Omg unrelated but I just saw your none/use name tag and felt so nice. I do prefer that too but I haven’t seen that with other people much.

I don’t think some games costing $80 makes $50 for a 20 yr old game any less atrocious. Plus, they added new asdons just to increase that more. So even calling it a $50 game is incorrect. Bethesda/Microsoft is still a shit company. Nothing has changed.

All I’m seeing is how easily people get used to being scammed because there are so many youtubers and influencers play the role of manufacturing consent by calling it a “good deal”.

And do not bring in developers getting paid enough. The issue is never the price for something this high selling. It’s always the hierarchy and wealth distribution in the company. Even if the game cost $100 those people aren’t gonna see much of it. A $20 game when so many people (in the hundreds of thousands or even millions) buy it can still pay the developers enough if they were actually paid their share.

Maybe look at wabbajack based lists? Easy to install and you don’t have to do much.

Ohh I found one. There’s a Linux repacker who does script installers that you just have to download and run. And it even creates an application shortcut. No other tweaking necessary as long as you’re using a distro that’s pretty up to date.

The downside is that there’s very few seeds so downloads might be slow. And since it’s one person, they don’t keep around all the games they’ve done, so when I get older games I sometimes have to just let the torrent be active in the background for some random seeder to show up days later.

The name is LinuxRulez.

Great! My current setup of Linux+Piracy has been hard to find support and community for. Glad to see at least the major part of the issue is a non issue here.

Love to hear it. I’ve been pirating pretty much everything for the past year and been hard to find discussions and community.

I’ve been meaning to ask. Is this community okay with piracy? Desperately need space to discuss stuff but it’s been hard to find

He said times have changed and Republicans are now the party for the little guys. He later deleted that, but did not clarify or apologize.

He also said he likes the Trump nominee to the cabinet for antitrust issues. But people were quick to point out that that person used to work for Big Tech lobby groups. I don’t think he ever took this back or clarified.

Why we should care - this is multifold, but I’ll just tell you how I feel. I’m not going to immediately delete all my proton stuff over one guy’s words. But I am definitely considering.

As I see it, there’s two possibilities (both come from a very generous place if I may say so myself). First is that he’s kissing ass like every other tech CEO right now (you can see the Trump inauguration pic), which is a really really bad thing because you need a spine if you claim to be fighting for freedom and privacy. Second possibility is that he’s naive enough to think that some nominee Trump got in will mean good things for anything to do with privacy, which is also a really really bad thing because the other thing you need for advocating privacy and freedom is actually being able to read between the lines and see what are the upcoming challenges and how to prepare for them.

And guess who’s going to pay for the naivete or the cowardice? The end consumer of these services - us, and a lot of other really vulnerable folks who use such sensitive services.

To wrap it up, I want to go to my earlier statement about not jumping ship because of one man’s words. The problem is, it’s been a while since that one man said this stuff and no one from the company or foundation has issued a retraction or taken any action. If anything they just seem to have doubled and offer more “explanations” that still don’t mean much.