Quoting: Technopeasant

Quoting: ElectricPrismThese titles are so old they should license the code as open source and dump it on the net. It would do well for their legacy and reputation to immortalize their roots.

Last I heard, Sweeney said he would, but there are too many libraries used.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epics-tim-sweeney-says-that-unreal-engine-1-may-one-day-go-open-source/

Well, that's plausible. If it wasn't Sweeney I might give the benefit of the doubt.

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Quoting: grigi

Quoting: Purple Library GuyDunno what everyone's excited about. This "white" colour does not sound very much like purple to me.

Start Wearing Purple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkkIwO_X4i4

One of my favourite bands actually, originally recommended to me because of that song . . . but I prefer American Wedding.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

QuoteAnne Bunny

Seems like "Annie Bunny" would be more satisfying...

I was assuming that one was named after Anne Bonny, the pirate.

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Dunno what everyone's excited about. This "white" colour does not sound very much like purple to me.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: LoudTechiethe common theme of slaying and becoming Gods(uncommon in western media, since in western religious practice gods are supposed to be immortal(has its root in the early days of Christianity and greek philosopher discussions), while in Shinto one can become and kill a god)

That's not really a religious thing - you might find this documentary video on the topic to be an interesting watch!

I actually watched that video and to me its proof of my edit.
Those Gods are often representations of systems, but Shinto and even Buddhism to a lesser extent are polytheistic nature religions. All "Gods" in those religion are Gods of something: rivers, places, fishing, etc., but they're still seen as actual beings that can directly interact with you, have supernatural powers and can have something for and against you.
They're also often limited to their "aspect", but that depends on the religion.
That's the thing.
In external literature ritual religious practice can be indistinguishable from metaphor.

Edit: also I didn't consider it in my earlier considerations, because I couldn't find the source(I've been too often asked for sources I forgot), thnx.

Also what doesn't help is that I've seen varying authors and people in my surroundings embed religious practice on differing levels of subtlety in their work(not everyone feels as comfortable comfortable admitting they practice their religion).

In general I try to do detection this way:
look at the early work, determine religious themes(Nintendo is too old and personally diverse to determine the "early work"(Mario isn't early work, it's early work in the American market) reliable. Niantic had quite some "ki" like religious themes especially in their fire Pokemon), look at how much and which detailed knowledge of certain religious doctrine is needed to produce this(a high amount implies a member of the (counter) movement and the kind of knowledge can be used to find the counter part) and read if available author commentary.

To me religion operating as literary source material does not imply practicing or believing in the religion. Westerners use Shakespeare and the Roman empire (both its religion and its institutions) as literary source material a lot, but nobody worships Shakespeare. And while there are lessons to be drawn from Shakespeare (e.g. don't divide your kingdom between your children) I feel it's less a matter of Shakespeare shaping our thinking than Shakespeare making a good source for ideas we'd find some way to access anyway. For that matter, I feel even Western strongly believing Christians are more likely to be thinking a certain way and finding ways to get Christianity to back up their ideas, than having their ideas shaped by religion. The extreme example is certain American right wing Christians whose reaction upon being read the Sermon on the Mount is that it's woke propaganda and can't possibly have anything to do with (their version of) Christianity.

So, sure, Japan has some religions. And non-religious Japanese people certainly draw on the religion for literary inspiration--it's the body of myth they have most available, of course they're going to use it. But does it shape their thinking, or do they pour it into the shape of the thinking they already have?

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I'll have to give it another run through. I remember it being fun, but finding it annoying that sometimes I'd have a thing I wanted the villagers to do, I'd put some on that job, even pull them off other jobs, and nope, they didn't want to do that thing.
But the big critter you're on the back of is just adorable.

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Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI tried out KDE for a while due to a missing feature on GNOME, but KDE then broke a similar feature, so I went back to GNOME.

Yeah, that's exactly my experience. I really like the Gnome workflow, but because of disliking some of the dev's attitudes/opinions, and the fact that there's a lot of people hyping KDE (and now companies like Valve funding it), I keep an eye on every KDE release, but it's always the same: I try it, it breaks, I regret.

Maybe it's a "me" issue, but even on Windows, if I use it a bit, I find some bugs, even doing nothing. Gnome is just fine.

I just hope that Fedora Cosmic become a fantastic distro.

I really like GNOME, but it has a few deficiencies that are unlikely to be fixed for a very long time. I like KDE too, but the UX is not as good. In some places it's much better, but overall it's not as well-constructed. Both have bugs.

COSMIC is a great desktop. I ran it as my main desktop for a few weeks. I'd love to try it again when it's stable and has more features like support for graphics tablets and integrated input methods :)

My needs are fairly simple, so I ended up using Mate. When Mandriva died I was looking around for a bit, and found myself using Mint. At the time
--Gnome UI was weird and for me counterintuitive; they had just gone to Gnome 3, with the unofficial motto "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". So that was out.
--KDE was theoretically great with everything I could need, but wonky; whenever I tried it there always seemed to be things that annoyingly didn't work right. That was out.
--Mint's flagship Cinnamon was still kind of rough and also at the time wouldn't let me put an extra panel up the right hand side of the screen. With wide screens, I figure that's a good place for a panel; I like to put my launchers there. That was out.
--Mate was comfortable, not buggy, let me do my panel thing, felt like Gnome 2 or maybe Windows without the annoying shit and with better customization. Went with that. Since then, has never gotten in my way so I've stuck with it.

If I had to decide today, the state of various desktops is way different, so don't know where I might have ended up.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: PenglingNintendo behaving like they are here won't change any opinions over on that side of the fence, unfortunately.

That is unfortunately very obvious, since this is not the first time that they do what they usually do.

And it is the reason that I'm amused by the data-breach. Like the weird Sgt in It Ain't Half Hot Mum says – Oh dear, how sad, never mind. I wonder if they believe in Karma…

Well, since they're Japanese upwards mobilized peasants, I would guess they're practitioners of both Buddhism and Shintoism.
Specifically I think that they're Japanese pure land Buddhists and Shintoists.
Shintoism has no real definition of an afterlife.
Buddhism is quite clear about Karma and reincarnation.
Shintoists believe in ascension through effort.

I think they do believe in Karma, but my knowledge about Japanese religious practice is insufficient to determine whether this results in positive or negative Karma in their eyes if they do.

I think most Japanese people's caring about religion is limited to going to a temple at New Year's and deciding whether they want wedding pictures taken in a traditional Japanese look or a Christian/Western style bridal gown look.

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Quoting: WoodlandorThe article isn’t about Stellaris having two Dick Versions? 🫢

(I can have a child’s sense of humour sometimes, please forgive)

Far more than two, I would imagine. All those aliens.

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Are there people in the world who have the slightest chance of wanting to play Civ V, that don't already have Civ V?

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