ProdigalFrog

@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net

A frog who wants the objective truth about anything and everything.

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ProdigalFrog,

Silver lining: less flights booked means less emissions for the environment.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Gay people can donate blood now! (In the US, at least) :D

Also @photonic_sorcerer

ProdigalFrog,

Ahh, bummer :(

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

I was only offering what I knew to be true for my area locally, I didn’t want to speak on things I hadn’t researched. Looking it up, I guess it seems like it’s possible (with varying degrees of waiting period), in a pretty significant chunk of the world, so that’s even better than I thought, if still not ideal. ^^

ProdigalFrog,

It’s all good :)

ProdigalFrog,

What’s the situation with donating in your area? :)

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Actually, now that you mention it, I should be able to post it here entirely. I’ll see if I have enough space.

EDIT: It fit! No more reddit! :D

ProdigalFrog,

It may have been the ultimate list 4 years ago, but I haven’t updated it in so long I would’ve been embarrassed to call it the ultimate now :p

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Did you mean to include a link to this website?, If so, I added it to the top of the list in the other references.

That’s an incredible feat of cataloging, and blows my efforts out of the water. Hats off to them!

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Mind you, I’m 100% okay with using penultimate to mean second best,

That was my intended use of the word, but I’m not ashamed to admit that I fully misread the little info blurb in my search engine, which led me to believe I was using it appropriately 😅

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/c68884d7-90e4-49f6-99fb-bd1c3b8f3035.webp

I thought it said: a formal or literary way of saying it is not a superlative or beyond ultimate, as many people think.

…I didn’t notice the period after ‘it’ (or the double ‘it’). But the sentence right after that one is really the pièce de résistance! 🤌

But I very much appreciate your charitable view on my fumble.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Though I mention the monetary aspect, it doesn’t mean I’m not fully aware of and advocate for the FOSS philosophy. I would’ve thought going to the extra effort of finding out what software license each and every title used, along with a direct link to the source code (which in some cases was not trivial to find) would’ve made that much obvious.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Back when I created this list, I had the mindset that if I did include a game with the a Free to Play monetary model, it would only be eligible if it was absolutely not Pay to Win, and if it was possible to have a lot of fun without and be on a fully equal playing field spending a dime.

Looking over the list again, I think you’re right in that a couple titles (runescape, eledivin, and argueably EVE online) really don’t meet that criteria.

However, I think others such as CS:GO, TF2, and War Thunder still deserve a spot on the list, as you’re still experiencing the full game with no disadvantage without spending anything.

But I will remove those titles and put Free To Play in the description of the others.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Using the word “free” to refer to proprietary games in a GNU/Linux context is a huge indicator of a lack of awareness.

If I’d intended to create a FOSS only list, I would’ve just said FOSS instead of free. I think it’s a little much to expect people to always qualify ‘Free as in beer’ anytime they ever use the word free in a monetary sense in a Linux community. The information needed to determine if a game is FOSS was provided next to each title, it’s not like you’ve been deceived. This was just a little list I put together in hopes to give people who are struggling financially (as many of us are these days) to have more options for fun games they can play with their friends or by themselves, I’m sorry it didn’t meet your standards. 🫤

FYI, the page you linked to isn’t publicly accessible.

I was able to add the list in the body of the lemmy post, the link is no longer required, but unfortunately it’s not federating my action of having removed the post link.

ProdigalFrog,

Awesome suggestion! Added! :D

ProdigalFrog,

Added UnCiv to the list, thanks for the suggestion! Plays really well on my phone, surprisingly.

ProdigalFrog,

They did a really good job with the GUI too.

ProdigalFrog,

Dang, I remember playing that when I was 14 or so. Surprised to see it’s still being developed. Looking at gameplay of the latest release… It still looks awfully janky still. Does it play well nowadays?

ProdigalFrog,

I didn’t want to lay claim to it being the ‘ultimate’ since I haven’t updated it in so long 😅

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

They asked if allowing for a southern succession was offensive or inappropriate. How does this read to others?

I think as long as it’s not glorifying it (which, I mean, obviously you guys aren’t), I don’t really see how it could be offensive. I looked over the abbreviated history after reading your post here, and it’s clearly speculative fiction that’s trying to illustrate how humanity is going to transition away from our current mess, and it’s not unrealistic to anticipate that transition is going to be a little messy in the ways you’re describing. Maybe I’m biased since I’m personally a huge fan of alternate history fiction, but yeah, personally I don’t think offensive is something I would ever use to describe exploring an imperfect but improving future.

Inappropriate though, I guess that depends more on the vibe you’re going for. If you’re wanting this to be a pure escape where people don’t have to consider how this world got to their solarpunk utopia, I guess mentioning an ISA would be inappropriate. But if you’re going for a slightly more gritty vibe, where the world the characters live in was not an easy one to get to, then I think it gives nice flavor to the lore.

But that’s just my 2 cents.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

History tells us that 85% of these people will move to Windows 11 despite what they say.

The interesting rub this time is the hardware. There’s tons of still powerful and useful CPU’s in use today that don’t support Windows 11’s TPM 2.0, so I wonder if that will push a few more people to Linux than when Windows 7 was EOL.

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