Seems like something I might enjoy.

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Quoting: HalifaxIt's like they brought in the the Lifetime Channel to write the script that had to be approved by a moral majority conservative Mormon panel. I don't need my video games taking themselves soooo seriously.

It's not like I'm so predictably boring I *just* want her to be a bigger breasted shallow sex symbol like she basically was before - reinvent her in some interesting flawed way, then - but don't make her a boring Lifetime channel movie paragon of good wholesome virtues and politically correct messages.

That's big budget, hollywood-style, marketing-driven design for you. I'm sure Rhianna Pratchett is quite competent as a writer, but big business doesn't like taking risks.

Quoting: HalifaxMake her a drunken slut that can't make a good decision to save her life. Make her find out she's actually adopted trailer trash who's not actually from her British parents. Make her a trainwreck where you just can't wait to get to the next video flashback log from an old friend to find out even more screwed up stuff she's done. "Yeah! This is Sarah.... Thanks Laura, so you had to sleep with both my sister and my husband, on Valentines day - at the SAME time? If I ever see you again (etc etc)".

And now you lost me. This is the other thing I dislike in current American entertainment. Every damn action movie starts with some big baddie murdering and raping the protagonist, his/her family, the family dog and the neighbour's pet pony. And every damn protagonist f**ks up absolutely everything for the first third of the movie, using drugs/booze/whatever to cope with their trauma. But that's okay, it's not unrealistically over-dramatic; It's edgy!

So basically I agree that entertainment often takes itself too seriously and is very reluctant to break the mold, but taking notes from bad fan fiction and going overboard with the drama isn't the answer. In fact I'd say you're proposing two incompatible extremes here.

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I love me some Nelly. And so does the wife. I absolutely must buy this as soon as I can.

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Quoting: darkone778And it looks like Dirt showdown is also available. Why do i feel like this has been available for a while now and im just seeing this? lol

VP released the Showdown port like half a year ago. Just do a search for Showdown here on GOL. You'll find several articles on it.

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The game looks beautiful. Going right to the top of my alarmingly long wishlist.

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Quoting: CheesenessI think the voice acting is pretty good in general, but the English script feels a little off (not enough for me to dislike the game, but enough to notice that English is not the native language of the scriptwriters).

Which is okay, because most of us arent english native speakers either :)

Doesn't mean we somehow get more enjoyment out of badly written dialogue. Not in reference to this game in particular, just don't see your point.

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Quoting: ziabiceI know, I know, don't buy before release, support the developer, etc. etc. but the game is on sale right now on indiegala store for less than 5 €.

And there will be other sales after the game has been released for Linux.

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Quoting: TacoDeBossAnd they've embarrassed Valve by saying it would be ready for the Steam Machine launch.

Valve caused some (if not most) of the delays. This was mentioned in the article. Be fair and don't put all of the blame on Psyonix.

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Quoting: KimyrielleHandling graphics drivers in Linux is still an absolute pain and is probably THE single biggest obstacle for the average user to get a Linux based system ready for halfway serious gaming. Both AMD but also NVidia have to get their act together eventually and release something that installs with one click, you know...like in Windows. Right now we're a far cry from that. And no, NVidia isn't much better. Optimus. 'nuff said.

Interesting: I have no further problem running the driver installation. You want a one-click-installation? Stay with Windows. Simple as that. :D

Why do people even want to download driver installers from the web instead of using their package managers? This doesn't make sense to me. There are official (or semi-official) repositories for supported releases of the big distributions that provide new drivers almost instantly after release. Sure, a highly customized or bleeding-edge system might not get this level of support, but then again, you don't even have a (legal) way of running a highly customized or bleeding-edge version of Windows. And if you do, you certainly can't expect random drivers and installers to work on it.

PS: None of the installers are "one-click" on Windows.

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Quoting: GuestOh god, this sorta pushed me away from the game, anyone who respects steve jobs is either an idiot or a scumbag (like him). Unless they were just planning to make fun of him :)

People tend to associate success in business with other, more significant accomplishments or qualities of character. Just look at Trump. He's a complete and utter tool, but his enormous fortune makes a lot of people think he'd make a good president of the US.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTI guess it's Tomb Raider. Still I do wonder why they port the old game instead of the latest title. What's the idea of porting older games, when you could also port recent ones?

I'm sure they'd love to port all the recent and upcoming blockbusters, but at the end of the day it's not their decision to make. It's up to the IP owner to "hire" them for the job, not the other way around.

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