Quoting: BielFPsThere's one thing that saddens me about this game is that, back then when they attempt to make a native version, they didn't had vulkan and the linux graphics were in a sorrow state. That resulted in a (opengl) poor performant native version specially compared to the later Proton that made use of a more performant API.
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Interesting, I've been wondering why for some titles using proton performs better than some native ports; this explanation makes sense to me.

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quick followup: if you have Amazon Prime you're in the mood for something a little more modern you can try World War Z. Amazon credits it to Epic Games, and it installs and plays hassle-free using Heroic.

No comment on the actual gameplay though, yet.

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my quick two cents; the geographic theory of development (Guns, Germs, and Steel good example) has been on the way out for a long time; lots of evidence that the causal channel for geographic is weak. The current best evidence is for institutions, recommend anyone interested check out "Why Nations Fail," by Acemoglu and Robinson. Acemoglu is the world's greatest political economist (among other things). Because geography (for Acemoglu, disease environment in particular) can sometimes influences institutions, you do observe correlations between features of geography and outcomes.

The problem with using culture as an explanatory variable is that it's very difficult to test. First deciding what is and is not culture is difficult, then being able to break a particular culture into its constituent parts in order to make meaningful scientific tests of their causal influence is difficult. This means that saying something is due to culture is close to unfalsifiable. There's some good work on this but it's still very early (take a look at Nathan Nunn from Harvard). As such we should hesitate to attribute anything to culture until better tests are available.

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I'm replaying Primordia in honour of they work they've been doing, such a fantastic game and I'm really not much of a point and click gamer; Primordia might be the only one I've finished

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people still play lfd2? that's great, I should give it another go

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Quoting: Nanobang
... much the way Microsoft --- and Gabe Newell [ihimself[/i] --- did to get devs to leave MSDOS for DirectX back in the mid-nineties:

This was an interesting bit of history, thanks for sharing it

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If y'all have any interest at all in casual arcadey Ultratron-style games you absolutely have to get this; January 6 is when the game got covered by a couple gaming youtubers (Splattercat and Wanderbots, at least). I bought it Jan 6 and I've put a lot of time into it since; I'll play it while listening to youtube or a podcast. It's huge value for money, highly recommended.

EDIT: fair warning though I do occasionally get some brutal frame slowdowns that disappear after picking up a chest, then slowly return. Not sure what's going on there.

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what a strange patch. I'm not plugged in to the Stellaris community but I'm surprised people were upset about how useless Unity is. I'm split between thinking this is strange because it feels like a balance patch for a single player game, and thinking it's strange to dramatically reshuffle the mechanics five years after release. I'm not against making Unity more important (agree with poster above that the administrative capacity change is bad), but I would have preferred a content patch.

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I'm on my second XPS13 (2015 and 2020) and while I love them I'd warn people to stay away from this new one if it has the AX500 wireless chip in it. Bluetooth isn't working and the wifi drivers are extremely unstable.

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I've been meaning to try GE for a while but didn't want to invest any time into getting it installed... this is perfect, thanks! (PSA: it's in the AUR for Arch users)

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