Quoting: SirMCJeager

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

Looking up about him, just seems like a conservative who doesn't like the influence of Islam and the negative influence of illegal/asylum immigration into Britain.

"Just" is the wrong word to use here, I feel. You should read the article posted above. It clearly outlines and summarises his dog whistles and thinly veiled racism.

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Some, not informed about those incidents, might take your initial comment to be overly emotional or even inflammatory.

The initial comment assumed that people knew what the big tent referred to, but the follow up post was the least-emotional, least-inflammatory take I've ever seen on the subject of DHH. There's even a link to the "big tent" reference that Framework made. It's concise and factual. We're all grown ups here, I think, so we can up our own minds whether we like the idea of Framework welcoming such individuals into their patronage.

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Seems it has been quite unpopular, even the news post on Steam seems to have zero thumbs up:

I couldn't imagine that to be true, so I went to the page and gave it a thumbs up - and the counter stayed at zero. It's either a bug, then, in the counter, or they've disabled likes for this post for some odd reason!

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I went for the Ryzen7 9800X3D at the tail end of last year and it was already more than I wanted to spend on a CPU! I didn't think any of the Ryzen9 chips were worth the money, tbh. God knows what this will cost when it lands!

I wish AMD would focus on GPUs. Now, more than ever, they could establish themselves competitively in the GPU market. With Nvidia prices being absolutely exorbitant, a half-way decently priced upgrade to the 9700XT would be well received by people like myself still rocking the 6800XT or even the 7900XTX.

It wouldn't even need 5090-like speeds! Who's gonna pay over 2 grand for one of those?? It just needs to be a decent upgrade on their current "flagship" model, which barely competes with the 5070.

Ah well. I can dream.

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This sounds absolutely incredible. If they've genuinely created intra-distro consistency, that's a HUGE win for Linux as a gaming platform. Now, Valve, what are you going to do about that shitty kernel-level-anticheat problem?

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I enjoyed my time in Starfield, but not sure I could stomach going back to it, at least not so soon. For me, it was all about the spaceship designer, and even that was often immensely frustrating because parts were so spread through the various systems.

This does sound pretty cool though, so maybe later in the year.

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Remember the wine-pun era? This is worse. 😅

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I love the idea of Manjaro - Arch, but with milestones (stable releases). It sounds like the power of Arch, but without the constant fear that every update will bring issues. And pamac - lovely. They've actually addressed one of the biggest issues (for me) of Arch.

But now that I'm on CachyOS with its built-in Snapper/BTRFS integration, I have that comfort anyway. If I do an update and my system has issues, I just reboot and choose the snapshot before the upgrade via Grub. Easy.

I still miss Pamac though. I haven't looked to see if it's portable to a generic Arch install.

I hope Manjaro get their organisational ducks in a row. It would be great to see what they could achieve without constantly having to fight internally with each other.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: BladePupperThe cards you get are used to play the actual game whereas the skins from say CS2 are basically only used to cash in and maybe pay for a steam game.

Agree with most of your post except this bit. MtG packs are not "necessary" to play the game. You buy the base pack and you're good to go.

That is . . . true in some sort of technical sense. But it has nothing to do with the actual experience of anyone playing Magic.

Yeah, I know. I spent hundreds of pounds building my various MtG decks back when it first launched. I just wanted to point out that technically (definitely technically) you don't need booster packs to play the game.

Now where's my Serra Angel...

https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Magic/Products/Singles/Alpha/Serra-Angel [External Link]

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Surprised that I played nearly ten hours of the first one. I remember enjoying it, but it looks like this was back in 2017, and I didn't have much of an online cadre of pals back then, so the lure wasn't really there.

Love the look of this. Definitely going on the wishlist!

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