You do the marsh . . . You do the monster marsh.

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Quoting: UsualAnyone know if the library is electron based now?

Isn't all computing electron-based? :P

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Wonder if there will be a bunch of sequels, like "Carrion Cowboy" and "Carrion up the Khyber".

Spoiler, click me

Ever make a joke you're sure nobody will get?

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Quoting: SalvatosDid the Gnome people actually post the relevant patent and claim anywhere? Not that I don’t trust them per se, but out of principle I would like to see the documents before I consider donating to their lawsuit.

I did see the patent and the claim somewhere. The patent has to do with transferring photos between devices and filtering by tags.

Transferring photos between devices . . . they've got a patent on copying files that only applies to certain kinds of files?!
Patents be crazy.

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Quoting: KlausFor any game that is worthwhile enough for exclusivity to make a difference, I will likely play only that game, until I'm done with it. So for as long as I want to play it, I'd subscribe to that service, and cancel afterwards.

. . . Because cancelling these services is always sooo easy.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI had expected this, as Paradox is by a wide margin the most Linux friendly studio out there, but glad to hear it's confirmed anyway! :)

I think Arcen games would give them a run for their money Linux-friendly wise. But Paradox is certainly one of the top.

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Quoting: NezchanThere's a word for people who think they can't be cheated: marks.

They say if you look around a poker table and can't spot the chump, it's you.

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Quoting: denyasisI agree with you and the answer for us was "sort of". I don't manage our Amazon account. But from what my wife told me, since it's linked to our Amazon account online, the device apparently defaulted to the default payment for my wife's Amazon Prime account, which is saved online. We've actually never purchased anything on the device before, so that's the only logical way it could have happened.

That's kind of freaky. Wonders of modern technology, with all the lovely connectivity single-sign-on-everywhere and stuff. Not a downside that had specifically occurred to me.

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Turning into quite the bandwagon. Jolly good!

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Quoting: ScattershotWith regard to gambling, or any addictive activity, the law should not be banning adults from engaging in it. However, it should regulate providers to ensure that they are not taking advantage of their clients.

I'm not sure I understand how a profitable gambling establishment can exist without taking advantage of its clients. It's giving them nothing and taking their money, by definition. What you're describing is the establishment of some sort of consensus of how much "taking advantage" our society considers reasonable. But as soon as you acknowledge that, it becomes clear that this is not a line that must exist at a particular place as you're trying to say, but rather that there are a constellation of social values that contribute to where we might want to put that line.

And if we actually wanted to ensure that there is no taking-advantage happening, we would in fact have to make gambling enterprises illegal. There may be countervailing reasons not to. But the only gambling that can even theoretically happen without someone being taken advantage of would be peer-to-peer.

(The main reason not to make gambling illegal seems to be analogous to the drug thing--it will happen anyway and if it's illegal it will be unregulated, untaxed and dominated by organized crime. Where I live these arguments lost a bit of force for me when it became clear that our legal casinos are still major conduits for money laundering, including drug money, and because of corruption free market policies, they don't pay much tax either, and unlike an illegal gambling den, which would surely be locally owned, these are foreign owned so the profits disappear from the local economy. Come to think of it, unlike the legal kind, illegal gambling can't actually launder money because the results are still . . . illegal. Illegal gambling hells are starting to look good by comparison. Most of these arguments don't apply to drugs, though. If drugs are legal you do seem to get tax money, the organized crime does seem to drain out, and you can divert funds from enforcement and jailing to treatment, and the addicts don't need to hide so it's easier to treat them. Should probably still make advertising 'em illegal though.)

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