Quoting: ElectricPrismPhoenix is going to use this no doubt, this is great news.

I bet Mr. Wright's benchmarking sessions always end with an outrageous twist, just like his trials.

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If it's half as good as it looks, I will love it.

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Quoting: HamishNo offence intended to Mr. Tyson, but it would probably be more accurate to describe him as being a popular scientist instead, given his prominence as a science communicator over his more academic work.

That is true, but I'd argue that popular science is just as important as hard (unpopular? :)) science. Shared science is the best science.

It was not meant as a value judgment, but the reason you know him is because he is on television, rather than for his actual studies and the work he has done as an astrophysicist and cosmologist.

I believe you didn't mean to diss him. I'm just a bit tired of the old "Those who can't, teach" idiocy when applied to people in science. No I'm not a scientist nor a teacher, just don't like the G.B. Shaw quote. Many of the most well known scientific geniuses (genii?) have spent much of their lives teaching, or communicating their thoughts.

Sorry for the tangent.

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Quoting: HamishNo offence intended to Mr. Tyson, but it would probably be more accurate to describe him as being a popular scientist instead, given his prominence as a science communicator over his more academic work.

That is true, but I'd argue that popular science is just as important as hard (unpopular? :)) science. Shared science is the best science.

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My friends can keep their galaxies. I hope the offline, non-social part is what makes up the bulk of the game.

I'm not a fan of his TV show, but he knows his stuff.

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Quoting: MaCroX95they have the right to DRM it and control our computers and spy on us if we accept their EULA

Luckily this isn't quite as clear cut in the EU at least. There are citizen's rights and protections we cannot give away by signing an EULA any more than we could sell ourselves into slavery. No agreement overrides law, and no private company or individual can dictate law. (Unless they've got the money I guess. :><: Fsck the legalized corruption we call lobbying.)

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Quoting: meggermanWith the recent Windows games showing bug in Steam i got a glimpse of many new and decent AA / AAA titles I will never have a chance of playing unless I pony up for a console or use Windows.

You'll always have titles you can't play if you stick to a single platform. Sure, Linux has fewer of the big franchises than the others, which is to be expected at this point, but with seventy-odd titles on my wishlist I sure can't complain.

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Quoting: PinkBear1WINE is just an emulator.

Nah, you're thinking about WIJE.

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Quoting: buenaventuraSorry, but you are the one arguing that culture should not be free, that it is a bad thing if it is.

I haven't seen a single comment saying that culture should not be free, or more accurately that no games should be free. In fact I am sure none of us even suggested anything to that effect. Not a single word against libraries, itch.io... any of it. You're fighting strawmen.

What many of us have suggested that until we reach that utopia where artists—and more to the point, game development studios—are able to profit from their work without having to rely on sales, we have no moral right to dictate the terms on which we consume their output. Feel free to help yourself to any media that is given to you by copyright owners, and do by all means take advantage of legitimate sales. None of this hurts the artist. It is the notion that you should be the one to decide that is basically the definition of self-entitlement.

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Quoting: boltronicsMy understanding was that OpenGL wouldn't be releasing new versions, and will just be adding extensions.

No, OpenGL isn't in maintenance mode yet. Khronos made it very clear that the Vulkan launch didn't mean OpenGL would stop evolving. There will be new extensions, and any deemed fit for core will be pulled into or influence future versions of the spec, same as always. Unless you've heard otherwise?

I have no doubt development focus has shifted towards Vulkan though. Some smart Vulkan-based abstraction libraries or shims could basically make OpenGL (not ES) irrelevant at some point, but Vulkan need to mature a bit for this to happen.

Probably referring to this speculative piece from phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-OpenGL-Version-Spoiler [External Link]

Larabel's speculation is what it is, mostly based on speculative (or hopeful?) comments from a couple of Intel developers who are influential but do not decide these things. We'll see. OpenGL-based games and software are being worked on, and will be for a long time still. If there's enough demand for a new version at some point, it will happen. I would be happy if the industry took a clean break and shifted towards Vulkan, but there are several reasons why this is unlikely in the near future.

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