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Damn that's cool.

Of course I knew about CD Projekt Red and Paradox. Somehow the titles I mentioned caught me by surprise.

About France, you could have named Arkane. They did Dishonored which was really really good.

Only Italy does not seem to have a gaming industry to speak of.

On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells (free right now in the Epic Store for Android, though it's well worth paying for)? Though I have to admit I'm kinda addicted to the open source goodness of Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry. Likely not made in Europe, but so good, and you can get then straight from F-Droid.

XMplay, that brings me back!

I discovered XMplay while trying to play the tracker files of the soundtrack copied from my old Deus Ex cd. I think it was in MOD files, some kind of spicy midi that includes some samples.

I use Linux esclusively since 2006 though.

Been there, done that.

I bought a new 4K screen for my home office, to use with my work ThinkPad T480.

Actually had to switch from Konsole to Kitty because my old-ass laptop had scroll lags on the big screen when moving around in neovim.

Edit: It was neovim, I'm not living in 2005.

And the devs of Helldivers II are apparently Swedish? Yesterday I suddenly found out that Dead Cells is actually French.

The European gaming industry seems, from an outsider, to be doing some good work.

Penalties for homicide in Italy, are generally still harsh enough that increasing them won't realistically make a difference.

But this kind of murder is most often an escalation, and so the chance for prevention exists. But that sounds hard, increasing the penalty for the murder to life +5 yeas is easy.

Beccaria is spinning in his grave.

other brands don't suffer from these issues

Yet

Idiot implies it's a human

Except when the error is in the chip architecture.

Yeah, not really. First example I can think of:

https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi170625/ah-frikandel

Omnivore here.

I say if you don't even care what meat is in your sausage, meat replacement is fine too.

Whenever better-not-ask-mistery-meat is an acceptable option, meat replacement is acceptable as well.

If you'd buy that without checking the ingredients, you get what you get. Might be pig, chicken, goat, horse, beef, nutria, or lentils. If you don't care, you don't care.