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Latest Comments by GustyGhost
Game store itch is also having a summer sale
28 Jun 2016 at 4:00 pm UTC

itch have filled the niche left by Desura.. or it seems Desura is still in business somehow? Honestly, it would be great to see a merger or buyout between the two.

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend
28 Jun 2016 at 2:46 am UTC

Quoting: Kuduzkehpan1) Games and Hardwares' ownerships are designeted by their own license. So violating these licenses is a bitching.
2) Piracy is a big shit on developers and customers. (less income less quality and games from same source)
3) You dont have to buy hardware and software also at the first place you agreed all EULAS when you did buy that Hardware and software.
4) Everyone needs to take care of her/his family and him/her-self unless someone bitching with their property.
5) There is noting left to us unless to protest non-free and copyrights in harmless ways as in all manners.
6) You can even go a square and tell people about their bullshitting lock-in ecosystem and marketing games.
I would love to address your statements but we should probably only do so in a place where disfavored ideas are welcomed. You can always find me on Voat [External Link], a site which encourages unrestricted discourse and frowns upon moderation that attempts to influence opinions. It became popular after Reddit started to become censorious and authoritative.

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend
27 Jun 2016 at 6:17 pm UTC

Quoting: badberThere are actually rules that forbid simply discussing the ethics of piracy on this site? Wow. That seems... Orwellian.
This thread has me taking the role of insensitive jerk today but I can't believe what I'm seeing.

"comments that claim we are censoring you will be removed."
"Piracy is not cool, we do not support it and don't want to hear/read about it. Keep it out of our comments. Support developers, buy their games, don't be a dick."
Being told what (not) to say and what (not) to think does not sit well with me. I can respect that GOL strives to just be an outlet of Linux game news and it does a great job at that, but to think this was an open forum of discussion was apparently a mistake.

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend
27 Jun 2016 at 5:24 pm UTC

Normally I would cede that my posts have nothing to do with with the topic (Vulkan + Dolphin which I am very excited for btw) but the main article discuses the very thing my comments have addressed so I cannot admit that they're unrelated to the topic. Liam invited discussion about piracy with half of the content of this writing. If you don't want people talking about it then don't bring it up in the first place.

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend
27 Jun 2016 at 4:29 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubi@AnxiousInfusion: The thing is, console exclusives are legal and piracy is not, so you might want to take another gander at the GOL rules before posting rants like that. Liam has made it clear that discussions on the ethics or any other aspect of piracy are not welcome.
If GOL wants to be censorious of uncomfortable opinions that sends a stronger message about them than it does me. Piracy is only a satellite issue to my main point that platform exclusives have caused this rift in the first place. Whether or not something is legal does not correlate to it being right or wrong. I believe what I'm doing is a just response to industry's abuse of control. I thought Linux were more nuanced in this kind of thing.

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend
27 Jun 2016 at 3:08 pm UTC Likes: 2

Screw the legality. If Nintendo is too shortsighted to recognize me as a customer then they deserve every potential loss of sale that my ROMs have caused. Console manufacturers often enter into contractual agreements with game developers to only develop a game for their consoles, explicitly disallowing its release for PC, to force consumers to buy their consoles in order to play those games. Their whole purpose is to lock consumers into a closed ecosystem and restrict their freedom. This allows console manufacturers to fix prices artificially for their games and peripherals.

Desktop Environments have been added to the user statistics graphs
26 Jun 2016 at 10:50 pm UTC

Ew, the owner of this site runs Windows. Hiss! Burn him!

FORCED SHOWDOWN now available on Linux & SteamOS
25 Jun 2016 at 12:46 am UTC

Quoting: Avehicle7887Kinda ironic isn't it? Linux is actually more personal than Windows or Mac.
The understated truth. And Avehicle, fill out your PC information. The only thing you have listed right now is Mint.

FORCED SHOWDOWN now available on Linux & SteamOS
24 Jun 2016 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 11

there are no changes from the PC version
from the PC version
PC version

Two Worlds Epic Edition openworld action RPG now on GOG for Linux
24 Jun 2016 at 3:19 pm UTC

Good news only the whole point of bundling WINE with the game should be so that the buyer doesn't even have to think about it. I installed and uninstalled PlayOnLinux and it trashed up my system with leftover WINE folders and menu entries. Any reason they couldn't handle Two Worlds like they did Flat Out?