Thomas "Tom" Jasper Cat, commonly referred to as Tom Cat, or more simply referred to as Tom, and originally known as Jasper, is one of the two anti-heroic protagonists in Tom and Jerry, alongside Jerry Mouse, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Despite being referred as an anti-heroic, Tom is more often placed in the role of the antagonist, with Jerry often being the protagonist just as much.
Tom is a bluish-grey and white anthropomorphic domestic short haired tuxedo British cat who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot. The cat was known as Jasper during his debut in the short; however, beginning with his next appearance in The Midnight Snack he was known as Tom or Thomas.
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His name, "Tom Cat", is based on "tomcat", a word which refers to male cats. He is usually mute and rarely heard speaking with the exception of a few cartoons (such as 1943's The Lonesome Mouse, 1944's The Zoot Cat, 1947's Part Time Pal, 1953's Puppy Tale and 1992's Tom and Jerry: The Movie). His only notable vocal sounds outside of this are his various screams whenever he is subjected to panic or, more frequently, pain. He is continuously after Jerry Mouse, for whom he sets traps, many of which backfire and cause damage to him rather than Jerry. His trademark scream was provided by creator William Hanna. Hanna's recordings of Tom screaming were later used as a stock sound effect for other MGM cartoon characters, including a majority of Tex Avery's shorts.
Tom is usually defeated in the end (or very rarely, killed, like in Mouse Trouble, where he explodes), although there are some stories where he outwits and defeats Jerry. Besides Jerry, he also has trouble with other mouse or cat characters. One of them that appears frequently is Spike Bulldog. Spike regularly appears and usually assists Jerry and beats up Tom. Though in some occasions Tom beats him or he turns on Jerry (like his debut appearance in Dog Trouble). Usually when Tom is chasing Jerry after a bit Jerry turns the tables on Tom and beats him or uses an outside character such as Spike to beat Tom.
Tom has variously been portrayed as a house cat doing his job, and a victim of Jerry's blackmail attempts, sometimes within the same short. He is almost always called by his full name "Thomas" by Mammy Two Shoes. In 1961 short Switchin' Kitten Tom has a membership card as belong to the "International Brotherhood of Cats".
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Oof, Battle.net is like, one of the very few things that doesn't play nice with linux. Rip.
Am finding this out. I've now tried Lutris, Steam and Bottles. None were a success apart from Steam actually installing and running it poorly. Now trying Heroic and then going to give up, lol.
I wish I had not signed up for this lan-thing. Haven't touched blizzard shit in years after I quit wow due to what came out from them.
Everything else is working great.
I think the issue comes from games with heavy cheat protection like Fortnite or Blizzard stuff. Not really Linux fault.
Definitely. And as linux is forced to run these via a sort of emulator and in windows they have straight access to the hardware, it will surely be different (as far as I understand it). But that is ok. So happy to be windows-free, omg!
Well Wine (the underlying technology that Steam uses) is actually a translation layer that converts Windows system calls to one's that are compatible on the host system, so you are getting full hardware performance. Same with DXVK which is a similar program that translates Microsoft DirectX(TM) to Vulkan graphics which increases performance and compatibility outside of Windows. Both of these programs (along with Valve's patches and custom runtime) make Proton work.
The issue Dirt Owl mentioned is related to how game companies have started forcing users to install deeply intrusive system software onto their machines that spies on their computer. This can technically be replicated on Linux Mint, but the coordination required by various companies and groups isn't there yet since a lot of companies have their own proprietary anti-cheat that spies in its own unique way. Valve could probably do something, but it's a social issue, not a technical one. This practice should be discouraged, but capitalism controls the video games industry.