This game a long time coming, but now the trailer looks amazing.

I'll get it if my friends are game.

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Quoting: andriishafarIsn't this what steam flatpak does? They don't use Steam Linux Runtime/Steam Runtime Tools for Proton flatpak. Linux is all about "everyone, quick, let's build same thing but different"

You didn't read below, did you?

The idea is that other game launchers would use this so that all fixes and compatibility can be properly shared between them, thus making Windows gaming on Linux a whole lot easier with Wine/Proton. Protonfixes would be the same across launchers, anyone would be able to run games through Proton with no Steam required and basically it just unifies everything.

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Riot will be supporting staff being cut with a minimum of 6 months salary, a cash bonus based on a performance target, health benefits, a personal laptop if they need one and more.

That's really big. You could almost have kept them on and given them a 6-month notice instead. But I guess if Riot is going to completely drop projects, no reason to have those people sit around and do nothing. Might as well sit at home and do nothing. You know some will treat this as a big vacation. That's their own responsibility and choice of course. Maybe we'll see some more indie projects started.

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Quoting: ElamanOpiskelija

too many "big bets across the company"

of course, it's great to take big bets, as long as others (11%) pay the bill.

Are you saying those people shouldn't have been hired in the first place? That's weird. Also, can't go back in time.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: grahfgamesHonestly, considering how terrible the Pokémon games have been the past few years, no wonder Pal world is so popular. 95% of artistic works are derivative of something that has come before it, unfortunately. Look at music composition for example, the western musical system can only have so many combinations of notes before we just start repeating single note phrases, let alone chord progressions. How many songs are based off the same I-V-VI-IV chord progression - I would say every single pop song ever ;)

And don't even get me started on art. Consider all those portraits of human beings! Just the exact same kind of creature, over and over! Not only that, sometimes you get different artists doing portraits of the same human being other artists have already drawn! It's a scandal I tell you. :grin:

Yeah, I was going to use James Bond as an example. Can no one else ever use a secret agent who dresses in a tux in a movie? That would be completely too limiting.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleStories like this happen every few years. In the early 2010s, a local government in some European city (I forget which) announced they were entirely switching to Linux in all their public service departments. 2 weeks go by, "no, sorry we're sticking with Windows". Turns out they had a visit from a Microsoft sales rep.

I think this must happen a lot based on my anecdotal life experience. My company had a CTO who was planted from Microsoft for a while. He was making us do a lift-and-shift to Azure. Thankfully, that guy was fired after only 1-2 years, and the next CTO was like, "Stop that!"

I say this to point out that things that change for the worse can change again for the better.

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I enjoyed the first one a lot and completed the whole story. I've heard the second wasn't as worthwhile...?

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Quoting: BaronVonSuckoDisable AVX-512? What on earth. How about no? This is "Yo dude, Just reinstall!" tier advice.

Your bar for reinstalling must be amazingly low. Liam's help here is for people who don't throw out the tub with the bath water.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThe proper place for the X button, looking at you, Apple! I've looked up how to flip that to the other side on macOS, and apparently the Almighty Apple has spoken and does not allow such things... All other operating systems I've ever used has it on the right side... but not macOS...

Eh. I prefer top left window-control buttons. It especially made sense with a Unity-like UX, where you have the window-controls pinned on the top panel as well, and you have the behaviour of hiding titlebar when a window is maximized.

Top left just felt natural for me. Also, kinda corresponds to the location of Esc button and most back/burger menu buttons positions.

The beauty is, most operating system / desktop environments give you the option. Not so on macOS.

Yeah, I'm considering switching my Plasma buttons to left side since I work with a Mac a lot, but doing so gives me this weird feeling that I was defeated. Decisions, decisions... :P

I, too, am forced to work on the vile macOS. My solutions include using it via ssh as much as possible and I set up Super+Q as an Alt+F4 alternative (for an almost consistent experience on both OS-s).

I recently set up Karabiner to remap a ton of key combos. I can use my same Linux key shortcuts on my external KB now.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy...say the government paid authors....

Yes, my mind went there as well when thinking of counters, and then I dismissed the thought. :smile:

I do see your point, however it seems more theoretical than practical today.

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