Are you sure it's actually an adventure game and not another sandbox?

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Remember when you were looking to buy a game and there was simply nothing you wanted available for Linux? Because I do. Strange to think this was only a few years ago.

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Weird and quite possibly wonderful. Hope they get it sorted out.

A release delay of a week or three doesn't matter much to people like me with 80+ games on our wishlists...

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Quoting: GuestHow do I edit the command line so the benchmark starts at 23:45 and ends at 24:45 of that demo file ? Similar to this "+timedemo_start 50000 +timedemo_end 51000". I don't know what 50,000 / 51,000 stands for.

They're "ticks" as defined by the engine. Seems like the default in Dota 2 might be somewhere around 30 per second. Seems like you could use the option "engine_show_frame_ticks" to find good start and end values. Here's a list [External Link] of console commands if you need it.

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Quoting: GuppyNot far fetched - Christmas has a similar origin ( the winter solstice festival of jul - later renamed to mask the pagan connection).

What I thought far fetched was that particular Norse/Germanic myth as the most likely original source for the Christian concept of hell.

Quoting: GuppyHell still is not officially post of Christianity, you can say a priest of you like. The main difference is duration as I understand it (hell being permanent)

It certainly seems to be part of modern Roman Catholic doctrine. No use asking a priest for a definitive answer as none of them can speak for more than their own denomination or sect. A non-partisan theologian is a better source if you can find one.

Quoting: GuppyDisclaimer: I am not a true believer, I just find the inconsistencies amusing

It wouldn't be religion at all if it was purely scientific.

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@Guppy: I know Hell is a later invention or import into the Christian faith (as if that matters, all "living" religions change all the time), but that Hel/Hell connection seems a bit far fetched. There's a "hell" of some sort in many if not most ancient religions and mythologies.

I should probably stay out of this as I'm not the least bit religious, but I'm genuinely interested in the psychology of religion and superstition in general. No offense intended!

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The game looks awesome, but I thought this was already confirmed? Who cares, it's coming and I'm happy.

Quoting: salitynamAdd hashtag EthanLee maybe?

They're just tags, no hash involved. :)

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Quoting: ShmerlThere is this: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/362 [External Link] but it's not complete yet.

I'm pretty sure versions of glslang are used in some form or another by all of the big engines to do the shader conversion. This is very much work in progress still, as there seem to be commits going in for HLSL support every week. Probably to enable their reference SPIR-V compiler to consume HLSL, but equally useful for GLSL output.

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Liam, a good while ago you wrote "Don't be a shit" to welcome a known Linux basher to your site. I'd like to formally repropose making that the first and most important rule for all members of the GOL community. In fact, that would pretty much make all the other rules redundant.

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I'm still not interested in VR in its current form(s), but industry-wide standards are pretty much always better than multiple competing solutions. Good going Khronos (and Valve).

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