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Quoting: tuubiIf Linux support is announced, this will be at the top of my wishlist immediately.

They should develop it directly in ScummVM!

Heh. That would be nice, but I doubt it. Unless Disney/Lucas gets a say, Gilbert is likely to bake his own engine, or rather base the engine on what he created for Thimbleweed Park. I'm basing this on the following excerpt from the Thimbleweed Park blog:

Quoting: Ron GilbertLots of great choices, but deep down (if I'm honest with myself), I'm a game engine snob. Whenever I use an engine, I keep wanting to modify it and hack into it to do what I need. I guess I've found over the years that it's a lot easier (and less stressful) for me if I just create my own.

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Quoting: starpolloBold move from the old snap advocate! He must have gotten real sick of the cool-aid I guess?

Or maybe he was just doing his job as a Canonical employee.

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If Linux support is announced, this will be at the top of my wishlist immediately.

Quoting: frykBut what I never want to go back to, is having to read all that conversation on screen. Voice-Over please :-)

All of the later Lucasarts adventures had voice acting, including Curse of Monkey Island (MI3). So do the third party HD remakes of 1 and 2. Would be odd if a new Monkey Island game didn't.

EDIT: Never mind. Should have watched the trailer first. Nice to see that Dominic Armato is back as the voice of Guybrush.

I wonder if our hero has done the Harry Potter thing and aged with his fans. Would be nice to see how he's coping with early middle age. :grin:

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The pixel art is lovely. Particularly in the battle scenes.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: fnordianslipCould do with an English translation. I was surprised to learn that the in game character is actually wearing pants when he gets out of bed and actually needs to find his trousers.

"Pants" matches alright what I get to see here - stuff you can wear outside without being frowned upon:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pants&source=lnms&tbm=isch [External Link]

It's a British vs. American English thing.

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• Add support for downloading patches and DLC for GOG games

I don't think Minigalaxy can handle patches yet. In fact, it simply fails to update or install some games lately. I guess I'll give Lutris a try as soon as this new version hits the PPA.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo is this just a graphics overhaul of Portal 2, or is it going to be an entirely new game?

According to the tagline on their site [External Link], it's "A new community-made Portal game, in tribute to Valve's iconic series".

EDIT: Ha, Liam might want to scroll down to the Press Quotes section. They were quick. :wink:

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleYes, people's favourite reason to visit a web site is so that the site owner can speak to them like he thinks they're assholes. You falsely assume people read every word you write. In this case why would someone who already knows how to use syncthing do that?

It seems strange to me to come to a site, not read a short article, ask a question that was covered explicitly by aforementioned article, and then get offended that you're referred to the article for the answer and claim that there should be no expectation that someone reads the entire article. A "whoops, sorry, didn't see that somehow" seems more sensible instead of doubling down on silly outrage.

I blame Reddit.

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Quoting: JahimselfOn the screenshot, if you watch it full picture, and look the first face on the foreground, you can better compare native to other FSR. You can observe how it alterate the overall image.

The white bit with the "carbon fiber" texture? yeah I did wonder why the 'quality' seems to double the size of the pattern not of the other seems to do that.

It is called "dithering", and unfortunately when you upscale image it upscales too, independently on FSR or bilinear on any other.

Doesn't look like dithering to me, more like a crosshatching pattern.

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Quoting: CaenthWhere were these companies for the Iraq, Afghanistan and Syrian wars? Ow, and lets not forget Algeria. If you want to help the Ukrainians it's better to do this through other official channels than to fatten the bank accounts of these hypocrites.

Which companies? I know you don't mean ICRC / Red Cross / Red Crescent? If you do, maybe you just don't know that they've been doing their part to aid the victims of pretty much any war you can name since the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and they've done this with funding directly provided by governments, but also by companies and individuals. They're probably the least controversial medical/humanitarian charities around.

They definitely were in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. And in Algeria's war of independence as well. All of this information is actually very easy to find. I'll let you do your own research as they say. Just google/ddg ICRC and whatever region or country you're interested in. Try "Red Cross" or "Red Crescent" instead of ICRC to get even more results. You're welcome.

And if this is about the game stores, think about it for a minute. Game key sellers like Humble Bundle and Fanatical, and especially independent game stores like itch.io didn't actually exist during most of these conflicts. I think Humble Bundle is the oldest at around 11 or 12 years, so they should have seen the end of the Iraq War, but they were a tiny American retail/tech start-up back then, selling smaller bundles of (often excellent) indie games. The founders could have opted to go and do charity work in Iraq instead, but you can say that of anyone.

Of course, they were more recently bought up by a company I'm not happy with at all, but that has nothing to do with this bundle by Fanatical so whatever. And no, I didn't buy Humble's charity bundle, I simply made a donation to an international humanitarian charity I trust, and that I've supported with small donations for years.

Itch was definitely not in a position to push efforts like this even a couple of years ago, even if they've been around for a decade or so. Schemes like pay-what-you-want and free hosting for jam games aren't likely to make them oodles of cash. They did their first big charity bundle in 2020 I think, which raised their profile a bit. And bought them a bunch of haters as well, but that's just the price of being decent these days.

Don't know that much about Fanatical, except that they're British, and used to be called Bundle Stars, but hypocrisy might be a strong word there as well. Not that it even matters. All proceeds of this bundle go to Red Cross, so that's the organization you should be focusing on.

Obviously no charity can make everything better, nor is a game shop likely to suddenly focus on political activism exclusively. And yeah, they will be more vocal when a conflict hits closer to home. That's just how we are. If you say you're different, who am I to claim otherwise, but even the most empathetic person in the world can't take on every injustice. We have to pick our battles, figuratively and sometimes literally, or we'll never get anything done.

The best we can do is to support organizations with a decent track record of getting things done and actually helping people. Like the Red Cross, Unicef etc. Of course there's a bunch of expensive bureaucracy involved with any large organization, private or public, and these days big bosses everywhere are likely to get paid way too much, but at least these organizations are relatively transparent. We know and can actually check that our donations aren't wasted on blackjack and steak dinners.

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