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[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

My personal favorite platform is GOG simply because it offers actual ownership instead of a crippling dependency on their ecosystem. My second favorite is Steam because it has games GOG doesn't. I'm not sure why I would want EGS beyond the free games, which are frequently not of interest to me anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As a mostly liberal American, I just don't know where to begin.

As an Irishman, I would say Ranked Choice Voting. It's not a silver bullet, but it does solve the main problem that prevents the other problems from being solved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I think most of us have experience of the concept of something being said ironically, as a joke, at first but then being increasingly serious. It's like magic really does exist and if you say words often enough they start affecting reality, like a spell. Freedom of speech is a right but it's also a profound responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well that comes under point #3 but yeah

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

This is most likely a combination of:

  • Trump's tariffs driving international users to seek alternatives to American OSes

  • Windows 10 support coming to an end soon despite most people not wanting to upgrade or not having a desktop capable of upgrading to 11

  • Steam supporting Linux increasingly well

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

PiS isn't pro-Russia so much as it's anti-EU. They see Brussels the same way they see Moscow: as a sinister foreign power that wants to control Poland, and they see Poland as surrounded by the EU and Russia, with only the USA as a trustworthy ally keeping both in check.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Well, yes. It's no use just paying and not actually downloading it, for obvious reasons but also for the reasons I assume you mean, whereby once you have the files you're no longer reliant on GOG to keep them available.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just buy your games on GOG. No DRM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact:

"Reign" is what a monarch does. "Rein" is the strap with which a rider controls a horse. When a rider allows a horse "free rein", it means the rider is holding the reins loosely so as to allow the horse to steer itself.

I have saved you a letter!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I assume that's a reference to the intro screen to Mario 64 where you can pull and deform Mario'd face.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't understand the filing. Did Llama not pay James Earl Jones's estate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What about punching people you work with? When is that acceptable?

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