Quoting: LungDragoSo uh, excuse me for my ignorance, but what would be the 'legit' key reselling service? G2A saved my neck so to speak several times before when I missed a sale by a week or something and I figured most keys sold there come from shrewd people who buy a bunch of them on such sales.

I always thought the 'legit' way was to suck it up and wait for the next sale.

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Quoting: tuubiI only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.

I think you can find solutions in the Linux release thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/283880/discussions/0/343787283753197906/?ctp=1 [External Link]

Thanks. I'll give it a read.

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To my eye, the game's got plenty of style.

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I only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.

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Not the first comedy noir adventure game to come out in the last few years, but this one does feature more licking than most. I'm a sucker for the genre so onto the endless wishlist it goes.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: damarrinMS isn't evil or good, it's a publicly traded company whose only purpose is to generate shareholder value.

This mindset always rubs me the wrong way. As if it's somehow a mechanical or natural process that doesn't involve human beings making decisions that benefit a relatively small set of human beings over the good of a larger set of human beings. Ethics applies to every single decision people make, and neither businesses nor governments deserve a free pass.

It's up to you if you want to reward harmful behaviour or not, but please don't buy into that bullshit mindset. And I'm not saying "all corporations are evil" here, just that as long as corporations wield influence and have legal rights that equal and indeed often exceed those of citizens, we can and should hold them to equal if not higher ethical standards as well.

My point here is that this is an inherent characteristic of a publicly traded company - it exists to generate value for shareholders only, all its other actions are ancillary to that. It takes genuine effort from many individuals within a company for it not to display exclusively this behaviour. That is why there are various laws, including anti-monopoly laws, which are designed to limit companies in the ways in which they can pursue said value.

And my point was that none of this is a valid excuse, and people should judge the actions of a corporation in the same terms as they'd judge those of an individual. If a person can do good or evil, a corporation can do good or evil. There's no ambiguity there. Just excuses.

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Quoting: damarrinMS isn't evil or good, it's a publicly traded company whose only purpose is to generate shareholder value.

This mindset always rubs me the wrong way. As if it's somehow a mechanical or natural process that doesn't involve human beings making decisions that benefit a relatively small set of human beings over the good of a larger set of human beings. Ethics applies to every single decision people make, and neither businesses nor governments deserve a free pass.

It's up to you if you want to reward harmful behaviour or not, but please don't buy into that bullshit mindset. And I'm not saying "all corporations are evil" here, just that as long as corporations wield influence and have legal rights that equal and indeed often exceed those of citizens, we can and should hold them to equal if not higher ethical standards as well.

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Quoting: Sil_el_moti have an 1080 ti, from comparisons the 5700xt should be slightly faster and better but i dont feel like changing now, as long as the drivers are not yet ready to play without a lot of tinkering.
thats why i love nvidia, you have zero tinkering.

At this point, if you make sure your kernel is somewhat up to date and your Mesa is recent enough, then that's the extent of tinkering required. At least it was for me. I enabled a PPA for Mesa and occasionally grab the latest stable mainline kernel. For you, on Arch, things should be even simpler. I think people making use of multiple Display Ports still had some power management related issues with Navi hardware just a while back, but my single screen couch gaming setup has been running smoothly since I upgraded late last year.

In any case, I agree with you that going from a 1080 TI to a 5700 XT isn't likely to be a meaningful upgrade if you don't have a pressing need to switch. Maybe the next generation is worth it though.

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I still don't particularly like Kickstarter, but I backed this game right after it launched, just like I did Encodya. So far I have no reason to doubt that the games will be fun and their releases timely. I'm actually a bit excited for Encodya now that it nears completion, and I'm the kind of guy who doesn't normally mind picking up a game after it's been on the market for a year or two.

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Quoting: EikeIt was floppy discs for the computers that were far spread here in Germany (mainly Commodore 64), but yes, that kind of price. :D

I had all but one of my C64 games on cassettes (didn't own a disk drive). That's how games were sold in shops. The one that wasn't on a cassette was one of those console-style cartridges you inserted into the slot at the back of the system. Can't remember which game it was.

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