I played Lucy Dreaming Demo for over 5 hours, and still didn't find the easter egg for the competition. :D

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Quoting: scaineCould be. I know that in the culture of my firm (that is, the firm where I work), if I tried to promote a tool internally, and that tool is called "the GIMP", it's gonna be laughed out of town. I work at a big financial, and to this day, we still get raised eyebrows over adopting Splunk as our SIEM platform. Genuinely think that people underestimate how deeply embarrassing a developer in joke like this is. Can you imagine presenting your platform choices to your client base, and you've got that one on there? I suppose it depends on your client base... but I'd prefer not to have to explain, for the 20th+ time that a gnome developer thought this was a good idea.

I just don't even want to have a conversation with my management team where I try to convince them to use such a stupidly-named tool. The entire meeting would quite rightly devolve into Pulp Fiction jokes.

90% of the world wouldn't even know there's a joke in there, though. I sure didn't.
And try to sell Microsoft's WiX tools to someone in Germany. Pronounces like "wichs(en)", and I won't translate that...
(I'm rather surprised a big international company like MS makes such a mistake.)

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Quoting: dubigrasuWhat it needs is more games and a bigger user-base, hopefully the the actual launch will help. It would be sad to see it transform into another Ouya.

Are they making it to the Walmart shelves?

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Well, good luck!

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Quoting: GuestIt will *never* do its thing because the download times are *always* when my computer is turned off.

Did you actually try this? Because I'd expect a semi clever program to maybe try that once or twice, but then download when it is active. Which would be fine with the goal to not have huge load on the servers when an update for a popular game has been released.

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You made me watch the trailer and while I agree the sound effect is hard to stand, now I want the game even more than after playing the demo!

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It's not only very good looking, the demo was very demanding with respect to hardware as well...

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It's on my wish list since the demo. Looks promising!

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Quoting: AciDThe wasted space indeed.
This looks horrible.

Valve could just display the small informations (downloaded, total download size, ETA) below each thumbnails alongside controls like (download / pause, cancel).
That way you could stuff as many game thumbnails close to each other like in the library page.

Those thumbnails could be sorted as above ; active, queued, scheduled, completed.

I never had more than half a dozen games to download, and if I would, I wouldn't care to watch them downloading..

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Quoting: MohandevirBut I really have a problem with the .4% marketshare figure considering the wide success of educationnal Chromebooks everywhere... Net Market share might not be looking at the right places, in these cases.

I'm yet to see my first Chromebook here in Germany...
Though I at least did see some public adds here now.
Googling for it, "Nebenrolle" ("supporting actor") was a friendly way to describe its role in my country.

Quoting: MohandevirEdit: We can also conclude that ChromeOS is on the rise, thanks in part, at least, to the pandemic.

I guess so!

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