Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: kokoko3kHowever I fail to understand how that is less "harsh".

The fact that it's just based on a pretty innocent childhood hobby, rather than the organised cricket-fighting mentioned in the Wikipedia article is the first thing that springs to mind. The fact it doesn't tend to result in injuries like cockfighting/bullfighting/dogfighting/etc. is another pretty big one, I thought.

Quoting: kokoko3kOriginal intent aside, the final product promotes moral and ethical standards too far from my principles.

I'm genuinely curious to hear more about this, if you'd indulge me, here, please; I've got no love left for Nintendo, I just want to stretch my mind by hearing other views that I suspect I've not heard before.

Reason being, the main thing they claim the brand is focussed on is friendship, teamwork, and other positives (not even mentioning the stealth mathematics and statistics that come into it), and I've not seen anything really suggesting otherwise. It's a fantasy about collecting monsters and stopping bad-guys, after all.

Quoting: kokoko3kI love japanese culture in general, but the way they 'handle' animals, I cannot stand.

I'm afraid I don't know enough about this to comment. But, totally fair!

The situation seems so tragically clear to me, that I doubt I have understood where your concerns arise from.

Do you really think they could ever advertise the confinement of sentient life forms and make them fight each other as the primary selling point?

I confess I have never even sniffed at a Pokémon game, and my knowledge about it is limited to fleeting glances of disdain towards the TV series; however, I believe it is fair to assume that the video games reflect such practices.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pokemon+battles+videos&t=ffab&ia=web

The fact that all this can be effectively (!) masked by the (not assumed!) friendship between the master and the animal, and that this can so effectively quell public conscience, only makes the situation worse in my opinion.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AGGDTF/pet-store-with-puppies-for-sale-shinjuku-tokyo-japan-AGGDTF.jpg

If it were humans, one could talk about Stockholm Syndrome :)

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Quoting: PenglingThere are shades of Animal Crossing here, too, which is a formula that no other developer has ever gotten close to yet. I'll be interested in seeing if this one does! I assume that it doesn't play out in real-time, though.

Quoting: kokoko3kIt is absolutely adorable!

However, the concept of animal fights, which the entire Pokémon franchise is based on, bothers me too much to enjoy playing those games.

I always find it interesting how different cultures view this much more harshly than the original intent; Pokemon was actually based on the Japanese childhood pastime of collecting fighting crickets in the woods combined with collecting capsule-toys from vending machines, with the full brand-name being short for "Pocket Monsters", alluding to both.

I did not knew about fighting crickets:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_fighting
However I fail to understand how that is less "harsh".
Original intent aside, the final product promotes moral and ethical standards too far from my principles.

I love japanese culture in general, but the way they 'handle' animals, I cannot stand.

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It is absolutely adorable!

However, the concept of animal fights, which the entire Pokémon franchise is based on, bothers me too much to enjoy playing those games.

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Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: VardamirI'm currently using my Intel graphics only, because the NVidia driver crashed my computer on shutdown every now and then. I suspect the driver also for some crashes during system update, which is particularly funny. Had to reinstall after a crash during an update destroyed the libc (without it, repairing with a chroot is not possible)

You can always try to use prime render offload and rely on intel for desktop task and getting frames back from nvidia for the heavy stuff.

Before switching to Amd, I found that to be the less troublesome way to live with the blob.

I had the hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver installed and for regular tasks it was using Intel. But that didn't prevent the system to crash every now and then (and at mostly every shutdown)

I don't know what hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver is, it seems a manjaro thing.

To be sure we are speaking about the same setup, prime render offload means that the display is attached just to the igp and you run commands on the discrete one via prime-run script.

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Quoting: VardamirI'm currently using my Intel graphics only, because the NVidia driver crashed my computer on shutdown every now and then. I suspect the driver also for some crashes during system update, which is particularly funny. Had to reinstall after a crash during an update destroyed the libc (without it, repairing with a chroot is not possible)

You can always try to use prime render offload and rely on intel for desktop task and getting frames back from nvidia for the heavy stuff.

Before switching to Amd, I found that to be the less troublesome way to live with the blob.

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Make it open source, then we can talk.

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I'm a bit confused about GOG.

What is the difference in owning CD containing a game and not owning a game downloaded from GOG?

It is just the I cannot sell/gift it?

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Quoting: Mambo

Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: kokoko3kSo, let me understand.

I've this game on native Linux on steam and after the update i will not have the possibility to download it anymore?

Does this feel right to anyone?

Welcome to the state of gaming in 2024........ Over priced DLC........ Microtransactions out the warzoo..... Out of control in game gambling........ Gaming as a service....... Changing account requirements after purchase........ And now...... Changing OS support after purchase....... What a time to be a live......

Quoting: jams3223I am blacklisting this studio, and I'll never buy a game from them.

Targem Games has made...... The list...... I will do doing the same.......

This is Valve enforcing game updates vis Steam.
Blaze Rush is a lightweight title that works on an old netbook which is unable to run Vulkan, unable to run Proton via dxvk, I don't want even imagine what would happen via wined3d.

They are reducing my possibility to play it, and I've paid for it.

Instead, people pirating games are FREE from all of that, really, this time shame on you, Valve.

Steam supports beta branches, which are often used to keep around old versions before disruptive changes. That publisher should still take the responsibility and face demands for refunds though.

Steam "supports" beta branches, but "enforces" updates, this means that developer is free to end support anytime.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: kokoko3kSo, let me understand.

I've this game on native Linux on steam and after the update i will not have the possibility to download it anymore?

Does this feel right to anyone?

Welcome to the state of gaming in 2024........ Over priced DLC........ Microtransactions out the warzoo..... Out of control in game gambling........ Gaming as a service....... Changing account requirements after purchase........ And now...... Changing OS support after purchase....... What a time to be a live......

Quoting: jams3223I am blacklisting this studio, and I'll never buy a game from them.

Targem Games has made...... The list...... I will do doing the same.......

This is Valve enforcing game updates vis Steam.
Blaze Rush is a lightweight title that works on an old netbook which is unable to run Vulkan, unable to run Proton via dxvk, I don't want even imagine what would happen via wined3d.

They are reducing my possibility to play it, and I've paid for it.

Instead, people pirating games are FREE from all of that, really, this time shame on you, Valve.

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So, let me understand.

I've this game on native Linux on steam and after the update i will not have the possibility to download it anymore?

Does this feel right to anyone?

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