Quoting: jgacasAs someone who grew up in the '80s it's a must buy, no no doubt about it.

What if you grew up in the eighties but aren't nostalgic for synth pop, cassette decks and arcades?

The game looks really fun despite the theme.

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Quoting: razing32Is it just me , or are we milking Lovecraft and Tesla a tad too much lately ?

Stop milking dead men, people.

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Quoting: GrazenHere is a link discussing WCOS:

https://www.windowscentral.com/understanding-windows-core-os-and-polaris [External Link]

Note that WCOS is not Windows S.

That is hilarious. They're literally selling... Linux. The Linux paradigm. All the best Linux features. (Closed platform bits aside) Brilliant.

Don't worry. This is just marketing. The actual implementation will have the worst Windows "features" broken into nifty little modules. Still a steaming pile of crap, but you get to pick and choose the nuggets.

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Quoting: t3gI'd love if Valve updated the bundled libraries for the Steam client to Ububtu 18.04 in April.

Kinda pathetic it still ships with 12.04 libraries from 2012...

Those libraries caused me nothing but woe. Use snaps and Flatpaks, and let us choose whether or not we even want an outdated and barely functioning runtime at all.

Yet the runtime provides a somewhat stable platform for developers and mostly works just fine on Steam's target distributions. Game devs are not forced to use the libraries in the runtime anyway. They exist for their convenience.

Also, if you're running proprietary binaries on a rolling distro, you get to keep the pieces. I have nothing against Arch or any other distro, but there are always drawbacks.

Quoting: Sol33t303I believe that this version of Windows is actually intended for schools (I think I remember the S standing for student, but I'm not entirely sure). For them, this makes a lot of sense, not being able to install anything but what is in the Windows store makes Windows more secure (similar to Apples walled garden). I don't think this is intended for a wider audience and schools don't want students messing with their oses just incase they break something (you could argue that it's the ITs job to fix this, but lets ignore that). So this isn't really intended for widespread use, so in my opinion, Valve doesn't really have anything to fear.

Schools already have the option of limiting software installs to their own selection, and at least local schools do this on their Windows computers. I don't see how handing more control of this process to Microsoft helps them, especially if it breaks compatibility with some of their software.

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Quoting: SebastianNigroOpenGL is extremely slow when compared to DirectX 11 and later.

Might want to give a trigger warning before whoppers like this. :)

It's probably true for GameMaker's OpenGL backend though.

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If you watch the trailer, you'll notice the zooms, transparencies and smooth scrolling and realise that it isn't so much pixel graphics as low-resolution art on a modern engine. A stylistic choice if you will. And the wavy, blurred reflections in the water weren't made with old-school blitter magic. The style might seem retro, but the game isn't.

Anyway, I'm keeping my eye on this. I like three fourths of "sandbox adventure pirate RPG". It's just the "sandbox" part that turns me off a bit. Sandbox is like open-world but without proper goals and story progression.

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Quoting: NanobangYay! I'll no longer have to squint to use Steam's desktop client on my 1080p TV---as soon as I figure out how/where to set the "environment variable'GDK_SCALE=2'" for the Steam client. :P

No, really. Someone please help me.

Please.

The safest way to set the variable only for Steam is to copy /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/, then edit the copied file and add the variable to the exec line. If your line looks like mine Exec=sh -c 'STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 steam' %U just change it to Exec=sh -c 'GDK_SCALE=2 STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 steam' %U
You can undo the change by deleting your custom desktop file.

Remember to change your desktop and panel launchers as well if you've got them. You're on XFCE so you should be able to just right click the icon and choose "Edit Launcher" if I recall correctly.

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Quoting: TheRiddickOMG naked female bodies [...] THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

If the nudies give you the horn, please ignore TheRiddick's advice and think of something more appropriate.

Certainly not.

Just a joke.

Quoting: ElectricPrismI'm just poking at the idea that while the GOL audience might prefer nude female models they might have a drastically different opinion if the post contained nude male characters.

They might, but that's their problem. It's just people without clothes anyway. Who cares if they've got digital dangly bits.

Quoting: ElectricPrismIn many cultures it's common to find outright prejudice against nudity while completely accepting deplorable acts of graphic violence. I have no problem with nudity whatsoever, in fact I think the common one-world culture is finally starting to prevail away from our dark age roots.

Agreed, this glorification of violence is downright twisted.

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Quoting: TheRiddickOMG naked female bodies [...] THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

If the nudies give you the horn, please ignore TheRiddick's advice and think of something more appropriate.

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@elmapul, I think you might still be mixing up streaming in order to play remotely (steamlink style) with livestreaming for audiences over the internet, or recording a gaming session. This is about the latter use cases. There's a noticeable delay, but it has no effect on the actual gameplay.

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