Quoting: EikeEverybody who hasn't done yet and is into some serious puzzling, do play Portal Stories: MEL in hard mode.

What's actually different in hard mode? Completely different puzzles or just things like tighter time limits?

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Quoting: EikeCan you imagine how it would have looked without lockdown?

Can you imagine how it would have looked if people had been treated properly (they still aren't, we've been betrayed by our doctors and nurses too).

Are they being mean and putting public safety over your feelings? Or maybe they should have asked nicely, like they did in Sweden? Spoiler: They're doing much worse than their neighbours.

Quoting: Dorrit

Quoting: tuubiCountries that are actually doing something about it have suffered less unnecessary death and misery, at the expense of some inconvenience

Understatement of the Century. And the first part isn't true too.

Having to stay home a lot for a while (and to wear a mask when I don't) are inconveniences, moreso for some, but worth it to me if it prevents a single death. Same goes for people losing jobs or money, as long as their government makes sure nobody ends up in the streets or has to go hungry. As long as you don't kill off a significant portion of the consumer base, businesses will bounce back and so will jobs.

That first part is true as well, even if you choose to ignore facts.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain Man"...free until COVID-19 is under control"

Let's be honest, it's not the virus that's out of control, it's our governments.

Yeah, why not making fun of 1.5 million dead people?

I wasn't making fun of anything, just pointing out that the damage being done to us is not because of some virus that's out of control but because of how our governments' have responded. The fact is, someone in the world dies from something every single second of every single day, and government totalitarianism can't stop that.

Countries that are actually doing something about it have suffered less unnecessary death and misery, at the expense of some inconvenience. And will come out of this with a stronger economy and a healthier populace than those nations who did nothing.

You'll get your freedumbs back as soon as we get this under control. Or at least people living in properly democratic countries will. No government is perfect, but at least in my part of the world we don't have to actually be afraid of ours.

The world would most likely be in a much better situation already if people had properly followed the advice of medical experts from the beginning instead of acting like selfish brats.

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Quoting: PatolaIt's on -35% sale on Fanatical [External Link]. It seems that it will be on sale on Steam after Dec. 22.

Its already on steam.

Yes it's on Steam, but not on sale as in "being sold for a reduced price". :smile:

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Quoting: loggeEdit: I want to mention that typo: wasn't it wastelands 2 that was released in 2014 and made my days then?

Which typo do you mean? I assume you mean this sentence:

Quoting: Liam DaweActing as a sequel to their 2014 hit, Wasteland 3 is a squad-based RPG

What that means is that Wasteland 3 acts as a sequel to the previous game in the series, which is indeed Wasteland 2, released in 2014. I guess you got confused by the sentence structure?

EDIT: Heh, now my comment doesn't make sense anymore. Thanks Liam. :grin: Good edit though.

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Quoting: inckieThere is the "war" with Canonical and I simple don't understand why they spend time developing useless applications, like the Warpinator or their IPTV application which no one needs or asked for.

Really? I thought these were probably useful for some of their users. I mean I don't personally have a use for them and you don't have a use for them, but it's a bold claim that nobody asked for them.

And which "war" are you talking about? Not going with Snaps? Saying that they need to prepare for the possibility that Ubuntu might not always be available for them to base their distro on, after Canonical explicitly said so?

Quoting: inckieI think Linux desktop distros should focus the coming time on making Windows games run flawlessly and also continue to make improvement to the overall Linux desktop for enterprises (e.g. a little thing like the change Canonical did to the installer, so you can now domain join upon installation, means a whole lot regarding that).

Here are my wishes for Linux Mint:

1. Support the fantastic work regarding Wine.
2. A true real alternative to Microsoft Office.
3. Better interoperability with Windows environments.
4. Better Cinnamon development experience and documentation.

Ah. This was about what you want, not about what other Mint users want. I don't agree with your wishlist BTW, so I guess I now get to claim nobody asked for these things either. (I won't though, because that would be silly.) Also, I think you're either seriously overestimating the Mint team's resources or grievously underestimating the development effort needed to produce a world class office suite.

The last point might be valid. Can't really say as I've never even used Cinnamon.

In my opinion Mint is still doing what they were always doing and trying to provide a stable Linux distribution with a good out-of-the-box experience. Gaming might not be a big focus, but that's perfectly fine. They're not doing anything to hinder my gaming either.

