OK, you’re gonna need some things:

A heat gun, A wire brush, Bandaids, A stiff drink

Speaking purely for myself: native clients are ALWAYS preferred and appreciated… however as an indie, I would totally understand not wanting to commit to building one.

As a middle ground you could just accept bug reports from Linux users and do what you can to fix those issues. Aim for a platinum rating on Proton DB

eta: Also, yes, as others have pointed out, this assumes the native client is maintained

Huh, that’s not what I get:

More recently, by avoid the crash states, “rebirth” has been achieved, which is where the level overflows and wraps all the way back to level 0.

So, true. The game is infinite unless you screw up and die

eta: timestamped link

New Game+: speedrun it

On the code side of things: OpenRA is C#, and the original is C++

It’s not so much that they’re different languages, but more that they’re different code structures. OpenRA will be object oriented, while the original will be more imperative.

You can think of it like trying to fit a gearbox from a Honda into a Toyota (I know nothing about cars so please take this metaphorr with a massive grain of salt)

They might do the same thing, but they’ll do it in completely different ways. You couldn’t just copy and paste things directly, but you can still absolutely learn from it…

which is why I’m kinda sad Tiberian Sun isn’t on the list. I’m dying for the OpenRA version, and I’d bet having the original source would speed things up

eta: I also see assembly files in there, so I don’t know that the original is actually cpp. Those might just be generated off the assembly files, IDK. Everything else I’ve said still applies though

eta2: Nah, it’s definitely cpp. there’s a few assembly files, but mostly cpp.

Does anyone know where to go to get an idea of the state of the Tiberian Sun mod? I had a look at the github, but short of downloading it and trying it, it’s not very clear how far along they are

“internet parents” is wholly unsearchable without some kind of proximity syntax.

If anybody is looking for a side project, build something that allows you to use advanced search syntax to search the fediverse. Please?

No, you’ve gone too far in the other direction now. The protests can work. Your other comments show that you seem to think it has to be all or nothing, but Just because it’s not bankrupting Bezos in one fell swoop, doesn’t mean it’s pointless. If we even make a dent in their metrics, they’ll notice.

My issue here is that everyone seems to be misinterpreting me as whining about not wanting to participate because I’m gonna miss my show. When what I actually said, in effect, was “Damn, I’m gonna miss my show. Oh well.”

The fuck is wrong with the threadiverse today, gods damn!

No, you come on. You’re are misrepresenting what I actually said. If you actually read my post, you’ll see that I plan to participate in the boycott regardless. I made a throwaway comment about how it would be “mildly inconvenient” that I’d miss the opening, but also that I would do it regardless.

So what, I’m not even allowed to acknowledge that Prime has stuff I’m interested in? I have to boycott it, and deny that it holds any value whatsoever?

That’s bullshit. It’s entirely possible to both acknowledge that there are decent Amazon produced shows AND think that the company is evil as fuck and want to boycott them.

Oh please, that’s not even close to what I said. I just don’t want them to cancel a show I like and you’re all acting like I’m swinging from Bezos’ dick. You’re all rabid.

The thing is, I really don’t want them to cancel it. I’ve been signing up for it and then cancelling my subscription when it’s finished, and then pirating it anyway. I just want them to see it as valuable, so they don’t try to squeeze 14 books worth of content into one shitty finale because it’s not making them money.

Lol, this is the first one that I’m mildly inconvenienced by participating in. Wheel of Time S3 comes out somewhere in there doesn’t it?

I can wait.

Huh, that’s an interesting approach. It’s still not truly private though

The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account by anyone other than your PieFed instance admin(s).

So it the same situation as Reddit where the record still exists, and you’ve just got to trust your admins not to sell you out.

If you’re truly worried about it to the level the other comments are suggesting, you’re still better off treating them as public anyway.

Really my issue is I just cannot wrap my head around why people are treating votes as more sensitive than comments. That’s really backwards imho. I think the only people protected by having votes be so private are the people abusing them

Yes. I do not see how it’s any different to the existing extremely granular, public, and permanent record of how they comment, nor why they should be treated differently.

Also, the way the ActivityPub works, that record exists whether or not the general public can see it. Reddit or Fediverse, the creeping global authoritarians can access to that record. At least if the public can see it, and is aware that it’s not private, they might think twice about what they vote on, if they’re that concerned about it.

I would argue that if you think you’re a target to the creepy global authoritarians, what you upvote or downvote on the fediverse should be the least of your concerns. Your comments are far more likely to compromise you than your votes. Yes, as @[email protected] points out, if you’re upvoting/downvoting things in location specific communities, it might narrow the search field, but that’s all the more reason to make people aware that this record isn’t private on any platform (right now).

Making it truly private, from what I understand, would require a monumental change to how the fediverse works, and I just don’t think it would add enough value to be worth it. We’re not talking about elections here. 99% of the time we’re talking about wether or not I agree that RA3 was redeemed purely on the fact that it gave us some amazing Tim Curry gifs

Essentially, I just think that making it easily accessible to the general public will do more good than harm, and making it truly private is more effort than it’s worth.

I don’t buy that it’s easier to dox someone on the fediverse than it is on reddit JUST because you can see what they’ve upvoted, and If you want to be engaging with dangerous political content, you should be protecting your account as a whole and treating everything you do or say as being accessible to bad actors. It’s the age old adage: If you want it to stay private, don’t put it online

Ok, making people aware that they’re not private, fine. That should be done, but only really because people are coming from Reddit and expecting them to be private.

if people then know if was you who downvoted can still pick the fight

I think if anyone tried to pick a fight with me over downvoting them, I’d just feel sorry for them for a second before blocking them. Not saying there aren’t people like that, but they have to be very far and few between.

Maybe a disgruntled person uses that to dox you, , or maybe a corpo feeds all that information into their fancy computer system to work out who you might be

This seems extremely far fetched to me. If someone is going to dox you, it’s going to be from your comments, not because you upvoted something. I just don’t buy that. I can’t even think of a hypothetical scenario where an up/downvote in isolation could be used to dox someone - feel free to propose one if you can

Serious question: Why should they be private?

I know they’re private on Reddit, but so what? It’s not exactly sensitive information, and I can see many benefits to having them be publicly viewable. Namely preventing bot farms or people creating hundreds of alts to upvote their own fresh takes, or downvoting stuff they disagree with into oblivion.

I’ve always seen it as a shorthand for dropping a comment saying “I agree with this” or “I don’t agree with this” which would have your username against it

I dunno. Whoever is in charge of Westwood IP these days isn’t completely fucking it up. The remaster team was in contact with the community through development and by and large listened to the feedback. The remaster was good as a result. Releasing the source means the possibility of a modern enhancements ala OpenRA.

Of course none of this redeems them for RA3 or C&C 4