Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylaySadly its written in rust so it takes forever to compile on my computer, even with my cpu with 24 threads

Took less than a minute for me on my eight cores. I suppose that's pretty long but not quite forever.

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5 new playable characters Squiddy, ...

Did they add this particular character just for you, Liam? :grin:

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Quoting: LoudTechieMy secondary anecdotal evidence is the persistence of religious themes in Japanese media such as manga and anime. Reincarnation in the form of those Shonen stories, gods and even the occasional kami, the common theme of slaying and becoming Gods(uncommon in western media, since in western religious practice gods are supposed to be immortal(has its root in the early days of Christianity and greek philosopher discussions), while in Shinto one can become and kill a god), the mention of Ki(although more in Korean media, but that's the most neighboring country to Japan so some cultural overlap is to be expected), etc.

Norse/Germanic gods and mythical beings feature prominently in modern Japanese popular fiction, but that doesn't mean they're all believers in the Æsir. (Who are not immortal by the way, even though they're Western gods.) There's also a plethora of demons, angels, golems, genies and other creatures from Christian, Jewish and Arabic lore. And Greek and Egyptian gods and monsters obviously. Religious myths are simply a goldmine for storytellers worldwide. I doubt that says much about the religious beliefs of the authors or the fans.

Quoting: LoudTechieIt's at least big enough in Japan: to rebel against [External Link].

This is of course no proof, but now you can see how I came to a contrary conclusion to you.

The same Wikipedia article provides the statistic that around 70% of Japanese have no personal faith (which is a higher percentage than most Western countries I think), although about the same percentage follow some Buddhist and Shinto traditions and rituals. So who knows. Maybe it's like many people around me who go to church for weddings and funerals, but only identify as Christian because they consider it their culture or heritage. By that I mean that if you asked which religion they identify with, they'd say Christian, but if you word the question slightly differently, they'd answer "not religious".

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Quoting: Mountain ManWith all this doom and gloom talk about the end of Manjaro, I have to ask, what's the best alternative?

(Of course every Linux distro seems to be surrounded by pronouncements of its impending demise, but it rarely comes to pass.)

Gentoo.

I know that feels like a meme, but it's really not. This thing is rock solid stable like a mountain, and man switching to it was the best choice I ever made. I don't even get all those little "odd bugs" you normally get on other distros.

You compile all the packages yourself which means you can patch out forced telemetry yourself or disable it at compile time (I do this for KDE). Binary packages are available now, but you lose some customizability.

Anything done in a way you don't like can basically be changed, no questions asked.

I ran Gentoo many years ago and found it to be rather labor intensive and too easy to break even with a routine update. I imagine things have changed in the past 15 years, but I also have no compelling reason to abandon Manjaro at the moment since it has always just worked for me. I suppose that's boring to people who like to constantly tweak and tinker, but these days, I really don't mind boring!

Same, but I suppose I've ended up drifting even further to the other extreme. :grin:

Gentoo was great fun for a couple of years though, back when a full stage 1 install took a whole weekend on my Athlon Thunderbird 750, with a stack of printed A4 sheets for an installation manual. It was a good learning experience for a relative Linux newbie such as myself in the very early 2000s. Still miss portage and ebuilds. But not quite enough to go back. :whistle:

To be fair, I've read that Gentoo provides binary packages these days and stage 1 and 2 installs haven't been a thing for a good 15 years. The distro must have changed quite a bit since those halcyon days of yore.

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Quoting: LinasA remaster? Of a game released in 2020?

2017. Only the PC port came out in 2020.

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Quoting: LoudTechieStability is something sysadmins salivate over, but there are lots of other parties like Gamers and developers that don't care about stability and want the newest of the newest tools.

That's such an absurd thing to say. I wouldn't want to work with a developer who doesn't care about stability. Nor would I want to be their customer.

And as a gamer, I don't see why I'd want anything but a stable and predictable platfrom to enjoy my games on. That's actually one of the reasons I run Linux.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: CatKiller

What single player game would you have as your number 1 for Valve to bring out next?

In The Valley of Gods [External Link]

Is horrible what they did to Camposanto..

Bought them? I don't think it was a hostile takeover.

In fact, after the game was put on hold, one of the Campo Santo people confirmed that their staff had willingly drifted off to work on various other Valve projects. And that's because Valve lets them work on whichever project they find interesting and relevant to their expertise.

It's a shame. I was looking forward to In The Valley of Gods. But "horrible" isn't the word I'd use, unless I've missed something.

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Don't you need Steam Play to use the Steam Linux Runtime as well? Or any other "compatibility tool". It doesn't automatically mean Proton.

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Quoting: MarlockPrince of Persia hails all the way back from 1989 with the handbook as a digital copy deterrent

You can find earlier examples as well. Some C64 (and Spectrum) releases had code cards/sheets inside the cassette sleeves in the early eighties. One I remember fondly is Jet Set Willy from 1984. Others had actual copy protection code such as California Games (the Epyx US floppy release) from 1987.

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Quoting: Eike

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?

The Journey Down (chapter one) started out as a free AGS game [External Link]. So I suppose you could say there was a demo. Although the final product looked and played a lot better.

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