In fairness, Bandcamp still works much as it used to. For now.

I was gonna say something to that effect. I had my finger on the Eject button the whole time and was so happy when Epic passed it on to someone else. So far, so good.

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Definitely odd, but solid mechanics. Recommended!

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I had my doubts, but the card events do break up the monotony of the Survivors gameplay nicely, and the card movements are easier to track than they were in Hands of Fate, so it doesn't feel as random. Pretty good.

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I noticed that French is not listed on the store page. Feel free to hit me up if you need a translator, reviewer or recommendations of reputable video game localization agencies I’ve worked with and ones I would avoid :)

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Damn it's good. I almost feel bad for not using the "send feedback" button; there's nothing to say, everything is extremely tight. Genuinely novel (to me) mechanics that I wasn't expecting, especially with the boss fight (he can WHAT?). Smooth UI, all the tooltips I would expect/need from a card game, good eye candy... I guess my only issue with it is that for someone like me, it will have very little replayability or longevity, so I would need a correspondingly low price point. Wishlisted for now!

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RE: switching, anecdotally, one of my relatives does computer repairs for a living and says he has been switching a lot of people over to Linux based mainly on the spying "features" being added in W11 and the considerable boost to performance on existing devices by running Linux versus having to buy new hardware to install W11. As others have said, it remains to be seen whether those people will be happy with the change and stick with Linux, but there’s certainly an openness to it. Remember that for a lot of people, the very existence of Linux is unknown, so any opportunity to teach them about it is progress in itself. I don’t think a campaign like this can "fail" unless it somehow results in a net loss of users and/or goodwill. The goal should never be to get *everyone* to use Linux, but to empower the people who want it to make that choice.

RE: LibreOffice, as much as I support it, it pretty much always has compatibility issues when I have to work with clients’ .docx files, especially when frames or advanced layout options are involved (which is most of the time). I have to request PDF copies to annotate, otherwise the files I send back are completely mangled for them. I keep hearing the argument that it’s feature-complete or entirely compatible, but that has never been my experience and I wouldn’t recommend it to someone who has a real need to work collaboratively and seamlessly on .docx files.

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I’ve known this would come from the beginning and have been ready to jump ship at the drop of a hat, but I don’t look forward to losing access to several communities that exist virtually nowhere other than on their Discord server, or telling my friends (who still blithely use Facebook) that I can’t be on Discord either. At least most of those that are on Discord also use Steam, so I guess that will be our fallback.

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All hail our Chinese overlords.

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In Mountain Man's defence, where I live, we have solid worker protections at the government level and unions are large companies operated like protection rackets leeching money off of workers and using it to lobby the government for private interests, all while making it nearly impossible to fire bad actors who suck up to the union even if they make every other employee miserable and push them to resign (a friend of mine has been going through exactly that repeatedly).

In many third world countries like the US, the situation is quite different (either with regards to standard worker rights or how unions work) and they are definitely still needed, so hopefully this particular one will do some good.

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I’ll admit I haven’t been this intrigued by a trailer in a long time.

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