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Quoting: Purple Library Guynone of the politicians care if it works or ever will work.

Absolutely. Politicians only care that they appear to be doing something about a perceived problem. All that matters is that they stay in office and continue to collect from the gravy train.

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In addition a new Race Day expansion will arrive on March 10th giving you options to transform streets into courses for motor racing, running, and cycling events.

Can't wait to see what wild and wacky race courses people create using this feature. 😆

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Quoting: eggroleI actually agree that there has never been any "pure" capitalism (or socialism) ever enacted. When you talk about Enclosure (and the other countless examples of gov intervention on behalf of the fat cats), I don't see that as an outgrowth of capitalism. I see it as corruption.

See, I think that is a misinterpretation. For instance, the Enclosures in specific wasn't either corruption or an "outgrowth" of capitalism--it was a foundation of capitalism. But more generally, capitalism is the whole system. It cannot exist without government support; before you even get to corruption, there is contract law, laws against fraud, the creation of money, and so on and on. The "marketplace" exists because government created the conditions for it to exist, and the people using the "marketplace" are going to be involved in shaping just what conditions the government is making. So if you have a system of government part of whose job is to enable the existence and activities of a class of private property owners who seek profit, individual profit-seekers enlisting the government to enable their individual profit is just an outgrowth of that, not an anomaly. Even back in the day, Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism included government--he said "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."

Note that none of this speaks directly to whether capitalism or socialism or whatever are good. I'm very much into that kind of value judgement, but I feel you can't really make such judgements until you have a pretty good idea what you're judging.

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Quoting: eggroleThere will always be some people that want a free lunch and they will exploit whatever (economic) system they are in. I'm sure there was tons of corruption in the USSR or even a little corruption in some uncontacted tribe in the middle of nowhere.

This is true as far as it goes. Even hunter-gatherer tribes seem to need to work to keep things egalitarian; there's this interesting custom in some of them where, if some hunter brings in say a deer, everyone almost ritually rubbishes the deer, saying it's in bad shape, probably not much good meat on that, maybe it was sick . . . just to make sure nobody gets any ideas about being the mightiest hunter in the tribe.

But at the same time, there are differences. Capitalism as an economic system is founded on the idea that what you want is more money. That isn't universal. Feudalism is founded on the idea that what you want is more land . . . and, to a fair extent, more glory. So you're going to have more corruption, in the sense of doing dirty deeds to get money, under capitalism than under feudalism. It's hard to cheat your way to more land, you have to commit some violence; the endemic sin of feudalism was not corruption, but nobles and kings starting tons of territorial wars. The Soviet system . . . I don't think in the end they really managed to make a new system "take", partly because it was an authoritarian top-down thing, partly because it was always under so much pressure from outside. The commissars still kind of thought like capitalists in terms of what they wanted and how they cheated.

If you could establish a full democratic socialism that wasn't really thinking in capitalist cultural terms, it would probably have some kind of characteristic sin, but I don't think it would be corruption in the sense we think of it. Now personally, I think that in the end, all the individual goals we've seen in unequal societies, whether it's land, money, perceived closeness to God or whatever, are all in the end placeholders for the desire for respect. People want to be respected, looked up to; that's the charge that our evolution in social bands built into us. My ideal would be societies where the goal was mainly back to respect, rather than placeholders for it, and which tried to spread respect broadly. I suppose there, the sin would be faking and calumny . . . attempts to get or deny respect on false pretences.

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Aaaaaand wishlisted. I've been wanting to play this for a while, but I refuse to even wishlist a game that has DRM. Now who's gonna convince Ubisoft to take it out of their older titles?

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Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 6.62% +4.29%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 2.59% -3.98%

Anyone else notice that these two numbers combined place Linux Mint 22.x at 9.21%? And that doesn't factor for users still on 22.0 or 22.1.

SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.83% +23.83%
Arch Linux 64 bit 9.07% +9.07%

That places Linux Mint 22 ahead of Arch Linux, in second place. Way to go, Linux Mint!

😊

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyIt's funny that you say this, because I watched a thing a couple of weeks ago comparing politicians and businessmen... Then general gist was that most politicians ask "What needs to be done", followed-up by "And how will this affect me in the polls". Businessmen on the other hand, usually ask "What needs to be done", followed-up by a command to "Get it done" (regardless of how it makes them look). The argument was that Trump falls into the latter camp, which I think is pretty accurate when you consider how he approaches some of America's problems.

