I get the point of anti-cheats. I don't necessarily agree, but I get it.

I really wish more devs made it possible to disable them. Just, run the game without it, connect to servers that don't care (or even better, provide a way to run private servers). This way, friends and the like can enjoy the game however they want, without disturbing the "protected" players. Kinda like ladder and non ladder in Diablo, if I recall (it's been a while).

It was a thing "back then". I kinda miss that. Now it's all tightly locked down, no trust, no private servers, and you're treated like a criminal by default, in addition to making some games inaccessible to a slew of people that are not ready to trade privacy for *paid* entertainment.

Also, kudos for embracing, even if only slightly, open source propositions. Everyone wins when everyone uses opensource (and the maintainer is not a benevolent dictator haha).

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Not so hot take: video games, as fiction material, should not be censored. Payment processors should not have a say in any of it. We're all grown up here, and buy what we want.

I don't particularly care for *that* list of games, but that's no excuse to remove them. If I don't want something, I don't get it; if I want something, I get it. It's not the place of any interfering busybody to decide what I can and cannot enjoy in my leisure time. This is obviously the first step in the way of locking everything down to what a handful of bigots are graceful enough to allow others to enjoy.

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Keeping X11 compatibility, especially in such a large DE as KDE, is really important.
I get the point of "we have to move forward", but I'm still hit with very casual things that are not working that great with KDE on wayland that are not an issue in X11. Such issues include proper clipboard integration (I know there's ongoing work regarding that, in particular with xdg-portal), some apps having issue with their contextual menu showing nowhere near where they should, some screen-specific application being unable to know/settle on a specific screen, etc.

I'll keep checking on the regular; it's trivial to move from one to another after all, no configuration required. But it remains important to keep that option as long as very common issue can still show up.

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