Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: Purple Library Guyyour position isn't compatible with support for capitalism

Yes. I'm not a supporter of capitalism. Capitalism is not something I support. You could call me an anti-capitalist and I would agree. And then raise my fist in the red salute.

Ah, well then, objection withdrawn. For the record, I'm with you there. Cheers and vive la revolution!

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Whenever I think of this band, I think of the Red Dwarf episode where Rimmer is slagging Lister's musical taste and says "Why don't you listen to the classics, like the three M's: Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Motörhead?"

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This could be just the game I've been waiting for. I've always loved big 4X space games, Master of Orion and so on. Haven't seen a lot lately, and the few there have been weren't out for Linux and tended to be hard to get working in Wine. I'll be very much looking forward to this.

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They're saying "Wacky" a bit too often for my taste. When people describe their comedic thing as "wacky" it makes me think "desperate and lacking imagination". But it could be good.

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I would make a good hunter because, while patient, careful and remorseless on the hunt itself, I also have strong principles, allowing me to resist the blandishments and temptations of darkness. Those driven by bloodthirst and the thrill of the hunt can fall.

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I am happy to support Greek angry mobs.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: KelsThere are some interesting questions raised by this comment about feeling entitled to access to a creative product.

That's...kinda my point, yeah.

I do think I'm entitled access to this creative product. And not just me, not just this creative product. I think everyone is entitled access to every creative product. For the good of the people.

Mind you, in this case it seems to me that in order for everyone to be able to access it, it would have to be something different, in which case it wouldn't be this creative product and therefore nobody at all would be able to access this creative product . . .
More generally, by rights you should be complaining about every single game (or book, album etc) being sold for money, since around half the world's population can't possibly afford to buy the things. Not that I would have a problem with that complaint necessarily, I'm just saying that your position isn't compatible with support for capitalism. The availability constraints of this particular game seem minor and fair compared to the more general constraint of "no money, no play".

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Rare to see people with a long view these days. It's all "What's in it for me today, even if that'll hose me in a year." You'd think with where the climate is going people might be starting to notice the problems with that approach. Kudos to this guy for thinking beyond the end of his nose.

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Quoting: skryIf you don't want to use Steam runtime (or need something that it does not include), learn the very few gotchas about dynamic linking / library loading in Linux compared to Windows and supply your own. Usually this means a simple launcher script. If you need only a handful of libraries or binary size is not an issue, you can also consider static linking.

Really, when I watch my package manager downloading stuff, one thing I notice is that most libraries are very small. For most games of any size, I bet all the libraries you might be worried about would take up less space than one of the game's video clips or whatever. Static linking shouldn't be a problem most of the time.

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Well. Someone has to say it . . .
That's some Bad Juju.

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