Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: F.UltraThat is your opinion, actual paedophilia survivors however paint a completely different picture:

That's not an opinion.
It is (both theoretically and practically) impossible to film sexualized minors without filming sexualized minors. Therefore, any new footage of that kind can only be obtained by actually doing it. Unlike e.g. war imagery, this cannot really be faked well.

Of course it's an opinion. If it where real sexualization of minors then the film would have been been classified as child pornography and been banned, especially over here where I live where even cartoons are criminalized as child pornography. Still that has not happened.

People (majority from the US for some reason) claim that Leon: The Professional promotes paedophilia or that Sleepwalkers promotes incest. Also opinions and not facts.

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: F.UltraMeanwhile it looks like most of the outrage against the film comes from the religious right.

Well, I'm neither religious nor right-wing, and I haven't seen a majority of criticism of it coming in that light. Just people from all over the political spectrums criticizing the movie for what it is and/or how it was made.

But, sure, putting people who disagree with you in a box with other people you disagree with is always a nice thing to do.

I never claimed that you where either of those, I just wrote that this is where the major outrage seems to come from and not from actual survivors, it had zero to do with you as a person. I have zero knowledge of where you come from, your religious or political stance, nor do I care.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP"Something is bad, so let's make a movie doing EXACTLY what we think is bad to show how bad it is"

That is how films/books done to raise awareness of topics have been done since the invention of fiction. Compare with anti war movies like Platoon, Apocalypse Now and so on.

The controversy over Cuties was only over the initial poster (and mostly in the US alone) by Netflix, an act that the co-CEO of Netflix even apologised to the director for doing (most likely the marketing department didn't understand the film what so ever). Once released it has been given high scores by film critics and have a 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Other than that I cannot comment further on this film because I have not seen it.

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I wonder when they will add support for Mass Effect Legendary Edition?

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Quoting: whizseI didn't know Sweden had a second bible belt up north. Technically I think this should be bible suspenders.

AFAIK there isn't so not really sure what they mean by mid-north since the Bible belt is around Jönköping in the mid-south... Perhaps they are imagining such a belt just as they imagined the town of Härunga?

edit: And towns ending with -unga is extremely common in Västra Götaland around Gothenburg.
edit2: But then the Chief of Police talks about the road south to Stockholm so they are definitely north of Stockholm.

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Quoting: Ananace

Quoting: F.UltraJust to clarify the

Valve had meetings, and spoke to the Swedish Minister of the Interior to get it reclassified which was "immediately denied". Valve also appealed directly to the Swedish government who claimed they couldn't help with it.

So the "Swedish Sports Federation" Riksidrottsförbundet (or RF as they are known in Sweden) have zero to do with the Government so the Government and the Minister of the Interior have zero say in what they do or don't do (unless they break the law of course).

Aka RF is a non political people/social movement and 100% private.

edit: and It's against the corona lockdown rules to gather so many people in a single arena unless it's a "sporting event". Which of course is quite logical if you think about it since the thought behind allowing more people to be at the same place in a outdoors activity such as a sport event does not really match that of a Dota2 tournament.

edit2: Not really sure how Valve intended that classifying it as a sports event would solve anything though. The current restrictions for sports events are: Max 50 people for indoor events with designated seats, max 100 people for outdoor events without designated seats and max 500 for outdoor events with designated seats.

And of course, the correct thing to do here is not to try and - as Valve attempted - classify e-sport as an "idrott" - which is what Riksidrottsförbundet have influence over, but rather to get a proper classification for non-physical sports and so prepare rules that allow for such events as well.

It's not just e-sports that have been denied allowances either. Both bridge and chess tournaments have equally had sporting visas denied so far, because of the simple reason that Sweden only has special rules in place for "idrott", not "sport". (The words in Swedish have a slightly different meaning; "idrott" being more a physical activity that could be for training - like football, yoga, swimming, or jogging. And "sport" being more something you could compete in - like chess, hockey, spelling contests, or speed climbing)

Well to be honest Valve didn't try to get e-sports classified as a sport in Sweden, that have been an ongoing battle by the e-sport federations in Sweden for years to be able to be a member of RF which RF for whatever reason have denied so far.

What Valve tried to do here is to get a Minister to get them special privileges to circumvent the lockdown protocols, perhaps not knowing that in Sweden a Minister is not allowed to influence how an administrative authority decides in a particular case. Perhaps that is allowed in the US where Valve have experience but over here this is outlawed as form to minimize the risk of corruption.

And this is why the Minister of the Interior immediately denied the request.

edit: Looked it up and not only is it allowed in the US it's also apparently seen as the norm. So this is a case where a US company not understanding the rules in a different country.

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Just to clarify the

Valve had meetings, and spoke to the Swedish Minister of the Interior to get it reclassified which was "immediately denied". Valve also appealed directly to the Swedish government who claimed they couldn't help with it.

So the "Swedish Sports Federation" Riksidrottsförbundet (or RF as they are known in Sweden) have zero to do with the Government so the Government and the Minister of the Interior have zero say in what they do or don't do (unless they break the law of course).

Aka RF is a non political people/social movement and 100% private.

edit: and It's against the corona lockdown rules to gather so many people in a single arena unless it's a "sporting event". Which of course is quite logical if you think about it since the thought behind allowing more people to be at the same place in a outdoors activity such as a sport event does not really match that of a Dota2 tournament.

edit2: Not really sure how Valve intended that classifying it as a sports event would solve anything though. The current restrictions for sports events are: Max 50 people for indoor events with designated seats, max 100 people for outdoor events without designated seats and max 500 for outdoor events with designated seats.

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Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: fagnerlnEven with Linux on every PC, Proton fixes one of the bigger annoyance of Linux: Fragmentation.

I daresay that the whole fragmentation thing is a bit of a myth. For the vast, vast majority of games they ran on any distro, or could easily be made to do so.

"Proton" doesn't really solve a technical issue. It solves a customer experience one.

Isn't a myth, if you play GoG games you will probably find some barriers if you don't use Ubuntu.

Some games don't even runs on newer version of a distro, I had issues in the past with Ubuntu that a game needs an outdated libraries, so I made a lot of links to bypassing, but in the end the game ran but crashed.

Yes it's basically a myth, as @mirv wrote "could easily be made to do so" which goes back to your GOG games, the devs there didn't do what they could to make their games work on all systems and instead went with the default Ubuntu route.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: tuubiLegacy baggage and technical debt are related (and depressing) terms that spring to mind.

I like "Legacy baggage"!
(I always take this with a bit of understanding/sympathy - it's not like I haven't produced similar baggages... ;) )

As a rule without the old stuff, the new stuff could never have come into being, so. And all new stuff will at some point become legacy baggage. If you're lucky. If you're not lucky it won't because it wasn't relevant enough to create a legacy . . .

Absolutely, or to quote the old TV series Crocodile Shoes: "Remember that Has-beens, Has Been".

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: BubailamaYes the development takes long. But to defend them, they are a small independent studio from Berlin/Germany that have their office in the so called "Saftladen". The "Saftladen" is an office community with several different small independent game studios.

Isn't this just *ONE guy?

I think it was one guy for many of the years but then he got a few more to the project. Their website lists:

Stephan Hövelbrinks
Design, Art, Code
@talecrafter

Christian Heusser
Design, Code

James Dean
Audio
www.whatisvalis.com

Marco Conrad
Marketing

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