Loads of Stellaris. Bought a couple DLCs on sale recently and now I'm trying to get my civ up to where I can make some big-ass things I've never made before. Also I'm getting ready to crush a couple of corporations. Put branch offices in my homeworld will they?
Unfortunately the chair in my office is kind of crap and I put my back out, so I'm gonna have to stop for a while, and probably get a new chair.

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Use the help of a sarcastic AI to gather the mandatory knowledge of your surroundings.

Just as long as the AI doesn't provide you with a holographic version of the most annoying dead crewman to help you.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieDid anyone realize that proton is actually a wine container?? it actually is a crate of wine.

Hmmm, yeah, instead of "Proton" they should have called it "Amphora" or something.

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Not really my kind of game to be honest . . . but I really like Bearded Giant's approach and it's not expensive, so what the heck. Purchased.

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Quoting: Luke_Nukem"Not The Wine O'Clock News"... I had to laugh. Then go watch an hour or two of the ultimate classic British comedy. Solid. Fucking. Gold.

I like that one, but I have to say I'm more of a Black Adder man.

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Quoting: Thetargos

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhy would the GPL impede forking something?

Not the fork as such, in the sense it has to be forked in the same terms as the GPL, but I am not an expert in software licenses, so I guess a fork could theoretically be dual licensed with the GPL and another (compatible?) License.

Ah. Well, true, if you object to something being GPLed and want to fork it to some permissive license (permissive in the sense that it would permit someone else to fork it proprietary) then no, you can't, blocking that sort of thing is half the point of the GPL. But you can fork it as much as you want while still keeping it GPLed; that's the other half of the point.

The only way to release GPL code under other licenses is if you are the (sole) copyright holder, or somehow get all copyright holders to agree. That's why back in the old days, MySQL (now Maria DB I believe) used to insist on copyright assignment, because it was done by a company whose business model involved also selling proprietary licenses, so they needed to hold copyright to the whole thing.

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Quoting: hardpenguinI still don't know what is the connection between Linux Mint and sex.

Well, I have both.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWeird as it sounds, I was somewhat disappointed when I played the game and couldn't toot the horn.
It felt a bit like playing GTA, but being unable to toot aggressively.

Don't you know that proper society frowns on blowing your own horn? :wink:

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I remember having a little Eliza program on my TRS-80 when I was a teenager. It would parrot back stuff you said, with little "How does it make you feel that bla?" and so forth. Incredibly simplistic, you could look at the code (in BASIC!) and see that it only had a few tricks, and yet on those rare occasions when you weren't just deliberately trying to make the results sound silly it could feel surprisingly lifelike.

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Quoting: ThetargosMain issue I see (maybe the elephant in room for the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is implied in its full name. I do not see many corporations backing it or allowed to do so simply because the project is part of GNU, i.e FSF, and hence potentially deep political (and philosophical?) implications. I know I hate duplicated efforts, but then again there is nothing impeding (other than the GPL, that is) to fork it.

Why would the GPL impede forking something?

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