Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Eike* The Journey Down
No sure about this one, pledged in 2017, anymore.

All three chapters were released on time, and they all ran fine for me on Linux. The last chapter came out in 2019 I think.

I know I played and loved them, but I cannot remember anymore why I dared to make this (my very first) pledge. Did they have chapter one out already?

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: Eike... which are all video games supporting Linux.

Wow, you must be very lucky...

For ensuring actual Linux support, I'm only backing people that have either a running Linux demo of the game or a previous game on Linux.

The other thing special about my list is probably the genre: only point and click.

But, for reference, here we go:

Reporting steady progress
* Heir of the Dog
Several previous games, including Lucy Dreaming
* Death Corp.
Author has worked on "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack" (that's the weakest of the references)
* Roots in the Sky - The Hand of Glory 2
First game works on Linux
* Near-Mage
Makers of Gibbous
* PRIM - a 2D adventure game about Death's daughter
Had a good demo on Linux

Delivered
* Lucy Dreaming
Previous short game on Linux & working demo
* Saint Kotar - A psychological horror adventure
Working demo. They delivered the Linux version one year after the Windows version...
* The Darkside Detective: Season 2
First game ran on Linux
* The Journey Down
No sure about this one, pledged in 2017, anymore.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Every single campaign I backed either delivered everything they promised, or is in the process of doing so and making steady progress. A few projects I backed were delayed a few years before eventually delivering the rewards. I have never been ripped off by a Kickstarter I backed.

I can say the same for my nine backings...

Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47I have never backed a crowdfunder for a video game and I have no plans to do so. There are so many ways it can go badly and so many already-existing games I can play that I just don't want to take the risk.

... which are all video games supporting Linux.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI wouldn't ever consider lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender as a biology thing. There's no evidence of it. Sure, it might be the way their brains are wired. But it's still XX/XY chromosomes. Intersexual people is a tiny minority and is considered an anomaly, not a normal thing. There are also people who grow horns out of their heads.

So I see us agreeing on main facts and we could (but won't) go into interpretation and what we do might with it?

Well, that's just as Purple Library Guy said, and the opposite of what the far right is doing (by inventing whole worlds of lies).

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Quoting: pbHave you tried turning it off and on again?

Did I already tel complain that the German translation of IT Crowd does say:
"Have you tried turning it on and off again?"?!?

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Quoting: slaapliedjeUhm, what? The richest companies on the planet are ALL on the Left. Microsoft, Google, Apple.

Erm.

No.

They want to make money and basically don't care about politics.

(Their goal might be that they don't need to care anymore what the governments under them do. Which would probably be called libertarian?)

Quoting: slaapliedjeCrazy things from the far-left? Identity politics.

It wasn't the question though what you consider crazy. That's for sure not hard to answer. The question was about making up a whole world of "facts" (lies).

Quoting: slaapliedjeDenying biological science, etc. I'm sure I could come up with more, but I need coffee. Denying DNA is basically the equivalent of flat-earth in my mind.

Nobody is denying DNA though.
And biology seems way more complicated than XX and XY.
(There obviously are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual people. Hard to deny that I guess? The question, just as Library Guy said, is what we make of it. That's how political debate should be, and used to be.)

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I'm looking forward for it. "Procession to Calvary" was not only funny, but a surprisingly good point and click!

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Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticIt is not that the birthrates in Germany have increased

Not that is has got to do anything with anything, but until Covid, they actually did. 2016 and 2021 have seen the highest birth rates in 50 years. (Having tried to find a day care in 2018, this didn't surprise me.)

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: EikeHow about setting all games that are not getting set anything by developers/publishers to 18, the maximum restriction age? Would be far from being unpurchaseable...

I suppose that still wouldn't fulfil the requirement of accurately identifying the "kinds of content" that are not legal in Germany. Steam would have to assume that every game contains such content and hide everything by default anyway.

Age restriction and actual illegal content are independent, and to the best of my knowledge (unlike AFAIK the USA?), they do not need to state reasons for the age restriction (like alcohol, drugs, violence, whatever). So I think this would fly.

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Quoting: StellaIs this a joke or something? How can they force everyone to comply to this retroactively when many game studios are long since defunct? What the fuck? Do they have any idea how many old games would simply become unpurchaseable because of this?

How about setting all games that are not getting set anything by developers/publishers to 18, the maximum restriction age? Would be far from being unpurchaseable...

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