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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: DurandalThat said. Fuck Framework and their “big tent”.

Huh? What did I miss?

There was a drama that Framework supported non-koscher projects so now everyone should hate on Framework ;)

ad rem - great move. KDE is getting better and better despite GNOME being the default on majority of distros. What makes me laugh is that Fedora recently promoted KDE variant to the main page and put lovely: "The next generation personal desktop" monicker below it 🥰

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> X/Twitter in a rather blunt post telling people to just go for the sequel.

Yeah… the other day I found out about the sequel and after quick searched turned out to be epic-only… yeah but no… epic can go ef itself

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Quoting: DurandalThat said. Fuck Framework and their “big tent”.

Huh? What did I miss?

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...

From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".

I don't know what is worse, if that turns out to be a lie or the truth. ;p

Having something hand made doesn't automatically make it good of course. But yeah, the scenes look boring and inconsistent.

Maybe that's why it's called Less Miserables but in a bad way.

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Just Valve being Valve, winning by default and contributing to the gaming community in the process.

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They may be scaling the stream, but the UI is still tiny at 125% in Gnome. Oh, well, one step at a time.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: whizse

Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...

From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".

I don't know what is worse, if that turns out to be a lie or the truth. ;p

Having something hand made doesn't automatically make it good of course. But yeah, the scenes look boring and inconsistent.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...

From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".

I don't know what is worse, if that turns out to be a lie or the truth. ;p

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Aliens & Anti-Vaxxers sounds like a great Punk Rock band name 🤘🏻🔥

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I am glad to see KDE getting more love. Seemed like gnome was getting all the attention and frankly KDE is just better and brings more to the table for the user as well as being much more user focused.

That said. Fuck Framework and their “big tent”. You don’t get to play middle of the road both sides anymore, that ship has sailed…. right into an iceberg.

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Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...

From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".

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Quoting: TcheyI'm stuck on my 2015 idea, having a hard time to see anything else.

... But all my already little support for the company is gone now.

Gentle reminder that the original company that made those decisions (uber entertainment inc./star theory games) hasn't been involved with planetary annihilation since 2018 and ended its existence in 2020 after its contract to develop kerbal 2 was cancelled.

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Quoting: Eocene84Considering we're starting to have a big problem with the measles making a come back where I live because of idiot anti-vaxxers refusing to vaccinate their children because they believe the socialists (aka Democrats) will brain wash them.

No joke, I've talked to someone who believes this, and they are very much not alone in that and similar beliefs. We're screwed.

Oh mi god, now it's finally clear! I've been vaccinated as a kid and now I'm vehemently anti-fascist! Those pesky lefties vac-washed my brain!

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The artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...

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Considering we're starting to have a big problem with the measles making a come back where I live because of idiot anti-vaxxers refusing to vaccinate their children because they believe the socialists (aka Democrats) will brain wash them.

No joke, I've talked to someone who believes this, and they are very much not alone in that and similar beliefs. We're screwed.

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If Steam and Roblox had a baby... 😆

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Quoting: PyreticWhy are they using a custom script? Does Steam not provide separate options for Linux x86 and Linux ARM?

Not currently, as Steam does not officially support Arm on Linux.

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As much as I loved the new Hoshimachi Suisei collaboration, I genuinely cannot FATHOM how people are still regularly doing anything having to do with Epic Games. Be it using their Unreal Engine, Their Epic Games Store

Spoiler, click me

And getting flashbanged because they decided it was a good idea to give every store page it's own background color

, Fortnite or whatever else they're doing at the moment that doesn't consist of ruining rocket league

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The only issue I had with bottles is that it kept FAILING to import the media foundation etc etc support.

For some damn weird ass reason it would often not be able to play Video or Audio sometimes and then I load the same setup on Lutris and BOOM it works. It was just infuriating issue.

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Switched to bottles a few days ago and it not only works better for my already installed games it's also way easier to set up. Lutris forces you to configure each game from scratch while bottles gives you one prefix aka bottle in which you can run things however you want. It's really hard to put it all into one short comment but if you're a long time lutris user like me then bottles will likely fix all your grievances.

There is also an appimage repo on github in case you don't want to use flatpak. https://github.com/ivan-hc/Bottles-appimage

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Seems it has been quite unpopular, even the news post on Steam seems to have zero thumbs up:

I couldn't imagine that to be true, so I went to the page and gave it a thumbs up - and the counter stayed at zero. It's either a bug, then, in the counter, or they've disabled likes for this post for some odd reason!

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I don't know why people are doubtful about the "it's not AI" claim.

"Fortnite isn't making as much money as before" seems far more likely - I would even have expected them to use "the layoffs are DEFINITELY AI-RELATED" to hide that.

