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[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 2 points 3 days ago

Poppy Linux should do.

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Tennis again?

Joke aside, pure competitive games are indeed just pure competitive games with no context at all. But competition in itself is ideological and political (the need to make the opponent lose) so Pong is too.

It's a point of view on multiplayer gaming. In Pong there is always a loser and a winner, never two winners, never two losers (can we even make a draw in original Pong? I don't know).

Pong is also a game that opposed human versus computer, it can be view as pure skill exercise to be a 'better' human or it can be literally a fight against the machine like playing chess against a computer. Both makes me want to ask what is the point to do this ? I think answers at this questions are political indeed.

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 3 points 4 days ago

Super Mario make a twist on the trope of the knight saving the princess. The knight is just a plumber and it is said to him that the 'princess is an another castle'. But at the end the right order of the world is restaured when Mario finally frees the princess from the evil Bowser.

So from a political standpoint Super Mario is a product believing strongly in individualism and in the self made man ideology. The twist shows only that even a plumber can save the princess if he works enough = liberal capitalism making us believed that we'll be all rock stars and billionaires when we're definitively not (and yes I'm quoting fight club here). All this is the consequence of the game focussing more on gameplay than it's narration, therefore it leans towards what was the common thinking of the time.

Polygamy (relationship between Peach, Mario and Luigi, if that's what you are referring to) is much to me a side effect of the 2 players gameplay possibility, but it is still indeed pretty interesting in itself yeah.

You probably meant it as a joke, but too bad you get a real answer :)

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu -2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Indeed, I still get someone giving me names of nonpolitical games.

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu -2 points 5 days ago

Oh you didn't perceive the irony, didn't you?

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think someone at ubi played Astrobot and thought "wait a minute"...

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 1 points 3 weeks ago

Solium Infernum : strategy game, with a lot of diplomacy mechanisms ( like you can't attack directly an enemy but you can ask them to pay you tribute, if they refuse you can attack on response).

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fruity Loops doesn't have any easy equivalent on Linux. I'd say try reaper and ardour as they provide windows binaries. Be careful LMMS isn't a FL clone, it's midi only.

For the Arturia plugins you can install them with wine and use yabridge to make them compatible if they are not in vst compatible format (ardour can take vst2 and vst3 but sometimes it will not work). You can also have a dedicated PC for instruments (it is what I do) on windows (using audio gridder). Gotta test the Linux server version of audio gridder to see if I can go back to linux on m'y second PC. Or you can just send the midi notes to pc2 then get the audio out to pc1.

It's doable to make proprietary plugins run on Linux but the reliability is the nightmarish part, as an update can break the wine compatibility and it can take a few mins/hours to restore.

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's a real issue because, technical aspect aside, lots of instruments cost a lot of money and are necessary to keep up with the trend. Also theses plugins can save you a lot of time, meaning you can provide more music on short time (effect plugins are concern as well here).

[–] Navigator@jlai.lu 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Name, address, GPS localisation data, habits (like apps you often use, moments you use one device or another), gender, search terms in search engines, open web pages on a web browser, connection (other person you know), the work you do and where you work.

All kinds of things, really.

The usage is mostly advertising or identity theft.

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