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Can confirm. Played that game, died.

I think the most accurate definition is "produced without a publisher". That's the thing they're independent of.

Where it gets grey is things like "okay it has a publisher, but they're tiny and cute and only publish indie-feeling game"

So the "feeling" of indie is "made by a small group of people with a shared cohesive vision and minimal outside influence", where publishers tend to be large sources of outside influence, and teams larger than, like, 50 people tend to be unable to all have a truly shared cohesive vision. And a single person, by definition, always has a shared vision no matter what they make. But if a publisher is low-touch, or brings a game that's basically done to market without asking for changes, and the game feels cohesive and personal, then that's good enough.

Yup! I've been running Linux on my machines in some way or another for 20 years. I've worked as a systems administrator and in ops teams. So I'm not a Linux beginner, and I'm not afraid of a shell.

But I play steam games online with friends. I had a Windows 10 PC in my house specifically to be the gaming PC, I would turn it on, play a game, then turn it off. I didn't do anything else with the machine, but when I was running it I wasn't at work, I wasn't tinkering, I was relaxing.

So anyway Microsoft botched Windows 11, big surprise, and people were talking about the Linux gaming revolution, and I was like "Hot Damn, if there's a Linux gaming revolution I want to be part of it!", so I installed Bazzite and... yup. I'm part of it.

I haven't had a single issue since, at least with my machine and the games my friends play. I've been able to basically treat the system like it's a console. I boot it, navigate it with a controller, then I turn it off. Delightful!

So thanks to everyone involved in making it a great experience!

I've been running Bazzite as my gaming PC for maybe a year now, and have done literally no configuring or troubleshooting since I installed it. I went to Desktop Mode to install Discord once, and otherwise have just treated it as a gaming console. Works great!

Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, and noted hat wearer, said in a Q&A once that even he feels weird when trying out a new hat. Like, he wears hats all the time, but a different hat than one he's used to feels awkward and "not like me". And you just have to grow into it, because if you get through that then it starts feeling right instead.

At least that's what he claims, I don't wear hats myself, besides a sunhat on a hike or paddle.

I think this is the video I'm referencing (sorry for the YouTube link) but I can't watch a video in my current situation, so I can't verify. If it's just some random video about hats, I'm sorry 😛

Definitely men bad gross, for sure for sure.

Buuuuut... I think the real villains are the other men, not the ones getting angry and entitled, but the network execs and ad companies, most of whom are men, that tease here and there, and promote scantily clad photos on billboards or magazines, or write articles or press releases to tempt people.

Sex sells, they say, but sex only sells if you have a market of sex-starved marks who have enough pressure built up over the years of campaigns that when they hear Actress A that's been all over the place nearly slips a nip in this one, they're like "well shit, I've gotta see that"

I don't blame the actresses. Their industry has told them they only get to do their art if it attracts an audience of Men, the only market worth pursuing somehow even in the far flung future of 2026, so the women that want to be allowed to act have to give the men at the ad companies and film studios what they want. And what they want is a career timeline from demure to saucy to scandalous to breasts to nude so each film release can play on pushing the envelope just slightly further than the last one, capitalizing on the demand built up by the previous release, and they can ride that rollercoaster for as long as possible before having to pick another girl.

And the sexually frustrated target men are victims of a different kind. Not of the women, as the incels would have you believe, but of the other men. Because by and large, the women don't want to be in sex scenes, they don't want to flash tatas, or have yet another shower scene for no damn reason. They want to tell stories that are meaningful and emotional and resonant. But so often they're tools for Powerful Men to steal money from Powerless Men, used up and cast aside. And then the frustrated jackasses get mad at the women for it. It's a win-win...

And to be clear, I'm not saying women should be ashamed of their bodies and stay covered up at all times. Quite the opposite! The "pressure" comes from repression. We can walk through a store full of magazines with half-naked people on them, and it would be easy to say "look how liberated this all is, there's skin everywhere", but it's not liberation, it's sexualization. Because it isn't casual skin, it's not relaxed, it's created specifically to titilate, to produce demand, to build pressure.

I have no data on this, but I presume actresses aren't being accosted by naturalists/nudists. They're probably not getting hate mail by people embedded within a kink community. The people with, in my biased view, outlets and balance, with respect for sex and bodies, aren't as susceptible to the machine.

Well, I should have gone to bed an hour ago, because apparently I'm in a mood. 😅

You know, like a conversationalist! I converse, I'm social, what else would you call it? 😛

For sure, but when we total up the list of top contributors, they're nowhere near the top. So let them, because they're not "the cause".

Maybe you're making assumptions, and it was intended to read like a cry to the heavens!

"Why does it smell like a girl? Oh Might! Because it's mine!!!"

Ran outta there like a bandit with a big sack of pixels!

We didn't invent pixels until Steve Jobs single-handedly started cranking out iPhones in 2007.

As soon as The Muppets and Lucasfilm were both owned by Disney, my friends and I spent a lot of time taking about how a Muppet Star Wars just makes sense.

Now, it's a bit of a crowded space, with Blue Harvest and Space Balls already doing a lot of parody work in this area, but I think there's still room. The only problem is that I think the normal formula would have Luke be played by a human and everyone else be Muppets, but Kermit feels like he'd be a great Luke. So you'd need one of the other key roles to be human to balance it out.