xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Honestly, if Drew DeVault made a list of people/organizations who genuinely pose a threat to FOSS (e.g scams/grifters like Mozilla, Cannonical, RedHat, Purism, etc), I would have no problem with that, but no. He had to make a list about people who said <insert even remotely RW idea here>.

I remember the days when the number one way to trigger a FOSS dev was to call the movement "marxist"/"communist", but it seems like some have unironically embraced this accusation and will cancel anyone who says otherwise.

Imagine thinking that the incompetent email server maintainer is somehow a threat to FOSS.

I'm sick of these Europoor retro gamers gushing about their love and nostalgia for games on platforms like the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Amiga. Constantly, bragging about growing up with true hidden gems and how they had it better than American (and Japanese) gamers.

No. The games you grew up with are fucking shit. I'm sorry. There may have been a few hidden gems, but nobody outside of 50 hertz-land is nostalgic for single screen puzzle platformers for computers that can only display single color sprites and make far noises.

There is a good reason why American gamers are into Japanese imports instead of European imports. Japanese games still have a pick-up and play mentality (outside of tactical-RPGs). Retro-European games have an anything goes mentality.That's why they're nostalgic for unique and complex shit like Lemmings and Populous, or it's just some shovelware platformer/adventure game hybrid because "we have no idea what we are doing".

The idea that they think Americans would be envious of them just baffles me.

I wonder what 8/tech/ would think about the current state of FOSS.