Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Cheeseness

Quoting: ShmerlA nice remastered art [External Link] from one of the users on Double Fine forums

This is not art from the remastered edition. This is fan art made many years ago. Here's a forum thread [External Link] for it.

Yes, that's what I said - from one of the forum users. It's not from Double Fine. Great work nevertheless.

Oh, I see. My apologies. I had read your post as though you were talking about art from the remastered version that was shared on the forums by a forum user (that sort of thing has happened before - when the remastered edition was first announced, some news sites shared it, saying that it was a screenshot).

It's a little bit too "shiny" for my tastes/perspectives on Full Throttle, but it's a lovely piece regardless :)

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Quoting: ShmerlA nice remastered art [External Link] from one of the users on Double Fine forums

This is not art from the remastered edition. This is fan art made many years ago. Here's a forum thread [External Link] for it.

Quoting: Mountain ManWow, that trailer sucks. Doesn't give you any idea what the game actually is.

For better or worse, that's pretty typical for adventure game trailers. If it's of interest, here's a FT trailer from the 90s [External Link].

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Quoting: Kalman98

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Quoting: Kalman98"Current positions of the ACLU include: opposing the death penalty; supporting same-sex marriage and the right of gays to adopt; supporting birth control and abortion rights;"

Now don't get me wrong here. I'm not trying to start an argument or moral debate or any such thing. But since you asked, I am explaining. The part that I highlighted in bold there on that quote, "supporting birth control and abortion rights"... that is not what the ACLU should stand for. By supporting that, they are trying to take away the rights of infant children to live.

I feel the need to point out that the part you highlighted is about contraceptives and foetuses, and not about infant children.

It also appears [External Link] that US courts have found such matters to be covered by "the Constitution and laws of the United States", and seem well within the ACLU's scope.

For whatever it's worth, as an outsider to the U.S., I've been pleased to see developers step forward like this in a time when issues they feel strongly about deserve attention, and it's been nice to see the positive response that the gaming community has given. Cardboard Computer have also been doing a similar thing [External Link] with some more transparent numbers on what they've raised, and they've exceeded their target $2k by more than 6 times.

This will probably be my last comment here, as this is not the topic of this thread, but I do not agree with you there. A child is a child, whether it is born or not. It is alive, no matter what you call it. I am not questioning whether abortion is legal - of course I know that it is, and this saddens me greatly. Many things have been legal in the past that most do not agree with now.

I would like to mention one last time, I have no intentions of an argument here. I have explained myself, and I do not think there is any more for me to say. Thank you for your time in reading it.

I'm going to quickly add a clarifying post here too since I'm not sure that I articulated my points well enough for them to be understood.

The term "infant" refers to a child that is physically separate from its mother, after birth and not within the womb.

That foetuses are independent lifeforms that have and deserve rights is certainly a perspective, and while it's not one I agree with or condone, I don't see much value in debating that here. That perspective can't really have any bearing on birth control though, which refers to methods of preventing pregnancy from occurring in the first place.

I wasn't intending to draw attention to whether or not birth control or abortions were legal. You had seemed to suggest that access to birth control and abortion was outside of what the ACLU should be pursuing. Since the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that access to these are rights that should be afforded to U.S. citizens, they are totally within the ACLU's scope to seek to preserve and stabilise.

Veering hastily back on topic, I'm curious to hear initial impressions from people who picked up Fez during this sale and hadn't previously played it. I think it's definitely a game where first exposure has the biggest impact.

I didn't have much awareness of it when I first played it and found it to be very charming, but its scope quickly became something that I knew I didn't have time for (I've still not finished it).

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Quoting: Kalman98"Current positions of the ACLU include: opposing the death penalty; supporting same-sex marriage and the right of gays to adopt; supporting birth control and abortion rights;"

Now don't get me wrong here. I'm not trying to start an argument or moral debate or any such thing. But since you asked, I am explaining. The part that I highlighted in bold there on that quote, "supporting birth control and abortion rights"... that is not what the ACLU should stand for. By supporting that, they are trying to take away the rights of infant children to live.

I feel the need to point out that the part you highlighted is about contraceptives and foetuses, and not about infant children.

It also appears [External Link] that US courts have found such matters to be covered by "the Constitution and laws of the United States", and seem well within the ACLU's scope.

For whatever it's worth, as an outsider to the U.S., I've been pleased to see developers step forward like this in a time when issues they feel strongly about deserve attention, and it's been nice to see the positive response that the gaming community has given. Cardboard Computer have also been doing a similar thing [External Link] with some more transparent numbers on what they've raised, and they've exceeded their target $2k by more than 6 times.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: CheesenessCheers!

On the screen about tools, why do you list Theora and Vorbis instead of let's say VP9 and Opus which are far better?

No reason beyond those being the first to come to my mind (probably because I've used Theora and Vorbis in projects before). It was definitely not intended as any sort of comparison of or statement about those projects relative value.

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Cheers! ^_^

Thanks to Liam for throwing up this article. I've had a bunch of other nonsense going on and wasn't going to get around to it for a few days at least.

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Ha ha, the number of times I accidentally say "real time strategy" instead of "strategy" is embarrassing. Whoops!

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Quoting: LeopardUnfortunately,it doesn't even started.

It's working here for me.

Does the game create this file?
~/.config/unity3d/Screwy\ Lightbulb/Kith_\ Tales\ from\ the\ Fractured\ Plateaus/Player.log

If so, could you upload its contents to somewhere like pastebin.com?

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Yay :)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeGranted the real difference between Steam's icon and SteamOS is one is circular and one is square.

Not anymore. The square logo is not present in the Valve's current branding guidelines [External Link], and has been retired in favour of the circular logo, which is now used for the entire Steam brand (with variants such as the Steam Machines and Steam VR logos differentiated by the addition of text).

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