Quoting: Patola"level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, language proficiency, age, political orientation, nationality, religion, or other similar characteristics..." -- anything can be shoehorned into being "harassment" when being so broad, and there is even a broadening clause in the end to ensure that.

ANYTHING, huh?

Oh, well, if that's the case try to point out to me how even a rather confrontational piece of less-than-constructive criticism like e.g. "Your latest pull request looks like a total beginner to coding wrote it" could lead to CoC action using above clause. You can't use it for that. Now, if you wrote instead "Your latest pull request looks like a fat girl wrote it", you could. See the difference? At all? If not, you're a part of the problem, I am afraid.

Quoting: PatolaAnd that person might be expelled for doing it elsewhere ("...either publicly or privately.")?

That's your interpretation. To me, it rather reads, either publicly (within our community), or privately (within our community). Admittedly, they should have be clearer if a CoC violation could happen when a community member attacks another on a 3rd party platform, etc.

Quoting: PatolaThere are indeed forbidden opinions today.

That's utter nonsense. There is a certain group of toxic people that resent that their toxic statements are no longer left standing without receiving dissent for them. In 1999, if you insulted a female player in a PvP game the rest of the male gang there would giggle. In 2019, at least some of the people there will call out for being a douchebag. There is no such thing as things you can't say. But there is no right to yell unintelligent garbage out to the world and expect not to receive negative comments for it. That's in the end what people mean when they complain there is no freedom of speech anymore. They mean THEIR freedom of speech and theirs ONLY. "I have the right to insult you, but no, you can't disagree with me, because free speech is for me only!!!"

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Quoting: psyminI'm more concerned about non-contributors finding a contributor's Facebook page and using the contributor's personal opinions and personal habits as a reason to evict them from the community.

I am pretty sure if they start over-policing the CoC in places where it by no sane reason ever should reach, there will sufficient backlash by the community at large to make it stop. I do agree that it would have been better to define clear limits to where and what the CoC will apply, but I can understand that they wanted to give themselves a little leeway to be able to act when they feel it's needed.

Honestly, I wish "Don't be a jerk!" would be the only CoC humanity ever needed, but as we all know there is no much toxicity around that we need sufficient tools to snuff it out.

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Wait, you can run Origin in Proton? I had no idea! Is there a guide for this, people could point me to? I used to run it in Lutris, but their installer has been broken for months now.

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Quoting: Liam DaweSlow and steady may well win the race, it's better Valve/CodeWeavers carefully review the new versions before just pushing them out though. Let them all get more testing in the wild, then pull them in when ready.

Agreed! I'd rather have them skip some WINE releases in exchange for steady, stable progress. Lately I've had the first time when a new Proton release broke a game that used to run flawlessly with it (Star Trek Online). It still works with Proton 4.2, so it's definitely a problem with the new Proton and not the game.

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Meh, it sounded like a fun idea. :(

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Added to my wishlist for now. I am suffering from "Bloated Steam Library" syndrome, too. :D

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Honestly, if there is a sound technical reason to run some games in the cloud that's not just a DRM measure, be my guest. At least that wouldn't be "we're exclusive because we love to have a monopoly". At the same time I expect 90+% of all games to still run just fine on a local PC in the future. Not all games are like MS Flight Simulator. The visuals contemporary games can achieve even without the cloud is already amazing, and Moore's Law dying or not, local PCs will still get more powerful over time. I am really curious if Google will make JUST the games cloud-dependent that REALLY need it. Let's just say I believe it when I see it. Google has said goodbye to "Don't be evil!" years ago, so...

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I had expected this, as Paradox is by a wide margin the most Linux friendly studio out there, but glad to hear it's confirmed anyway! :)

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That's great news. Blender is really picking up some support lately! I guess we might be able to see some pretty good new updates down the road!

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Quoting: SirLootALotWho actually cares about the gender of a lead protagonist?

Apparently somebody cares. If not, you'd expect protagonist gender being picked randomly and thus the distribution between male and female leads should be 50/50 - but with the overwhelming majority of all games using male protagonists, you can't really argue it's random. The question is really why in 2019 it apparently still matters enough to systemically prefer male over female characters...

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