Quoting: TheSHEEEPSanctions ultimately only increase the support for their government.
It's still the right thing to do as it might be the only thing to bring regimes to their knees besides violence, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking we'll make any friends that way in affected regions.

Bold of you to assume I want to make friends. Here's a hint: I don't.

In the best case scenario we sanction their economies to crap just enough that someone in Putin's inner circle puts a bullet into the madman's brain. If along the way we make some of ordinary people realize they are being the baddies by making their lives uncomfortable, then that's a win in my book. If we don't convince anyone but we make Putin paranoid that they might be convinced, then that's a win in my book.

In the worst case scenario the only thing we accomplish is accelerating the natural life cycle of a fascist regime. Which always, without a fail, ends in the death of the regime.

Addendum: there is also the benefit of companies learning to live without Russian and Belarussian money. We're seemingly finally finding a moral line beyond which even companies aren't willing to tolerate dealing with nation states.

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Quoting: SamsaiThere seem to be some very strange comments being posted here and in the interest of orderly, on-topic discussion I've cleaned them up. Please keep the conversation adequately civil and on topic and refrain from making outlandish comparisons or dragging completely off-topic talking points into the comments.

I hope you don't mean me.
Since this war I fear for my family and I think I'm not the only one.

Feel free to delete my account.

All of the relevant comments have already been removed and the author notified.

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There seem to be some very strange comments being posted here and in the interest of orderly, on-topic discussion I've cleaned them up. Please keep the conversation adequately civil and on topic and refrain from making outlandish comparisons or dragging completely off-topic talking points into the comments.

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Quoting: GuestBecause I work witch people from Belarus i know that they are not russia ally, they are almost 'under occupation' and now when most company are not willing to trade witch Belarus its make life there even more hard (from my perspective killing people with guns (russia do it now in Ukraine) its near same Evil like not selling food to people and allow them to die from hunger (companies do it no by stoping trade witch Belarus))

Putin and Lukashenko are solely to blame for the suffering their actions have caused on their citizens. So, if the citizens are unhappy, they should know well who to send their complaints.

And while the bombs are falling on Ukrainians, I have very little sympathy for Belarussians and Russians who can't buy video games. Not that they could anyway, because their credit cards aren't quite as swift as they used to be.

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Quoting: SamsaiBut when those cool things are being made by volunteer forces and then someone comes complaining why an easy way doesn't already exist, as if the volunteer developers are somehow being stupid or lazy, then that rubs me the wrong way.

I think you kind of made my point for me.

I am a software developer, who has at times made things available for the price of free. So yes, I am going to argue against user entitlement and unconstructive criticism. If people want a feature or for a software to be available through a specific software distribution channel and the software is being developed with volunteer forces, then the minimum bar is at least asking nicely.

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Quoting: LoftyI mean i take your point it's not technically inaccurate, learning tech is fun for some but remarkably it's not for others who just want to get the latest cool Linux stuff super easy. When people new or unfamiliar with Linux wonder why things aren't as easy as on Windows, often the developer (assuming that's what you do by your response) becomes automatically defensive assuming the user is just being entitled (in some cases yes) but i imagine at least on here.. 9 times out of 10 i don't think that's the case they just want to have access to the cool stuff without "learning to package"

People are always free to want to have access to cool stuff easily. It would even be a good thing if cool things were accessible easily. But when those cool things are being made by volunteer forces and then someone comes complaining why an easy way doesn't already exist, as if the volunteer developers are somehow being stupid or lazy, then that rubs me the wrong way.

The point of my comment was just to highlight the effort needed to make that happen and to also act as a genuine suggestion that someone with an interest to see that happen should take steps to make it happen. It is not meant as some elitist "learn to code, pleb". It's just stating the fact that these things take effort and skill and time, and the least that can be done is making the feedback constructive.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczNice but the installation...

Linux Instructions

1. Create a folder darkmod in your home directory.
2. Download the Linux version of the tdm_installer.linux64.zip and extract it to your darkmod folder.
3. Make tdm_installer.linux64 executable: chmod +x tdm_installer.linux64
4. Run tdm_installer with default settings and wait for the game to install.
5. Start The Dark Mod using thedarkmod.x64 in your darkmod folder and begin playing!

WTH. I mean, can't there just be a snap or a flatpak for it already?

You could contribute a Flatpak or a Snap for it.

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Quoting: mZSq7Fq3qsDied maybe 8 times today but it was always my own fault.

Caves of Qud does still occasionally have a problem, where you just end up dying and you didn't really have any reasonable way to avoid it. Stumbling into ruins as a low-level character and being ambushed by a chitinous puma that you can neither run away from or kill or running into a surprise rifle turret around a corner and being instantly killed sucks. On this aspect I think Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup does better, because it feels like 95% of deaths are due to hubris or panicking whereas CoQ deaths are sometimes super unavoidable unless you grind very hard early on and maintain a paranoid playstyle.

But the Roleplay mode helps immensely and if you want a character to last I recommend it highly. Qud has a ton of content already and permadeath eats a lot of low-level characters, so it's fairly hard to get to the meat and potatoes part of the game with it enabled.

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It is a fun game where you can slice off your own face with an axe and then wear your face on your face, or psionically take over a goat and then have your character be digested by a gelatinous wedge and be doomed to live the rest of your life as a goat. So, basically it's a great experience.

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Quoting: CorbenThough flatpak seems nice as it brings the "connect account" functionality and the browser source, it's tricky to get some plugins installed. I found the websocket plugin as a flatpack, but e.g. no luck with the NDI plugin.

You can probably install some plugins the traditional way by putting them in the ~/.var/app/com.obsproject.Studio/<some-subfolder> directory, provided that they don't depend on external libraries not supplied by the runtime. It's not great, but it might work just well enough. At least I managed to install Luxtorpeda into the Steam Flatpak that way.

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