Quoting: Cato-the-younger

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerWhat is false exactly? That the rhetoric of say BLM if used by whites would get them labelled as "white supremacists"?

The rhetoric of BLM is that blacks in the US would really prefer it if cops would stop killing them. It would be weird coming from whites because the cops don't kill them nearly as much.
Really, what are you on?

Lol. If it was just about cops, I would agree. But its not.

And nice job addressing everything else I wrote.

The problem is that pretty much everything else you wrote, all this stuff you think, is also based on weird propaganda that is not actually true about the real world.
There was a time when argument between the left and the right wing, even the fairly far right wing, was more or less possible, since everyone was working with pretty much the same set of facts, maybe emphasizing different ones, but the main dispute was about interpretation and ethical values, models of how it all fit together. I am not young, I remember when it was like that. Since that time, the hard right has gone and invented themselves a different set of "facts" which are just not true . . . there's still some stuff which is "true" if weirdly cherry-picked, like finding some "feminist" nobody has ever heard of doing a rant and then saying "look, this is how feminists think!!1!", but increasingly it's all just made up from nothing, having no relationship to reality in any way. Just simple lies.

It's clever, in the sense that if you want fundamentally decent people to support horrible ideas, probably the most effective way is to give them fake facts that support the horrible ideas instead of the real facts, which don't. But I don't have time or energy to debunk every goddamn weird social media echo-chamber nonsense you've unfortunately absorbed, and you wouldn't believe me if I did. It's a pity, and I'm sorry.

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Quoting: Cato-the-youngerWhat is false exactly? That the rhetoric of say BLM if used by whites would get them labelled as "white supremacists"?

The rhetoric of BLM is that blacks in the US would really prefer it if cops would stop killing them. It would be weird coming from whites because the cops don't kill them nearly as much.
Really, what are you on?

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With the food theme, for a moment I thought it said turn-based batter-er.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThe two I've seen is the 'we're making a game taking place in Japan be about a black guy, that historically may or may not have been trained in the ways of the samurai'

Ah, I understand . . . because after all, only Tom Cruise is allowed to do that.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMy plan is to start using Wayland when X11 is no longer available for my distro. I see no hurry to switch.

I might be working like that, except I use Mint, which is pretty old fashioned. Probably when Mint is ready to make Wayland the default (but still retain X11 as an option) is around the time lots of other distros will no longer make X11 available at all . . .

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Well, I like my protocols cute and green, so this is good news.

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Quoting: CatKillerFor comparison, Epic last reported their EGS peak CCU as 13.2 M in 2021, when their MAU was 62 M and they had 194 M total users. They've got 2023 reports for MAU (75 M) and total users (270 M).

The big question there is always, how many of them are playing anything other than Fortnite?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's not optimal for open source software that's part of the general Linux software ecosystem; the expectation is that that stuff will keep on getting updated more or less forever and if it keeps upgrading to the latest libraries you'll get the best function, security and so on, and you avoid duplication by using system libraries. It's all kind of messy but has a lot of advantages, and it's pretty clear from the history of Linux that it can be made to work.

I can't speak to others experiences, but I can directly say, as someone who's been a part of an Open Source community for over a decade, having to build software (especially server software) using only libraries compatible with those packaged in the system. Namely, building software in C, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc - it's no feasible as in most cases, the communities responsible for those languages are not going to help you because what the distro packaged they took End Of Life anywhere from a year to a decade ago (depending on distro). Which leads back to packaging the tools together. It's not usually as bad with Python, but with other languages? There's a reason things like Puppet and Chef's official upstream Open Source repos (YUM, Apt, etc) all package Ruby within the tools.

Case in point - Ubuntu/Pop!_OS 22.04 ships with Puppet 5.5.22, which was End of Life in October of 2020..... 18 months before the LTS distro was even released. If you have issues with that version, The Puppet OSS Project, Puppet Company, nor the Vox Pupuli Community (which I'm a part of) will support you. None of them have the bandwidth to support stuff that old. So, no, it's not feasible for Open Source software either to ship only with System Libraries. One of the huge reasons I've seen Go and Rust tools take off in the CLI is because they can be compiled and ships many times as a single binary not reliant on anything in the system. They just work.

I'm in a bit of a cleft stick here. On one hand, I firmly believe you know much more about this than I do. On the other hand, I've been using Linux distros for decades now, and they pretty definitely seem to have system libraries which an awful lot of the software seems to use. I fought with dependency hell far too much in the 00s to believe those software packages weren't dependent on system libraries. So it's like who am I going to believe, you or my lying eyes?

But in any case I can't help noticing that this issue, whether valid or not or partially, has nothing to do with the main point I was making. So I'll be assuming that as I suspected, there are not "many Linux diehards" complaining about bundling libraries in closed source games.

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Quoting: tohurWell Nintendo should fail this law suit.. has come to light today the patents they are suing Palworld over were filed in May 2024 and granted LAST month... there is NO way that can stand.

So . . . even the filing, after Palworld came out. Actually, I would figure the Palworld folks should be able to even avoid a huge expensive trial if that's all Nintendo have got . . . I mean, not an expert, but surely a motion to dismiss would have a pretty good chance.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaWhich usually means gamedevs have to package their external libs with the game (which many Linux diehards seem to dislike)

I've been around Linux for many years and I've never heard of anyone objecting to games doing this.

It's not optimal for open source software that's part of the general Linux software ecosystem; the expectation is that that stuff will keep on getting updated more or less forever and if it keeps upgrading to the latest libraries you'll get the best function, security and so on, and you avoid duplication by using system libraries. It's all kind of messy but has a lot of advantages, and it's pretty clear from the history of Linux that it can be made to work.

But clearly closed source, commercial games are different and I think everyone knows that. Have you really seen "many Linux diehards" complain about games including libraries?

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