Don't know if I'll get around to it during the beta but this is really nice to see. Terrible or not, I quite enjoy what we've seen coming out of Mr. Gilbert's Toybox so far.

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I think your take is based on a few fundamental misconceptions. First of all this:

Quoting: kneekooWe, as a society, are going through a phase of shaming and virtue signaling.

Both have always happened in any social community that ever existed, and there has never been a society or a time when one or the other was measurably absent. People have always been shamed to compliance (just look at religious communities in all their forms throughout history) and people have always "virtue signaled" even if the term is quite recent. Please don't ask for examples or I'll just assume you're being insincere.

Quoting: kneekooIf you've been active on Twitter for at least of few months, you're probably aware of how people gang up on others for some reason, and it usually gets seriously ugly, no matter how polite you to talk to them.

I'm happy to say I've never been active on any social media. And the problems you describe were obviously always there. Social media facilitates and amplifies certain types of communication. That's just inevitable.

The emergence of truly global communities simply got rid of any filters and inhibitions that moderate our social behaviour by granting relative anonymity and making our peers seem distant and insignificant, thus amplifying existing problems but not really creating new ones. The phenomena you bemoan are not exclusive to social media or in any way caused by the technology.

I avoid social media simply because I don't see how it would make my life better in any way, but I don't see the point in blaming social media in general for the behaviour of people using it. Also, people who complain about virtue signaling tend to do that while signaling their own virtue and shaming those they disagree with. Just look at certain populist politicians complain about snowflakes, and then melt down completely at the tiniest perceived slight.

In the end, I'm sure you'll agree that we have no right to tell the developer what they should or should not do. It's presumptuous to assume you know what went through the developer's head. The whole negative publicity thing would have been sufficiently well handled with a message in the vein of "we acknowledge the issue and will try to do better in the future", sincere or not, so I'd like to think they actually did agree and weren't just doing damage control.

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Quoting: kneekooIt's not the point of most works to replicate some real-life people, situations, etc, but to create something that triggers certain responses in the audience.

In this case some interactions in the game apparently triggered a negative response in a player with a personal stake, and based on the feedback the developer decided that they wanted to do something about it. I assume this wasn't the kind of response they were looking to elicit in the audience. Of course, they could have responded that the character behaves the way they do because they want them to have a certain flaw or something, but seems like that was not the case. Should we tell the developer that they are not allowed to change their own game?

The people reacting in a negative way to this apology seem to do so out of a misguided principle, and not because this will somehow make the game worse. They don't seem to even care about the details that much. Is it just the macho notion that compromises and apologies are somehow shameful? That they're signs of weakness? As if honestly engaging and compromising with someone is always somehow letting down everyone else.

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Quoting: SuperGripThis weekend started replaying "This is the Police", it's not a very popular game but I quite like it.

It has more than 6000 user reviews and a "very popular" rating on Steam. :tongue:

For comparison, the last Deponia game, which also came out in 2016, only has about a quarter as many user reviews, and is from a relatively well-known franchise.

Not trying to be argumentative, but making a point that a game can be considered popular even though it's not mainstream.

And even if it isn't, don't feel bad for liking a game that most people don't like. :smile:

:) Yeah, you're right, it is popular. I got a number of the Deponia games free sometime back but have not yet tried it, how would you rate the series?

I'm not the biggest fan of the writing and characters, but they have some nice puzzles of the classic adventure game variety.

There's a bit of cringe sprinkled here and there and the main character is hard to like, but as classic adventure games they're not bad at all. Some clever ideas and genuinely funny moments. Worth playing IMHO.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeStill wish the Sailfish phones came to the US, and my N9 / N900 hadn't been killed off by Nokia. N900 is still my favorite phone I've ever owned.

For my current phone I went for the cheapest piece of hardware supported by Sailfish X [External Link] I could find for sale locally (the Sony Xperia 10), and then bought the OS separately. The phone isn't great but it does the job, and Sailfish is the only mobile OS I can tolerate. Jolla doesn't produce hardware anymore, so Sailfish X is the way to go.

Anyway, this doesn't help you much seeing as the OS is only available in "EU, Norway, Switzerland" according to Jolla's site.

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Quoting: PatolaSo it's like pulseaudio + gstreamer? I remember redirecting audio and video streams with gst-something back and forth my cellphone with Linux (N900) and my PC many years ago.

I've only redirected audio over the network with pulseaudio on my Sailfish phones, but the multimedia framework is based on gstreamer so I guess this might still work. Takes a bit of tinkering though.

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Quoting: JXSViNBy the way in case you are on debian or any kind of distro that has the alien package in the repo.
There is a native linux package for itch.io

The official native installer on https://itch.io/app [External Link] works just fine for me. No need for alien or anything else. Just download, make executable and run.

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Quoting: JuliusI had a very similar issue with my F310. Opening it up didn't show anything as the problem was in the cable at the point where it enters the controller. Seems like a common point where the cable partially breaks.
I fixed it by cutting the cable a bit shorter and resoldering it inside on the PCB. Wasn't super easy, but very manageable even for a novice solderer like me.

I did the same thing with my first F310, although with an ugly cable repair shrink sleeve + duct tape mess. That lasted for a while. But when the second one broke, I went for the F710 instead and I've been very happy with that decision. It was twice the price but it also feels at least twice as solid. And I just love the ergonomics of these things, stiff triggers and all.

I've also got a Steam controller (thanks to a friend who was nice enough to send me theirs), but I haven't been able to get used to it. I mean I like the idea of it, but I just don't have the manual dexterity for the thumb pads and the face buttons are in a very uncomfortable location for me. Not to mention the clicky noises. They just drive me (and my wife) up the wall.

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Quoting: sourpuzI'd love to play Arcanum, but it's not easy to set up on a modern PC, even on Windows.

I haven't tried them myself (yet), but Lutris has Wine install scripts for the GOG version or Arcanum and its essential patches here [External Link]. Should be worth a try.

You're right, it works. The resolution is usually the problem. There is a fan-made patch, but I'm not sure whether it runs on Linux. Or better, how to install it. And I'm notoriously wary of downloading patches from dark corners of the web :)

In case you didn't notice, the link I gave you has a separate Lutris script for downloading and installing the UAP 2.0.0 patch with the high resolution fix and other goodies. In case you don't know what Lutris is, you can read more here [External Link]. Or read one of Liam's articles on it here on GOL. :)

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Quoting: sourpuzI'd love to play Arcanum, but it's not easy to set up on a modern PC, even on Windows.

I haven't tried them myself (yet), but Lutris has Wine install scripts for the GOG version or Arcanum and its essential patches here [External Link]. Should be worth a try.

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