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Quoting: Tethys84I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.

It's not as bad as some, predatory? meh, however it is hard to earn DECENT returns (lions) without premium account status. Can make certain tiers and vehicles nothing but a waste to play. (because their repair or ammo cost outstrips returns)

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Looks great, and always happy to steal from the rich (also in virtual worlds).

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Quoting: mylkahow much is VALVE contributing?
since the steam deck and soon steam machine, both with KDE they should have a strong interest, that KDE is as good as it can get

i mean 300k is nothing for valve

Technically Valve don't use Plasma, its just a fallback DE which they could use GNOME or anything else.

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Unless there is an animated app docker I am not donating!

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how much is VALVE contributing?
since the steam deck and soon steam machine, both with KDE they should have a strong interest, that KDE is as good as it can get

i mean 300k is nothing for valve

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Do I understand it right and Paramount is still more or less "classical" film company? I know they have a Paramount+ service but they seems to continue to release a lot of movies in cinemas. If so, I will definitely root for them.

Paramount, fighto!

:).

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Added to my (ever-growing) Wishlist. Looks cool.

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It feels like KDE really leveled up with the release of Plasma 6. Just a consistent stream of great improvements and high quality releases. I think peoples willingness to donate is a sign of how intune KDE is with the community. I am so happy for their success

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Man, I was *really* hoping the sequel would be co-op. 😔

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Quoting: scaineSelfishly, I have Netflix (albeit debating keeping it much longer after I ditched Spotify a couple of months ago), and won't ever take Paramount, so hopefully this hostile bid fails completely. Also, as others have noted, this is backed by Jared Kushner apparently - Trump's step-son, with additional backing from the middle east.

According to the FT, Paramount are on the hook for only (!) $12bn, while $24bn is secured through several middle eastern sovereign wealth funds (who are still separately diversifying from oil through initiatives like PIF's investment in EA e-gaming), and the remainder is a debt through a combined commitment from the Bank of America, Citigroup, and Apollo.

Why's the middle east always involved when Trump's kids buy something.
Can't they mix it up a bit: [tech](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5569197-major-companies-fund-whitehouse/) [titans](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-cook-trump-gift/85555805007/), [Russian](https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/russian-financial-ties-to-trump-last-40-years-7d4e9f) [oligarchs](https://themoscowproject.org/collusion-chapter/chapter-1/index.html), [drug lords](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/11/25/trumps-crypto-cronies-they-sent-the-president-money-and-got-off-easy/) or [the Chinese](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-money-china-president-hotels-town-hall-1859710).
Their dad has received money and gifts from all of these groups, why can't they do it?

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Well, that looks like one of the most blatant copies of the Factorio mechanics so far. No too surprising for a Factorio modder I suppose, but at this point I don't see anything there that hasn't already been done in Factorio mods. And we'll have to see how well they fare at copying the engine.

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Nice, I very much enjoyed the first two Darkside Detective games so will certainly play this one upon release. Decent puzzles with amusing dialogue mixed in.

I also note the first game is currently free to claim on Epic Games.

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Rome-Total War
will always have a nostalgic place in my heart.
I played it as a kid. I sucked at it and it had some interesting bugs, but I sank so much time in it.

Spoiler, click me

The most interesting one was in my opinion the fact that it crashed after an hour, my screen time just happened to be an hour. I did some research to the system and asked my father several times, but it appears this was a genuine bug.

Also I didn't read the patch notes when they upgraded the ai to be smart enough to not wait and be hammered to smithereens by catapults, but instead do a step back, so they were out of reach.

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This year, my OSS donation went to Thunderbird. (In addition to my recurring Patreon to GoL and Ubports)

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Looks very much like those Java DOOM and Wolfenstein rpgs.

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The Backside Detective sounds like something else entirely...

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Kde will most certainly get its share of my yearly open source donations.

I may not get along with plasma, but there's still a fairly long list of kde stuff that I am using on my xfce installs, from okular all the way down to kupfer.

Recent (for me) high point: kdeconnect.

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I donated as well. KDE team is doing an amazing job!

