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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Quoting: F.UltraBut have you not heard that the mighty SJW:s have forced all gaming publishers to only make games with female leads since 2014!

Heh, there certainly have been some debates about that issue. Apparently it didn't help all that much. Tomb Raider existed before 2014, and that's still the only truly major franchise featuring a female lead I am aware of. Other than that, there have been some rare one-hit-wonder gems like Life is Strange (it's successor-by-name-only features boy characters, so I don't count that as a female-lead franchise), Horizon or Hellblade, but in the end, video games are still largely made by men for men.

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