In addition to the newsletter thing, there's the additional catch that they require you to Link your Steam account. And while there used to be a button in your profile to unlink, when I wanted to do it a while back the button was gone and their customer service person actually demanded a "good reason" to do it. Took them about a couple of weeks to get it done. Just FYI, in case you care.

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Quoting: M@GOidFor example, to draw a simple line you had to hold the Alt(?) key plus the left mouse button. What is the need for that? Why not simply use the left mouse button like literally any other drawing program?

You mean a straight line? Yeah, you click on a spot using one of the drawing/painting tools, then hold shift and click another spot. Ctrl constrains the angle. Without the modifier(s) you're drawing in freehand mode. I guess what you want is a separate line tool. Both get the job done, IMHO.

Quoting: M@GOidWhile not exactly in the same category, the Krita painting program achieved a successful funding campaign. If I had to guess, they probably where much willing to give their users what they want.

Krita is awesome for digital painting and drawing, but it doesn't come close for image manipulation. At least not yet. It simply has a different focus.

I edit my photos with Darktable and grab Krita if I want to doodle something, but there are tasks where GIMP is the best tool for the job on Linux.

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Quoting: CatKillerthere's a reason Windows has that function, after all.

As we all know, Windows is the benchmark all kernels should scramble to imitate. :wink:

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: scaineYeah, but I think in this case, DLSS is trained on the textures of the game itself, so in terms of what it does, I don't think it's necessarily any less useful than FSR? I might be wrong.

What I mean is, what if you have a game or any kind of use case on which it wasn't trained? Will it still fare better than FSR?

Apparently the current iteration of DLSS (2.0) uses a generic algorithm and doesn't require per-game training anymore. So I guess any game could implement support, but it would still only work on a GPU with Nvidia's tensor cores or whatever they call them.

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Quoting: Marlock

Though I'd assume it would be even handier if this was integrated into an open source pixel animation tool.

It's made in Godot so if you're developing games in that FOSS Game Development Suite/Engine it's perfectly convenient...

Not as convenient as not having to export images to an external application and back again. It's a bunch of extra steps and breaks the workflow.

This does not mean the tool isn't great, and the code is available under a permissive license for whoever wants to integrate it into their own software, open source or not. I guess even a command line tool and/or a general purpose library would be useful for developers.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy...this looks terrible :(

Depends on your perspective, personally I thought it looked pretty darn good for an automatic thing. It all depends how much of a perfectionist you're going to be on it. While in-game, many probably won't even notice some of the smaller issues it has, especially considering you're going to be seeing them against world backgrounds and often at a much faster pace than the examples.

As the developer says on the video, you'd use this to produce the frames and then tweak them to perfection in your preferred animation tool. It sure seems like it could save you a bunch of time. Though I'd assume it would be even handier if this was integrated into an open source pixel animation tool.

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Quoting: NanobangIf anyone can recommend a good gateway JRPG or three, available at a low, low, low no risk price (< $2 / €2 / £1.40) I'd be keen to give it a try.

I can't think of anything you'd call a good, traditional JRPG at quite that price range (on Linux), but I know I've seen Earthlock on sale for around 4€, and included in some bundles. I thought it was a pretty solid game, and the pace wasn't too slow despite the turn based fights. I also hear good things about Ara Fell, which currently goes for a few euros on Steam, but haven't played that one myself yet.

Then there's faster paced JRPG-ish stuff like Crosscode and Lenna's Inception. The latter was in the huge racial justice bundle at itch.io if you happened to pick it up.

Of course, if you're willing to use Proton, I'm sure you've got a lot more options. Including big-name and big-budget stuff actually made by Japanese developers.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThe interesting thought about this, is even if they honor this, and disable periodic checks, any of the games that warn about 3rd party DRM would probably be unplayable.

3rd party as in not Steam/Valve? Why would Steam shutting down affect those?

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Quoting: GuestSo you both have no idea what you are talking about. Great.

Don't be like that. They were clearly trying to help.

It's extremely common practice for USB 3 ports to be partially blue. Just do an image search for "USB 3 port" and you'll see what they mean. Some hardware designs prefer symbols instead, something like the SS (SuperSpeed) symbol, or maybe even a number like on the front panel of my wife's Fractal Design tower case. My own older FD case has blue USB 3 ports and black USB 2 ports, as do the couple of laptops in the house.

It's also true that many peripherals do not benefit from USB 3 speeds (or higher electric current), and that USB 3 components are a bit more expensive.

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I'll pass on the multiplayer. For me, these games are almost meditative. I play them to relax, first and foremost. Random strangers on the roads would be counterproductive at best.

That said, I don't doubt this could prove to be a very popular addition.

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