Death to Amerikkka

I had to see if this was true, and I guess this has been going on for quite a while since the first result was a post from six years ago

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Christ. I assumed it was like a tiny banner ad. That’s wild.

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There is the permanent banner ads and also the unskipable 45 seconds full screen ads from time to time. The counter stops ticking if you switch to another window. But it works if you dual window.

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This shit is what convinced me a few months ago to switch back to OpenBSD, literally I opened Solitaire and saw the microtransactions and ads and that was it

Video games honestly aren’t worth the constant struggle and mental assault that is the Windows user experience

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Always nice seeing another *BSD user around, though I’m not cool enough to run it on the desktop for various reasons. Now we just need some *BSD emojis…

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:puffy-shining:

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99% of games work in Linux now and the ones that don’t are the most awful online-only, rootkit anti-cheat pieces of shit anyway.

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True

I’m just sad there’s no WINE on OpenBSD… at least not anymore… :(

And no one releases binaries for OpenBSD so the only games on here are either open-source or run on some VM that we can port (not that the ABI is unchanging like on Linux anyway)

I need to find the energy and set aside a few weeks to go on a great and difficult journey to reconcile WINE and OpenBSD one day

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iRacing tho

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I wrote a minesweeper clone in c for a programming class in high school. It wasn’t nearly difficult enough to justify monetization, and that was like ten fifteen years ago now.

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that crossout of ten to fifteen felt like violence didnt it?

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It’s rough lol. Even ten felt like an exaggeration, and then reality hit me like a truck.

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I remember my mom doing one in Visual Basic in the early 2000s. Her minesweeper clone worked, but that was the class that convinced her not to learn to code.

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Clash of Clans ass operating system.

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I’ve been playing https://minesweeper.online/ for a while now, if there’s any ads uBlock Origin takes care of them. Maybe once a day you get a popup that gets in your way for like 5 seconds asking for money but that’s it.

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