Quoting: LuciousBlakeI have actually really enjoyed Spiritfarer as well as Sundered. Thunder Lotus just makes good games.

Sundered didn't quite grab me. I gave it five hours before giving up, but that might have been because I was a bit burnt out after back-to-back Salt & Sanctuary and Hollow Knight. It's beautiful, but didn't keep my interest.

By contrast, SpiritFarer kept me playing for four straight days, over 22 hours. I agree with everything Yahtzee says in his Zero Punctuation video - it's emotionally engaging, heart warming, heart breaking, yes the animations start to grate a bit quite early on despite being wonderful, and the ending is a bit meh, because of the way it lets you go all completionist. I have to say that by the time I got to around hour 18 or 19, I'd had enough, and I finished the game fairly quickly thereafter.

Wonderful though. Can't recommend it enough. I'm really looking forward to what Thunder Lotus might do next, because whatever it is, you just know it's going to have an incredible level of polish, play beautifully and it's going to look amazing.

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I'm about three episodes in and really enjoying it. I don't play DOTA2 and I don't know any of the lore, but I still recognised Mirana straight away thanks to my 100 hours or so in DOTA Underlords. Fun seeing familiar characters being brought to life like this. I reckon I'll finish watching it.

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I've been playing a bunch of Metro Exodus, but the memory leak crashes to me desktop every 30 minutes or so, so I'm largely disappointed. Looks like a great game, but tedious having to constantly restart. They obviously didn't test anything, at all, unless there's some weird Pop nuance that causes this. However, their support responded to my ticket confirming an AMD memory leak, so hopefully there's a fix next week.

So I spent my time finishing Spiritfarer. Amazing, joyous, heart-warming, and ultimately quite sad experience. Highly recommend that. It reminds me a little of the excellent proton-only title Wandersong.

Otherwise, just Noita, just like always. I've opted into the beta now and the amount of new content there is just insane. Nolla are kings, just gutted they didn't do a native version, even if the proton version is seamless.

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Haha - "Post processing shaders: Motion Blur, Lens Flare, Noise, Environment effects".

Nope. Turning all those off! :grin:

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Quoting: scaineI'm not outraged, but Stallman, and hence the FSF, can definitely get in the bin. The fact that they took weeks to address something as simple as voting back in a confirmed abuser to their board shows me all I need to know about this organisation.

Pretty incredible really. I don't trust them to represent my interests in free software at this point.

I am sorry but your post is basically what is wrong with today's social media, the man is NOT a confirmed abuser, the man might have a bit of autism and thus say stuff with not enough thoughts about how the other party receives it but that is about it.

If people take the time to read themselves what was said in what setting instead of jumping on a mobs bandwagon of people who either need attention or get of on burning somebody down, the world would be a much nicer place.

I've spent a long time, over two decades being amazed at the shit Stallman posted on his website. I've followed women on Twitter who share their experiences of meeting him and speaking with him. I've followed in detail the things he said that led the FSF to drop him in the first place.

Stallman is demonstrably, inarguably toxic, on multiple topics. Hes, what in his 60's and only recently found it withim him to apologise? Nobody is 'jumping on a bandwagon' here. Just do some research.

If you still support this man despite everything he's said, that's on you. We won't see eye to eye on this.

Can he change? I hope so, although I do doubt it, true. But we shouldn't be asking that question at all while he's a member of the Board that already axed him for some very good reasons.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm kind of with TheSHEEEP on this. Stallman had stuff to apologize for. So yes, he should have apologized. And he did in fact apologize. And unlike a lot of people, there is no way in Hell Stallman would ever apologize for anything if he didn't mean it; in fact I'm not sure I've ever heard of him apologizing for anything before. And he says he intends to do better. I want to give him the chance to show he can, partly because he is if nothing else a very honest man and partly because he's the originator of Free Software, the whole list CatKiller mentions wouldn't exist without him, and I'll feel like a real dick if my attitude is all "But what have you done for us lately?"

When it comes to the criminal justice system, I believe in calmer more European approaches which reduce re-offending much more than the harsh no-second-chances, throw away the key American system. I think to be consistent I shouldn't back the idea that someone, once socially fallen, must be socially poison forever.

Great reply, I agree completely. We only differ that I don't think he should be trying to travel that road of illumination as a member of the Board that purports to represent the whole of free software.

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Awesome glut of retro shooters in the past few days!

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Quoting: gabberStallman is not what worries me, it's the outrage mob going after him.

Quoting: scaineI'm not outraged, but Stallman, and hence the FSF, can definitely get in the bin. The fact that they took weeks to address something as simple as voting back in a confirmed abuser to their board shows me all I need to know about this organisation.

Pretty incredible really. I don't trust them to represent my interests in free software at this point.

"confirmed abuser" - source?
"all you need to know" -> excactly the problem. One bit of info is enough, burn everything down.

And trust, the anti-Stallman mob is comprised of Microsoft, IBM and the likes of Coraline Ada Ehmke. Yea let's trust them, let's have a license which demands you agree with the political view of the programmer.

One bit of info? It's a constant stream, over decades. Stallman, at this point, is utterly toxic, especially to women. As can be seen by the open letter to the FSF signed by several thousand individuals, including various open source leads and with several organisations denouncing him completely, including the Fedora Council, KDE, Red Hat and the EFF.

But sure, they all just overreacting because of cAncEL cULtuRE. Is that what you're saying?

p.s. Coraline wrote the Code of Conduct. That's all. It was up to others to adopt her work which basically amounts to "don't be a dick". And yet I often see hate sent her way... why? Why is she so offensive to you that you put her in the same camp as Microsoft, while in the same breath, defend Stallman??

Curious.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerBryan Lunduke's take on this

https://odysee.com/@Lunduke:e/DefenseofStallman:9 [External Link]

"Internet mob descended on Stallman because they didn't like some things he said". Sure Lunduke, that's why people don't like Stallman. Wow. Stopped watching at that point.

No, the reason I don't want Stallman representing free software is that he's a constant stream of incredibly sexist, ableist, wildly inappropriate views, often about children and when they should be considered adults for sexual purposes, views are which are shared publicly without any sign of emotional growth, or remorse, over time. No hint that he's becoming a better human.

If he were to substantially evolve his world views and mature emotionally, that would be incredibly welcome and perhaps some of that "mob" referred to by Lunduke would eventually forgive those insanely controversial, frankly unbelievable world views. He can do this without being part of an influential body that represents the interests of free software. Maybe even one day start contributing to it again, a changed man.

But instead, he's just back and that's it? Okay then. As I say, FSF can get in the bin alongside him. Some will support this move - fine. I just don't. It hurts free software, it drives women away in particular and I don't want to be associated with any of it.

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I'm not outraged, but Stallman, and hence the FSF, can definitely get in the bin. The fact that they took weeks to address something as simple as voting back in a confirmed abuser to their board shows me all I need to know about this organisation.

Pretty incredible really. I don't trust them to represent my interests in free software at this point.

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