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Quoting: SolitaryI don't think ChromeOS is much of a thing in Europe in general, I don't know anyone that bought one. Correct me if I am wrong.

Are Chromebooks even available in Europe? Maybe in some of the western countries, but certainly not where I live.

Available in Germany, but I don't know anybody who has got one or only considered one.

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I actually never played the old games this is inspired by.
I do like the style and slow pace though.
(Also I swear one of the sprites was in an android game called Saga RPG.)

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While I would like those numbers to be true, I am really skeptical.
Before you start to celebrate, just think for a moment. Was there any big release in Linux that would make people start using it?
From my perspective there was none, so it's hard for me to believe that suddenly people started to use Linux without a reason and now there are more than twice Linux users than month before.
This netmarketshare... Who are they? How do they calculate marketshare? Maybe their results are indicating other thing going on. I don't know how do they measure marketshare, but for example, let's assume they are collecting user agent string from multiple pages. It may be indicator, that there is a new botnet of infected Linux machines that are visiting those pages. Other scenario is that there are new crawlers running on one host having dynamic external IP and they do not handle it correctly, hey have just changed the way they are calculating results, etc, etc.
There are many potential scenarios, such a significant grow without a reason makes no sense to be honest.

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Quoting: SolitaryI don't think ChromeOS is much of a thing in Europe in general, I don't know anyone that bought one. Correct me if I am wrong.

Are Chromebooks even available in Europe? Maybe in some of the western countries, but certainly not where I live.

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What the heck is ChromeOS?

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Quoting: Uramekus"This report contains preview data that has NOT been reviewed by Quality Assurance."

well , yeah, we have our response rn with this.

Hah, that wasn't there when I first looked at it. I'm guessing they've had to put that up, due to how different it is. I did say it was suspicious!

Edit: This is now clearly noted at the top of the article, to prevent confusion.

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Quoting: SolitaryI don't think ChromeOS is much of a thing in Europe in general, I don't know anyone that bought one. Correct me if I am wrong.

I know a handful of ChromeOS devices being used. But in general, you're right.

And without a plausible explanation on the huge upturn in the past (two) month(s), I'm gonna consider this a blip.

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I don't think ChromeOS is much of a thing in Europe in general, I don't know anyone that bought one. Correct me if I am wrong.

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According to StatCounter GNU/Linux is at 4% in Germany with ChromeOS being non-existant. One of the rare occassions where it feels like something is going in the right direction where I live ;)

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Well picked it up last night, spent last night playing it.
Very smooth and no issues seen (considering they marked it as beta). The only significant issue is if you have more than 1 monitor.

While there are aspects of SPAZ1 in the game, it is closer to a 4x game as you build up resources etc.

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Lets see: 3 not for Linux, Apotheon I already own, Pinstripe and Slayaway Camp only as Steam Key. No, I guess I'll pass on this one...

I still have to play through the games from the very positive 2 bundle anyhow :D

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Quoting: thykrWhat was it using before though?

I thought it was an SDL2 game, but apparently I was wrong?

MonoGame.
BTW. FNA uses SDL, but I don't know anything about MonoGame ;)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI am still puzzled why Jumpan on the c64 is missing the awesome music in places that the Atari 8bit has.

Also wondering how Commodore got the later Ultimas after 4 ported, they were practially unplayable on the c64 with all the disk swapping.

you mean jumpman? it became mario :v

Yes, Jumpman, stupid phone...

Apparently it was inspired from Donkey Kong, so technically that's the other way around. From Wikipedia;

QuoteJumpman came about after Glover saw Donkey Kong[13][14] in a local Pizza Hut (having replaced Pac Man).[15] This led him to become interested in making a version for home computers. He visited a local computer store who had the TI-99/4A and Atari 400. He initially purchased the TI-99 due to its better keyboard,[16] but when he learned the graphics were based on character set manipulation, he returned it the next day and purchased the Atari.[17]

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Interesting games, I don't have any of them but nothing is on my wishlist or strongly interests me, but I do want to buy the bundle... If I had the money to spare.. What I need is a money tree then I could throw money at them and buy all the linux games. :P

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That's awesome, also bastion is on sale (75% Off) until October 2nd. I love their games but not so much their new one pyre, it's a fantastic game but it lacks gameplay as in actual time you spend playing vs reading text and roaming around. I haven't played it yet but I did watch a LP of it, I intend to play it but it's low on my wishlist so I might pick it up in a bundle. I loved bastion and transistor so check out their other game too.

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Quoting: STiAT

Quotethis will be a free to play title with micro-transactions

Thanks, done with it.

Quoting: razing32I'm a bit iffy on the whole Single-Player microtransactions.
I get the business model in Multi-Player , makes sense there.

Did you ever play Knights of Pen and Paper (av. on Linux and Android)?
Fun SP game, paid, still has microtransactions. But hey, I don't know anyone who use them!

P.S.: don't get me wrong, I don't approve microtransactions in SP games, especially in paid ones.

Haven't tried it , though i do have some of the games on Steam/GOG from the Pen and Paper series.

