SeventySeven

Don't panic.

The last line is important:

The FDA action “is not focused on natural kratom leaf products," according to a statement Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

There's a huge difference between kratom leaf and these "extract products". Kratom isn't just 7-hydroxymitragynine. In fact, the amount of 7-OH present in traditional kratom leaf powder is very minuscule. Kratom tea has lots of different alkoloids in it that also play a huge part in how things such as 7-OH is absorbed. Taking away these alkoloids and upping the dose of 7OH makes it feel like an entirely different (and MUCH stronger) drug altogether. It's almost like taking away a chemical bond and making a different chemical out of it.

I absolutely don't agree with banning anything (fuck the war on drugs) but for once the FDA may have at least tried to listen to us and meet us halfway. The American Kratom Association is who we should be thanking for this effort. Please donate to them whenever possible!!

https://www.americankratom.org/news/aka-response-to-fda

The American Kratom Associations response to the FDA:

Today the American Kratom Association applauded Secretary Robert Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary for their decisive and science-driven recommendation to classify 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) as a Schedule I substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act. This bold step is a critical milestone in protecting public health and consumer safety from dangerous synthetic products that masquerade as natural kratom. “Secretary Kennedy and Commissioner Makary have shown exceptional leadership in confronting one of the most urgent public health threats related to mislabeled, manipulated psychoactive substances,” said Mac Haddow, senior fellow on public policy for the American Kratom Association. “These 7-OH products are not kratom. They are chemically altered substances that carry potent opioid-like effects and pose an imminent threat to consumers. This move sends a clear and long-overdue message: the safety of the American public comes first.”

Can't even view r*ddit links anymore because they hate VPNs..

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Maybe it's just my CPU or something wrong with my setup, but i feel like new games (especially ones that run on Unreal Engine 5) really kick my computers ass at 1440p. Just got the 7900xtx last year and using a ryzen 9 3900xt i got from 2020 for reference. I remember getting new cards like 10 years ago and being able to crank the settings up to max with no worries, but nowadays I feel I gotta worry about lowering settings or having to resort to using upscaling or frame generation.

Games dont feel very optimized anymore, so I can see why people might be upgrading more frequently thinking it's just their pc being weak. I miss the days where we could just play games in native resolution.

I know this is a late reply, but thank you for pointing that issue out. All of the spam comments were reported to the Internet Archive staff team and I am happy to update that The Internet Archive has since removed all the spam reviews, and they have also disabled all further reviews on this upload going forward.

The main files are safe to use and are not affected by reviews. I have been personally using this same exact upload not long after it was initally released in 2021. Perhaps I'll make a separate post going more in-depth on how to get UT99 up and running on modern hardware, along with posting the virus scans for reassurance. There are extra precautions you can take with any game that is this old. I run it in a sandboxed environment for example. This isn't necessarily required (especially if your game is on the latest patches) and might be seen as overkill, but I figured it was also worth mentioning.

I sincerely hope that the spam didn't deter anyone from trying out such a great game. UT was very influential in my childhood and also influenced the FPS genre in general.

Long live UT!

I hope this helps give Linux some love. Been using Bazzite and it seems to do the job pretty well.

Lemmy isn't reddit so you're good

Thanks for the info. Gonna check it out!

Edit: Ok you know what bazzite looks awesome. I'm definitely gonna install it later this week on my main pc and see how it goes

Yeah I only have used the steam deck, but I imagine the alternative Windows based handhelds feel much more clunky/hacky since Windows has issues suspending things in general, especially games. Maybe they fixed some of the issues on that end by now, but I feel like SteamOS is really the best and most viable option here for these other companies looking to cash in on this trend. Especially since Windows is bloated as is and not really made for this type of thing.

Not sure if Valve does this already, but perhaps they could license out SteamOS to other manufacturers too? It would make Valve's "competition" more lucrative for them. At the very least, I hope more people start using SteamOS so Linux gaming gets more adoption as time goes on. Valve has done absolute wonders for the linux community with Proton.

This is great news! I had to use Internet Archive to download Unreal Tournament 1999 as i lost the disk ages ago and still play online to this day. Epic shut down the UT99 master server browser a year ago, but everyone is playing it using the community patches anyways.

Links for those who wanna play UT99:

https://archive.org/details/unreal-tournament-complete

https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/tag/v469d

I used OCR to grab the link because yeah, screw that.

Here ya go:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uaSYEQ4z4zVhcFAXdTJY7WWAizIAMWISmfWhagG_ZKc/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

Agreed. At least fast food is so overpriced now that it's really easy to avoid going out at all nowadays!