Like I say, I'm comfortable with the data I share - I treat Discord like a public forum, along the same lines as Twitter. Otherwise, Discord has only the usual information for such a service - Email, IP address, DeviceID, messages. They can probably glean a few other things, like the browser or O/S I use.

I don't like that it collects process information, so I don't use the full-fat app anymore.

If you're uncomfortable with the data Discord collects, you're probably uncomfortable using pretty much every messaging service out there, certainly all the social media services.

What I'm not comfortable with is supporting a company that is ethically compromised. I've stopped using plenty of services as a result of what they did, or who owns them. Everyone will find their own footing on this stuff. For me, MS and Apple are a hard no. Amazon is an avoid if possible (which is hard) and Google is an air of resignation - I'm too invested in their infrastructure now, so I accept it for convenience sake. If they ever cross a line, I'll reconsider, but it would difficult to give up... well, nearly everything - Gmail, Calendar, Android, Youtube mainly, but a host of other services too, like Calendar, some light Drive use, even DNS on my router. Google are everywhere.

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Quoting: Guest

QuoteHow about some good news to start your Wednesday off?

Enterprise A selling your private data is not going to join Enterprise B selling your private data. I do not understand where the good news is here.

It's good news for me. I'm comfortable with the little data that I share by using Discord while they conduct their business an independent firm. However, I'm not at all comfortable with the idea that my account, data or use of that system is contributing to a statistic that enhances Microsoft's death grip on the tech industry.

I won't support anything to do with Microsoft or Apple. They're poison to my passion - technology and innovation. Discord remaining free of their control is definitely good news, for me.

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I played this... two years ago? It was excellent, so it's great to be reminded about it. I hope it pulls through KS and launches. Insta-buy for me, the demo/prologue thing completely sold me. Great gameplay, lovely graphics and some nice progression thrown in for good measure. Looking forward to some more.

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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!

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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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