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Are Addictive Free To Play Games Ethical Lets Fight! Come with me now, as we stare unflinchingly into the face of Ultimate Evil. A few months ago, I wrote a blog post defending Big Free-To-Play. You know, the evil, soulless big money mobile game makers us indies are supposed to totally hate and stuff. Because finally managing to turn your mom into a serious gamer was SO BAD. My piece received rebuttals that were worth addressing, and I want to do a little of that now, because I have a new game coming out soon, and I could use the clicks. So. Objection 1: Most free-to-play game profits come from a handful of compulsive whales who spend a ton of money. These games use a wide variety of psychological trickery to force players into being addicted and spending outlandishly. This is unethical. The first two sentences of the previous paragraph are unquestionably true. The big question is the third sentence. Are these games unethical? And trust me, the techniques these games use can get really...

Argos Lets You Create GNOME Shell Extensions From Scripts W BitBar Plugin Support Argos is a tool inspired by the BitBar app for Mac, which makes it easy to create your own GNOME Shell extensions, using information provided via scripts. Being a GNOME Shell extension itself, Argos adds a button with a dropdown on the GNOME Shell top panel. This button can display or expose functionality provided by a script, be it Bash, Python, Ruby, and so on (remember to make it executable or else Argos wont use it). Heres Argos in action (gif via Argos GitHub page): Basically, the extension turns an executables standard output into information thats displayed by Argos on the GNOME Shell top panel and its dropdown menu. A new button is added for each executable file placed in the Argos configuration directory ( ~/.config/argos/ ). For example, you can use Argos to display weather, ping, stocks or network download speed on the GNOME Shell Top Panel, while providing advanced information in its dropdown...