Do the above gog links fail to open for anyone else?

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Thank you for sharing, to be honest I do consider this type of stuff to be in the wheelhouse of Linux Gaming.

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I think they really need to get their deployment strategy sorted, I get the impression a lot of this is manually done, and it seems they don't do enough testing to ensure it was successful.

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It's an optimisation that helps with all Mesa drivers not just radv.

Overall it should help reduce latency.

Imagine you want to send a 'command' to the GPU, and sending it to the GPU takes 5ms, sending 10 commands will take 50ms, with this modification sending the 10 commands in a batch will take just 5ms. Now, replace the milliseconds with nanoseconds. It's a lot of time saved, but, compared to the rest of the time taken to process the commands (GPU side) for a frame you may not see a noticeable performance increase. If the game issues a lot of commands (CPU side) in one frame then you could see a noticeable performance increase.

This improvement may benefit weaker CPUs, that could not brute force their way through the individual calls.

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I would have more respect for them if they just openly admitted it was removed maliciously, instead of gaslighting.

It's one thing for a company being 'evil' but being incompetently-evil, that I can't abide.

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Any developers who felt strongly enough to jump ship before this statement should continue jumping. They may be back pedalling now, but give it time and they'll try from a different direction.

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Quoting: Metallinatus

Quoting: kit89Interestingly enough the edits to the original Star Wars (4, 5, 6 re-edited editions) aren't censorship, as that wasn't done to appease any audience, quite the opposite in fact.

This part right here really threw me on a loop. You're basically saying it's only censorship if it appeases an audience lol
But then again, like the purple guy said, that's the narrative that the alt-right has been pushing around.

When one imagines the definition of censorship they imagine the state (government), allowing only certain 'truths', and censorship has very negative connotations, the problem is that the actually definition of the word censorship is exceptionally broad and not necessarily negative.

To have any meaningful discussion on censorship one really needs to specify what type of censorship are they referring to.

Purple Guy is -so long as I've interpreted rightly- correct, in the fact that the alt-right is abusing the use of the term censorship (and what most people associate the word with) when they are in fact referring to a very specific sub-type of censorship that is ultimately not that great a deal.

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Quoting: Metallinatus

Quoting: kit89Interestingly enough the edits to the original Star Wars (4, 5, 6 re-edited editions) aren't censorship, as that wasn't done to appease any audience, quite the opposite in fact.

This part right here really threw me on a loop. You're basically saying it's only censorship if it appeases an audience lol
But then again, like the purple guy said, that's the narrative that the alt-right has been pushing around.

It doesn't actually have to appease an actual audience, there is a form of self-censorship where an individual will modify their words on what they think an audience (real or imaginary) will accept.

The question I guess one has to ask did the developers modify Skullgirls because they wanted to make happy an -unspecified- audience happy, at which point it's a form of censorship, or did they modify it cause they didn't like it, at which point it's artistic license same as George Lucas and Star Wars.

If it is the former, then changing it back due to audience uproar could be argued as censorship, as the artist is censoring their views to appease an audience.

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The are many forms of censorship, when most people think of censorship they imagine state-censorship, but that is only one form.

When a media company translates a program into another language, say French, and then shows it to the French populace because the company would believe the majority of the French would not accept the original English version, then that is indeed a form of censorship.

Nowadays thanks to the internet, you can actually watch nearly all translations and it is left to the individual to decide, so it's no longer censorship so long as the option is available. But, (and I might be showing my age here) when you could only watch what the TV broadcaster gave you, it was very much censorship.

Interestingly enough the edits to the original Star Wars (4, 5, 6 re-edited editions) aren't censorship, as that wasn't done to appease any audience, quite the opposite in fact.

Censorship is not inherently bad, but it can be used for bad very easily.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: elmapulbut most of the time the changes arent trying to censor something for another audience that is bothered by this type of content

The SICs always makes this claim but is there any evidence what so ever that the devs made this change for "another audience" and not just because they themselves begun to feel uncomfortable with the original design?

i dont know what SIC means, but the staff changed completely afaik, the new staff have 0 respect for what came before then or the original target audience.

Appears to be exactly the same team minus one guy that where accused of sexual abuse at the work place by the staff. Still see no evidence that they are trying to cater to "a new audience", and honestly this line of reasoning is fast becoming old, that "other audience" that SICs keep on talking about are just some small group of marginalized women with strange hair colours that have zero power and zero reach yet we are somehow to believe that they in secret are "taking away our games, movies and comics". Stop falling for SIC (Social Injustice Crusader) propaganda, that is all that it is.

the public that purchased the game as it was liked it as it was, so yes, changing it is catering to a new audience.
the fact that a lot of things are geting censored nowadays is not an conspiration theory.

Things have always been censored, in fact it could be argued that fewer things are censored these days considering the amount of media content generated by the average joe instead of a large media corporation.

For example, an episode of Star Trek TNG was not aired/edited in the UK (back when it was originally released) as it proclaimed the reunification of Ireland by 2024. You can now watch it on Netflix in its full unedited glory.

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