Magiilaro

Gentoo is great if you want to proper learn Linux and love to tinker and build a personalized linux system.

For 1: As a beginner keep away from global use flags, stick to per package use flags. Global use flags can make things very complicated.

I have the offline installer stored on my NAS and use GameVault[1] as a local installed web interface to access my digital game library.

[1] https://gamevau.lt/

Such boxes are made mostly of cardboard, the amount of plastic is rather low even more so should they leave out discs, by replacing them with flash storage for example.

My preference are not set to english, but GOG sometimes things I am in France and from time to time sends me Mails in that undecipherable language so who knows what happened exactly in my case and why I got the mail.

But even with all that information I still classify it as a badly managed marketing stunt then a right wing outing or something like that. Nothing else they do, as far as I know, shows any signs of that.

Those would be collectibles, and as that more or less art pieces, so not really waste, unless you classify all art as waste which would be sad in my eyes.

GOG already offers offline installers for all games they sell.

Well the games name is “End of the Sun” and it is a Slavic game, so using a slavic sun rune is not that extremely far fetched. Why using it double, which lead to the SS appearance, i``s another question and it was dumb at least. But I still don’t see ill intent, when something like that happens once I am fair enough to accept that people can do things in error. I still try to see the good in people

I can’t find a official statement from GOG with that content, only statements where they say that it was a error both in the internal processes, with not waiting for the responses of all internationale, especially in this case the german, teams before sending the newsletter and with checking if the runes could be problematic in some fonts.

The runes themself are both from the intended design and from the connected meaning and symbolism unproblematic, yes they can look problematic in the wrong fonts but that is more a problem of font design then of ill intent.

Oh, it was used in germany, as I as a german had the newsletter in my inbox too, and found it very problematic.

The warning from the german team was not ignored, as far as I understood it, but just arrived too late while the newsletter team was already sending the mails. I also work in a international company with teams all over the world, stuff like that can happen without any ill intend, and so far GOG has shown no negative signs at all. So I tend to accept the explanation that it was only a error, especially with the very bad history that poland had with the nazi regime, Blitzkrieg and all.

Sure one can, and should, put GOG on a personal “watchlist” in case other strange or ugly stuff like this happens, but as long as that is not the case I don’t see any reason to change my use of GOG at all. Humans, and with that companies too, can make and will make errors and I am a big fan of second, or even third, chances. I try to judge by intend not by looks.

It was not Nazi symbolism, well not intentionally at least. They used Slavic runes that, in the intended fonts, looks very different from the Nazi symbols. It came to the issue because in some fonts the Slavic runes are displayed without serifs and with hard lines which makes them appear problematic. So it was kind of a self inflicted homographic attack.

https://tbreak.com/gog-apologizes-nazi-runes-newsletter/

Well they could, but that would cost them money

Not really. They are not as bad as GTA 5 but the story lost me after a few hours each too. I think that I just doesn’t want to be a criminal scumbag, not even in a game. They may be great games, but they are not for me.

I tried GTA5 when EpicGames had it as a freebe and put it away after about an hour because the characters were so awefull and stupid, I could not stand it at all. That and driving the cars felt bad, there was nothing fun in the game for me. GTA just stopped being a game for me when it went 3D

the hydra parts grow magically, no story with a hydra states that the beast has a feast to prepare for the regrowth

such a beast would make a great source of endless meat for a ever growing community! Would be a nightmare to build a cage for though

Just keep cutting heads until the mass of the hydra-type beast is so big that the ground will collapse under her body and traps her, maybe even so big that she will collapse into a spherical shape under her own weight. Only a helpless heavy mass of moving flesh! The birth of the hydra moon!

Because we are better then him, thats why!

Yes, I don’t have a complain at all with the hardware (besides the display aspect) or the software on the phone. It works great, the bootloader is easy unlockable (which is importand for me) and the device is sturdy.

I have a Unihertz Titan, using it to write this, and it is a good phone but it has a strange display ratio that so many apps don’t understand. So many apps are borderline unusable and you have to force the display into 16:9 “mini mode”. That works but not that good because everything gets tiny in this mode.

The novelty of a hardware keyboard is lost very quickly and I don’t think that I would buy the phone again if I knew back then what I knew now. This is not really the fault of the phone but more that nearly all app developer only bother to include a 16:9 vertical screen option and that’s it.