I only sold about 2 games I bought over the last 30 years, and likely bought a handful of used ones (some of those as collector items, so I would have come cheaper buying new). I don't see this changing much in the future.

Still, there's plenty at stake here, not the least our customer rights when it comes to software. And this can be much more far reaching than games, as software starts to permeate a lot of goods and could be (and already is, to some degree) used to prevent us from selling or passing on stuff that's rightfully ours. So I am generally in favor of this ruling and quite a bit curious how this will pan out eventually (guess the ruling isn't final and there are some higher courts that'll have a say on the final outcome).

Also, Twitter deemed to remind me that there is Robot Cache, a platform in development that is all about selling digital games. I have no clue how it's supposed to work, but it's not like the French have a monopoly on the idea :-).

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Yay! Here's to a developer that actually understands the meaning of super soon! ? :-)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: spayder26Actually he was not defending Epstein (he called him rapist), but declaring his opinion against laws against consented paedophilia, which is somewhat much more controversial.

You seem to have information differing from mine.

I read that he found the "most plausible scenario" that the girls have been "entirely willing".

Read again. A cursory search didn't turn up RMS's actual post, but my understanding of the quoted line is a little different than what you make it to be.

QuoteWe can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

But even that lacks the context of the whole, without the original source, so take it with a grain of salt.


Personally, I really wonder though how people can hang Stallman for his words, while nobody so much raises an eyebrow at the way Epstein's case was handled by the legal system. Makes me think priorities aren't what they ought to be these days.

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Jenny LeClue. No set release date, other than super soon, though.

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The versioning scheme employed by nVidia confuses me. Any sane person would assume that 435.21 supersedes 435.17 and contains all its features and then some. Apparently, that's not the case.

At the same time, it's not apparent how big the jump from, say, 430.40 to 435.21 would be, as there is no way to tell how many releases have been made in between. Could be none, could be half a dozen.

Anyone has any insight to share what those numbers actually represent? Is there any logic behind it?

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That's one of the games where I'd wish GOG Galaxy was a thing on Linux. 55GB to download whenever there's an update ... :-(. (I know they often have incremental updates from the last version to the current, but woe upon you if you miss one of those). Anyway, I yet have to finish Kingdom Come: Deliverance. So maybe the dust has settled by the time I'm getting around to playing this.

Glad that inXile managed to bring this to Linux after all. Doubly fun that they do it under the roof of Microsoft :-).

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Wine(-devel) is the one piece of software where I don't mind the frequent updates. But I assume it's at a point now where the stable version would likely just work as well for me overall, assuming I don't run into a specific bug with a specific game. At least for the Windows software I use at the moment, I do not really notice any changes after the biweekly wine-devel update.

Whereas a year or two ago, when DirectX11 support was still in development, and games would suddenly go from not running to launching to running with glitches to running well, wine stable would not have been an option. At all.

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Quoting: chepatiI *love* KCD, it is by far my favorite RPG of all time. Unfortunately, any medieval game that doesn't include warfare and death is by definition unrealistic.

Still enjoying KCD, but I wouldn't be opposed to a medieval game without warfare and death. Whether I'd call it a RPG is a different question. Probably depends how it is implemented and whether it provides meaningful skills and character customization allowing to approach obstacles in different, creative ways.

I sometimes think all that fighting and killing in RPGs is often pure laziness of the developers. It's much easier to throw some more mobs at the player, or write "quests" along the line of "go there, kill that" than coming up with original content. Personally, I usually like those parts of RPGs best that do not involve combat so much. I.e. in The Witcher 3, my favorite quest was Dead Man's Party. KCD also requires very little combat over large swaths, but it still has to throw hordes of bandits at the player. Given their sheer number, one wonders why they haven't robbed everyone blind and usurped Bohemia.

Anyway, Donensbourgh is something I'll keep an eye on. Even though it appears to have more in common with something like Leaving Lyndow or Eastshade (will that ever come to Linux, btw.?), games I would not call RPGs.

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: kaimanMust be something bloated like Unity.

It is Unity indeed: https://steamcommunity.com/app/603390/discussions/0/1474221865198212654/

Ha! Though given the rather brilliant effects on display in the trailer, it was pretty clear that it wasn't based on something like ncurses or aa-lib. So definitely not running in the terminal ;-).

Also mind you, I'm not so much opposed to general-purpose game engines that save people from having to re-invent the wheel for every game they write. But I am a bit sensitive to the waste of resources due to sloppy programming. Sometimes I'm under the impression that software (be that OS, productivity software or games) is gobbling up the advances in computing power faster than that power is indeed advancing.

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Requiring 370MB RAM, it sadly will not run on my old Laptop ;-). Given that it requires less disk space than RAM, one wonders what the technology behind it is. Must be something bloated like Unity.

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