Quoting: Kels

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: KelsWhy not have statistics for how many people have a game on their wishlist, per-platform. That at least gives likely a stronger picture of demand than how many people add their name to a Steam discussion that's already 10 pages but somehow still not enough.

That would mean I'd have to put games on my wishlist I don't actually wish for unless they get ported...

I already do that, and I've had others tell me they also put stuff on their wishlist that they "wish" would be available, or are waiting to come out of EA, as a way to keep an eye on them. So it's not unheard of behaviour.

I don't see the point. There's plenty of interesting stuff that's actually available. Enough that I don't waste time on games I will probably never play.

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Quoting: KelsWhy not have statistics for how many people have a game on their wishlist, per-platform. That at least gives likely a stronger picture of demand than how many people add their name to a Steam discussion that's already 10 pages but somehow still not enough.

That would mean I'd have to put games on my wishlist I don't actually wish for unless they get ported...

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: meggermanThere is a similar game from Milkstone Studios, it's 1/4 of the price and will probably give most of the satisfaction of Mantis burn.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/262690/Little_Racers_STREET/ [External Link]

Unfortunately it seems to be having an issue with the latest Nvidia drivers :|

Yes. Apart from the fact that it doesn't work and never has on my machine.

Still works fine for me on Mint with Nvidia 387. It only started working a few months back though.

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Quoting: crt0megaFive years ago I discovered GoL because I was searching news regarding Steam for Linux :D F*ck, I'm getting old.

If 5 years since first reading GOL makes you feel old, how old do you think I feel when I still remember typing this....

10 print HELLO
20 goto 10
run

I know I must have typed that and a lot more on my C-64, but I guess I'm too old to actually remember it.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMy question is, is there enough momentum in the Linux gaming market for developers to continue supporting Linux in the event that Valve gets bored and kills off their grand experiment?

I doubt they're running this experiment just to amuse themselves. Valve is a bit unpredictable as far as companies go, but they do seem to play the long game.

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Quoting: Alm888The second group of Linux-wannabees

Please just stop with the elitism already. Some of us do everything on Linux, others are not as committed to the "cause". This isn't about good and evil, or even about real Linux users and pretenders. It's just people running whatever software they choose on their own computers. Zealotry will only hurt our community in the long run.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOn that note, I was trying to figure out how you'd even have 100 mile per hour winds... if there was too thin of an atmosphere to properly have winds? I'm pretty sure there are large dust storms on Mars, but are they more in the upper atmosphere? I recall the first pictures before we'd landed anything on there was always showing that it had nasty weather patterns, and giant dust filled hurricanes. But it seems all the rovers aren't seeing that, except for maybe some sand dunes on the edge of craters.

You might find this interesting. [External Link]

Spoiler: It's the first Google hit for "Mars storms".

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Quoting: FredOWell this the first Feral port where I get a Segmentation Fault just trying to start the Launcher... I'm on Nvidia 384.90, but still on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Have they finally dropped support for this old LTS version? Can anybody confirm if it's working fine in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Ekianjo over at Boiling Steam [External Link] tested the game on Mint 18.3, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Should work just fine.

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Quoting: liamdaweI'll be honest, racing in F1 2017 does feel like a bit of a tiring experience.

F1 games feel more like work than fun. Real men/women/helicopters do it sideways.

Dirt 4 in the plans maybe? I'll stick with Dirt Rally until then.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, my point in linking that article is that pretty much none of the images we've seen really show what the surface of Mars looks like and are 'best guesses' by the imaging team, because (for some inexplicable reason) they don't just get a lens from Samsung or Nokia to get correct pictures :P

We don't know what it would look like to a naked eye yet, but we do know the "soil" is mostly hues of reddish brown due to its composition. Apparently there's a lot of fine, rusty, iron-rich dust in the thin atmosphere as well, and if that dust is red... I bet everything looks blue with invisible pink polka dots.

It's not the lens that's the problem anyway. It's trying to guess how to interpret the raw image data. Modern digital cameras use complicated algorithms based on reference images (often getting the white balance wrong anyway), but as we don't have any references from Mars, it's all guesswork.

EDIT: As MayeulC pointed out, I should think before I write.

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