Wandering Adventure Party

What kept me on Windows for a long, long time were games like Star Wars Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II.

Which has only ever been officially released on Windows.

No Mac release. No Linux release. Not even a console release.

But now, through the magic of Proton, I’m playing this great classic on Bazzite. And it really is amazing.

I’m a privileged cis white man, and yet—despite being active on the Fediverse—very few people have ever called out my privilege, even when it’s plainly visible.

But yesterday, someone went out of their way to call out my Asian wife’s supposed privilege… based on nothing more than the fact that she’s visited Hong Kong a few times.

It’s a strange choice. She’s not even on here. I am.

PSA: Don’t ambush someone with talk about their dead relatives on social media.

Up until today, I had no issues with this person. Then, out of nowhere, they started pontificating about how my wife is supposedly “disconnected” from her ancestors—a week after we buried her grandfather.

I asked for a little decency. Instead, she doubled down.

There’s nothing admirable about using someone’s grief as a platform to push your identity politics, especially when you have zero connection to their family. There’s a time and a place for these debates. This wasn’t it.

@Babcia54 This isn’t a mere random person—she was someone I was consistently talking to for three years. In a way, I was trying to salvage a friendship by creating a solid boundary.

But the other thing is, l don’t understand what she gained from this whole exercise. 🤯

People are still arguing with me about something that happened nearly two years ago. Most of it is hearsay—not facts.

So let me be clear: I don’t exclude queer people. I exclude racists.

And being queer doesn’t exempt anyone from being racist.

If someone says, “This person is racist,” the correct response isn’t, “Well, that person is homophobic.” The correct response is, “Let’s investigate—regardless of who made the accusation.”

And if the accuser is a homophobe? Then we look for patterns. Repeated behaviour. Not just one screenshot.

Otherwise, we’re not doing justice—we’re just picking teams.

God damn, I hate these CFL rule changes. Hate it! Hate it! Hate it!

They’re cutting down the field from 110 to 100 yards. They’re dragging the goalposts from the front of the end zone—where they’ve always been—to the back, just like the NFL. This isn’t “minor modernization.” It’s tearing away what makes Canadian football unique, one tradition at a time.

The CFL has always been our game. The longer field, the bigger end zones, the three downs—it created a faster, more wide-open style of football that no one else in the world had. That’s what made it special. Now? Bit by bit, it’s being chipped away until all that’s left is an awkward, watered-down knockoff of American football.

And don’t think for a second this stops here. The commissioner is already refusing to rule out four downs. Four downs! If that happens, then what’s the difference between the CFL and just flipping on CBS in January? Absolutely nothing. We’ll have surrendered our own identity for a cheap imitation.

Look, if people wanted to watch the NFL, they’d watch the NFL. God knows it’s shoved down our throats every Super Bowl season. But the CFL was supposed to be ours—quirky, fast, distinctive, proudly Canadian.

Now it feels like the league is begging for approval from people who never cared about it in the first place. And in the process, it’s alienating the diehards who actually kept it alive all these years.

I’ve deleted all the communities on piefed.social where I was the sole moderator. The reason is simple: building on a server where I don’t have final control carries risk, and I don’t want to keep investing in spaces that could be removed from me at any moment.

The one exception is !movies@piefed.social, which has co-moderators. That community will stay, though I won’t be contributing new content there going forward.

This wasn’t a rash decision. I thought it through carefully, and it comes down to making sure the work I put in remains under my own control. All of it was cross-posted from atomicpoet.org to begin with—it’s all still here.

Thanks to everyone who’s followed my posts across different corners of the Fediverse. If you’ve been reading my stuff on PieFed, nothing’s really gone—it’s all still here.

Some people are spinning the deletion of my PieFed communities as some kind of “win.”

On the contrary.

I want to own my communities. If they live on someone else’s server, they’re not really mine. I’m the one putting in the time—writing posts, driving discussion, keeping things civil. But the moment an admin decides that the communities you built are actually his, all that work disappears. Just like that.

The whole reason I tried PieFed in the first place was the portability. On paper, you could move communities around. But then I thought: this feature isn’t finished, and I don’t want to be the guinea pig with bigger communities.

So while they were still small, I pulled the plug myself. I’d rather rebuild them on my own server, under my full control. That way, if I’m doing the work, I actually own the outcome.

Mala Petaka is an FPS built on GZDoom—the same engine lineage that powered the original Doom.

Plenty of games use this engine, and many follow familiar patterns. But every so often, one breaks out with a surprising burst of creativity. Mala Petaka does exactly that, with a dazzling use of colour and a distinctive art style that makes every level pop. The chiptune soundtrack is fantastic too, perfectly matching the game’s energy.

It currently sells for C$16.56, and it’s absolutely worth it.

Addendum to the PeerTube Co-op FAQ

Over the past few days, a few important questions have come up that deserve clear answers. These will be added to the main FAQ post as well to keep everything in one place.

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Why incorporate in British Columbia?

BC has one of the strongest and most flexible legal frameworks for co-operatives in North America. It allows for multi-stakeholder models, clear governance structures, and relatively straightforward incorporation. This makes it an ideal jurisdiction to establish a co-op that can scale while remaining member-governed.

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Is this a for-profit or non-profit co-op?

Right now, I’m proposing a for-profit co-op, because I believe that’s the best way to maximally serve member-owners. A for-profit structure allows the co-op to sustain itself through revenue, reinvest surplus into the platform, and return benefits to members, rather than relying on grants or donations.

That said, nothing is set in stone. Once the steering committee is formed and the co-op takes shape, member-owners will collectively decide what structure works best.

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Why are you deliberately reaching out to British Columbia residents?

Under BC co-operative law, at least one director must be a resident of British Columbia. I already fulfil that requirement. However, it’s wise to build redundancies into the governance structure in case something happens that prevents my continued participation. Having more BC-based member-owners involved ensures the co-op remains legally compliant and operational no matter what.

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Do I need to live in BC to be a member?

No. Anyone, regardless of where they live, can become a member-owner of the co-op. The only legal requirement is that at least three members of the initial steering committee must be Canadian residents for incorporation purposes. International members are welcome and encouraged to participate in governance, decision-making, and platform use.

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Can organizations or businesses become member-owners?

Yes, in principle. Co-ops can have both individuals and organizations as members. We’ll be consulting co-operative experts to confirm the best structure, but businesses that share the vision for a sustainable, community-owned video platform will likely be able to join as organizational members.

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What role can international supporters play?

International supporters can become member-owners, participate in discussions, contribute financially, and help shape policies and governance. While only Canadian residents can be part of the legal steering committee for incorporation, international voices are essential for building a platform that serves a global community.

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How will this co-op coordinate with other Fediverse co-ops?

Co-ops are stronger together. We’ve started reaching out to groups like CoSocial.ca, Social.coop, and SocialBC.ca to explore collaboration, share governance practices, and ensure efforts complement rather than duplicate each other. There’s a real opportunity to build a federated co-operative ecosystem across the Fediverse.

#PeerTubeCoop, #Fediverse #FAQ

Every time I say the word “soccer”, a swarm of Europeans materializes in my comments to inform me—dutifully, solemnly—that “It’s called football.”

Time for a plot twist: they’re all wrong. And I’ve got the semantics to back it up.

There isn’t one “football”. There are many footballs. Off the top of my head:

• Gaelic football
• Rugby football (league and union)
• Australian football
• Canadian football
• American football
• Association football

I live in Canada. When someone here says “football”, they mean the version with the 110-yard field, three downs, and a warning track where the end zone should be. That is not soccer. And it’s not American football either—Canadian football is its own thing entirely.

Now, about that “association football” bit. The original nickname wasn’t “football” at all. It was assoccer. Which got shortened again to “soccer”. Same linguistic pattern that gave rugby its old nickname, “rugger”.

Notice the rhyme? “Soccer.” “Rugger.” Same era, same universities, same guys wearing the same questionable wool sweaters.

Here’s the real kicker: soccer and rugby only got those nicknames because of the Great Split of 1863. One camp wanted a game played strictly with feet. The other wanted a game where you could run, tackle, and generally rearrange someone’s ribcage.

But both descended from the medieval parent sport: mob football.

Mob football wasn’t “football” in the modern sense. It was chaos. A pig’s bladder was kicked, thrown, carried, or violently escorted toward a “goal”, which was usually whatever landmark was furthest away. It was extremely physical, often injurious, and occasionally fatal. Think rugby… with fewer rules… and more existential risk.

And yes, it still survives today. Look up the Royal Shrovetide match in Ashbourne, UK. It’s less a sport and more a polite riot with a leather ball.

Now ask yourself: which modern sport resembles mob football more? The tidy passing patterns of soccer? Or the glorious bedlam of Gaelic, Aussie rules, rugby, Canadian, and American football—sports where you can actually throw the ball, just like the original game?

Exactly.

So no, “soccer” isn’t wrong. If anything, it’s the only term that actually acknowledges the sport’s own history.

Netflix just bought Warner Bros Discovery, minus the cable division. That carve-out tracks with Netflix’s identity as a pure streaming company rather than a legacy distributor.

Regulatory review is still ahead, but Amazon cleared MGM/UA without much resistance, and this deal sits in the same structural neighborhood. Hard to see it getting blocked.

The implications, though, are enormous. Netflix now controls Game of Thrones and Harry Potter. They also inherit the entire DC Universe: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. Plus the weirder gems like Preacher and Swamp Thing.

And this doesn’t stop at film and TV. They become a major video-game publisher overnight.

Because they now own the Midway, Atari Games, and Monolith catalogs.

More concretely: Gauntlet, Paperboy, Rampage, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Blood, F.E.A.R.

At this point, Netflix’s IP bench is stronger than Disney or Amazon. That matters for streaming today, but it matters even more if video games become the next competitive frontier.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-131612002.html