Quoting: STiATWow, even my old 555 gtx has OpenGL 4.2 ...

Something must be wrong if three year old tech isn't obsolete! :P

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Quoting: neffo"my dad works for Nintendo".

Half-Life 3 confirmed!

I'd like to see the Witcher 3 come to Linux, as a native port, but I'd probably buy a wrapper version if that's the best they can do. Either way, until it's officially launched on Linux, I won't be buying it.

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Haha, love the image.

I do love these interview pieces.

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Dwarf Fortress has soaked up all my gaming time this weekend. I've been trying out the double-slit method of punching through a multi-level aquifer. It'd be going a lot better if my miners would stop throwing themselves off of trees when they're bored. :c

Up until the new DF, I was playing XCOM and Civ V.

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0.40.02 was released this morning/yesterday night: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/index.html#2014-07-10 [External Link]

As noted by Toady, this new version breaks save compatibility, so you'll need to generate a new world (or stick with 0.40.01 and hope you don't experience the bugs he refers to).

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It's impossible to explain why DF is so awesome. On paper, it's an unintuitive, ugly, micromanagement-filled mess of complicated screens and monotonous tasks, coupled with a learning curve so steep that you can shave with it. The secret is ride out the learning curve and try not to be put off by the 'limitations'. There will come a time when it's suddenly 6am, and you're putting off sleep until you've seen off the invasion of Trolls and Goblins, tamed that Dragon you captured, upgraded all your military to steel armour, and fully mined that bituminous coal vein you found. It's impossible to explain why these things are important to you to anyone else.

Also, Boatmurdered.
http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/ [External Link]

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Quoting: XeekeiI hate when people say "PC" when they mean "Windows".

Same. I can't tell if it's ignorance, or if they just do it because "everybody does it". :(

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Happy birthday!

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And pae is not a good solution: http://cl4ssic4l.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/linus-torvalds-about-pae/ [External Link]

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Quoting: RutineI wonder if there are statistics concerning 32-bit and 64-bit use by Linux users ?

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux [External Link]

As always, the Steam HW survey is just that -- a survey. It's neither a full picture, nor is it necessarily an accurate portrayal of the situation, but if you click "Linux Version", you'll see the top five are all 64-bit variants, and the sixth, "Ubuntu 14.04 LTS", doesn't specify whether it's 64 or 32 bit. Nevertheless, if this survey is to be believed, over 61% of Steam on Linux users are on 64-bit versions of their distribution.

I expect that the true percentage of users on 64-bit Linux OS' is easily that value, if not considerably higher.

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