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Quoting: sarmadGnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

I think KDE has reached a state where you can fall back to it as the most reliable option. Especially since on wayland everything has its own implementation of everything so it's more likely to run into differences and issues depending on the desktop. I moved from a window manager to KDE while playing Death Stranding 2 and I think it actually improved performance, maybe because it seems that Plasma has a proper support for exclusive fullscreen mode unlike the WM I used, although I could be wrong and it's some random coincidence, but I still kept using plasma for now as it also fixed some other random issues I've had recently

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Cool! I need to finish the base game.

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I tried this on launch and refunded it shortly after release, but i've seen they've had some updates. It was pretty clear they have some great artists, but content past cute models and art is shallow so far.

This game started development around a decade ago, and was based on a paid mod minecraft server that was cancelled overnight from mojang changing their TOS to not allow for private servers to sell mtx. They started building their own game in response, got acquired by riot soon after. The head guy made big bucks over the years from investments (maybe thanks to the private server revenue and the sale?) Riot games shuttered them after many, many years of development due to lack of progress. The head guy bought it back from riot and immediately launched in to EA.

I don't think there's a single boss in the game yet? They're all marked with "WIP" placeholders. There's an entire fantastical story area you portal to that is beautiful and really well crafted with art and has "WIP" signs everywhere, empty npcs and a couple of vendors.

You can also go explore and find these beautiful POIs all over the place in a handful of different biomes, and then you try and enter them and "WIP" is staring back at you. They haven't implemented so much basic sandbox exploration stuff.

Combat has a few weapon types and a finisher move that charges up until you unleash it. I really wanted more nuance, but it's way better than minecraft's combat (not saying much.)

The art is some of the best, but when it comes to coding in the rest of the game it's to be seen if it's development progress will greatly increase.

They do have a focus on modders to be able to mod out the world. That seems to be the core of everything (including their monetization plans. They want to be another Roblox where creators get paid and they get a cut, which they've promised not to start taking for 2 years in a blog post shortly before EA launch. The world gen can be customized to create new biomes, mobs can be programmed to act a certain way, all kinds of modder things are everywhere.

For now there's about 10 hours of poking around in the sandbox until you've seen all you're gonna see imo. If you want to build the palette is clearly getting lots of love with loads of textures, so there should be no shortage for that well beyond 10 hours.

In terms of other recently launched EA minecraft clones, Everwind seems more interesting to me. It may not be as pretty (still gorgeous though) but the gameplay loop of building a magical steampunk airship that is your base and then exploring different sky islands is phenomenal. Still another EA title, so much EA hell! Doesn't anybody aside from AAA release mostly finished games nowadays? Do modern games really need to take over 10 years to finish?

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Quoting: TermyTo be fair, a permanent discount down to 2,39€ for owners of PA is pretty reasonable.

Today yes, but from my memories and from SteamDB, it was first a new game only, then an update about 15€ for several years, and the price dropped only much later.

This, and i think the gameplay doesn't work well anyway, with large scale spherical planets. You can't see much and constantly have to rotate the view.

However i would need to play it again to confront my opinion, as i didn't play Planet nor Titan annihilation for years.

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Quoting: Eocene84

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

Since the "Alien Breed" series of games has been left alone all these years - while featuring both obvious Xenomorph rip-offs and "Alien" in the name - I think they're pretty safe. I also don't think this specific alien looks much like the Xenomorph at all.
Other games that would hinder any legal action: "R-Type" (Xenomorph rip-off), "Alien Syndrome" (Xenomorph and Colonial Marines rip-offs), "Ninja Gaiden" (Xenomorph rip-off), "TMNT IV: Turtles in Time" (Xenomorph rip-off - also featured in the comics), "Alien Rampage" (Predator similarity), "Contra" (both Xenomorphs and facehuggers are "homage'd" here), and "Alien Storm" (less Giger inspiration, but the name's similar to this new game).
So, with a lack of visual similarity, a bunch of Xeno-rip-offs in games already, and with the abundances of games already on Steam with a name that starts with "Alien", I don't think they have much to worry about 😁
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

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Quoting: CaldathrasMate is a lot more common than you think (we have active Mate users on this forum).

Hi!

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: sarmadGnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

It wasn't clear from the article whether it's a regression, some major improvement in KDE, or something else. Would be nice if he compared with GNOME 49 and/or some other desktop environments to give a better idea. If it *is* a regression, hopefully they can track it down quickly. The differences were pretty large in some cases.

Yes, not clear from that article, but this other article compares PopOS to Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04, which shows the regression clearly in some of the benchmarks, like the Xonotic one, where Ubuntu 24.04 is almost double the performance of Ubuntu 26.04.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/popos-2404-ubuntu-2604

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Quoting: TcheyI'm stuck on my 2015 idea, having a hard time to see anything else.

Should be free for all buyers of Planetary Annilations, not only Kickstarer's.

To be fair, a permanent discount down to 2,39€ for owners of PA is pretty reasonable.

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