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How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
29 Jul 2025 at 12:35 pm UTC
29 Jul 2025 at 12:35 pm UTC
Lol, I only found this guide link today on the main page. A little to late as I did it by myself 2 weeks ago. I could have spared half an hour.
So I can confirm that the Steam guide works like a charm, exact same steps as I did. Proton FTW.
So I can confirm that the Steam guide works like a charm, exact same steps as I did. Proton FTW.
Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed
18 Jul 2025 at 8:08 pm UTC
18 Jul 2025 at 8:08 pm UTC
My thoughts on this? What exactly?
Incest? I find it repulsive, I have trouble just thinking of it. Though if the involved parties are all adult and in their mind, they can do whatever they want. And possibly not let me know about it.
Companies forcing censorship and morals (which can be aligned with mine in this case, but not in other cases)? Very annoying and disturbing. And dangerous as well.
I'm open to hear from any dude into police and sexual crime fight why censoring this kind of stuff would be beneficial, it's completely possible that there are good reasons that can't see.
Yet the main take away in my case, is that next time the government pushes for digital payments over physical bills, I will have to take the side of the physical bills. I always thought it would be better overall if all could be traced and reconstructed. But if private organizations can decide how people spend or spend not their digital money, physical bills all the time. Until some EU initiative blocks this shit that is (obviously it won't be a fight we take on the incest hill).
The other observation I can make, is that censors and puritans seldom stops. They start with the easy win, the stuff nobody wants to fight for, and then move on more ambituous stuff. So ok, I and most of the people out there won't fight for incest this time. But I know for sure, they won't stop here. And I urge everyone who is receptive on the topic of freedom to prepare. Because this is not an episode. It's an opening, and war for freedom will come. In 5k years of civilization it always came.
Incest? I find it repulsive, I have trouble just thinking of it. Though if the involved parties are all adult and in their mind, they can do whatever they want. And possibly not let me know about it.
Companies forcing censorship and morals (which can be aligned with mine in this case, but not in other cases)? Very annoying and disturbing. And dangerous as well.
I'm open to hear from any dude into police and sexual crime fight why censoring this kind of stuff would be beneficial, it's completely possible that there are good reasons that can't see.
Yet the main take away in my case, is that next time the government pushes for digital payments over physical bills, I will have to take the side of the physical bills. I always thought it would be better overall if all could be traced and reconstructed. But if private organizations can decide how people spend or spend not their digital money, physical bills all the time. Until some EU initiative blocks this shit that is (obviously it won't be a fight we take on the incest hill).
The other observation I can make, is that censors and puritans seldom stops. They start with the easy win, the stuff nobody wants to fight for, and then move on more ambituous stuff. So ok, I and most of the people out there won't fight for incest this time. But I know for sure, they won't stop here. And I urge everyone who is receptive on the topic of freedom to prepare. Because this is not an episode. It's an opening, and war for freedom will come. In 5k years of civilization it always came.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition to release August 14
15 Jul 2025 at 3:13 pm UTC
15 Jul 2025 at 3:13 pm UTC
I remember this video.
Ok they added some lines from the in game units, but they left the fundamental part untouched. (i.e. the disarmed ork that throws a rock at the sergent at the end)
Ok they added some lines from the in game units, but they left the fundamental part untouched. (i.e. the disarmed ork that throws a rock at the sergent at the end)
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
7 Jul 2025 at 7:09 pm UTC Likes: 1
7 Jul 2025 at 7:09 pm UTC Likes: 1
Well it's not that if you buy the hardcover you're also entitled to the paperback. It's that first you buy the content IP, it goes on Blockchain that you own that book content, and then you can ask whoever you want to print it whoever you want (for the price they ask to do it ofc, you own the IP not the physical media yet).
It's surely overly complicated for physical goods. Once you move to digital it's already starting to make more sense. You buy Risk and Morty season 9 4k as an IP, it goes on the Blockchain, and now you can get it with whatever streaming service you want (for monthly fee ofc) or order a blue disk from a seller (for a price ofc). I guess you're also legally entitled to you own copy on disk (which is not backup anymore, you own it in all possible medium present or future).
Before Blockchain that would have been nuts. Now it's in the realm of possible. But, as I said, it goes against the implicit rules of economy we have that push for vertical integration and pseudo monopolies. Corporations would complain that it would cost them to much and prices would rise. Though if we really think about it, if Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Video and the likes all had the same catalogue and had to compete on prices and quality of service alone... would it really be bad for consumers in the long run?
I don't make the VG example by choice since ofc if Stream, EGS and GOG has the same catalogue and had to compete on the prices and quality of service alone we know how little it would actually change.
It's surely overly complicated for physical goods. Once you move to digital it's already starting to make more sense. You buy Risk and Morty season 9 4k as an IP, it goes on the Blockchain, and now you can get it with whatever streaming service you want (for monthly fee ofc) or order a blue disk from a seller (for a price ofc). I guess you're also legally entitled to you own copy on disk (which is not backup anymore, you own it in all possible medium present or future).
Before Blockchain that would have been nuts. Now it's in the realm of possible. But, as I said, it goes against the implicit rules of economy we have that push for vertical integration and pseudo monopolies. Corporations would complain that it would cost them to much and prices would rise. Though if we really think about it, if Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Video and the likes all had the same catalogue and had to compete on prices and quality of service alone... would it really be bad for consumers in the long run?
I don't make the VG example by choice since ofc if Stream, EGS and GOG has the same catalogue and had to compete on the prices and quality of service alone we know how little it would actually change.
