Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: GuestHaemimont Games are the developers of the Tropico series and Victor Vran.
I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it much if it is similar to Paradox games or Tropico 5.

I skipped on Victor Vran because I am not too eager to play games that force me to play a male character, at least not unless premade female characters become just as normal.

Sorry but what the hell? There are games where you need gender lock because of the story, Victor Vran is pretty much one of those. Ohh noo why do i have to play as female character in Tomb Raider? ...

thats just seriously stupid if you ask me. Why does the gender in games matter at all. If its designed this way its how you play it, if it has a choice to choose, then you choose what you want to play.

Victor Vran isn't male because the story demands the lead character to be male. He's male because that's what his creators wanted him to be. It's hilarious that some people still think that 95% of all video game characters are male for no other reason than because the "story demands it". Give me Victor Vran's script and a pencil and I substitute his character with an equally believable female in less than 10 minutes. There is -zero- reason for this character to be gender-locked, except that most studios are still mentally stuck in the early 90s when girls didn't play video games.

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Quoting: GuestHaemimont Games are the developers of the Tropico series and Victor Vran.
I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it much if it is similar to Paradox games or Tropico 5.

I skipped on Victor Vran because I am not too eager to play games that force me to play a male character, at least not unless premade female characters become just as normal.

Paradox's grand strategy games are not for everyone, I concede that (I love them, though). But what's wrong with Tropico 5? It's nowhere as complex as the average Paradox game. I had fun with it, at least.

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Instant buy. It's Paradox!

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As usual, I go full denial mode and pretend it's a very, VERY obscure hint at Skyrim or Fallout 4. At this time I am not even sure which games other than Bethesda's full inventory sans Doom I could even want. There haven't been terribly interesting (for me) new releases in months, even on Windows.

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This is a game I could totally love if it had more depth. Maybe Paradox picks up the idea and turns it into something awesom. They have games set in pretty much every imaginable period of human history, except present day. :D

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I still hope they will release the Elusive targets as a pack one day, so we can enjoy them whenever we want, as it should be.

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: BeamboomPS: I never started using Linux "to escape MS's monopoly" - I did it because it's simply the better OS for my line of work. ;)

Sysadmin ?

My guess would have been developer. ;)

And well, Linux is a better OS than Windows in every regard I can think of. The area Windows is ahead is the number of software products available for it, that's really all. Namely games and design software. If we'd be evenly supported by software, nobody in their right mind would still be using Windows.

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Quoting: Creak

Quoting: GuestNow just hurry up blizzard and give me Overwatch then I can get rid of windows and use my SSD for linux!

Hehe, I've lost hope on Blizzard, they just deeply hate Linux.

In my case, the feeling is mutual. I don't like their games either. They are the only larger publisher I have never bought a game from. I couldn't care less if they ever support Linux. But as far as Overwatch goes, wasn't it supposed to run in one of the newer WINE patches just nicely?

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I have a Razer Naga for about 4 years now (I disagree on the MMO buttons being useless btw. - I couldn't imagine playing a MMO without them anymore, or really any game that needs the number keys). I never had any issues with the mouse, and I'd probably buy from Razer again. Btw. even on Windows you don't need their software if you can live with the buttons assigned to standard keys. The MMO buttons are liked to the 1-9,0,-,= keys, which in 99% of the time is what you want anyway.

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Quoting: BeamboomTwo layers of security is and will always be better than one.

You will hear no dissent from me here. I said a few times already that 2FA looks good on paper.

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: KimyrielleBut go ahead and convince me: Tell me how to design a 2FA system that's foolproof regarding people losing their token, WITHOUT compromising its security in the process, that STILL lets people use the system 100% anonymously if they so desire, AND doesn't put any sort of market leverage in the hand of the token provider, despite them having to be a monopoly by definition (we still want to avoid having to deal with more than one token system!)

That is not the topic. The topic is security. Two layers of security are better than one - period.

To me, that IS the topic. That and nothing else is. A security system that increases security (it does, we don't disagree here), but comes with a astonishing number of inconveniences, unsolved design flaws and privacy concerns is UNACCEPTABLE. Yes, even if it otherwise works. Security is not something you can and want to maximize. It always comes paired with secondary concerns. The most famous one being Security vs. Freedom. But convenience is -certainly- one of the secondary concerns, as is privacy, and making the system resilient against single point of failures. 2FA doesn't satisfy ANY of these considerations. It works in some select areas where these concerns do not matter. You named banks, and I agree with that, since they already know my identity anyway and can ask me to show up in person if I lose my token. It works because banking is still at least partially an offline business. Most other areas that need good online security aren't like that.

I do otherwise agree with you that we need something better than static passwords. Unfortunately nobody has ever come up with a great idea what to replace them with. 2FA isn't it, at least not without considerably improving the way it's currently implemented. For the time being, I am rather willing to accept somewhat weaker security than living with the plethora of unsolved issues it comes with. *shrug*

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