An excellent bundle for any penguin-shaped pointing and clicking enthusiast. I bought it for The Will of Arthur Flabbington with a couple of the Nobodies games for filler. If I didn't already own them, I'd have bought the Darkside Detective 1+2, Mutazione and the Broken Sword pack as well. All good fun and all native Linux.

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I wonder if the "Gone Fishing" sign on the wall is a reference to the classic Amiga / Atari ST game "Gone Fish'n" with pretty much the same basic template. Probably not, but I kinda hope it is.

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aaaaand it's patched...
(on Arch, btw)

You don't have to run bleeding edge to get security updates. Even Ubuntu LTS (and Mint) had updates with the CVE fixes available yesterday. :wink:

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I had both an Atari ST and an Amiga 1020

Pointless nitpick: The Amiga 1020 is a floppy drive, not a computer. :wink: Did you mean the Amiga 1200 with its fancy AGA graphics?

I don't remember having worse controls in Another World on my Amiga 500 than on my friend's Atari ST. We both preferred playing the game on my Amiga due to the prettier visuals.

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Also I've never really got into Monkey Island because I was stuck right away, and watching speed runs and explanations about the mechanics told me I couldn't have solved by myself anyway...

I don't remember Monkey Island being any harder than DOTT. I love both games equally. :D

There's another adventure game I loved, Simon the Sorcerer, that's beside DOTT my greatest adventure game love. Now I want to pick that up again haha.

A classic to be sure! You can find the "25th Anniversary Editions" of both Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2 on Steam and GOG. There's also Simon the Sorcerer 3D, which I never played, and apparently a new prequel game in the works.

Of course, if you've still got original copies of any of these games somewhere, you can play them using ScummVM.

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The first game wasn't bad. A bit of relatively casual fun. And surprisingly addictive.

This sequel is already on my wishlist.

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I can finish DOTT without looking up anything (fucking love it), but I'm afraid I'll spend my time looking solutions up because I'm stuck all the time.

In my humble opinion: If you solved DOTT on your own, you're ready for every modern adventure game.

This developer has a bunch of free jam games on Itch.io. Maybe these might give you an idea of what to expect?

https://itch.io/c/522683/powerhoof-adventures [External Link]

Haven't tried anything else myself, but The Inanimate Mr. Coatrack was worth playing.

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I like the pixel art, and "spam those spells!" has my interest piqued. Not that hard on the ears either.

The only(!) Google hit for "Forsaken Quarted" is this very page...

Your search probably failed because of the typo. Quartet, not quarted.

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@Caldathras

No offense, @tuubi, but you might want to check an encyclopedia yourself.

I know the difference, and I did mean to say dictionary. They seek to provide a short, to-the-point definition of a word or term, as opposed to an extensive explanation you'll find in an encyclopedia. Although I do recognise that different dictionaries (and encyclopedias) also have biases and might not always agree, especially when it comes to politics and other controversial subjects.

This is the last I have to say on the matter.

That might be for the best as you seem badly misinformed on these subjects, and unwilling to do even the tiniest bit of fact checking to back up your arguments. If your school truly taught you that Fascism is Socialism, your teachers didn't know what they were talking about, or were misleading you on purpose. I mean, write "is fascism a form of socialism" into any search engine and the only sources you'll find that say "yes" are ones pushing an easily confirmed right-wing agenda. That should tell you something.

And yeah, I know the "rules" in my previous reply were overly simplistic and easily nitpicked. That's why I put the disclaimer in front of that paragraph. But okay, here's another try: Socialism requires that the means of production are socially controlled, either by the state or collectively, and thus it's not compatible with Capitalism and private ownership.

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@Caldathras
You might want to check a dictionary for a definition of Socialism. A far-right ideology like Fascism simply cannot be it. Maybe you're simply mixing up your terminology?

At the risk of blatant oversimplification: If workers don't own the means of production, it's not Socialism. If the government doesn't protect and empower the working class (and seek to minimise poverty and inequality), it's not even Social Democracy. And Socialism, in any of its forms, is simply not compatible with a capitalist elite.

Correct me if I'm wrong (FYI, I'm not) but isn't the proper name of the Nazi Party actually the National Socialist German Workers' Party? Wouldn't that contradict your assertion in and of itself?

This talking point is a good example of the far-right revisionism Purple Library Guy mentioned. Policy and actions are what determine a party's position on the ideological spectrum, not the name.

Anyone who didn't learn their history of Nazi Germany from trashy Youtube videos or podcasts knows why the party had "socialist" in the name when it obviously didn't adhere to the ideology, and how Hitler had his own spin on the meaning of Socialism. He actually claimed that Marxists "stole and perverted" the word and he was taking it back or some such nonsense. Yet this is one of the most common arguments that Fascists and others on the far-right spout to try to discredit those on the left.

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