To do what? At that point they’re nothing but a liability to historical record and intellectual discovery.

Steam and lutris for non steam games. You literally need to learn one program and navigate one singular menu is another and voila every computer game just kinda works, at least in my experience.

You don’t need to be a nationalist to hate nationalists. In fact it kinda helps if you aren’t.

Incorrect, get the guillotine

Welp, it’s time to move the entirety of all of my accounts to another email provider. Again. Ugh.

Then he really shouldn’t have a discord server where he offers tech support.

It’s one thing to not give anyone lemonade, you’re never obligated to do that for no reason, however it’s another thing to set up a free lemonade stand and tell whoever tries to get lemonade that they’re annoying and to go away.

I’m not going to waste my time reading replies from a stranger that are 90% ad hominem. Be more polite if you want to discuss things with people you don’t know.

We can have a discussion when you calm down

I honestly can’t measure the exact impact it’s had since just this month the Epstein cover up has overshadowed it in terms of how much Trump is struggling to be a president. We didn’t even have a month between massive embarrassments.

k

k

Literally multiple millions of people showed up for nationwide protests just over a month ago

You’re not doing it right, friend.

The main problem with Minetest for me, sadly, was incompatibility of the APIs and the general disarray of the modding scene. Most mods seem to be made for Minetest’s APIs, but games like Voxelibre use new ones and if I remember right their response to being incompatible with 99% of mods because of that was “it’s not our fault they’re all using outdated stuff” despite the fact that Minetest is simply being maintained and not updated, so they aren’t going to change their APIs.

The concept of simply copying minecraft is problematic on its own, too. Voxelibre is almost as illegal as a pirated version of Minecraft, it’s just not popular enough to get put in a court for it. It simply copies way too much, and that’s the same for all of the minecraft clones on the platform. So much development time across multiple projects is being put into just ripping off Minecraft to the point of being legally so, and at that point why not just pirate Minecraft? It’s compatible with all the mods from my childhood and wouldn’t be connected to a server that could be struck down at any time for hosting MC ripoffs.

So then I thought Minetest and a bunch of mods for it would be a better option, but I just can’t figure out a modlist that can compete with one from MC Java. They’re all so incoherent and don’t work together well. There’s a gun mod on one that, while it might’ve been okay for Minecraft, on an entirely new fully open-source platform it’s underwhelming. Whacking with the gun to shoot while something like MrCrayFish’s gun mod existed for MC just made me sigh.

I’ve decided I want to develop mods for Luanti and explore how the engine works to get a good handle on voxel game programming, and maybe fork the engine for my own game someday, because I admire how incredibly performant it is, but I’m not gonna play it much until I’ve learned add what I want and not just play around with other people’s stuff anymore.

Microsoft for the past 17 years: We have a monopoly, so we can just copy people and become more popular than them. Aaaany day now. Anyway day now. Any day nowwwwww…

Wait so one of their pieces of evidence that was just so immensely relevant and important as to include it in the article was they found a comment on social media???

Journalism must be a relaxing profession.

I’m actually from the future, I was talking about Atari, the interkiric rockware organization based in Florida, Canada

While Napster did get decked hard a long while ago, it’s still a well known cultural icon, so some company was inevitably going to buy the rights to its branding/trademarks after it ate dirt to attract attention to whatever product they decide to slap it on.

The same thing kinda happened to Atari. That company got burned to a crisp by Nintendo and Sega after the 2600, but some nobodies bought it and things keep having the Atari logo even today because it was a well known brand. It sucked ass and failed… but we remember it.

We’re doing what we can, and that’s a whole lot more valuable than sitting around and talking about what we should do when we can’t at the moment.

Please, tell us your plan to dismantle capitalism that requires us to blindly consume Harry Potter media.

Just because there’s an underlying issue doesn’t mean that it’s pragmatic to hyperfocus on it and ignore the more immediate issues. If I have cancer, I’m not gonna stop eating fruit because I really need to focus on fighting the cancer and my other health-conscious activities need to be put on hold. That’s not how responding to problems works.

Defund public spaces, then increase the cost of private spaces. Neoliberalism, everybody.