Far as I can tell, Trump never asks "What needs to be done?"
He asks "What will stroke my ego?"

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Quoting: Justin_SGood, they should remove it from the Dino Crisis games as well that they released on Steam. They're the GOG version but with Enigma lazily slapped on top 🤮

It's really bizarre how they'll add enigma drm to older titles on steam, and things like re4 remake.. but at same time they've been releasing quite alot of stuff on GOG

I've lost confidence in buying any of their games on steam, incase they "update" it to shove in some random drm

Hopefully enough people will buy Capcom titles on GOG to try and show those suits at Capcom that they don't need all this drm nonsense

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One of my all time favourite recent games, I am approaching 800 hours played, all in Mint!

If you want to try automation now (assuming you own the game of course), just switch to experimental. Was playing with the new sensors and logic systems last night, quite interesting, and flexible.

The experimental 1.0 branch did become unstable for me (on Mint) after they did a GFX overhaul a couple of months back (new sky box with clouds, trees that now sway in the breeze etc). It would crash as soon as the sky moved into view (all mods disabled). Switching back to stable and all was well again.

Had another go with experimental last night, played several house and the game was rock solid (on Mint 22.3). No idea if this was a game update, or changes to Proton, or Mesa, but either way, not a single glitch and I played long enough to drop a Wonder down (not finished building it yet).

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Quoting: scaineI appreciate that I'm in a minority here, but DRM has never been about performance for me. It's been about respecting your customers and not treating them like criminals. It's about giving your customers a better experience than the pirates.

Not sure why you think that's a minority opinion. It's really not. At least not here. ;)

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Quoting: eggroleWhich is why I'm generally in favor of as small a government as possible. There will always be some people that want a free lunch and they will exploit whatever (economic) system they are in.

I don't care whether your government fits in your pocket or employs half the populace, as long as it can fulfil its primary function: Ensuring the well-being (or welfare) of the nation. As in everyone in it.

We're mostly in agreement about the big picture, if perhaps not about the details.

As you said, we'll just have to accept the fact that every process involving people is going to be inefficient to a degree, and corruption needs to be actively controlled to keep it from overwhelming the system. But let's not throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. If we start thinking it's worth sacrificing the well-being of some of our peers to make sure a few others don't game the system (as they inevitably will), we're doing it wrong. I know it's natural to rail against the injustice of someone getting that free lunch, but I say let them have it if it means the kids next door get to eat too. Work to improve the system, but don't lose sight of what actually matters.

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Good news, though - ironically - it was cracked about a month ago 😄

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Good, they should remove it from the Dino Crisis games as well that they released on Steam. They're the GOG version but with Enigma lazily slapped on top 🤮

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Quoting: LinasMost likely they realized that it did not protect anything either.

It protected a lot of people's wallets, which are now exposed to impulse buying. ;-)

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Quoting: Eocene84As someone who doesn't have kids (thank God) and never will, I'm really tired of being punished because other people can't or won't parent their children, which makes the government feel the need to step in. Hopefully the state I live in, Colorado, doesn't do something like this.

I am sorry to inform you that the term "protect the children" is actually used everywhere where a law would otherwise be hard to enact. All these laws popping up everywhere recently are not about children, never were and nowhere will be.

I think most politician had bad childhood, so they do everything to protect children :-D .

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Most likely they realized that it did not protect anything either.

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I didn't care for Bazaar at first, but it's fine now. I would still prefer Discover to maintain..."Konsistency", but Bazaar is fine.

I am glad to see Konsole replace Ptyxis though. Nothing "wrong" with Ptyxis, but again, I use Plasma+KDE and prefer to use Qt apps.

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Now all they have to do is release it on GOG so I can finally buy and play it.

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Quoting: Eocene84As someone who doesn't have kids (thank God) and never will, I'm really tired of being punished because other people can't or won't parent their children, which makes the government feel the need to step in. Hopefully the state I live in, Colorado, doesn't do something like this.

I am sorry to inform you that the term "protect the children" is actually used everywhere where a law would otherwise be hard to enact. All these laws popping up everywhere recently are not about children, never were and nowhere will be.

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I appreciate that I'm in a minority here, but DRM has never been about performance for me. It's been about respecting your customers and not treating them like criminals. It's about giving your customers a better experience than the pirates. It's about acknowledging that even when DRM works... the pirates wouldn't be buying your game anyway. It's not a lost sale. Or at least not meaningful lost sales. Certainly not lost sales to the tune of a one-off £250K fee, and £25K a month.

So this is a maybe for me now. I've ignored all the RE games of late, because they've been encumbered. Might have to bring myself up to date and play catch up.

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I really must get round to playing this at some point. It's been in my library for a while.

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Thank you so much for this series :) I love reading these posts!

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I helped with this one 🥳

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Quoting: Stellathe only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

re, Discover: agreed however it seems to have improved in Plasma 6.6
re, konsole: I switched to konsole from ptyxis months ago, not being able to split tabs was more critical than having a button to enter a container instead of typing distrobox enter. Does ptyxis have any other enhancements?

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Quoting: fenglengshunHuh. Can't believe they'd actually restore Konsole and uses Kontainer. I've been using Kontainer myself and has been quite happy with it. Hopefully Discover could return - it's quite useful for keeping applets, themes, and other KNewStuff things updated.

Still, good to see that Bazzite getting good new updates even if there was a bit of an issue. It no longer fits my usecase and I don't think I could trust it, but it is good to see it improving.

the only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

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The other half doesn't game much, but Megaquarium really clicked with her. She loves it.

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Quoting: eddie-fossSorry for that but for me it seems that US is turning itself a kind of rich new North Korea, government surveillance, no freedom, imposed religion, beliefs and who is against will have their heads chopped off, very dystopian...
I hope you guys get back your power and put off the f..ing lobbyists out of government they're cancer to your country.
😤

To be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media. At least we still have our freedom of speech, although it seems the Democrat party wants to do something about that.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
[https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part51.html](https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part51.html)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere has never been capitalism that didn't involve government action to privatize profits and socialize loss, so if we're going to say that kind of thing disqualifies a system as capitalism then there has never been any such thing as capitalism and we should never bother using the word again. Capitalism involved major government intervention from its very beginnings in England

I think we probably agree more than disagree, but it feels like it is getting lost in translation.

I actually agree that there has never been any "pure" capitalism (or socialism) ever enacted. When you talk about Enclosure (and the other countless examples of gov intervention on behalf of the fat cats), I don't see that as an outgrowth of capitalism. I see it as corruption. Which is why I'm generally in favor of as small a government as possible. There will always be some people that want a free lunch and they will exploit whatever (economic) system they are in. I'm sure there was tons of corruption in the USSR or even a little corruption in some uncontacted tribe in the middle of nowhere.

The small tribe, given a tight "everyone knows everyone" community, would have an easier time outcasting would-be cheaters. When you get to the scale of nation states, there are simply too many people and the corrupt can hide in the crowd. And a single defector can create a cascade of spoilage. Once someone gets the free lunch, they now have more resources to snowball into more corruption and more resources. I think this is obvious when we see Robber Barons like Rhodes (dead for over 100 years) still affecting the world today. Sure, he made his fortune under the banner of capitalism, but how many times did he bribe and lie and worse to get there?

I'm willing to bet ANY economic system would work if you could eliminate/minimize corruption. While I think capitalism (unfettered by corruption) would be superior to socialism (also uncorrupted), I would be more than happy to try socialism sans corruption.

So when I hear people (not pointing at you) saying things like "tax the rich" I am sympathetic, but I'm more inclined to advocate for "hang the corrupt". It just so happens that the venn diagram of corrupt and ultra rich is actually very close to a circle.

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That Nvidia white splash brings back sweet memories, the first "serious" card that I used for gaming on Linux was a Geforce4 MX, and it was the card I used to play Doom 3 with.
Surprisingly it ran the game better than Windows and I even had surround sound thanks to nforce drivers. Granted, all that at 640x480 resolution, since I didn't had a monitor at the time and I used my TV, which was quite fine for me coming directly from PS1 games.

The AMD side on Linux was quite iffy at the time, even though the cards were superior in Windows, the best one was (I think) Radeon 9000...something and I borrowed one from a friend, only to get something like half of performance with serious graphical bugs, when it worked. Which was somewhat a relief considering they were crazy, crazy expensive, while the geforce was quite affordable.

Anyway, I remember fondly the times when I came back from work, start my Linux computer (he he) see the welcoming Nvidia splash, then the blue glow on my amp confirming I have surround sound and getting immersed in one awesome game. Ah...

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