Quoting: JarmerKind of reminds me a lot about all the app-based sports gambling right now which is a pandemic in my mind.

At least app-based sports gambling makes more sense than app-based actual gambling, which there is plenty of as well. I mean, with sports gambling at least you know for sure whether your bet should be paying off. With online gambling-gambling, you win . . . when the people who made the app tell you you win? Um, sure, sounds legit. I cannot fathom why anyone anywhere is enough of a sucker to do this.

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Quoting: CatKillerThat's kinda weird since "Atari" is Infogrames - they just changed their name to Atari after they bought the Atari assets when it went bust.

Makes a weird kind of sense to me. Say I'm an Infogrames person, and we decided to buy the Atari stuff because dammit, can't let that stuff go down the tubes, and maybe it's an opportunity. So we gotta change our name to Atari, because otherwise selling Atari stuff will look unpersuasive. But I'm nostalgic about my original company with its old name; if I wasn't into nostalgia I wouldn't be doing Atari stuff, right? So once we get some success, I want to make something with the good old Infogrames name again too.

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So, I've never really used flatpaks, except maybe one or two that were actually in my distro's repository. So I'm wondering--If you install stuff from Flathub, how do you keep it up to date? Is there some mechanism or do you just have to sort of remember that you ought to, application by application? Do you update, or do you just reinstall a newer version?

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Quoting: legluondunetWhat distribution you will advice for gaming?

Not Mint. I love Mint, I use Mint, but Mint is not a serious gaming platform--all its stuff is old, and although I'm sure there are ways to make all the relevant stuff be up to date it's probably a pain. Luckily for me I don't play the kind of game that needs you to be up to the minute.

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They missed their chance. Should have had two viable sub-companies, one continuing to be called "Embracer Group" and the second "Extender Group". And then the third company would get all the debt and money-losing studios and be called "Extinguisher Group".

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Ashlands . . . new game mechanics . . . I wonder if they'll be for asthma and emphysema?

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo it's basically XCOM with superheroes.

I believe there is no base management, which is a big factor for me as I hate that part of XCOM.

That's correct! You can spend skillpoints to unlock new abilities and upgrades on heroes' skill trees, but there's no strategy or management layer between missions. (source: I'm working on this game ^_^ )

Is there a sort of "down time chatting at the safe house" thing like in Shadowrun?

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This is the first act of an ongoing story event.

Hopefully they won't lose interest partway through, and leave it on a cliffhanger...

Be hard to tell when they do . . . did they drop it, or is it just "Valve time"?

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Quoting: LanzPoland is a great nation full of strong people. Today, it's one of the most anti-Marxist countries in Europe.

An understandable if unfortunate reaction to their history. Pity it isn't also one of the most anti-Fascist countries in Europe, which would also have been an understandable reaction to their history.

Fascism is actually just the dialectical inversion of Marxism. In both fascism and Marxism, the state is God - the only difference is what you're collectivizing. They're almost the same ideology. China is the dialectical synthesis of Marxism and fascism to make neoliberal communism.

Marxism as such has almost no political programme. Marx was almost entirely a critic of capitalism. What inklings of a political project he ever talked about were ambiguous, and probably unworkable, but far from aspiring to the state as God. People who consider themselves Marxists in the sense that they find his criticisms of capitalism powerful and compelling have had wildly varying ideas about just what to replace it with. Marx didn't get on well with Anarchists, but most modern social Anarchists draw on the Marxist critique of capitalism, and they certainly have no interest in a state being God. So despite throwing around terms like "dialectical", you're saying one of those facile things that shows you don't actually know anything about the topic.

If you want to say Soviet-style socialism, you're still wrong, but the two are at any rate both authoritarian so that's something. But whatever the philosophical relationship between the two, it is clearly possible to be against one and not against the other.

As to China . . . "dialectical synthesis" sounds really cute, but it rarely means a whole lot, and certainly not in this case. China has no real relationship to fascism, and would have no impulse to synthesize it with anything. What China has is mercantile traditions, Confucianism, and the scholarly examination system. It brought all that stuff back; a bit of Communist influence remains, in a feeling that while markets are fine for plenty of stuff they aren't a substitute for decisions and planning--although, I think that's a natural position for Confucians to take. The mercantile traditions are running the sort of background economy, and the Communist Party is a fairly Confucian thing that headhunts talent like a massive HR department--or, like a modern reconstitution of the old imperial scholarly examination system. The Party comes up with strategies and bends the economy towards them. The result is fairly capitalist, but absolutely not neoliberal. The Chinese have markets, but intervene in them like anything; that's why they've succeeded so well.

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Quoting: LanzPoland is a great nation full of strong people. Today, it's one of the most anti-Marxist countries in Europe.

An understandable if unfortunate reaction to their history. Pity it isn't also one of the most anti-Fascist countries in Europe, which would also have been an understandable reaction to their history.

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