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Quoting: vlademir1Typically it's not the intended use case but the common in practice use cases these arguments are made from. It's reasonably simple to show that the most commonly discussed use cases for game system emulation in the public sphere online either directly involve or else encourage DRM circumvention.

So the argument will rely on finding more mentions of people talking about wanting to circumvent DRM rather than just playing it on another platform using the emulator in Google?

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Quoting: qptain NemoConsidering emulators actually aren't made primarily as means of DRM circumvention wouldn't it be easy to argue against that? Or at the very least wouldn't you have a very fair shot at that? All the counterexamples would be plain truth.

Typically it's not the intended use case but the common in practice use cases these arguments are made from. It's reasonably simple to show that the most commonly discussed use cases for game system emulation in the public sphere online either directly involve or else encourage DRM circumvention.

Quoting: elmapulyou're assuming that people know about those free alternatives, they dont.
it took me years to replace notepad with something better, i didnt even knew what synstax highlight where, or that this is possible.
auto complete is another killer feature, those things are important for productivity, so the text editor you chose do matter!

piracy became part of an culture, people arent used to search for alternatives when they can't pay for something, and as an result they dont tell their frieds, neighbors and family about those alternatives.

That is, to an extent, certainly part of it, but there are also a metric ton of other factors. Consider, for example, the implications of the mere exposure effect and the anchoring effect on even getting people to try an alternative they do know about, let alone putting in time and effort finding ones they aren't already aware of.

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I never had a problem with Bastion...Played it and finished it. Great game!

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Quotethis will be a free to play title with micro-transactions

Thanks, done with it.

Quoting: razing32I'm a bit iffy on the whole Single-Player microtransactions.
I get the business model in Multi-Player , makes sense there.

Did you ever play Knights of Pen and Paper (av. on Linux and Android)?
Fun SP game, paid, still has microtransactions. But hey, I don't know anyone who use them!

P.S.: don't get me wrong, I don't approve microtransactions in SP games, especially in paid ones.

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Very rare I consider a refund for developers supporting Linux, but there's been no word from the Devs that I can see about this on the steam forum for some time..

Such a shame, but I'll wait my 2 weeks or whatever it is and hope for the best I suppose.

Saw Jim Sterling's video on it and just bought it straight away without looking for any potential issues that others might be having.

Oh well. I hope they sort it out.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI am still puzzled why Jumpan on the c64 is missing the awesome music in places that the Atari 8bit has.

Also wondering how Commodore got the later Ultimas after 4 ported, they were practially unplayable on the c64 with all the disk swapping.

you mean jumpman? it became mario :v

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Quoting: tuubibut pirating a text editor is pointless. You won't lose much productivity or convenience by switching to a free alternative.

you're assuming that people know about those free alternatives, they dont.
it took me years to replace notepad with something better, i didnt even knew what synstax highlight where, or that this is possible.
auto complete is another killer feature, those things are important for productivity, so the text editor you chose do matter!

piracy became part of an culture, people arent used to search for alternatives when they can't pay for something, and as an result they dont tell their frieds, neighbors and family about those alternatives.

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Well, time to reinstall it again! haha

Maybe I will finish it as I tired of CSGO for now!!

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What was it using before though?

I thought it was an SDL2 game, but apparently I was wrong?

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Quoting: shelloflightI'm so excited about this! I couldn't play Bastion on my steam machine due to a bug where direction inputs on a 360 pad would stick after being released. I hope they fixed it so I can replay one if my favorite games of all time.

I'm not 100% sure, but I played around with movement for a few minutes and it seems the deadzone issue was fixed by the port. I tried a lot of moving and stopping and couldn't get it to trigger, where it was pretty easy to trigger in the past.

Basically the older version of Bastion had no/a really small deadzone (expanded area around center of analog stick's axes which is considered no input) so if the analog stick came to rest slightly off-center (which they often do, hence the need for a deadzone) it would register as movement in that direction.

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Slayaway Camp is fantastic, be careful though, if you get it for Linux, you'll eventually purchase it again for mobile ;)

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I'm so excited about this! I couldn't play Bastion on my steam machine due to a bug where direction inputs on a 360 pad would stick after being released. I hope they fixed it so I can replay one if my favorite games of all time.

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Maybe this is too late to be helpful and no one seems to mention it anyway, but I bought BlazeRush based on this recommendation and I've decided to refund it. To each their own fun, but I'm nonetheless surprised it made the list to be honest.

The controls are slippery. It doesn't feel like you're controlling cars but rather sticks of butter and the primary concern isn't racing per se but simply not wobbling the hell out of control and sliding off the track. The camera that always tracks everyone rather than just you is pretty crazy in practice and not in a good way, no matter how interesting and novel that idea might sound on paper. That combined with the lack of customization of your car caused me to wonder which vehicle was actually mine more times than ever before in a racing game. Honestly, while not unplayably terrible or anything, it's probably the least solid game featuring vehicular combat that I have played to date. I just don't feel like ever playing it again and I think I'd feel embarrassed if I invited my friends to play it with me, and downright guilty if I made them buy it.

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Quoting: FireBurnDoes it have Vulkan enabled?

Not by default, but you can test it with -force-vulkan
See: http://steamcommunity.com/app/296300/discussions/1/215439774859610426/

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