Bitter Sweet, or Sweet Bitter -- time will tell.

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QuoteEver played a game of Dota 2 by yourself and get matched against an entire team of people? I have, it sucks.

Good luck playing a match around The International timeframe, you will get 5 man rolled regularly, the enemy team will all my linked up via Discord communicating or in person and you and your teamies have to pray you have at least 1 player good enough to snowball your team to victory.

For being such a common issue, it's nice to see Valve doing their best to make incremental issues on these kinds of things instead of just shrugging.

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Actually thought about buying this for years.

Then I got into mechanical keyboards and suddenly want to revamp the entire QWERTY layout for myself since there are so many legacy elements that haven't been fleshed out in modernization but just legacy carry-over, like numpad on the right vs left, etc...

I guess this project will make me think about buying again. I would love to use this in a Tiling Window Manager and make window controls like "Close, Resize, Maximize, Move Window on Mouse Drag, etc..."

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Cool, I hope to see it get checked out by game devs and included and improved.

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As much as I dislike Nvidia for things they've done in the past and have drifted away from using, or recommending them.

And as much as the business man in me see's the blatant exchange of resources and mutual interests usually described as "a job", "partnership", or "contract"...

Hell, mutual dependence and investment of funds into a FOSS project I am totally cool with. Thumbs up.

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Ah yes something to play with our wives and girlfriends to turn them into giggling anime characters.

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My take on this:

Digital License* is a supplement for a Physical Good -- namely a DVD game that retains value and be resold.

I can see Frances take on this being practical, and from a consumer perspective I 100% agree with users should be able to sell games or accounts (collections of games).

Where it gets tricky for Valve is I am not sure what their license terms stipulate with content creators and if they legally have the authority to implement this feature.

Assuming they are strong-armed be the law though I can't see how publishers and content creators can really hold them accountable when they are forced to legally comply.

I agree with France, I also think that this should not be a suit against Valve but effect all digital software goods hopefully not only in France but the greater world.

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Quoting: tonRSometimes, it's better to keep your mouth shut than say something that will stirring up many hornet nests.

This is gold. Thank you.

Quoting: cprnWait. So paraphrasing RMS he said "how about using a less guilt implying term" when it came to accusing a deceased (i.e. not able to protect themselves) faculty member that hasn't actually been accused by the victim of the crime...

The word you are looking for is: allegedly

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Blame the Media for being Entertainment and not Genuine Journalism or News.

Blame Richard Stallman for socially being a dumbass and putting his foot in his mouth (figurateively and literally apparantly from videos
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Everyone is debating whether or not the Individual's freedom of speech superceeds the freedom of a group.

I think it's clear that when an individual suchas RMS accepts a lofty position -- say at MIT: they agree to exchange some of their freedoms to fit the required behavior of the role.

This is why CoC exist, because at places like M.I.T. trending social political science issues are not within the scope of of the institutions mission and are just noise distracting from keeping a functional and productive forum.

The institutions mission and scope is technology.

RMS on the other hand has always personally had those additional activist opinions that are inappropriate in the context of his job.

He has "foot in mouth syndrome" and based on the things he has said the institution is probably affraid someday a RMS Scandal will come to light and they want nothing to do with it.

Edit: Also, the last thing MIT wants is for someone to stir the pot on what sounds like a possible Sexual Assault Scandal at MIT, they just fucking noped out of that -- so they took away any representation power he had in relation to their name so they don't come under fire for dumb shit he says and loose millions of dollars.

Edit 2: Also noteworthy, in regards to freedom of speech -- he had the right to say it, and he did. But he didn't have the right to say it and keep his privilege of position partially representing M.I.T.

Freedom of Speech and Responsibility of Leadership are somewhat mutually exclusive, this is why Liam Dawe is held to a higher standard than the rest of us plebs and we can get away saying things he could NEVER say from his podium and come away completely unscathed. It's a shitty thing, and bless him for doing what he does, but it's the truth.

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Quoting: KimyrielleIn all honesty, 32 bit stuff DOES need to go at some point. I mean, for how long is Linux supposed to carry on that old baggage?

Okay. Then. Lets just obsolete 32-bit, 64-bit and switch to source only distros like Gentoo then. Because that's the only way we are going to end the cycle of obsoleting 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit 256-bit etc...

Quoting: GuestI disagree. 32bit needs to stay, yet alone for all those 32bit applications/games. How am i supposed to play/use those when they are gone?

Agree. We still have DOSBox to play DOS games and all kinds of containers to keep games working. 32-bit needs to stay -- devs literally no longer have the source code to some games and there is no difference to the average consumer, all they see is "It works" and "It doesn't work".

Steam isn't an idealistic engineer's dream of the perfect system with 0 users, it's a practical middle-ground for all developers will millions of users which delivers games & content to gamers.

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Quoting: Desum

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Quoting: wvstolzingThis reminded me to check up on these guys: https://github.com/rwengine/openrw
It's an open reimplementation of the GTA III-series engine; but they've been making *really* slow progress over the past 5-6 years.

More of active contributors are needed. Spreading word of the projects existence would probably help to gain some devs.

Nearly every from-scratch open source engine rewrite project is undermanned. I've been mentioning OpenVIII where I can since the Final Fantasy 8 Remaster turned out to be a very-very bad port technically speaking.

OpenVIII really needs a AUR PKGBUILD, but I am not sure the exact build process since their git requests building with a GUI IIUC.

Edit: Also who do I pay to work on this lol? I will be stupid giddy when they reach 1.0

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