No, those are the punishments. They won’t hurt you, but you have to tolerate them. Eternally.

Lions in the wild are so inbred, they might as well be royalty.

There’s an ongoing debate tantrum about introducing Rust code to the kernel. Some people are pushing for it, some people have made it their life’s purpose to make sure that doesn’t happen, it has led to a wave of maintainers resigning, and Linus is sitting with his thumb up his arse when his leadership is needed.

Sci-fi shows about ancient Egypt: 𝚲

The Linux community is united! (Unless you mention Rust, or Wayland, or systemd, or Snap, or GNOME, or…)

Kinda feels like losing the game, doesn’t it?

Counterpoint: if you have the ability and willingness to learn how Linux works, un-fucking a broken Arch installation will teach you more about the system than spending months with a stable distro. I know because my first serious daily driver was Manjaro.

The owner of an account can set individual posts or their entire account to be visible only to signed-in sessions. I see it used by certain artists that moved from twitter, and consider it an overall good feature.

• The 30% percent cut, stealing money from devs

Sigh. Here we go again. I’ll just copy one of my older comments about that attitude.

Steam is not a parasitic middle man, it is a collection of services that would have to be provisioned and operated by the developer otherwise. The 30% cut pays for:

• A massive infrastructure to store and deliver the game and its updates, worldwide, and at an acceptable bandwidth that Valve operates
• A storefront that enables monetizing the game
• The audience and discoverability that would not exist otherwise
• The Steam API, achievements, cloud saves
• The client itself, content management, validation, and Linux compatibility tools
• Network and operational security
• Also keep in mind that Steam and its services are operated by experts. A game developer would have to hire the experts or get training.

If the revenue from the cut exceeds the operational costs: it’s called profitability, not theft. The world doesn’t run on good vibes.

Shitty people are abundant in the creative industries, I have no delusions about that. Probably even more of those that have no public presence. But that has no bearing on whether or not he should retain sole ownership of his work. It’s an entirely separate issue. Andrzej Sapkowski is also a massive douchebag, but nobody would deny that The Witcher is his property.

Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov (the lead artist) formed their own company Red Info in 2023. I will only recognise a game as Disco Elysium’s successor if it comes from them.

It’s a reference to a line in a Stargate episode, uttered by a historian in reference to outdated medieval practices (specifically trepanning). If I have to make a point, it is that historical fiction about a specific time and culture should reflect the values and prejudices of the people and not be condemned for it.

That article reads like that other shitpiece that called Ghost of Tsushima racist for portraying Mongols as evil. Like, bruh. It wasn’t called “the dark ages” for a lack of sunlight.

aplay: “Hey kid… wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?”

Here, read these:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour