I recently moved from Kubuntu to Manjora. This doesn't exactly entice me to move back.

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Quoting: Matombo

Quoting: subWasn't that planned to be a free upgrade for those already owning it? :huh:

I think I remember that too. But Plans change I guess?

Well with the discount you can think of it as a 16$ addon to a 9$ game.

I received the original game for free, and I still felt ripped off.

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Quoting: Mountain ManEh, it goes both ways. I once made a perfectly polite and respectful remark stating my opposition to a certain issue. In response, I was called every filthy name you can think of by a number of posters. Guess who got banned for "hate speech". Go on, guess. :happy:

Attacking people for something they have no control over vs being attacked over holding a view. One of these is hate speech and the other is not.

That's a very common rationalization.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Kithop...let's be honest, here: the 'free speech' being championed, even if it doesn't purport to be, on the surface, invariably becomes a vehicle for hate of anyone 'other'.

Let's be honest, here: a lot of what is decried as "hate speech" is simply whatever opinion a liberal happens to disagree with. It's like the whole "microaggression" and "white privilege" nonsense where you can be condemned as guilty no matter what you do or say.

What fantasy land do you live in? Please find me any conservative speech on the internet covering LGBTQIA+ issues with a comments section where it isn't just a bunch of downright hateful slurs and mean spirited remarks. I bet you can find this speech on all the "liberal" platforms like youtube, twitter, reddit, etc but I doubt you'll find any with civil discourse. Like are you using an alternate internet where hate speech doesn't exist? Or are you so obtuse as to not find these types of slurs and malicious remarks as not being hate speech?

Eh, it goes both ways. I once made a perfectly polite and respectful remark stating my opposition to a certain issue. In response, I was called every filthy name you can think of by a number of posters. Guess who got banned for "hate speech". Go on, guess. :happy:

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Quoting: Kithop...let's be honest, here: the 'free speech' being championed, even if it doesn't purport to be, on the surface, invariably becomes a vehicle for hate of anyone 'other'.

Let's be honest, here: a lot of what is decried as "hate speech" is simply whatever opinion a liberal happens to disagree with. It's like the whole "microaggression" and "white privilege" nonsense where you can be condemned as guilty no matter what you do or say.

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Quoting: llortonIf it's really Free speech™, I am looking forward to all the racial slurs, misinformation, and other nice things to be the main discourse on Twitter.

Frankly, if people are too stupid to be able discern the good from the bad in what they read, then they shouldn't even be on the internet in the first place. This idea that we need media companies to "protect" us is a large part of the problem.

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Quoting: WMan22I wish there was a website like twitter, where you have the freedom to say anything you want, EXCEPT political discussion was just straight banned, cold turkey, left and right wing, so people can focus on collaboration/promotion of neat projects first and foremost without being at each other's throats for 5 seconds,

The problem is that just about anything can be declared "political speech" these days.

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Great news for those of us who support free speech.

Not so great news for those who think there isn't enough censorship in the world.

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Reading the headline, it took me a moment to realize that Crusader Kings III is not getting a content pack titled "Fate of Iberia and Surviving Mars".

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Quoting: Kristian

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: sub

Quoting: BeamboomImagine sitting on a *guaranteed* multi million seller game franchise and choose NOT to release a sequel.
And they even have several of those. They're livin' the good life over there at Valve.

Well, I guess we're easy to overlook the numbers.
While it seems to be big money, it's actually significantly less compared to Steam sales
and putting all your resources in there.

The estimates for Valve's annual revenue is like 7-10 billion USD.
Compare that to the total of sold Half Life copies (~ 9 million) over many, many years -
even if you assume they were all sold at max price (they weren't).
In particular, if you consider how much pressure it must be for Valve always trying to keep
or surpass their standards for their games (I can only imagine). So there is a risk for reputation loss.

Don't get me wrong. I'd love to see Valve getting back to their franchises.
And there IS room for hope. And I'd also claim there is way more value for Valve having those franchises alive
with recent high-class releases than "just" what they directly earn from them.
I just hope they see this.

Yes - but if they weren't developing games anymore, why employ them? They earn good money at Valve and they aren't doing nothing.

Positions are not as clearly defined at Valve as you might expect, and employees can freely move from one project and position to another depending on their interests. So just because someone might have the job title "level designer" doesn't necessarily mean he spends 40 hours a week designing levels for games.

Point is, you can't look at job titles at Valve and get any idea of what is happening inside the company.

Yes, but a level designer will not have the qualifications to work on say Steam.

Are you sure about that? Just because someone is skilled at one thing doesn't mean they can't also be skilled at other things.

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