Hopefully stashing 2 and 12 hour saves is a temp fix until they figure out how to prevent resets. It will be very disappointing if this sort of kludge is their final answer to this kind of bug.

I'm also a little annoyed by them toggling the availability of seasonal recipes. They've stated that Valheim isn't a live service game. This sort of behavior contradicts their position on that. They should just add recipes and let players engage with them how they will.

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Targeting Proton gets easier as Valve lowers the cost of adoption hurdle and WINE core keeps improving. Jumping through a lot of hoops isn't worth the hassle, but hopping over a few low hurdles is a lot more attractive. Developers aren't going to target "native Linux" (which isn't a real thing anyways), they're going to continue Windows development but might be willing to do so in a Proton friendly manner so they can get that sweet "Steam Deck Compatible/Verified" tag on their game. So yeah, if a studio/publisher sees platform numbers increasing and the difficulty in compatibility going down, then why wouldn't they if it's cost effective.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: randylFor channel authors YouTube may suck, but for consumption YouTube is pretty good.

It depends. The next video recommendations have a tendency to point towards conspiracy theories, dangerous crafts hacks and other weird stuff.

Some of the age gate flags are very weird. A few years ago people started abusing the system to soft ban some music videos by a German TV station that made fun of Putin although there wasn't anything age sensitive at all.

Quoting: lectrodeIt would be interesting to know exactly what in the video caused it to do that.

Maybe the discussing changelog. Too much text on the screen. It seems that many of the videos that instruct the viewers in questionable methods of software acquisition write URLs in a text editor.

I get what you're saying, but like I mention in the post you quoted, I typically don't look at their content recommendations, just my channel subscriptions. The recommendations on my page personally aren't filled with conspiracy theory stuff so much as content I'm just not interested in. Also, the top section of recommendations are all channels I follow so I see tech and music stuff mostly, except for the one comedian I follow (Eleanor Morton). Down below that are all the stuff they think I'll like or want to push at me. Gamers Nexus is probably the most socially provocative channel I have so most of my recommendations are "boring" anyway.

The big takeaway I got from watching Liam's video post about the issue is that having a dialog with a real person about the specifics is nearly impossible. That is true for issues with other Google services as well and one of the big reasons I avoid using their services when at all possible. I'm not sure there is much that can be done about it.

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For channel authors YouTube may suck, but for consumption YouTube is pretty good. I watch the channels I like and subscribe to and rarely watch their content suggestions. I occasionally search for some songs I might not find on Spotify or Apple Music. So, for me YT is decent enough for what it does.

Curiosity Stream/Nebula isn't any better and they charge a premium now to view indie/non-mainstream content ($80/year). Odysee isn't very good at all. The content is low quality and sparse and their search and performance is subpar (I'm being kind). There aren't any "good guy" options out there right now.

On the plus side, now I know GoL has a YT channel and I subscribed.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGah! My Tolkien!
Well, mind you, I have no particular reason to imagine the Embracer/Extender/Extinguisher Group will do a worse job with Tolkien IP than the Saul Zaentz company.
Anyway, it seems like Middle-earth Enterprises' rights are not as complete as I initially thought. From Wiki:

In November 2012, the Tolkien Estate, trustee and publishers sued Middle-earth Enterprises (in addition to Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema) for infringing Tolkien's copyrights by producing casino and video games using his characters. The original license to Tolkien's works was limited to the right to sell "tangible" products such as "figurines, tableware, stationery items, clothing, and the like", but did not cover "electronic or digital rights, rights in media yet to be devised or other intangibles such as rights in services"

Seems like they have the movie rights, and rights to character names, and merch, but probably not video game rights, basically because video games didn't exist in 1968 when Tolkien sold the rights.

Other limitations on Middle-earth Enterprises' rights (they extend only to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) may partly explain why the big new series from Amazon is taking place during the time period before LoTR takes place, in late Silmarillion territory.

They might have sued but they may have lost or had their rights amended. They license a few Lord of the Rings games including Lord of the Rings Online, Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, and some strategy game.

Embracer is freaking huge. I've been wondering how they've flown under the radar so well. Maybe it's because of their name change and how little known "Embracer" is. Embracer is the rebranded parent company of THQ Nordic and was also previously named THQ Nordic AB which owned THQ Nordic GmbH. They rebranded to Embracer in 2019.

Some of the subsidiaries Embracer owns and several are massive parent companies in their own right: Amplifier Games, Asmodee, Coffee Stain Holdings, Dark Horse Media, Embracer Freemode, Gearbox Entertainment, Plaion, Saber Interactive, and THQ Nordic. They've also merged several previous brands into their fold or into their subsidiary's holdings group.

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I think The Ascent is pretty brilliant despite some jank and clunk. It combines twin-stick with ARPG and shooting. The story is fun. The atmosphere gritty.

There are plenty of white collar and "professional" simulators in this genre, just not this bundle. They're just casual sim-management puzzles with a theme. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: GuestThey've pushed Proton to the point of it effectively becoming middleware.

Isn't that the point for Valve? It ties Linux to the Steam ecosystem garunteeing sales income.

It's a genius move.

Not at all. Steam makes it easy to use, but it isn't a requirement to use Proton at all.

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Quoting: cbstryker

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderARK: Survival Evolved....... also known as the answer to the question of where did the free space on my hard drive go???....... 125.95 GIGGARYDOOS!!!!

Isn't that for the native Linux version? I have the windows version installed (with DLCs) and it's sitting just shy of 250 GBs.

My ARK install is at 290.42GB. I'm probably going to drop it because I just don't play it enough. Nothing even comes close to sucking up that much space. The next few big games on my drive currently installed are:
Borderlands 3 - 125.47GB
Inquisitor Martyr - 77.04GB
Guardians of the Galaxy - 75.66 GB
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - 45.78

Those are fairly big games and ARK takes up just a little less than all those put together.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GuestDepends on your definition of care. They might care, but can't justify, which is a wildly different scenario than simply not caring.

I think one could have serious and interesting philosophical discussions about whether those two things are actually wildly different.

I think of it like the Trolley Dilemma. It's a matter of finite resources, where best to spend them, and what lives or dies as a result. Either way, much like the Linux based GoG client, it doesn't matter in the end. They're not doing it so that essentially takes it off the table for exclusively Linux gamers.

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Quoting: hardpenguinAlways impressed by continuous updates for this game

Agreed. Remarkably they have done so in a way that hasn't ruined earlier ways to play.

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