In case someone missed it, HRM is currently available for an unbeatable price (as in pay what you want) in the Humble Eye Candy Bundle. And unless you're allergic to fun and/or puzzles, you need to buy this game. I spent a big chunk of my working hours today playing this programming puzzler instead of actually programming.

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Quoting: EikeEverbody interested in the topic needs to play Journey Down if he hasn't yet done so!

Everebody interested in adventure games needs to play Journey Down. :) Can't wait for Chapter 3.

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The idea seems fresh and the graphics pretty enough... Too bad about the poor execution. Missing lipsync I can overlook (common in older adventures), but game-breaking bugs not so much. Hope they'll be fixed at some point.

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They've got the style down pat and I was already digging out my wallet. What else could I do as an adventure fan who grew up in the eighties. Then I read "time-management" and instantly the deal is off. I wonder what it means in practice though. Maybe it's not as bad as I think? I won't hold my breath but will definitely keep my eye on this.

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Quoting: Mountain ManPretending that DRM doesn't prevent casual copying is as naive as pretending that it hinders hardcore pirates.

It's also naive to pretend there's nothing between those two extremes. I'm not a casual consumer, nor a hardcore pirate. Does that mean I don't exist? To make things worse, I recently saw my wife's 9 year old nephew playing a pirated game he downloaded from some malware-ridden website. (He had no idea why he shouldn't have done it.) Does that make him a hardcore pirate?

The only thing a would-be pirate needs to know is how to use a search engine. Others have ripped the media and cracked the games already. For the people who are too "casual" to manage the downloading part, DRM hardly makes a difference.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: IgnisIt does not work. Hitting TPB and downloading whatever is already faster and don't require you to jump through numerous hoops. All copyright holders manage to do is to throw their own money into a black hole. Well, that and whine to pass more laws that encroach on human rights while shedding crocodile tears.

The average mom and pop consumer has never heard of The Pirate Bay, and their eyes would glaze over if you ever tried to explain the concept of a torrent to them. This is who most DRM is aimed at and not the technologically savvy gamer.

That mom or pop would just as happily buy their streaming media sans DRM without even knowing the difference, so that point is pretty much moot. It's not like it would be legal to share these copyrighted works even if they didn't include these technical roadblocks, so you'd still need to torrent them.

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Quoting: leillo1975OpenGL or Vulkan?

My money's on OpenGL, but I wouldn't mind being wrong.

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Quoting: Comandante oardoI use the https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link] and the privative version of the 364.19 is NOT in my list, only the open sourced version is listed

There's only one open source driver in that screenshot of yours, and that's the nouveau entry at the top. All of those binary drivers in your list are Nvidia's proprietary (or as you say, privative) drivers. I don't speak the language, but if "código abierto" after an entry means open source, that's just a glitch of some sort with the driver manager or the ppa. You might want to file a bug. Anyway, install the 364.19 and you're good to go.

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Quoting: IlyaI somewhat miss the times when it was possible to play all the games on Linux...

Playing all games is very much possible (assuming you have enough bucks). Playing all to completion has become very much impossible, esp. when you go for 100% achievements!

You need to learn to delegate. Hire a few assistants to play for you, from a third world country maybe to keep the wages reasonable. I'm sure it's well worth the fame and fortune the 100% Linux completion rate would bestow on your glorious personage.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI think most companies are afraid that if they release something with no copy protection in place then it'll be a free-for-all, and they won't make any money.

So in effect, they think every consumer is basically an opportunistic thief with no moral scruples at all. Or maybe they only think that when they sell stuff that's artificially scarce. Bugger 'em sideways, I say. Personally I'm prepared to pay more for goods and services from companies I respect, and that doesn't include ones that treat me like a potential criminal.

Quoting: orochikyo(funny fact you never will ever own a game, movie or music, read the eula, you are renting even if you are allowed to download it to your PC)

After I read the eula, I simply ignore any bullshit that's not legal basically anywhere. In most civilized countries corporations still can't just write any old bullshit into law. They have to do it through the lobby system. :F

Okay, double rant over.

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