Quoting: ElectricPrismCan someone please release a stat program on github that records stats once a month and we will make it a dependency of all steam installs.

Even if you had the power to somehow "make it a dependency of all Steam installs", I don't think another bit of (involuntary) telemetry is the answer. You'd just give more ammo to the privacy conscious Linux users who detest Steam. And make reluctant users like me just a bit more reluctant. Valve already has all the data they need (or want).

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Quoting: GuestI've been having The Talos Principal setting in my wishlist forever. I'm gonna try to grab it on the next Steam sale.

It's -80% on Steam until the 15th of January.

I know. But I'm broke for the rest of this month thanks to the plumbers when we had frozen pipes. I'm sadly gonna have to wait on it.

I know the feeling. My wishlist is endless for a reason.

The game definitely deserves to be played though. If you enjoy puzzles and/or philosophy, you will most likely get a lot out of the game.

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Quoting: GuestI've been having The Talos Principal setting in my wishlist forever. I'm gonna try to grab it on the next Steam sale.

It's -80% on Steam until the 15th of January.

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Quoting: liamdawePersonally, I'm quite excited by Serious Sam 4! Having another quality FPS on Linux that uses Vulkan is going to be great, although it's likely still quite some time away from any kind of release.

I can't say I care about Sam, but I'm looking forward to The Talos Principle 2. I think Croteam already confirmed they'll be working on a sequel or at least another first person puzzle game.

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Quoting: tuubiDropped the distro for Gentoo at some point, and even if I spent most of my time compiling software, at least portage was (and is) an awesome package manager...

Compiling doesn't get in the way most of the time. But there is the odd occasion I need to let things run overnight (llvm needs MAKEOPTS="-j1" or it fails for me, but I suspect that's just me).

This was back when I was rocking an Athlon Thunderbird or maybe an Athlon XP with a slow HDD to boot, so compiling anything took quite a bit of time. And I'm sure Gentoo's infrastructure has been streamlined in many ways since. It's been quite a while.

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Quoting: musojon74I so used to love Mandrake Linux. Was my distribution of choice for some time

I used it for quite a while as well, back when it was new and shiny. I absolutely hated the rpm-based package management though. Dropped the distro for Gentoo at some point, and even if I spent most of my time compiling software, at least portage was (and is) an awesome package manager...

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Quoting: stretch611Another way to look at it is that Shenzen I/O is $12 for the top tier of the bundle. Right now, in the middle of the Steam Winter Sale, Shenzen I/O is 25% off at $11.24. Might be worth it for that alone.

Humble doesn't do regional pricing for the bundles, so it's actually cheaper there for me at 9.95 EUR for top tier, while on Steam it's 11.24 EUR. Shenzhen I/O has been at the top of my wishlist for a while, so I guess I'll just have to pick it up. I thought TIS-100 was brilliant, so I'm pretty sure I won't be disappointed.

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: liamdaweArticle updated with a quote from Valve.

Thank you for the fake news social experiment. It was quite illuminating.

As an unwilling participant, I'm really ok if we don't do this again for a while, or ever.

I don't think you quite understand what fake news or social experiments are, but thanks for the chuckle.

The accusing tone of his reply is unwarranted, but you did write a "news" article that turned out to be based on misinformation from dishonest sources. Valve didn't ban usernames with catbot in them, and the affected users were lying about being victims. But you obviously didn't mislead anyone on purpose. Maybe you should edit the topic to make it clear that this has been debunked?

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Quoting: GuestOf course Vulkan will help increase the number of Linux releases eventually, but that will only ramp up as fast as developers plumb their game engines for it. Linux is a lot closer in reach when you're on Vulkan. :3

The same has been said over and over again if developers "just used openGL" it's the same argument with a different name.

This is true, but to be fair, for various (good and bad) reasons OpenGL never really shook the "like D3D but worse" stigma among developers. I haven't seen such bias against Vulkan.

I do agree with you though. Vulkan is essential for the future of gaming on Linux, but won't suddenly make developers pay more attention to our tiny platform.

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Oh wow! An "interactive game", huh? What a novel concept.

Could they seriously not think of anything more descriptive? That's like saying "edible food" or "wearable clothes".

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