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Game developers: "Linux is too niche, there is no market on this platform."

Also game developers: Amazon Fire TV, MacOS, Nvidia Shield, Ouya…

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@Sylvhem Not to mention that if you're using a WINE wrapper, most of the time you might as well just use a proper WINE install and your Windows version of the game, since it saves space.

@Sylvhem I disagree, personally, but different people have different opinions, and your opinions are valid.

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@Sylvhem do any of the games that do this actually work on Ubuntu and not on other distros, or do they just not work on any Linux distros at all and just hope that nobody ever actually uses the specific version of Ubuntu they support?
I've run into this a few times, and each time it was really a matter of "you don't have one of the three GPU models that this game supports on Linux, too bad" and the specific distro support was nothing but a distraction.

@Sylvhem significant graphical modding makes them run like ass as a result.)

@Sylvhem Which is... super frustrating, because native Linux installs of games are TINY because Linux has a more sensible handling of common files and better architecture, but Wine wrappers are sprawling monstrosities. (I do use Ubuntu, for lack of knowing a better option at the moment, and need to repair my install, and finish setting up and repair Windows 7 as well for modding older Bethesda titles -- Windows 10 "fixed" the tricks you could use to get more than 32-bit max for VRAM and any

Family trouble, ableism mention, fascism mention 

This happened back in December, but don't think I ever did a full thread on it here.

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getting help for it, and... I'm not, because no-one remotely qualified has ever thought I'm delusional, at least not in any medically significant capacity, just him. But he knows better than therapists and psychs and mental health professionals.

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at every opportunity and taking it as a foregone conclusion I couldn't manage on my own. Also getting pissy when I said Mom was emotionally abusive (because, you see, she did a lot to support me and somehow that magically precludes emotional abuse) and was passive aggressive. (I admit I may have used the wrong word there, but I was describing actual behaviors of hers) Oh, also might've called me delusional for being trans, since he said I was

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thought he'd just be briefly in to hear that I didn't entirely imagine what ex-caregiver did to me at one therapy session (which included being dismissive and invalidating about stuff I needed to continue to interact with her, and, oh yeah, chasing me around a building trying to harass me that her buddy Sargon did nothing wrong and Gamergate was good actually) but ended up about making plans for the future, by undercutting and criticizing me at

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Had to cut off Dad after he refused to apologize for saying he thought I was delusional, effectively based on my having different knowledge, experiences, memories, and perspectives of him, hassling me about cutting off an increasingly fascist-leaning ex-caregiver (who he thinks I'm wrong about despite admittedly not having time for the relevant politics, I guess because she wasn't wearing the official hat?) and sabotaging a therapy session that I

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@slightlyflightyone
Exactly. This is why I always disagreed with Linux elitists about making Linux-only software. If that software we made with cross platforming in mind, many more people would have found it easier to switch. Instead, they kept using proprietary tools because no free alternatives were available for Windows.

It was a stupid decision that only made things more difficult for everyone.

@lynnesbian

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2014 MU69, reference to neo-Nazism 

@kara@witchcraft.cafe I wish I could have complete confidence right now that that wasn't WHY it was chosen.

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After about a day's worth of programming I've got a simple Dr. Mario clone written for NES that mostly just needs viruses and a versus mode. This is going to go into Nova the Squirrel as a minigame, I suppose.

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an ABSURDLY niche headcanon:

detective gumshoe of fame was inspired in part by the tales of his heroic uncle who worked with interpol.... yep, that detective zenigata.

i said it was fuckin niche.

also let's be honest i feel like and could plausibly cohabit the same universe (depending on where japanifornia is)

@NovaSquirrel @mouseglitch I'm sorta a rodent princess. Need a proper rodent-princess 'sona. And yay other mousie!

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