Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThere was a lot of talk about this when Disney started to (significantly) ramp-up all the 'Mickey' merchandise a few years back... I never realized that a company still operating could lose ownership of their intellectual property, but apparently they can after a set period of time and a certain set of circumstances.

Not too sure how I feel about that, but there you go.

There is this closeness, yet seperation between Copyright, Patents, Trademarks and Intellectual Property.

I of course could be wrong, but the way I understand it, copyright ends 70(?) Years after the author dies, unless the holder of their estate keeps reapplying... which is why you can't just sing Happy Birthday in a restaurant. Patents... I don't think ever expire, they just either get randomly enforced... or not. Trademarks is why Disney has to keep the merchandise and the name Mickey out there. IP I think are like Pokémon cards, corporations want to collect them all.

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Quoting: BoldosWonder why there is no Linux native version available, when we have this?
https://www.etlegacy.com/ [External Link]

Even wothout that, there were linux binaries released for it. id had a great track record for a long time before Zenimax bought them for having Linux builds. Rage seemed to be the first of many.

Edit: if you run a Debian based distribution, there is a deb package that will make it easy to take the original assets and builds up a -data.deb package for you to install so that you can play the native version.

https://wiki.debian.org/Games/GameDataPackager [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHuh, is it the native version of Enemy Territory? I still have my physical copy of Quake Wars sitting on my shelf. ET was kind of a game that started a genre and doesn't get the credit it deserves!

Its Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory not Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Wish they would release ETQW on steam, I also have a physical copy, it ran great on Linux (ported by Timothee Besset IIRC) and is still one of my favorite multiplayer FPS games (along with Tribes 2).

Yeah, I know. It was more of a 'oh yeah, I still have ET:Quake Wars on my shelf, this reminded me." I think I have the physical copy of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory somewhere as well...

Still find it weird that Zenimax bought id, then MS bought Zenimax... and Facebook owns Carmack :P

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Mine shipped yesterday! I'll have to figure out how to put Handy on there for some Lynx emulation fun.

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Does the new version come with Blast Processing?

As a side note, the Genesis collection supports VR, have you tried it in VR yet, Liam?

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Huh, is it the native version of Enemy Territory? I still have my physical copy of Quake Wars sitting on my shelf. ET was kind of a game that started a genre and doesn't get the credit it deserves!

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Quoting: dibzFixing freedom of speech on Twitter? How so?

About the only things that come to mind are Trump and COVID misinformation type stuff being blocked/censored.

I am familiar with a person who grumbles often that they were banned from Twitter for life for calling some senator a "twatwaffle".

Everyone should be free to call senators twatwaffles.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThis is the one type of tool that EVERY OS should have build in. I don't know if macOS has one, but Gnome does, KDE does, Windows does not and I have to download the port of kdir (I think that is what it's called). I haven't used Filelight yet, but it seems very much like the Gnome version.

WinDirStat [External Link], the Windows port of KDirStat [External Link].

I'm still using the respective view of Konqueror, though:

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Those are the ones! Thanks!

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Quoting: TheRiddickThis is one of those games that could have HUGELY benefited from a more open-world setting instead of the micro level challenges it has now. On top of that more martial combat styles with melee weapon combat styles on top.

I played about 10 levels into the main story a couple times but kind of forgot about it. Certainly had potential but felt too much like a arcade level challenge type of game more so then a continuous interesting story/world. Also I think it was like 30GB or something which seemed pretty extreme for such a basic game.

This is literally a game I was excited for, for years... then when it finally released I was too busy to play it... now it's been long enough for it to be open sourced and I've only played it for like 20 min! I did play Lugaru a bit when it first came out and a bit more when Lugaru HD was released.

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This is the one type of tool that EVERY OS should have build in. I don't know if macOS has one, but Gnome does, KDE does, Windows does not and I have to download the port of kdir (I think that is what it's called). I haven't used Filelight yet, but it seems very much like the Gnome version.

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