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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIm so glad seeing Boomer Clickers making a comeback :wink:

Just came to say the same. Hard to believe this genre was very very much dead until Deadalic reactivated it and now new titles come up all the time.

It wasn't quite dead. I think it just got drowned out by the explosion of other types of games for a while. I mean there were never that many adventure game releases per year even in the good old days.

In addition to Daedalic, developers (and publishers) like Telltale, Revolution Software, Wadjet Eye, KING Art and others kept traditional adventure gaming alive through the dry spell for fans of the genre.

The classical (2D) point and click adventures (especiall those with monkey island like humor) absolutely looked dead between 1998 and 2008, when Edna and Harvey released.
TellTales Sam and Max Season One might shorten that to 2006 but I wouldn't call that a classical point and click. I wouldn't even get myself to replay these games, though I celebrated their release (Just to find they ran horribly on wine back then). TellTale games aged horribly.

Well, setting aside your preferences and focusing on the whole genre, here's some traditional and non-traditional adventure game releases from the "dead" period, in case you missed them:

• 1999: Discworld Noir, Gabriel Knight III


• 2000: The Longest Journey, Escape from Monkey Island, Dracula: The Resurrection


• 2001: Runaway: The Road Adventure, Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria


• 2002: Syberia, Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths, Simon the Sorcerer 3D


• 2003: The Black Mirror, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, Samorost


• 2004: Syberia II, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring, Return to Mysterious Island


• 2005: Nibiru: Age Of Secrets, Still Life, Ankh: The Tales of Mystery, Samorost 2


• 2006: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Secret Files: Tunguska, Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine

I see some proper classics on that list, but you seem to be talking about a narrow subset of the traditional adventure genre and only a couple of these would fit your definition. I guess adventure games were properly dead for you personally.

Oh and of course there was also the active hobbyist community at adventuregamestudio.co.uk [External Link], and you can still download tons of free and fun games to play, all 2D and most with silly comedy. Old versions of the engine were janky at best, but they should still run with Wine.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIm so glad seeing Boomer Clickers making a comeback :wink:

Just came to say the same. Hard to believe this genre was very very much dead until Deadalic reactivated it and now new titles come up all the time.

It wasn't quite dead. I think it just got drowned out by the explosion of other types of games for a while. I mean there were never that many adventure game releases per year even in the good old days.

In addition to Daedalic, developers (and publishers) like Telltale, Revolution Software, Wadjet Eye, KING Art and others kept traditional adventure gaming alive through the dry spell for fans of the genre.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThinking of big mistakes, that linked website is designed in such a way that if I hit the "+" button enough to make the print pleasantly comfortable to my eyes, the column with the actual text disappears, swallowed by the sidebars. :grin:

If you use Firefox, have you tried Reader mode? Hit the page icon at the right of the address bar, or Ctrl+Alt+R. I think Chrome/Chromium has a similar feature as well.

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Quoting: KuduzkehpanTransgaming with (proton wine cedega qemu etc..) is not the real gaming way in linux and shouldn't be.
but transgaming boosting linux popularity more than any other stuff on linux too.
İts a double agent thing as Trending "proton compatible" trick by game developers. Build for windows but earny money from linux users just because Linux users found a way to run that software on their linux system.
and still transgaming is just like rolling dice. For example i got new AMDGPU now lutris games not working anymore. But Steam proton works like a charm.

Please don't try to coin TransGaming—the name of the (ex-)company—as a generic term for this. I realise some generic term might be needed but this is not it.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualYou can get up to 5 years of next-day business repair, anywhere in the world. Dell will come to you even if you are on holiday, to your hotel, to repair your laptop for you. No other manufacturer offers you this that I am aware of; they always want you to send your laptop in, if not ship it via post, wait 2-4 weeks, and more than likely they'll be unable to repair it because they stopped producing those parts months or years ago.

As someone who's had a tech come in at short notice and replace the motherboard of my laptop on my kitchen table back when I was still running my own little business from home, I'm with you on this one. Definitely worth it if you can't make a living without the laptop.

That said, next business day on-site support is available from most of the big business brands. Dell, HP and Lenovo for sure. Price and quality of support might differ though. And they don't usually cover anything outside of their business ranges of products.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySounds pretty good!
Um,

Mint now uses IPP (Driverless Printing and Scanning)

Anyone know what the implications of that are? Is it good news? Bad?

If you've got a relatively modern USB printer or a network printer from the last couple of decades, it should be detected automatically and Just Work™. If it doesn't, you can restore the old behaviour by simply removing a couple of packages.

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Quoting: itscalledrealityIs the Gecko engine the same as the Mozilla Firefox Gecko or do they just share the same name?

It's the same engine.

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Quoting: STiATI'm using Nvidia and decided I will just buy it once it's confirmed running. I have no doubts it will, most games running on deck do actually run on Nvidia.

And seriously, playing a cat in a survival game? Couldn't be a cooler setting. An almost perfect hunter with night vision in a survival game...

I mean the feline is the world's greatest murderer.

Well, mustelids (weasels, wolverines) I think are in the running there. Really, the world has a lot of really expert murderers.

The dragonfly laughs at all the furry amateurs.

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Quoting: Mountain ManGames bought in Linux and played in Proton are logged in Steam as a Linux sale, so people refusing to buy any game that requires Proton are, at least theoretically, directly harming Linux.

So if I choose to buy a native Linux game instead of a Windows game, how exactly am I harming Linux? Please explain. Nothing theoretical about this, it happens regularly.

It reduces the number of Linux sales for certain titles, which tells those developers that they were right to not support Linux directly. That's the exact opposite of what we want.

So let me get this straight: If a developer actually puts out a Linux native game that I'm interested in, I should definitely not buy it. Instead, I should buy some Windows game in the hopes that the developer might notice us and maybe support Linux in the future.

Do you perhaps see how this might confuse a simple penguin? Seems almost backwards, to put it mildly. To me it's pretty clear that buying a Windows game does less to help Linux gaming than actually buying Linux games.

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Quoting: Mountain ManGames bought in Linux and played in Proton are logged in Steam as a Linux sale, so people refusing to buy any game that requires Proton are, at least theoretically, directly harming Linux.

So if I choose to buy a native Linux game instead of a Windows game, how exactly am I harming Linux? Please explain. Nothing theoretical about this, it happens regularly.

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