Quoting: TheSHEEEPAnd naive and uninformed actions rarely to never lead to a positive result.

You base this guesstimate on what?

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80when it comes to dx9 games though if it doesnt run now, it never will they have long since moved on. Still a list of dx9 games that are either platium or gold.

Even if nobody was working on d3d9 anymore, problems with these games can be completely unrelated. And projects like VK9 might prove you wrong as well.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIf the Panterra people after long years of trying to teach them turn out simply incapable of self-defence, there is no reason to further waste your resources on them.

Oh, if this was about literal defence (the military kind) and not something you'd associate with the kinds of people you call do-gooders, we actually agree. Sending soldiers and weapons into a conflict zone has rarely had a lasting positive effect.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIf I actually did go out of my way to defend the poor and downtrodden Panterra people, and believe I am doing good, I would be a do-gooder.
Because that would only lead to the Panterra people never learning to defend themselves and always require someone to do it for them, it would actually be a bad result.

And what if those poor and downtrodden Panterra people actually need help to achieve basic necessities that would allow them to "learn"? I know the oft-repeated adage that "what does not kill you makes you stronger", but sometimes what doesn't kill you very effectively keeps you from getting up and helping yourself. Or ends up killing off most of your community, delaying recovery and learning by generations.

Someone struggling to scrounge up basic sustenance or to protect their children from preventable diseases isn't in a position to "defend themselves". This is another example of black-and-white thinking from people with a superiority complex. We are talking about human beings here.

Call me whatever you want, but I firmly believe that if most of us were just a tiny bit less selfish, many of the world's problems would be trivial to solve. And this goes for every nation and every creed of people equally. It's perfectly natural to concentrate on your own needs and those of your own community, but the world has changed too fast for us to rely on instinct alone.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP2. I am not your friend and your condescendence is not required to get your point across. You can go on, though. In contrast to others, I am not so easily offended ;)

I did sound condescending there. Sorry.

My point was, sure there are total dickwads who act nice, but they're not dickwads because they act nice. There's simply no correlation in that direction. However, it's a fair bet that a person who enjoys conflict and being a dick towards strangers turns out to be a self-centered bastard or simply suffers from ego issues.

Blindly dividing people you don't know into "do-gooders" and "actually good people" is just plain counterproductive.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI always love offensive games like that for the sweet butthurt they cause in all the hypocrites and do-gooders [External Link].

I've noticed that it's currently considered much more of a social faux pas to be a do-gooder than a do-badder.

So did I.
A good development, for once.
I'd much rather have more people that are unfriendly and appear dickish, but are honest, than those who "mean well" but only cause more harm.

Yes, you should always strive to hurt people because trying to do good is bound to result in something worse. If you actually believe that, you should start writing scripts for Hollywood my friend. That's the sort of overdramatic silliness you're supposed to leave behind when you grow out of the brooding teenage emo phase.

I can be a dick, but (hopefully) only to people who know my twisted sense of humour and take it as a joke.

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Quoting: JolltI love how they recorded the monitor, more people should do that to get a feel of the game running :D

I bet they thought setting that up would be quicker than learning how to record gameplay on Linux. :)

Or maybe they wanted to avoid the overhead to make it perform as well as possible for the video...

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Quoting: KuromiGOG reviews for game is rather lukewarm...

Could some of those reviews be for the significantly less polished original version?

Hmm. Doesn't GOG label early access reviews like Steam does ?

Well, I see three user reviews on GOG. One of them played on PS4, one of them played a pre-release version on Steam and one is just three words repeated over and over. The possibility exists that some of the reviews are for EARTHLOCK: Festival of Magic which was the earlier, less polished version. (I guess GOG allows reviews from people who don't actually own the game in their store.)

All that said, I haven't played the game so the 3.5-star average score might be deserved.

EDIT: The Linux port doesn't seem to be available on GOG.

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Quoting: KuromiGOG reviews for game is rather lukewarm...

Could some of those reviews be for the significantly less polished original version?

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: tuubiNo proper metroidvania should have randomly/procedurally generated levels. Or permadeath if you ask me. Subjectively speaking, I like a properly designed experience with a clear progression and the repetitive aspect of roguelites almost always just ends up boring me and driving me away.

Dead Cells does look nice despite these drawbacks and I'm definitely interested.

It has procedural levels?

I had to recheck, but it does actually seem to have procedurally generated levels. At least to a degree. Google finds this dev diary [External Link] on the subject.

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