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C I R C U M L U N A R
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T R A N S M I S S I O N S
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Issue One May 2021
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==================[ WHY I STILL GAME PROPRIETARY ]=================
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by wholesomedonut
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PROPRIETARY GAMING in the market. thou angereth me!" I
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ISN'T ALL BAD hear in the imaginary
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I agree with all of comments section
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Since getting into the those observations. because this is
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FOSS community, I see They tire me. They Gemini and you can't
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a lot of pushback concern me. They do that. I am certain
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towards the gaming frustrate me daily. you will find
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industry as a whole. I peace through
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can see why: DRM runs However! There are measured
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rampant, terrible still reasons -not- to contemplation and
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business practices go the route of some I a cup of whatever
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regularly conflagrate see in the FOSS world warm or cold
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internet forums, and eschew gaming liquid you enjoy.
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anti-cheat programs altogether on anything
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are basically but a FOSS platform, WHY DO I USE STEAM?
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consensual (and with FOSS games,
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mandatory for official because.... FOSS. That Well.... everyone
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online play in some argument is just as else that isn't a
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cases) trojans, and to dumb in practice, computer nerd
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make it all worse it because it's an usually does too.
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costs a mint to get artificial limitation And the overhead
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into the hobby that stands on for getting
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nowadays due to somewhat subjective, people of minimum
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scalpers and crypto opinionated reasoning. technical under-
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miners running rampant "But wholesomedonut, standing (that like
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playing video games) PS/Xbox or some-other download, to playing
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into FOSS gaming thing, there is a the game with their
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generally is much more solid 90% chance I'm friends needs to be
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costly in terms of going to lose that understandable,
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mental and social argument unless they unobtrusive and
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capacity than the are very specifically transparent. That is,
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clout I usually have interested in that if the overall
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with my friends or particular kind of userbase is to
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family on such game, its' content, grow and sustain
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matters. or have a better itself on a
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socially-driven higher magnitude
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King's English: If I reason. This comes than current.
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have to instruct them from years of trying
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to download the latest and f'nagling with GIVE PEOPLE THE
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version of the game people from many BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
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directly from Github walks of life; the UI
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in the Releases tab, and UX of FOSS gaming People are
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or from some random needs to be on-par intelligent,
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website they've never with modern generally. They're
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heard of (even if it commercial offerings; very skilled in a
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looks nice and is this means all the multitude of things
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HTTPS secure) instead way from landing on a that aren't
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of just adding it on page, to funneling computers. But asking
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Steam or Epic or through a sales someone who -isn't-
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Microsoft Store or conversion or free tech savvy to figure
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out how to pull down mentality commercial combined-arms
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the right version of systems have strategy on a hex
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a FOSS game from a fostered. board that involves
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code repo (or heaven groups of multi-ton
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forbid build it ENTER THE MECH MAN robots, tanks,
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themselves with cmake airplanes and
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or whatever) is like A good example of a infantry taking and
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asking ME to diagnose FOSS game that has giving damage to
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a car's problems plenty of good and individual
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using nothing but a bad would be MegaMek. components, weapons
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flashlight and a It's basically a and armor locations
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screwdriver. I have fully computerized in a somewhat
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no idea what the hell version of the realistic and highly
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I'm doing anyway in Classic Battletech detailed simulation
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that department. rules, which is a of 31st-century
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Without the proper board game that's warfare.
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tools and education existed since the
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too? I'm screwed. 1980s and is going on To alleviate the
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Therefore I urge 40 years of issue of significant
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empathy and patience conniving, calculational
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in introducing others number-crunching overhead for
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to FOSS gaming. It's tomfoolery that only every-single-action-
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a bit more finicky a particular subset attack-or-damage-
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than the of people even enjoy. roll-ever, this
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plug-and-play All in the name of program does all
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of the math, the game in their in that regard. A
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calculations, and head: they're game of Classic
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rules proofing for obviously not the Battletech that could
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you. So you can enjoy target of this easily take 5 or 6
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the game with others, article. hours in person
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wherever they may be, without any sort of
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instead of reaching I shiver at the calculator apps or an
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for your G.A.T.O.R. thought of doing all otherwise breakneck
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card for the that stuff manually pace of gameplay and
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tenth time to if I don't have to. rules-lawyering will
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show the newbie That kind of only take an hour or
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of the group what tedium takes away two maximum with
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happens when an from the Megamek. It's a
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SRM-6 missile moment-by-moment godsend for a hobby
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spread hits a gameplay, forcing that would otherwise
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light vehicle everybody to get be relegated to local
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whose armor is ox-in-the-mired play over
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already exposed over details that predetermined days,
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on its' left don't matter not a "Hey want to
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flank. There are overall instead play a match? Sure!"
