Myself I don't find much problems running Tomb Raider 2013, it is sad the port is being removed.
It would be nice if these ports continued selling...

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Well, this "thanks to patreons" scheme looks not much different to classic money laundering scheme to me in one aspect and as useless stuff in another as NFTs are not supported by any credible entity so they basically cost nothing. So however you look at it it does not look good.

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Quoting: ertuquequeAt the risk of being boring or even worse, making people angry, I'll try to give my take on NFTs, what they are and how they have been exploited for bad things today…

I see NFTs as kitchen knifes, they can be pretty useful and a necessity in the kitchen, but they can be used as weapons and murder tools… Today's use of the NFT concept is being used only for bad and scammy things, but just like with cryptocurrencies, there are legitimate and useful things NTFs can serve for. I see it mainly as a "certificate of ownership", but this NFT must be in a reliable and secure blockchain (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin...). Creating videogame characters as NFTs is next to useless and is just a cash grab and scammy tactic under today's NFTs incarnation.

Just like when Bitcoin came out, a few years later, hundreds of scammy cryptocurrencies came out and very few were honest attempts to improve upon Bitcoin, over time, most of those scams died and the ecosystem evolved to weed out the bad apples… Of course, every few years a new trend becomes popular and a new wave of scams take advantage of it and we have to wait for those scams to die and led the ecosystem evolve (and the mainstream media and people get more familiar with how these things really work)… In 5 or 10 years, we'll have real and useful cases for NFTs just like today we have real and useful cases for cryptocurrencies (despite the misguided opinion of some people who get carried away by the compelling but wrong idea that cryptocurrencies are "scorching the planet".

NFTs are either just useless stuff which does not have any useful purpose or it is just a buzzword to attract victims to other criminal scheme. The problem is there is no reliable way to proof NFTs or no guarantees over their value. The only thing they do is register a record somewhere in the world in some blockchain which in itself is not useful in any way.
Unless there will be actual real purpose in NFTs, I'd avoid that completely for foreseable future.

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It is good that somebody sane arises and reminds that there is real life and these NFT people are crooks.

In this new world of "truth is subjective, science is subjective, world is subjective" stuff nobody
it is so easy to completely disconnect with reality and live your fantasies and become
a good food source for crooks who understand what people are driven by, so from manipulative schemes
which are limited by payment systems so became pushed to the limits they added NFTs and cryptocurrency
in games to create much better criminal schemes and have zero control over them because "you got what you paid for".

And people are more than happy to accept new money losing tech as previous schemes made them comfortable.

When I was warning people about crooks over one of ads for NFT mobile game lots of people were angry
and aggressive that I badmouth a good game and you don't have to donate or buy NFT stuff. So people want that
and so they get that. So I'm just looking forward what will happen in the future.

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Quoting: ZapporSo you can use SDL 2.0.22 to run Linux native SDL games without XWayland, like Stellaris, Factorio, Jupiter Hell.
They usually ship with their own copy of SDL but you can override it with SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 for example.

That won't affect SDL1 games.

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That is quite stupid as they could check for wayland session, I wonder why this even needed, PR? or RedHat paid them?

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Also +1 game which is great to play drunk, I really recommend it. Sober playback is great too though. That is from person who has 410 hours in gta sa and 340 in Pillars of Eternity and who has like 3-4 hours a week to play games, so...

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Why indies can't do AA games?

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btw I wonder why people either love Death Stranding to the fulest or hate it wholeheartedly, but no "completed game, cool but nothing special" people, where are you?

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Cyberpunk-2077 is cool (in progress), Death Stranding is cool too (just started), but nothing will make me get away from itch.io and dlsite indie treasures. Also Startdew Valley forever! And patreon games all did their releases too. I wonder what yanderedev is doing?

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