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Lovely. I very much enjoyed Wasteland 2 and will definitely buy this at some point.

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Quoting: GuestI'll add one more use case for Gentoo - its a great distro for learning how all the components of a linux distro fit together. The install process walks you through manually partitioning and formating your disk, compiling your kernel, setting up your fstab, bootloader, networking etc. And that just gets you to a VT prompt on boot. Want a gui? Well, you'll go through all the different bits to make that happen - setting up your graphics drivers, X, a display manager, and whatever desktop shell you want to roll with.

Yes, its a ton of work, and it definitely isn't for everyone. But you'll have a vastly better understanding of what's going on under the hood so when you use a distro that does all this for you, you can be better prepared to solve problems that come up.

This is why I loved using it as my main distro for a few years somewhere back in the early 2000s. You know, when installing it was even less streamlined. :P

I mean compiling all that stuff with my Athlon Thunderbird 750 took ages, and I had to print out pages and pages of installation manual because I didn't have any other Internet capable devices, but it was all worth it. Portage was and is also a lovely package management system.

Then, when I found other things to occupy my time than tinkering with my system, I moved on to other distros. :)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeBehind every heartless corporation is of course the actual developers who are people who are generally very creative and are creating worlds for us to run around in and find bugs and complain about and mod and overall enjoy. Sure CDPR is a very wealthy corporation that is that way because of some very successful games. So yeah, the heart and soul of the coders is still there. The crunch time is because games that are this huge need deadlines or it would probably never be releases, and you know... people need to get paid.

Do you think the same of every corporation? How about Facebook developers? Or maybe EA and Ubisoft? Should we worry about their "heart and soul" when we complain about their business practices? After a point, there's a clear separation between employees and management, and my criticism was clearly aimed at the people making the business decisions.

I'm not sending hate mail to their technical support, you know, or claiming that their programmers and artists are to blame. I'm not that silly. I simply don't buy stuff I don't want to support. And I do avoid supporting companies who take advantage of their employees and/or customers.

Quoting: slaapliedjeLook at Croteam, you know there was someone there that had a love of Linux, so they started porting all of their games over to Linux. But then something happened to that employee, and now Serious Sam 4 was not released for Linux. That doesn't mean the programmers didn't necessarily want to not support Linux, they just decided based on time and being able to get it done or not. That still makes some of the more vocal Linux people get all pissed off and claim they'll never bother supporting them again, etc. This is the wrong way to do it. People just need to simply let them know that it's a shame that they're not releasing for Linux, and simply not buy the game. The messed up thing is there is no standard that people follow here, and simply buy Cyberpunk because it's THE game that everyone wants right now.

Yeah, I agree with all of this. Doesn't have much to do with what I said before, or with how a larger and more corporate game dev like CDPR works. Or at least it didn't. Don't know how Devolver's recent acquisition of Croteam changes things, but I doubt it's still nearly at the same level. Anyway, I'm not one of the people who gets pissy at developers when they don't support Linux, so you're barking up the wrong tree there. I bought and enjoyed Witcher 2 on Linux BTW, and I'd very much love to see Talos Principle 2 some day.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: slaapliedjePour your heart and soul into something and just have fans rip you a new one.

To be fair, this applies much better to tiny indie devs than big business like CDPR. Their billionaire CEO might get grilled by some investors for the bad press, but in the end they'll be all laughing all the way to the bank. If you've already made a nice profit from pre-orders after a successful hype campaign, who cares about some heckling from the peanut gallery.

Well, if you recall people were sending death threats to them for releasing a buggy Witcher 2 version for Linux!

Indie developers tend to have a much smaller audience and hopefully not as deeply disturbed gamers playing their stuff. The anticipation for games at this level is also much lower. Cyberpunk 2077 has had a HUGE amount of anticipation for it for years, and the delay triggered those same death threat level douche bags.

Hmm... Reading this, you'd almost expect that there's a correlation of some sort between the amount of marketing and hype and the amount of disappointed people if you don't manage to meet all the expectations this hype has created.

No but seriously, of course it's bad that there's an abundance of immature idiots who get all bent out of shape when things don't go their way, but that has little to do with legitimate complaints about a faulty product. You have to admit that at least some of the bad press CDPR are getting is justified. And I just have a hard time seeing how your "heart and soul" comment applies to a corporation known for their punishing crunch time practices.

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