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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

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No. Not fuck Russians as a blanket policy. The Russian government is full of corrupt and evil bastards, but it's certain that most Russians are the same as most other citizens; They just want to go about their business.

I'm in favor of blocking the Russian accounts, they're probably mostly state actors. The ones that aren't actively sabotaging the codebase are unfortunate causalities, but it's better than the alternative.

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Epic Games: Apple has rejected our EGS notarization submission twice now, claiming the design and position of Epic’s “Install” button is too similar to Apple's "Get" button...

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Basically, it boils down to them trying to "compete" with steam by either bribing devs to release exclusively on their store, or straight up buying devs and not releasing (or removing) games on steam. It's a shitty way to do business, and I won't encourage it by patronizing them.

GoG and Humble don't have to resort to that kind of BS. Hell, even Microsoft and Sony are opening up more to each other and PC (often via steam, though Microsoft also uses their own store).

Epic is running in the wrong direction, and it's not-at-all for the high-ideal BS they spout about Steam being a monopoly (especially since it isn't, not by a long shot). It's naked self-interest, and it disgusts me.

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Elden Ring DLC launches to "Mixed" reviews as players bemoan difficulty, PC performance in Shadow of the Erdtree: "There's a big problem with balancing"

I never minded the difficulty. I knew what I was signing up for.

What I minded (and why I stopped playing Elden Ring only a few months after release after like 120 mostly-fun hours) was that they couldn't stop fucking with the balance. Some jackass would min-max some specific PvP build, and they'd nerf the shit out of it (even in PvE), then my semi-okay build (which used one part or another of the min-max build) would go to shit and I'd have to start over. This happened like 4 times and I just said "fuck it" until the game was old enough that they'd stop fucking with it.

lol, joke's on me, here we go again.

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Anon falls in love

Hears her Mom for the first time... which means she's never heard words before... how the fuck does she know what "I love you, please marry me" is supposed to mean? It's just a jumble of new, incomprehensible sounds...

Being able to read and write doesn't mean you can understand spoken language, or speak.