Quoting: ValckNow this looks interesting!

Hopefully now I can finally turn off the RGB crap you simply can't avoid buying these days... will this idiocy never stop?
Glossy glarey displays, piano black finish, RGB lighting inside closed cases, I don't even want to know what may come next.

This reminds me, on Windows, I had a special software with my GPU, but I didn't know what it was for. After a bit of research, I found that... its purpose was to synchronize the RGB "breathing" effect (lights increasing and decreasing, in a seemingly "breath in, breath out" motion) between my Asus GPU and Asus monitor... :huh:

Fortunately, the lights can be turned off for the monitor, and my GPU is not visible inside my PC case... but I am with you: the RGB-everywhere nonsense has to stop...

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I love the trailer music :tongue:
I will look into this, added to wishlist for now

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I finished my second playthrough of Pine [External Link]. It wasn't planned, but I "accidentally" ended up again with all the collectibles (and associated bonus items), which is always nice to have :smile:

I also bought two copies of Mists of Noyah [External Link] for coop play, but did not have the opportunity to try it yet.

I also bought Blacksad [External Link], but unfortunately the game crashed repeatedly, I could even go past the menu. So I had to ask for a refund :sad:

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Did a second run on Punch club [External Link], this time triggering another story line (I didn't even know they was more than one). That's pretty cool, wonder if I will get another surprise on my third run (with the last fighting style, the Turtle).

I also played a run on Refunct [External Link]. The game is very short (< 10 min), this is probably the best introduction to speedrun you will find, all in a very chill atmosphere.

I tried the demo of Neon Abyss [External Link] and I quite enjoyed the run. It seems to have a lot in common with The Binding of Isaac (which I don't like much), but I prefer the platformer approach more. Release date is scheduled for tomorrow (July 14th)... Decisions, decisions :tongue:

Finally, I started playing Divinity II: Developer's cut [External Link], but the choppy camera made me stop after 2 hours. The problem seems to affect the Windows version too ; currently the only suggested fix that seemed to work was to cap the game to 30 fps, using libstrangle [External Link] (strangle 30 %command in Steam)... which is not that great :sad:

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Quoting: Projectile VomitI'm still wrestling with this damn Nvidia/Intel hybrid thing. I switched, recently, to Manjaro (KDe- I love KDe. Leave me alone.) and have never seen this hybrid thing until now. I tried switching to just the Nvidia 440 drivers, and rebooting did not give me the desired results. I am the guy who simply decided to reformat (after backing up everything using a liveUSB), when I mess up the graphics. I have never been very good at recovering a system from a graphics issue. So I reformatted with Manjaro (I get better results with my music production than from other distros, which may have something to do with the hybrid video drivers, as Nvidia is known not to play nice with audio production, but I'm not entirely sure). I am back at the hybrid drivers and, for now, I'm leaving them. Music production is a bit more important to me than games, at least on this computer (my only computer, at this time). I hope a switch that doesn't have me altering files and jumping through hoops comes along soon.

While Manjaro runs fine on my desktop (no hybrid), I had the same problem than you with my MSI laptop. I finally installed Linux Mint on it, and it works ok. I haven't tried making music on it though.

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I got hooked by Punch Club [External Link], where you manage a fighter's career. The game also has a lot of humorous references to movies.
Currently played 10 hours straight :whistle: , although it can get a bit tedious at time (training for big encounters)

Oh, and it's cheap and runs natively on Linux :smile:

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ageresstuff

Pixel-art is often a style choice. Look at Dead Cells, it's incredible and it just wouldn't be right in 3D. On all sides, there's always going to be games that don't look good. For every person who shows a picture of a 2D game looking bad, I could show one of 3D looking just as terrible. 3D/2D doesn't matter, gameplay and overall style trumps all.

There are pixel-art games which do look good indeed (Dead Cells was in my mind too), but the truth is, it is harder for me to convince my friends to play pixel-art games (such as Mother Russia Bleeds, Children of Morta, Kingdom Two Crowns...) than 3D games (Overcooked, Helldivers,...).

Graphics are what makes people want to play a game, and gameplay is what makes them stay. But if the low graphics sets them away, the actual gameplay does not matter.

Then, there is Minecraft with pixel-art in 3D :tongue:

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Quoting: axredneckIs there any tool for creating "tracker" music, like OpenMPT but with sequencer-like interface and piano roll?

What do you mean?
There is no "tracker" music... i mean you can create any kind of music with trackers and sequencers, they are just tools.

Unless he was thinking about creating files in .xm, .it, .mod... format, which are lighter than mp3 files ?

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Quoting: GuestEdit: Oh, i googled and they are plenty of free courses on the web ! Can anyone knowledgeable tell me if it is a practical way of learning some music or just a loss of time? I always thought you had to go to a music academy and stuff at minimum.

Well, I know nothing about music theory, nor do I know how to play an instrument, but that doesn't prevent me from toying around. It depends on what you want to achieve, I guess :wink:

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Now we need the plugin to be applied to other people on Discord :tongue:

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