Definitely going to buy this. Don't care much about co-op, but stoked in general. There's so many games now sortakindamaybe like it, but I've never found myself sinking the hours into other ones I've tried. Slay the Spire just gets things very right somehow.

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Quoting: Jarmerall models out of stock in the usa still.

I'm gonna just keep saying it:

BURST BURST BURST!!! LETS HAVE A BURST PARTY!

This will likely be the new landscape indefinitely. Gaming and client devices will have to battle for scraps as they get pushed out to far orbit from the interests of industry. I think we are entering a period of time where innovation in software is going to define successes in gaming and in end user devices.

Dunno about indefinitely. There are two sources of inflection in this situation. First, the AI bubble will very likely burst, and it's a big bubble, and there are various other instabiliities in the world economy which may get tipped over by the AI crash. All those data centres no longer getting built, combined with a major worldwide recession, may result in a shift from undersupply to oversupply of hardware.

In the slightly longer term, China's gonna start making all this stuff because their access to foreign supply is either already being restricted or they don't trust the world, particularly the US, not to start at some point. They're ramping up efforts to be self-sufficient in production of high end computer stuff, and they are succeeding pretty fast, and we know that when China starts producing something for itself it then makes masses more and sells it to everyone else. So, at some point Chinese supply will glut the market.

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Quoting: PyratePlease, point to me where I suggested that you should use or not use anything. The lack of reading comprehension here is astounding.

I would agree, but I think we differ as to where it sits. Good day, sir.

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Quoting: TarosNice, didn't know Planescape: Torment had an Enhanced Edition. Got it. 🥰

Now, with even better torment!

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Quoting: M@GOidValve have big pockets and can afford to drag this in courts for years. But there are patent trolls going after the small companies and try to defeat them only trough legal costs.

I think that the legal system should be basically all public defenders/prosecutors. If you want to sue someone, you file the lawsuit, you get assigned a lawyer, the person you sue gets assigned a lawyer, they go at it, you both get assessed a fee based on ability to pay. If it's a complex case, maybe more lawyers, but you both get assigned the same amount of legal team. Maybe there's a step in there for a quick determination if the case is obviously frivolous it just gets dumped before the government has to spend money on you.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Mountain Man$150,000 seems too small of a penalty. They should have added another zero.

Even that isn't enough. Businesses like that have no right to exist. They should have seized the entire thing and shut them down.

I'm really torn over this. On one hand I'm pretty pro-capitalism

Quoting: eggroleWhy, oh why, did so many of us allow money worship to be such a central focus... :(

Um, capitalism. That's kind of the point.

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Quoting: eggroleFurther, I think it is folly to underestimate your opponents. Sure those emails show a bunch of room temperature IQs, but I'm more concerned with who was behind organizing Epstein. The people in the emails are, IMHO, the worker bees of the actual oligarchs. Someone financed it all. Someone was/is using whatever happened as blackmail. Those are the real "masterminds" - the names we don't see.

I think what most people underestimate is the money itself. You don't need masterminds if you can buy the playing field. Somewhere back in the early 70s, the master plan for the wealthy class was set up. They asked this guy Powell to come up with ideas, his memo was distributed round particularly to the US Chamber of Commerce, they decided to get behind it, it wasn't even a secret, and they did it and it worked. The Powell memo is fairly easy to find.

And about all it comes down to is "We should, as rich business people, get together to fund propaganda. We should fund people to come up with PR ideas for our side, and fund outfits to popularize them, and make sure we own the media so the media will peddle those ideas for us." This is not a bad plan, but it's not mastermind stuff. And it can work . . . if you have all the money. Nobody who doesn't have all the money can make that plan work. And, there isn't really an equivalent not-having-money plan that matches it.

There isn't really a reason for oligarchs to come up with clever plans. They don't need to, the money itself is usually the winning hand that lets the most basic plays win.

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Quoting: eggrole

Quoting: elmapulif they can stop us from storing data locally, they can stop us from preserving content (eg: piracy) as well.

Quoting: JohnologueThey're taking away our right to own private computers

I think this hits the nail on the head

I think we need to draw a distinction or two here. I would not be surprised if, noticing this situation, some oligarchs decide to try to take advantage of it. They're opportunistic as all get out. But they're not smart enough for this to have been a plan all along. Have you seen some of those Epstein emails? These guys are fucking morons. Their ideas are incoherent, their plans are simpleminded. If they didn't have the masses of money and this sort of elite-scumbucket-solidarity backing them up, their stupid playbooks wouldn't get anywhere.

In the old days it was plausible to imagine the billionaire class as masterminds whose nefarious, complex plans succeeded because our every move would play into their hands. It turns out they're just dipstick scuzzbuckets with avalanches of cash, whose stupid brute-force plots kind of succeed because avalanches of cash.

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

So, first of all "user friendly" is a very vague term and I'm willing to agree that Fedora satisfies it. "as user friendly as Mint" is less vague, and I have never heard anyone claim Fedora satisfies that.

As to that second thing, no. I learned a thing or two about package management back in the 2000s. It was really annoying, as soon as they existed I moved to distros that did not make me do that. There is a finite amount of stuff I am capable of knowing a thing or two about, and a near infinite amount of stuff that would in some manner be useful to know, and I'm sorry but guts-details of operating systems is not in my top 1000. Computer people always think their particular area of knowledge is the one everyone really ought to know, but as far as I can tell there is no real basis for that believe

This turned argumentative real quick.

I didn't say Fedora is as user friendly as XYZ, I just that is, and in the midst of your confusion you seen to agree.

Secondly, your claim about wanting dsitros that "did not make you do [package management]" and that there's a finite amount of stuff you're capable of learning. I'm puzzled because A: what distros don't make you manage your packages? :D do you mean using GUI such as an app store ? Well Fedora KDE has the Discover store that let's you do that. And B: literally what else is there to know about a Linux system at all if not simple package management tips ? do you claim dnf install/update/remove is a difficult thing to understand and learn ? Genuinely, tell me one other thing that's more important for a new user to learn about Linux other than learning how to properly install apps and update their system.

Also, for the last unfounded assumption here: I'm not a computer people, I'm in med school.

No, the point is not that I should learn other things about my Linux distro rather than package management. The point is that I might want to learn about politics, or pickling vegetables. I use computers, I want them to be out of the way and let me use them to do things. Currently, Linux Mint is very good at this. You suggested that I instead use something else which would entail learning to do command line things, because "It's good practice long term."

Well, no, it isn't. It's time from my life that I won't get back, that I could simply not spend if I continue to use Mint, thus allowing me to instead spend time on things I find more interesting or compelling or important.

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Quoting: KoopaJust great! to the ramageddon, now you have to add the slopmageddon... any other mageddon I am forgetting?🤣

We got mageddons coming out our ears these days.

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