defensive, shielding type of thing. If they called it "Pavise anti-cheat" or "Crenelation anti-cheat" I'd understand.

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I do definitely wonder . . . if this ACE thing works by whitelisting, and if the people who make it are incompetent (which it kind of seems that way--like, if you're going to whitelist the Steam Deck, how hard is it to find out what models of Steam Deck there are and make sure they're all whitelisted?), then . . . how hard is it going to be for someone to make a little package that tells ACE your Linux machine is a Steam Deck?

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The Turpentine Gun seems like a shoutout to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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Is it just me, or does "Funcom" sound like it should be the evil government in some bizarre dystopia?

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