Whenever you purchase and run a Windows game through a translation layer, you are effectively shouting from the rooftops: "I want the Win32 / DirectX formats to forever remain the dominant standards in computer games!" or "Please Microsoft, please please please keep me locked into your proprietary standards, this is my covenant with you!"

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Easy Anti-Cheat extend gesture of kindness to Linux gamers by sunsetting support for literal spyware.

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Wow, I haven't logged into this site in forever and the state of affairs is both amusing and appalling.

I have made a commitment this year to spend money exclusively on free and open source games, and I couldn't be any happier. This Epic Games news only reinforces the fact that if the source is not available for a piece of software you are running, it will eventually cuck you. And that is a matter of when, not if.

MRW not having to deal with any of that bullshit anymore. [External Link]

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Dear Sandbox Interactive,

When your game inevitably dies, please release the source code. Don't concern yourselves with notifying when, I'll mark my calendar.

Sincerely, GustyGhost

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This is an early gift as I believe 5.0 wasn't due for another two weeks, last I checked. There are some bigger changes that players won't notice such as a new networking implementation.

You can see the full changelog here: https://dev.minetest.net/Changelog#0.4.16_.E2.86.92_5.0.0 [External Link]

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This year, I have spent more money on FOSS games than I had spent on proprietary games in the previous. Put your money where your mouth is.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: GustyGhostI remember trying this one when it was still called "Leaving Lyndow". An absolutely gorgeous game. It looks like they've added a bunch of new areas since then.

Leaving Lyndow is actually "a short, first-person exploration adventure game, set in the Eastshade universe" to quote their website. The game is still available, but it's only officially supported on Windows and Mac.

It fully worked on Linux when I tried. Felt so... empty and lacking, though.

Well, of course, it was basically the alpha build at that point in time. The were only asking for something in the region of €4.50 which is fair.

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The patents expired on the MP3 audio format so there should be no shame in using it, however OGG should be listed first on it's better audio quality alone.

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I remember trying this one when it was still called "Leaving Lyndow". An absolutely gorgeous game. It looks like they've added a bunch of new areas since then.

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Virgil GPU sounds like very good news if you find yourself wanting to game on a non-x86 host. That one is going in my notes, for sure.

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