It's hard to distinguish the people and the government, when the people are protesting about what a democratic country did to protect it's citizens against an autocratic warmongering state, it's aggression and subversion stategies.

In other words, they should do a protest like that in Moscow, see what happens.

It's not russophobia. Nobody sane is afraid of russia anymore. But hostile actions must meet reactions.

Even considering they stopped development of KCD II shortly after it got released, that's quite a short development cycle. What I am wondering is how much of that is those cunts in deep silver pushing and not Warhorse.

For Ceasar 3, there's no reason to run via VM or dosbox, vanilla save compatible Julius (https://github.com/bvschaik/julius) and way less vanilla Augustus (https://github.com/Keriew/augustus) both work perfectly on linux (and windows too, Julius and Augusts are cross-platform).

Julius is in Debian repos (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/julius) so perfect for Mint while Julius is in the Debian repos but only for at least Debian Unstable (thus won't be available for installation via apt on mint, I don't believe, but you can easily build it, use an appimage or a flatpak).

Embrace, extend, and extinguish. Classic microsoft. I do believe their first shot at what they are going to attempt now was Games For Windows Live, trying to centralize their position with PC and XBox when it comes to gaming.

Of course, that was a horribly executed mess and when it turned out nobody wanted to engage with that stuff, now it will most likely end up being "Microsoft Store with Microsoft account required" affair. For now they are going to play nice and show how fine they will play with Steam and Epic and how they will not make everything exclusive to MS Store and Xbox...

Until they buy out the major players because this time it seems they've decided to throw serious money at the problem. The fact that that for a good while the only country opposing Activisions acquisition by Microsoft was UK is a damn disgrace. It's not about "just call of Duty", quite frankly I did not play an Activision game in 6 years or so, but microsoft gaming market dominance won't be good for anybody.

(Especially me playing everything on linux with proton)

I might be wrong, but don't they plan or already do put anticheat into single player games so people don't cheat-in the various ingame currencies they have to buy XP boosts (where without them leveing is a crawl)?

There thou art... The Big Three. Thy faces, AAA Publishers. Thy actions barely worthy of the name. Didst truly believe thy ploy would succeed? Dist believe Jolly Roger's would not notice? Publishers thou may be, yet thou hast proven thyselves fools, every one. The supplication of Ubisoft. The whimper of Activision. The death mewl of Electronic Arts...

No. While an utterly shitty PR move for the time, Poland took a 801.5 km2 piece of the highly disputed territory, which was previously in a dramatic tug war between both countries, to a level that Czechoslovakia took it during the Polish-Soviet war.

It shouldn't have happened, it was an idiotic move for Poland even at the time and played right into Nazi propaganda...

Which you are repeating now, 87 years later. Who says it's the victors that write history...

It was not "similar to how the Soviets initially split Poland with the Nazis". Not even close. But UNLIKE Russia (that considers itself seemlingly the heir to the USSR), Poland history and multiple figures acknowledged that it was stupid and shameful.

Why would he disarm himself?

"Punitive action"? Every nation has a right to control their borders. Maybe if Russia didn't manufacture a crisis in a ceaseless destabilization effort there wouldn't be a need for such actions. But, quite honestly, "if Russia didn't" starts to become the "humanity now if Russia didn't" meme.

If you think I give half a shit about a dell craptop I got issued from my employer despite my protests, you're wrong.

It's almost like that's my point. They're protesting that Finland reacts to hybrid warfare by Russia... by protesting in front of the Finnish parliament.

Of course they wouldn't do that in Moscow to stop the reason for the closure because they'd be clobbered into the pavement.

Well, speak of the devil. I was both. When one suffers, it is the way of life to spread suffering.

What would you like a person like me to say? That I was wrong? Sure. Do I still want to beat the everloving shit out of the people that perpetuated that against me first? Sure. Would I understand the guy that I was bullying to do it to me? 100%.

I suppose it would make it even. Regardless, the meme is applicable. Teachers knew and ignored the fact that I was bullied, but fuck me if I ever stood up for myself.

Well, imma eat downvotes but I doubt weather I'd need to eat the crow by typing that it is quite a bit of "the system is broken" issue. Parliment passed Chat Control 1.0 and then extended it. Considering the council is dangerously deaf to any criticism of the issue and the parliment proposition is already vague and wide enough to justify universal chat scanning, this is definatively a "EU Bad" thing.

All three points you cite are already overreaching, because it'd already require age checks internet wide. It's a false dichotomy, both proporsals are overreach and yet I bet with a loud enough cry of complaint about the commission ideas, the parliment one will pass and somehow people will think it's "victory".

Glory to the Absolute!

Initially it was only the UK opposing it. While I may put my tinfoil hat for this, I wonder if the EU Commission was paid off or just clueless. I read their supposed reasoning for this, and all it focuses on is "game streaming" because apparently that's a thing that EU Commissions cares or knows anything about. Worked out real good with Stadia, didn't it.

So what I suspect will happen, if the acquisition goes through is that microsoft gonna set up a shitty game streaming service nobody will want to use, eventually make everything exclusive to ms store and xbox and laugh at the clueless bastards that allow that to happen.

Just don't get the packet with whatever warning applies to you, and you'll be fine 🤪

Nothing is a cliche when it happens to you. I would argue if you were in poland, and especially with the knowledge how poland has been consistently fucked over by it's "allies" your stance might differ.

It's easy to go into semantics when you are not one day's ride away from firing guns.

Greetings fellow-walkers of the Path. Blessings of Ludd be upon you.

On one hand true, on the other, a lot of those sponsorships advertise dubious things at best. I love the channels that just shill their own merch, but being entirely fair, you need to be at a certain revenue threshold to afford making said merch.

The problem with those, 3rd party sponsorships is that they're usually just either mobile games, F2P(P2W) MMOs, overpriced basic products or software advertised in the FUD way. Sorry, I don't care for Raid Shadow Legends, War Thunder, Manscaped or NordVPN. Especially the last one and the ones like it grind my gears because the sponsorships for that kind of product are borderline misinformation.

All of them, in some way, can be considered somewhat predatory. I'd rather buy a silly hat or a plushie, thank you very much.