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plenty of of letting their kind of casual pickup
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grognards out big stompy robots on a boring
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there who know blow each other up. afternoon.
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these rules well
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and can do half Megamek works wonders
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BUT IT ISN'T ALL progresses smoothly. that the much easier
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SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS But it's still just and more recent Alpha
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as much a spaghetti Strike ruleset isn't
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Nope! Megamek is, in plate in terms of included at all by
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my humble and user experience: default, to my
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donut-shaped opinion, configuration options knowledge. You might
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a terrible example of laid out in long be able to configure
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UI and UX. I played a lists of check boxes something like that
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round recently, and organized by multiple using plugins, but
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another aficionado of top-window tabs; a we're already putting
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the series played decidedly the cart before the
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against me. Quoth my 15-years-old design horse at that point.
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opponent: "This language that clashes
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program looks like with modern TO BE FAIR
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something out of perceptions of UI and
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Windows 95." Neither UX (which is bad The project started
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of us had played the considering that in 2000. It's 21
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most recent version taking in new blood years old in some
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of the game. I hadn't is crucial for both places, if only in
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touched it in a year userbase and logic and not literal
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at least. developer syntax. It's written
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contribution in Java. And it's
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Some changes were reasons); and the been a community
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welcome, and the final nail in the effort by dozens of
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development coffin is the fact talented people over
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the decades. The fact that does a better a relic of an earlier
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that it's alive at job, in proportion to time of online
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all is impressive, the complexity of the gaming, where dial-up
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but so's the fact physical source connections were
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that the franchise material and gameplay still common. That's
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whose boardgame it flow. a given. And it is
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emulates even has a what it is. I won't
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fanbase still. BT So considering it was waste time bemoaning
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fans aren't quitters, made in the waning those facts that are
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certainly. And this days of Win98 immutable in this
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is all considering (because Windows ME context. I'm only
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the fact that trying doesn't exist and you stating them to set
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to automate, can't convince me the stage.
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obfuscate and otherwise) it's
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de-FUBAR the mountain expected that it's I'M LEFT AT AN
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of minutiae that ugly as most things INTERESTING IMPASSE
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Battletech's rulesets were back then. It
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and technical data was written in Java There is no other way
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(on a per unit and (yea verily, begone I could ever play
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per variant basis no foul JVM!), which for Battletech with
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less) is a monumental all its' foibles friends from all over
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task. I can hardly makes a very easy the world in such a
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think of a video-game cross-platform great degree of
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adaptation of a more distributable fidelity. Megamek
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complex board game program. It's solidly serves its' purpose
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very well for what it So, I leave it to you make my hobby free
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is: a highly detailed to put the pieces and open if there
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computerization of a together here. I can isn't a platform for
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niche franchise that choose to play with those newcomers to
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has a fanbase average people that even stand on and
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spanning generations. A) aren't technically explore once (or if
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However, it also inclined, B) don't ever) they choose to
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stands out to me as have a heart that get involved in FOSS
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one of the prime beats for gaming of their own
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examples of a FOSS free-as-in-freedom, volition.
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project being and C) want something
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understandably opaque that "just works," or AT THE END OF THE DAY
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to newcomers. It's confine myself to a
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hard to use at first, much smaller content I encourage people
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hard to look at base with an even who play video games
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always, and sometimes smaller playerbase to which are also
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hard to find other share it with. interested in free
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people to play it and open source
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with. Those three Call me the gaming software to consider
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things will nail the nerd Whore of the prospect of
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coffin of any Babylon, but I don't inviting others into
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fledgling game shut. see the point in this world of
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That concept is true beating my head free-as-in-freedom/
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regardless of genre, against the wall beer/whatever
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art style, or UI/UX. overtly trying to with a grain of salt.
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Until we make it not be seen. And growth in production
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easier to onboard new therefore we will not quality, variety, and
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people from all walks see the requisite competitiveness in
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of life, significant uptick in talent, the market space of
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adoption of FOSS contribution and people's free time.
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systems or the games playerbase that will
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that run on them will consequently drive a
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- - -[ CONTACT ME ]- - -
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external email: wholesomedonut at tuta dot io
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mastodon: at wholesomedonut at fosstodon dot org
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matrix: at wholesomedonut colon matrix dot org
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