Quoting: commodore256Car Registration fees are $200 and if you're poor and your car is worth $1,000, that's 20% of your car's value in registration. If you're poor and addicted to cigarettes have fun trying to get ahead in life when Cigarettes are $11 per pack.

Taxation on consumer goods & wages reach absurd levels not because taxation AS SUCH is a bad idea; it's because so called 'wealth creators' get away with contributing *nothing*, under the most fantastical and 'utopian' excuses. (We're supposed to believe that tax cuts contribute to the flourishing of society in general -- yeah, right...)

Where I live, under a religious conservative and VERY 'business friendly' administration, taxation on consumer goods is off the roof. Imported electronics, for example, get an approx. 80% markup -- just because. You wouldn't believe the amount they extort over alcoholic beverages. And this is the antithesis of 'democratic socialist' country.

The anti-taxation 'faith' in the US is not *that* deeply rooted; the American Revolution was ignited by resentment against taxation by a colonial MONARCH, not against a democratically controlled taxation regime. At the *very least*, Bernie's movement gives some hope as to the weakening of that faith. That's quite something, after decades of brainwashing.

-- oh, and in response to another person's claim that 'Super Bernie World' is a 'shameless ripoff': Please look up the definition of 'parody' and 'spoof'.

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This looks great; the premise appears to be similar to the one in 'Nimble Quest' (https://store.steampowered.com/app/259780/Nimble_Quest/ [External Link]), which was a really fun* game -- though 'Snake Core' looks to be more interesting.

(* not counting the F2P+MTX annoyances on the ... cringe ... mac app store version)

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Quoting: ageres* The final boss is being auto-defeated in a cutscene, not by a player. Disappointing.

The folks who made this probably didn't want to cause animated gifs of Bowser McCheetof*ckwit owning 'the player' circulating around the internet.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, I thought it was probably that lame but I thought it polite to ask.

Come on now, why 'lame'? He used such words as 'seize' and 'redistribute', which signal authentic knowledge of the subject matter.

I mean, that's the correct idiom, right? You know 'seize the means of' ... what was it ... and sure enough 'redistribute' is another of those words. Like 'free stuff'.

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Haha amazing, I love this.

-- also the sprites & animations are really well-made.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoHow empiric are these reports?
How do I know this is not just negative paid publicity?

By the fact that intel themselves have acknowledged it:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00213.html [External Link]

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I wish Warren Spector would join Arkane to co-direct an immersive sim with Harvey Smith.

Or just give the SS license to Arkane, to let them make SS3. (I mean they already did that, sort of, with Prey).

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Quoting: EikeSystem Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.

The original SS is older than the first generation of real 3d engines though; so the graphics don't really suffer from nausea inducing texture blurriness (which makes the original HL difficult to look at), they're more like Doom & Duke Nukem 3d. The huge drawback *used to be* the utterly quaint control scheme (no mouse look, hotkeys all over the place, requiring more finger dexterity than emacs for simple movement) but the 'enhanced editions' fixed that, so the game is very 'playable' nowadays.

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I wonder if this pulls in mountains of GNUstep dependencies.

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Quoting: DuncActually, that first screenshot looks suspiciously like PETSCII [External Link] to me.</pedantry>

(It is pretty cool though. :) And in fact, it's quite nice to see something like this for PETSCII, which was very common back in the day, rather than just plain old standard ASCII.)

While pretty poor feature-wise compared to this new program, dedicated PETSCII editors have been around for some time:
https://nurpax.github.io/petmate/ [External Link]
https://lvllvl.com/ [External Link]

There are a couple of offline programs as well; though I can't seem to track them down right now.

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