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AppImage was created by a bad person acting in bad faith in the open source community

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sad that you can't disable the discords own titlebar

Agreed, I prefer the app to use my window manager's titlebar. The new one is missing some features like "middle click to maximize the app vertically"

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Yeah okay this is VERY interesting to me.

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Wait. Is it the same bug I've been having for months, where every time the mouse cursor appeared/disappeared, the game had a random chance to crash? I posted about it on Reddit a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/oTYhDYeb1p

It's been absolutely driving me crazy, I can't wait to get home and see if that's actually it

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Quoting: Tethys84I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.

Must have been a WoT player...

I have been playing WT for 11 years now (exclusively on Linux) and can assure you that it is anything but P2W*. Investing real money reduces the grind considerably. That's pretty much all there is. As far as monetization goes: I do have a premium account which you get twice a year for a 50% discount, which comes then down to about 30 Euros per year. That's it. Every now and then I might buy a premium vehicle (again when there is a sale).
If you don't want to invest any money stick to tiers I to IV and just have a good time. At these stages the grind is easy to endure.

[*]As for P2W: Sales season can be horrible. Your team can be full of noobs in their shiny premium vehicles which they somehow believe are "better" (which they rarely are), only to get slaughtered by experienced players already accustomed to the peculiarities of high tier battles.

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Quoting: tohur

Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.

sadly will NEVER happen as will never be enough people using either to gain traction

I just read an article that governments are interested in using Matrix - and funding it.

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Quoting: walther von stolzing

Quoting: EikeIf enough people do want it, they sell us what we want.

Assuming that it's profitable, no matter the wants, or even the *needs* of consumers; and also assuming that possible satisfactions of such wants/needs can't be manipulated. In consumer electronics, 'products' are slowly turning into further 'revenue streams', or portals for indefinitely extended rentals.

For example -- "If enough people do want" ... perpetual licenses as opposed to subscriptions ... would "they sell us what [they] want"? They wouldn't, and they don't; and those smaller companies that do sell perpetual licenses weasel their way out of it the moment they get bought out.

As luxury/specialist items, vinyl players, or even penny farthings can be produced at smaller scales; what's at issue here is mass production at scale, of things that have everyday use -- things that you can't just "vote with your wallet" not to buy, because you *need* them; things that you can't get from the 'competition' ... because there's no competition when it comes to the large-scale trends like what we're seeing with electronics right now. 'Competition' is at best a short term illusion, when the model requires the bigger players to keep swallowing the smaller players, or at the very least constrain the possibilities with which they have to work.

You're right. What I said was simplified (and vinyl probably was a bad example). The company satisfying customer wants has to economically survive, which might e.g. lead to luxury products due to small scale.

Some examples having been given are not touched by this, though. There's no strong reason to not have multiple USB ports at a notebook. If people want them and buy them, it's easy for manufacturers to provide them (and maybe sell the laptop for 20 bucks more).

(Which might be the reason they're not "gone" at all: https://preisvergleich.heise.de/?cat=nb&hloc=de&xf=893_2&asuch=&bpmin=&bpmax=&v=k&plz=&dist=&sort=r&bl1_id=30 )

I BTW am looking forward to have a monitor that's a full USB hub with many device inputs and being able to attach at least two computers. I'll attach all my USB stuff to the monitor (which happens to stand conveniently right in front of me), attach the work laptop and the home desktop to it and switch everything from one computer to the other with a single button. I consider this a nice technology development.

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To add another wrinkle - how about a Flatpak that manages AppImages?
https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever

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Does anyone if it happens on DX11/DXVK only or is DX12/VKD3D impacted too? I've been playing on it for months and it's been really good, but I haven't run Season 20 yet.

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I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.

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Quoting: Xpandersad that you can't disable the discords own titlebar. waste of space on my screen tbh
Before i could at least toggle the borders off from my WM and it was clean, but now the discords own titlebar thing is still wasting the space.

not the end of the world ofc, but yeah.

Why's it a waste of space? Are you getting two title bars?

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Huh. DollFro/Girls' Frontline (the OG one I'd assume) is playable on Steam & Linux? I'll have to try it.

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