Quoting: whizseInterestingly, Fanatical is nowadays owned by Fandom, Inc. The company founded and run by Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia)!

hmm... I'm sure Mr. Wales would agree that the site is mired in too much pointless bureaucratic BS, as though it's run by the gub'mint -- Mr. Wales the libertarian dipshit Ayn Rand fan.

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Quoting: davidakThese are too many requirements to actually get a "free" game that i never wanted. And all these coupons and offers are too much manipulation.

To delete an account there, you have to open a support ticket. They could just have a button for it, but make it hard.

I'm fine paying a few euros more in Steam sale. Supporting Steam (and their linux gaming efforts) is not the worst thing to do.

The requirements are off-putting for sure; nevertheless I was intrigued -- but then the offer doesn't 'activate' where I live (Turkey); so I'll have to pass.

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Quoting: ForgeAssassin's Creed ended with III. The main story writer left and it shows, all the metaplot just dried up and blew away. All the later games are just stabbing-simulator with more weapons/outfits/etc added periodically. The new settings/times are neat, and I own them all, but I resent them.

Uplay has been running fine on my Deck, though, so this should be a net win.

Absolutely; they're sticking to the established 'brand/franchise name', though I really doubt if they'd sell fewer copies if they called the games 'Open World Stuff: Ancient Greece Edition', & the like. AC4 was a genuinely good game, & a genuinely good romanticized pirate history game, & perhaps it would've become a bigger phenomenon without being part of the 'franchise'. If they love their crazy backstory/lore so much, they could've kept the references to it in name drops or whatever, like hints at the so-called 'Cthulhu mythos' that are sprinkled through not just Lovecraft's own stories, but those of R.E. Howard & others.

They started with a fun variation on possibly the most hackneyed entertainment plot around; i.e. '2012 Apocalypse/Atlantis/Hidden History/Ancient Aliens' stuff (even DOOM is on the bandwagon nowadays). Some people got hooked on A.C. because they take stories like that seriously, as they're pumped 24/7 from fraudulent so-called documentary channels; the blandness of the game formula, & the half-baked-to-nonexistent stealth mechanics became notorious. I got hooked because of the authentic environments, & the Forrest Gump style interactions with historical personalities. It's not much of a game; but there's no other series where you get to fist fight the Pope, become Karl Marx's bodyguard, beat people on behalf of Charles Darwin & Lorenzo de Medici alike, stab Julius Caesar, become buddies with Blackbeard & Da Vinci, climb the Hagia Sophia as well as the Eiffel Tower, etc. etc. etc. either.

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Thank you GabeN for making me feel grateful, if only for a fleeting moment, that I don't even have a wallet to run away from me.

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Quoting: sarmadWhat's with the "Sexual Content" label? 🤔

David & Solomon, you know.

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The reddit thread is interesting. The guy who made this claims he couldn't find an audiobook, or an accessible version for visually impaired people ... which is pretty implausible by itself; but then he goes on to tell how that gave him the impetus to prepare 'translations of the text into as many languages as he could', & hire voice actors in various languages to record his (?) translations, and so on.

Doesn't sound terribly serious (or even sane) to me.

I mean, pro-level bible software costs a ton (because it comes with pretty amazing interlinked text, Greek & Hebrew translations, historical commentaries, and so on), but basic e-book/audiobook type releases are a dime a dozen.

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I tried to do the dnf system-upgrade yesterday, though I got stack due to the gpg keys for the postgres 15 repo being absent (somehow). I'll try in a few more days, I think. I hurried a bit since I wanted to get a system-compiled build of Python 3.11

In any case, as far as the 'above the hood' elements are concerned, Fedora 38 will be a more interesting release for Xfce users, since a huge upgrade is in the works for 4.18

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It looks like they're releasing new versions under whatever license, then putting them under a less restrictive license afterwards.

Free as in beer, for physx 3, in 2015: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2015/03/nvidia-physx-source-code-now-available-free-on-github/
BSD-3 for physx 4, in 2018: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2018/12/nvidia-have-now-made-physx-open-source/

- & now this. Who knows what they're thinking? I mean, this is the company that released firmware that 'called home' to spy on overclockers.

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This is really well put:

Quoting: KithopTo be able to find small, close knit communities - makers, gamers, artists, musicians, photographers, etc. who can finally afford to drop the 'brand' pretense and be a lot more genuine, to not be abused by a platform's shadowy algorithms, is way more like the Internet I remember, of fan forums and webrings and without draconian advertising and pages that would make any dial up connection cry over their heft.

Though I can't get my hopes up about the kind of people I mainly follow - academics - because some of those fellows are all about the 'brand pretense'; and those who aren't are scared of missing out on something important that the other party may say, so they'll stay whereever they are.

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Best of luck to the Nextcloud app, though I have to say (& I hate to say it) that one should take 'new feature!!!' announcements from Nextcloud very, very cautiously.

At the very least - don't expect to self-host *and* be able to use any 'new features' before they mature in a couple of years' time. If a paid provider with dedicated staff to fix the constant breakages offers said features, then it's all right of course.

... & I see that nitter.net is down. I hope it's not related to this acquisition. It's a great way of keeping up with twitter feeds from people you like over rss, without even logging in to twitter itself.

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