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  • Unpopular Opinion: If you bought a game console when prices were exploding you aren’t really in a position to argue real financial harm because… its a fucking video game console. It’s not housing, food, or some other major need.

    Out of all the companies who will argue this, I honestly think the media companies have the largest leg to stand on because why are people just eating the cost increase of something that isn’t a need if they financially “can’t afford it.”

    Also this isn’t a Trump “screw up.” The money landing in the pockets of the companies who donated to his campaign was the end goal from the beginning.

    How do I know? Because a judge allowed the tariffs to go in while it was determined if they were legal or not and part of the reason the judge agreed was the Trump admin lawyers promising it would all be paid back to consimers if they lost. They never had any intent.


  • Hmm, well for one thing I’m on a Ryzen 7 3700x 8-core, 32gb of RAM, and an AMD RX 6600XT, so I do wonder if the differing setups has anything to do with it.

    But yes, you grabbed the correct one, that wasn’t a hash, just part of the release name of the nightly build.

    My only guess from here would be to try to check logs and/or use something different than Steam.

    For example, I couldn’t even get the setup.exe running in Heroic, but it launched with no problems in Lutris. My go-to when things aren’t working is Lutris, and then launch every pirated game through Heroic Game Launcher, personally. I manually add it to Heroic after Lutris does all the work.



  • Since no one else responded to this yet… I grabbed a “non-legitimate” copy and installed it to test.

    I have the menu pop up for me right away installing the voices38 version of Pragmata. Used the latest nightly build:

    REF Nightly 01391 (a0e9010fb0449dc9d824b5978ee759eeaf50f7c6)

    I read on the github to add these arguments when running in Proton: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8.dll=n,b" %command%

    Anyway, I used the official current nightly, and as I said, REFramework popped up instantly on first startup. I added REFramework before I ever started the game up, and it just… worked.

    Do you have more details about the system you’re running or anything to maybe narrow down why it’s not working for you? Maybe you missed it the first time it popped up and you need to use the default menu key (INSERT) to bring it up? First thing I did was change the menu key since with a 60% keyboard thats a tricky key combo ha.




  • Zitron is a pinnacle of you can be smart and foul mouthed. Part of the reason he succeeds at this is he actually knows where to properly put cusses in sentences and doesn’t overuse them (like me, for instance).

    There was evidence part of the reason people gravitated to Trump was that his foul and odious way of speaking seemed more “honest” because of the vulgarity. As someone who worked in local television news for 10 years, I can say that I think that’s true because it was always so clear that our newscasters were putting on a show and often had very few feelings whatsoever about what they were reporting on, or worse, genuinely were dismissive and cold to people in real tragedy. People have responded to that over time by realizing that all that faux-professionalism just really comes off as covering your ass and/or just using buzzwords to sound like you know how anything works at all when you don’t. It doesn’t come off as sincere, knowledgeable or, most importantly passionate.

    When we heard Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Mamdani speak, we can hear the passion they have in the way they speak. When we hear Centrist Dems like Chuck Schumer speak, we automatically hear the work of strategy to get people on their side, not that they really believe or care about what they’re doing. I don’t hear passion in Schumer’s voice for anything but Israel. Sanders, AOC, Mamdani, you can hear that passion that they have for citizens and protecting and lifting them up.

    Trump is passionate about himself and his followers are passionate about him, too, I guess. It’s that their is spurred by delusion and unaddressed mental health issues.

    Anyway, people need to speak more plainly and with more passion, Zitron is a prime example of doing it well. Other than Doctorow and maybe WIRED, I don’t know of any other really hard hitting evidence-based journalism on this stuff, and Doctorow is a little bit too up his own ass on coining fucking words. (In my humble opinion, Doctorow comes off as way too extremely online to connect his ideas with regular people, he’s just too much of a fucking nerd who can’t stop being a nerd long enough to jive with average people)