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  • Judging by the 15 downvotes on my "Has Nintendo even released a game since that second Zelda game, or are they too busy suing people?" comment, I'm not so sure. I do find this a bit amusing though.

    Back to that list though, there's nothing on it that's remotely appealing to me, so I guess I'm a bit biased and dismissive.

    I also do not consider ports, and remakes new releases, even if there's a new price tag on them.

  • Gun violence in the USA increases every year. Buyback programs have been happening for how long, since the 60’s?

    Tell me more about how effective they are.

    Also, until the manufacturing of firearms is eliminated… yes, there is essentially an unlimited supply.

    To further compound the issue; the programs we’ve had in the US are voluntary. In the USA, there are more guns than people and firearms ownership is both engrained into the culture and a part of the constitution. In the hypothetical scenario that firearms manufacture were to be ended, and buy back programs were to become mandatory; which group of people are you going to task with rounding up all of the guns?

    It’s a complex problem; maybe you need a pedant to understand some of the complexities.

  • Well you got one because the tone that you use to speak with people lets them infer that you’re a complete asshole.

    Gun buyback programs on their own are incredibly expensive with almost no correlation to decreasing violence or gun crimes.

  • Yea... you're probably right. Maybe it's just the games that I want to play. Those tend to not be Linux compatible (if they're in steam), and for the games that aren't even in Steam, I don't bother trying to make them work in wine or anything like that. Just dual boot and call it a day.

  • If you use it wrong, sure. There's a use for almost anything; just gotta figure out what's appropriate.

    Ubuntu is perfect for my non-technical, 76 year old father to run his own plex server where I don't have to help too much.

  • I appreciate the info, and willingness to discuss this. I think you've been able to identify my point of reluctance around all of this now; it feels like work. When I'm done with work, I don't want to do more work in order to get my games to play. Might explain why I bought a PS5 in May too.

    Maybe I'll give this some investigation on my next holiday / day off. That way it'll feel only "kinda" like work.

  • Just thinking about this a bit more now; in the world we live in, and considering the number of guns in the USA... if Mexico allowed for this program to go on for a while the USA could potentially inadvertently bankrupt the Mexican economy in gun-buybacks. It's kinda funny in a scary as fuck way.

  • Interesting… thanks for this. I’ll need to look into protondb more; had not heard of it prior to this.

    I was a part of the pre-EA access group for Pantheon so my game isn’t a part of Steam. Is this a Steam specific thing?