Quoting: tomtommethe Author was criticizing other sites for not being professional enough.

No, he was accusing them of bad journalism and lack of fact-checking, at which point people started calling him unethical and unprofessional.

But let's not derail the comment thread any further or it'll be closed as well.

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Quoting: tomtommeAnd as gol It would be even better if the language would be kept more professional, and less emotional.

You're forgetting that this site isn't and has no pretensions to being "professional". It's more or less a personal blog with a few contributing editors and a forum. And that's a fact many of us appreciate.

Sure, GOL is gathering quite a following, but that's no reason to suddenly start emulating a commercial "news" portal / hype pusher / advertisement outlet / clickbait hell. We've got enough of those, and I for one have no time or patience for them.

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Quoting: NyapAnyone with me?

Go ahead and pirate all you want. Just don't think the developer will ever know about your noble act of defiance.

Telling them directly what you think of the way things worked out (or not) might just be a bit more effective. But then again, mailing them isn't very likely to get you the game for free...

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Quoting: CybaCowboyIf this is going to add a whopping 100+ games to my Steam collection though, I will pick it up irrespective...

I doubt it will. More likely it'll be a single shared Steam launcher and game library entry for the "vault". All the various articles are talking about a single package.

Personally I'm not going to touch this one. I did enjoy (some of) these classics back in the day, but the simplistic arcade gameplay just isn't my idea of fun anymore.

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Quoting: tuubiI hope they do good old Poirot's grey cells justice. The investigation gameplay needs to be spot-on. Hard to get right, I'd imagine.

PS: I'm a bit disappointed Poirot doesn't look like David Suchet. He is Hercule Poirot as far as I'm concerned.

EDIT: Clicked on quote instead of edit, sorry.

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I hope they do good old Poirot's grey cells justice. The investigation gameplay needs to be spot-on. Hard to get right, I'd imagine.

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Quoting: GuestThere's no reason we can't have a GLSL -> SPIR-V offline reference compiler, ....

Khronos has promised exactly this, and experimental support for SPIR-V output is already provided by glslang. There's also this quote from the Khoronos SPIR page [External Link]:

SPIR-V also supports OpenCL 1.2, 2.0, 2.1 kernel languages as well as the GLSL shader language for Vulkan (under development).

Don't know how useful that particular NVIDIA extension will turn out to be.

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It would be weird if they hadn't been working with game developers on Vulkan backends. They wouldn't be stupid enough to do their first Vulkan driver releases without any testing on real game engines, right? I'm sure NVidia and even Intel are doing the exact same thing. Also, I'd bet these games are all very recent or upcoming big budget titles.

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Quoting: BeamboomOh no, please - no timers. :(

Seconded. Timed missions only lead to frustration.

Maybe there's hope that these timers are only there to make the players choose between missions (as you won't have time to do them all), and not to make missions themselves more stressful.

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Quoting: GuestStill waiting for that new Valve title to drop. Makes me paranoid they're still wanting to put on a massive show and do a "hard launch" for Steam Machines at some point.

A new Portal would indeed be awesome. ;)

For kicks, let's hope they're just waiting for Vulkan.

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