Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoCan anyone make a .sh script or a program that allow me to convert regular gog game links to GOL affiliate links?

You could do it as a JavaScript userscript if you want it to automatically replace links in your browser rather than manually transform them in an external program one at a time. You can run this in the browser console to test it or save it in Tampermonkey or a similar extension to have it always active:

const goglinks = document.querySelectorAll("[href*='gog.com/game']");
goglinks.forEach((link) => {
let url = new URL(link.href);
link.href = "https://af.gog.com" + url.pathname + "?as=1636858786";
}); 

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Quoting: MohandevirBy the way, I'm not trying to convince anyone to do like I do, but, personnally, I found it's pretty easy to skip the Epic Exclusive stuff. I'm not falling for that "FOMO" feeling, particularly in single player games.

The way game releases work these days, it also means you’re likely to pay less for more content and features and a less buggy game, so I’m pretty much the same. Plenty of games out there, I can wait another year if publishers prefer Epic’s money to mine.

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Played through the demo on itch a while back, it quickly became addictive. Very fun to try different strategies and item sets, then find a new boss that makes your life hell and makes you want to try a different approach. Trying to fit one more item in the grid and find the optimal placement for your various proximity bonuses was a good kind of brain teaser.

Big fan of letting bosses kill themselves through retaliation damage while I pump up my defense

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhich makes me wonder . . . I knew the Chinese essentially didn't use Linux, like, at all. For desktops/gaming, anyway. But what about all the other non-English speakers? For the overall percentage to be less than half the English-speaking percentage, no-Linux has to be very common out there. Why is Linux so terrible at penetrating beyond the English speaking (gaming) world?

A few likely reasons off the top of my head:

• Linux spreads mainly through word of mouth, which is less likely to happen across languages;


• Development happens mainly in English, which means software then has to be localized into everything else and those localizations have to try and keep up with updates but will often fall behind and only offer partial language support – for people who prefer to use software in their language (whether or not they understand English), that’s a turn-off;


• Compounding the above two points, finding support when you need it (whether online or in computer repair shops) is proportionally harder the fewer people use Linux in your language, making adoption that much more difficult until your community reaches a critical size;


• Beyond mere translation, fully localizing a product means support for atypical writing systems (right-to-left, unusual fonts, completely different keyboards/input devices that don’t exist in the Western world...), which Western developers have little incentive, and rarely the means (e.g. devices to test on and knowledge about the issues involved), to do – meaning that Linux UX is likely to be very lacking in languages where there isn’t already significant adoption by people who can contribute to its development, making it an objectively inferior OS with regards to usability;


• Geographically, there are still many places (including English-speaking ones) where computer and Windows are synonymous, just like Facebook and Internet are. This may not be simply a matter of average computer literacy in the population, but a result of Microsoft’s efforts to position itself as the default not only in retail computers, but in schools where they can train young users to use their products exclusively. In those places, even if you hear about Linux, the mere idea of replacing the main software component your computer runs on is probably absurd, let alone having the know-how and desire to do so.

So it’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem: since consumer-oriented Linux runs largely on community effort and is not backed by a company trying to break into new markets for profit, it needs passionate developers in those communities to become a reasonably good environment in those languages. But since it’s not already appealing to those people, why would they be passionate about it and dedicate so much effort to improving it for no personal gain?

Of course I’m generalizing with many of those points – e.g. there are people who see the other qualities of Linux, put up with its limitations and try to grow it in their language for altruistic reasons – but they are all factors that would significantly slow our growth, and every single linguistic/geographic group has to be grown individually and solve unique problems that aren’t easily addressed globally from the outside.

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I just received a wishlist sale notification with this image still in it:



Compare to the store header image:

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: scaineEveryone who has access to this site... they're all (myself included) so unbelievably privileged, we have no right to voice our opinions on this subject. We lack the context and (hopefully) life experience of being able to contribute to this "debate".

Only people without Internet access can have opinions on abortion or politics?

Ah, is that what I said? Not really, but you're right, it was poorly worded. I was suggesting that this law change will affect the least privileged people. Those with no recourse. People so far from our existence that it's crass to have strong views about "what it must be like" to have this change forced.upon them.

Hopefully that's a clearer explanation of what I was trying to say.

Yes, thank you. I still feel like that's a broad assumption to make about everyone who visits the site, because even lower middle class people could have a very challenging time e.g. taking time off work to travel to another state or country to get the necessary procedures, not to mention the social fallout, especially in states that offer bounties for intel on women who get abortions.

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Quoting: scaineEveryone who has access to this site... they're all (myself included) so unbelievably privileged, we have no right to voice our opinions on this subject. We lack the context and (hopefully) life experience of being able to contribute to this "debate".

Only people without Internet access can have opinions on abortion or politics?

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And just like that, another debate is aborted without consideration for its potential because someone didn't feel like carrying it on

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Quoting: TherinSYou mean, this ruling takes a law you cannot change away from the federal government and returns it to the people to vote in thier state as they see fit, right? Isn't that freedom? To change what you want as you see fit?

Cute. Of course, we both know that the people have little to no actual power over their state’s decisions, much like the country’s, especially when their views don’t align perfectly with whichever of the two available parties (lol) is in office; and so returning power to individual states is only really beneficial to the state representatives that disagree with the majority of the others.

But since you prefer to argue about abstract principles rather than practical effects, if the majority opinion in each state (in a fictional USA that isn’t gerrymandered to hell and where the majority opinion isn’t meaningless anyway) is more important than the majority in the country, why have federal laws at all? Nay, why have a federation? Why not break the US into independent states? Then break those into independent counties because those can’t agree either? Then into city-states because urban and rural citizens really don’t have the same needs and will never see eye to eye? Why not keep going and let everyone choose for themselves? You know, the same kind of self-determination that Roe vs Wade protected for everyone at a federal level?

Quoting: TherinSGetting to the base of it is the belief of when life begins.

If you ask me, the real base is a good deal simpler: if it’s in my body, I can choose to get rid of it. I don’t care if it’s a fetus, a baby, mom’s spaghetti or the cure to cancer. But if your ultimate goal is to save every life no matter how miserable and detrimental to society it’s fated to be, you’ll want to know that sexual education and accessible contraceptives are the most effective tools to avoid unwanted pregnancies and, in turn, abortions — and both tools are becoming increasingly hard to attain in the US. You’ll also want to read up on how many women commit suicide rather than being forced to carry to term, or die trying to get an abortion (or perform it upon themselves) illegally, or end up killing themselves and/or their infants after being forced to look after them for a while.

Maybe it’s worth considering how life ends, not just when it begins?

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Quoting: fleskI think nostalgia is the primary reason why everyone's being so critical of this new style.

Nah, I just don’t like the weird geometry and flatness, especially on characters (the backgrounds don’t really bother me). If it were any other game I’d probably ignore it after a glance at the art style, but because it’s MI I’ll just suck it up. So, pretty much the opposite of being overly critical of it because of nostalgia.

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