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
6 Jul 2025 at 8:27 pm UTC Likes: 1
To make a system where you "own" some IP access regardless of who gives you this access, you need to make a legislation that forbids vertical integration. So if you buy "Lord Of The Rings" on Amazon, you own it also on Bookshop or Kobo. Or a physical bookshop too (in that case you would pay the print costs not the intellectual property that you already own). License market separated from license access market. The owenrship of the book is one market, how you consume the book another market. But for this to work it requires to separate ownership of the license from the servive of providing you the content (which now would not be free but become a monthly fee service I guess). But again, who will store the ownership of the license for you? The state? Another service? Well, if I were the lawmaker, I would say that is the quintessential use case for blockchains, which could very well be state regulated and then p2p operated. But ofc this is the only use case for blockchains that nobody care about since it solves actual issues and it's not speculative in nature.
Anyway, even if today it would be very doable (and very welcomed since it would mean the end of exclusives as a business practice in gaming as in video, and the possibility to get your IP wherever you want), it would require a massive education and mobilization campaign of the consumers in EU and possibly it would mean that EU and USA part ways all together since it's completely incompatible with how people think in other side of the Atlantic. It will never happen.
6 Jul 2025 at 8:27 pm UTC Likes: 1
I use the eBook as an example, but really, this should absolutely apply to anything with a digital license -- games, books, music, videos/movies, etc.The underlying issue here is that the free market and competition as USA shaped it promotes vertical integration. So eventually a single corporation gets to control the whole supply chain, or at least the profitable layers. In digital but also outside. You buy a book on Amazon, you can only access that IP you bought there (the license is amazon license). That is what competition laws push for.
To make a system where you "own" some IP access regardless of who gives you this access, you need to make a legislation that forbids vertical integration. So if you buy "Lord Of The Rings" on Amazon, you own it also on Bookshop or Kobo. Or a physical bookshop too (in that case you would pay the print costs not the intellectual property that you already own). License market separated from license access market. The owenrship of the book is one market, how you consume the book another market. But for this to work it requires to separate ownership of the license from the servive of providing you the content (which now would not be free but become a monthly fee service I guess). But again, who will store the ownership of the license for you? The state? Another service? Well, if I were the lawmaker, I would say that is the quintessential use case for blockchains, which could very well be state regulated and then p2p operated. But ofc this is the only use case for blockchains that nobody care about since it solves actual issues and it's not speculative in nature.
Anyway, even if today it would be very doable (and very welcomed since it would mean the end of exclusives as a business practice in gaming as in video, and the possibility to get your IP wherever you want), it would require a massive education and mobilization campaign of the consumers in EU and possibly it would mean that EU and USA part ways all together since it's completely incompatible with how people think in other side of the Atlantic. It will never happen.
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
3 Jul 2025 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 1
3 Jul 2025 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 1
Cool. I signed that the very week the petition started, but as the hyphed moved over I thought this was a lsot cause. It's nice to see a second wave of hype now.
Let's just hope the invalid signatures are not to many.
Let's just hope the invalid signatures are not to many.
ScummVM announces support for Another World (Out of This World)
16 Jun 2025 at 9:57 am UTC Likes: 1
16 Jun 2025 at 9:57 am UTC Likes: 1
I played that game when I was 6 I think. I don't think it was ever meant for 6 years old.
Maybe it's time to overcome childhood trauma and finish it. :huh:
The lasgun fights were nuts though.
Maybe it's time to overcome childhood trauma and finish it. :huh:
The lasgun fights were nuts though.
Europa Universalis V from Paradox will only support Windows, no Linux or macOS this time
12 May 2025 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 3
But if in 2025 the boardroom approves a new engines that does not support linux it doesn't bode well for PDX long term. They are in full short term cashgrab to appease the stock market. Which btw is the signal they are giving since quite a few years already (as I said before, I grew tired of them sistematically not delivering what promised time ago). They are regularly offsetting poor DLC quality with more aggressive commercial campaigns.
It will work until it breakes. When it does, there will be no fallback. It sucks because there aren't many grand strategy alternatives of this magnitude around. So one virtually has to give up the genre entirely.
On the bright side, should EU4 be somehow decent on its last patch, I might buy the last DLCs on some post eu5 release sale and have illimited playtime on EU4.
12 May 2025 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: "mr-victory"If PDX is switching engines for the game, that would explain why they dropped Mac + Linux and also give me hope for a more optimized game client.They probably are using a bumped version of Clausewitz.
But if in 2025 the boardroom approves a new engines that does not support linux it doesn't bode well for PDX long term. They are in full short term cashgrab to appease the stock market. Which btw is the signal they are giving since quite a few years already (as I said before, I grew tired of them sistematically not delivering what promised time ago). They are regularly offsetting poor DLC quality with more aggressive commercial campaigns.
It will work until it breakes. When it does, there will be no fallback. It sucks because there aren't many grand strategy alternatives of this magnitude around. So one virtually has to give up the genre entirely.
On the bright side, should EU4 be somehow decent on its last patch, I might buy the last DLCs on some post eu5 release sale and have illimited playtime on EU4.
Europa Universalis V from Paradox will only support Windows, no Linux or macOS this time
12 May 2025 at 12:13 pm UTC Likes: 4
12 May 2025 at 12:13 pm UTC Likes: 4
Ok.
Let's see if with this unpopular move they can finally produce some occasional release that is not a complete bugfest. That is one of the main reasons I stopped playing their games. Even though on linux it was less annoying than windows due to much faster loading times.
Let's see if with this unpopular move they can finally produce some occasional release that is not a complete bugfest. That is one of the main reasons I stopped playing their games. Even though on linux it was less annoying than windows due to much faster loading times.
Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
2 May 2025 at 2:02 pm UTC Likes: 2
2 May 2025 at 2:02 pm UTC Likes: 2
Lol at Epic they would do anything to not improve the user experience. Let's see how many users they attract with this yet another "consumer friendly" move. :grin: