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I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Basically only 2

I want a launcher for each game though

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

do you also keep every single fork in its own kitchen drawer?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep all my cds in separate cases as a better analogy

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More like you keep different CD players for each CD.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assure you that I use the same computer for each computer game

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But a launcher isn't something you use for storage, that'd be your file system.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cd player executes the code on the cd

Computer executes the code of the game

Now you see how different drawers or different cd players don’t work?

The launcher can just be the .sh file included with the game

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can see how you're trying to justify a bad mangling of an analogy.

If we follow your modification of your modification of the analogy, you want physical cases for your games, which has nothing to do with launchers at all.

Though it seems you don't want launchers at all, you want independent executable files, which isn't what a launcher is in this context.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

you want independent executable files

Those are launchers, are you confusing launchers with libraries?