I finally bought Opus Magnum on Steam for 50% off, but Exapunks will have to stay on my wishlist for a while longer. I shall get it at some point though. Zachtronics does not disappoint.

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Quoting: liamdaweHumble also just launched a new bundle with Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition, Bastion and Mad Max affiliate link as usual [External Link].

I've already got all the Linux games in the bundle, but damn that's a crazy low price for Mordor. And Mad Max (which I enjoyed a lot more) for that matter.

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Quoting: bubexelYes, ppl should know that world is full of haters, and they will hate you and your game. Doesn't matter what you do, its a fact. The best way is just to ignore those haters.

But it is hard. Especially when the hater targets you. This world of fully connected everybody, and everybody free to hate on others "freedom of speech", it's bad.
Either we should be taught at school to do less hating, or we should be taught at school to cope with haters on social media. I opt for both.
For my generation there is just no hope, we have to hide on social media just to prevent getting hated on.

Teaching empathy and basic human decency should happen at home and by people children look up to, by example. Schools cannot and aren't supposed to raise kids, and they have limited means to affect the way children turn out.

But this has very little to do with what happened here. Criticism isn't hatred. I don't like how these days all human behaviour is supposed to be either love or hate. The developer's reaction was understandable but unfortunate, but I don't see hatred from either party. This is also one thing parents should teach their kids: If someone doesn't love you, that doesn't mean they hate you. Following your gut might be cool by Hollywood standards, but mostly it's just leads to knee-jerk stupidity.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieMy favourite principle of common law is Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos which translates to "whoever's is the soil, it is theirs all the way to Heaven and all the way to Hell"

bluntly putting it: If you f**ck with land property we will drink your blood and take your soul.

I'm pretty sure the principle refers to the land owner's rights to the air above and the ground below their plot. I like your dramatic interpretation though. :)

Of course many other laws do not agree with that principle of common law. I'm pretty sure that in Canada, mineral rights are/can be separated from general land ownership, even though we are a country which has sort of inherited the British common law. And I'm pretty sure most jurisdictions do not allow most private property owners to stop planes from overflying their property; things would be tough for the airline industry otherwise.

I read that the phrase originates with the Roman lawyer Accursius in the thirteenth century. I'd assume aircraft weren't much of a concern back then. :whistle:

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Quoting: DelicieuxzThe GPL license was for "personal, non-commercial purposes only" while Best Buy and 13 other companies distributed the GPL firmware commercially.

The companies tried to add a clause that disallowed commercial use of GPL licensed software (BusyBox) they had modified and incorporated in their products. In effect they had added additional restrictions.

The purpose of the GPL is to protect your rights to use or modify the code as you see fit, and distribute it freely. But to ensure that the recipients of your modified code also retain these rights, you are not allowed to publish the code or binaries under terms that conflict with the license.

None of the court cases are about modifying personal instances of the software, because the license simply does not care. It also does not try to prevent you from selling products that either incorporate or entirely consist of GPL licensed software, as long as you freely provide your customers with the source code as well and do not try to restrict the rights granted them by the license.

GPLv3 does add some clauses that might be harder to enforce in more corporate-leaning jurisdictions like those in the US. I'm not sure if the explicit protection against actual laws that restrict writing and distribution of certain kinds of software would stand a chance against the DMCA over there. Which is kind of silly in a country where corporations themselves can effectively override the law with EULAs and Terms of Service. Not that the EU is much better in this regard, but at least the laws over here retain a shred of decency. For now.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieMy favourite principle of common law is Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos which translates to "whoever's is the soil, it is theirs all the way to Heaven and all the way to Hell"

bluntly putting it: If you f**ck with land property we will drink your blood and take your soul.

I'm pretty sure the principle refers to the land owner's rights to the air above and the ground below their plot. I like your dramatic interpretation though. :)

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I think the beach is the only one that regularly exhibits the audio bug for me. That's where it happened in Liam's recent Rocket League stream as well. I almost never play anything but the regular soccar though. Might also happen on some of the special arenas.

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Quoting: KristianDoes anybody here know of actual Switch titles that use Vulkan on the Switch?

I don't really follow console gaming news, but Doom (2016) and Wolfenstein II might be likely candidates.

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Quoting: KristianThe reason I suspect such a hypothetical situation might be useful is because DirectX has a lot of mindshare, tools, tutorials, books etc and most of all games that actually use it. Have many games ship with DirectX support vs support for open API's?

Direct3D 12 is a completely new graphics API and it isn't that much more established in the industry than Vulkan. As far as I know, only a couple dozen games have released on Windows with D3D12 support thus far, and none of them are D3D12 exclusive.

Quoting: KristianBy the way is Vulkan seeing any widespread adoption by Switch developers? AFAIK Nintendo only offers Vulkan as an alternative to their own API's. If Vulkan was the only option for a major console that would also help alot.

I don't think it matters. As long as a cross-platform API is properly supported, it doesn't need to be the only option. Nintendo wouldn't be a likely candidate to do something like this anyway.

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Quoting: Kristian"even if Microsoft hypothetically released an open DX12 spec, (deliberately) breaking their own "standards" and making competitors scramble for compatibility with their own implementations would be par for the course."

Them not doing this, or anything like it, was intended as part of my hypothetical.

I still don't see the point. What would DX12 bring to the table that Vulkan doesn't offer? Many companies have invested a lot in Vulkan support and know-how already. Why would they want to switch to another API now, equivalent or not?

DX12 is more limited in scope and hardware support by the way. It only needs to support XBox and anything that runs Windows 10. Vulkan is supported everywhere from the Nintendo Switch to specialised safety critical aircraft hardware. Vulkan could replace DX12 as is, but not the other way around.

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