Quoting: BlueSkyThis is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.

A pity it isn't. For some things, if not most, simple HTML interfaces would be perfectly sufficient, if it weren't for the "design" and of course, "telemetry".
All I'm getting is a blue butterfly, and that was that.

Quoting: GamingOnLinuxYour JavaScript is off, to use the BBCode options please turn it on. Commenting will still work without! :)

and thank you for that.

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I don't get the problem people seem to have with acquiring saddles... it's been a continuing, if low level, complaint for years and years. Do these people actually play the game, or are they perpetuating hearsay from a decade ago? I'm wondering if I've been playing a different game... if I go fishing for half an hour, I'll have more saddles than I'll ever realistically need. Really, saddles are such an annoyance that I wouldn't dream of wanting to *craft* one. Also, that probably answers the question of "do you hunt for them" – yes, kind of, but no, not actually, it's more like in Soviet Minecraft they hunt you.

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Going to actively boycott this.

Big corporate marketing money trying to sell "triple Indie", as if they hadn't had their grubby fingers (and other things) everywhere they could. Can't they get enough already, turning "triple-A" into a dirty word?

"A big shoutout to our partnerscorporate overlords" of Tencent, Ubisoft, Youtube, Twitch, more Tencent as major shareholder in a couple of other big names from China, EPIC Games of all things "indie", IGN, you name them, all the "Indie" VIPs in one "indie" place.
Don't take me for more stupid than I am.

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Maybe it doesn't sound entirely absurd if you own the yacht in the thumbnail... and possibly a small country or two. Maybe a big one? Hand me a melon husk, if you could be so kind , while I wait for the "post-" to come along.

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Pardon my French (and pardon my English if you're French), but what is this crap? "A mystery initiative" brought to us by "iubenda", Latin for "the things that are to be commanded", registered as corporate entity "EVIL EMPIRE" in all caps?

I don't think I don't want to be part of any of this, "funny" joke or no. Go take your EVIL EMPIRE and stick it where it belongs, we already have too many of them.

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Subtle.

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@Valck: For my personal use, games failing is in fact MORE important than another barrier against deliberately malicious software, because on Linux to the best of my knowledge in over 20 years I've never had any deliberately malicious software. I suppose sooner or later I might, but given the track record I could be dead before it happens. So this would give me a real problem in exchange for solving a problem I don't have.

Oh I absolutely agree – to the point where it's a transient nuisance that can and usually will be fixed within reasonably short period, be it via emulation, containerization, or some other workaround, people working together on open solutions, if only by chatting about issues they have and potentially generating ideas for ways to work around them, that can be picked up and expanded upon by others.
If you look at the bug reports, it's almost exclusively anti-cheat software which straddles the line between stable and broken at the best of times, so there's not too much surprise here that some esoteric change breaks stuff like that – and I mean 'that with a ten-metre-pole', stuff I wouldn't want to have near me at any time.

What I just can't stand is them fanboiz crying tar and feathers because we needz our proprietary locked-down drug fix and we needz it nao.

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Valck out. Please excuse me if I disappear for a while, stuff like this riles me up no end, and that's definitely not good for my health, mental or otherwise. Take care, all, and enjoy the gifts of open source ;)

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What now --- no comments yet on TEH EVIL 0pens0urc3h4xxorz breaking muh proprietary ALL THE TIME? Come on folks, you can do better!

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They really outta listen to Linus on not breaking userspace.

If you want a somewhat more nuanced view of the issue, I suggest reading the glibc bug report thread [External Link], it has some interesting insights on causes, issues, and possible side effects, and by a couple of somewhat prominent people too.

AFAICT (and I'm certainly no expert on this, and a lot just goes over my head), much of the problem stems from changes in the security environment (parts of memory now being non-executable by default whereas historically there were no such restrictions), incorrect (or maybe too blue-eyed) use of tools (assumptions that did not hold true over time), and different interpretations between different architectures (x86_32 vs _64).

As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather have some accidentally incorrect games break for a period of time (if it's really that important a game, I'm certain there will be ways using older distro releases, emulation or whatnot), in exchange for another barrier against deliberately malicious software.

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Quoting: scaineI don't think I've ever seen such a Nintendo-themed title that isn't actually Nintendo! The music in particular!

inb4lawsuit
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