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Latest Comments by whizse
My current little wish-list for Steam Deck upgrades
15 Oct 2022 at 10:32 pm UTC

You can't over-charge a battery by keeping it at 100% but you will up the charge cycles and age the battery prematurely.
By limiting battery charge/discharge you will charge more often but have a longer life span for the battery:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/623358/wouldnt-charging-a-lithium-battery-to-80-only-defeat-the-purpose-of-putting-th [External Link]

Valve filed a 'computer game software' trademark for 'NEON PRIME' (updated)
14 Oct 2022 at 8:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Hmmm... Neon Prime... Prme... Valve are obviously obsessed with the 2007 cult classic fps Alpha Prime by Black Element Software/Bohemia Interactive and are working on a Half-Life/Alpha-Prime crossover!

(Admit it, if Gordon Freeman had a voice he would sound exactly like Paolo Bellini!)

A Robot Named Fight! source code released
14 Oct 2022 at 10:32 am UTC

Quoting: elmapulwe dont need the runtime to be opensource to make an code opensource, if we follow that logic, then we cant licence anything under GPL for windows.

maybe there are some incompatibilities that im not aware of, but i dont think so, if gpl contamined the runtime then an single program for windows being GPL (even if not written by microsoft) would mean the entire source of windows would need to be opensource.
No, this is covered by the system library exception:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SystemLibraryException [External Link]

Unity is not a system library though.

Mystery adventure Kona II: Brume gets a Linux demo ready for Steam Deck
11 Oct 2022 at 4:29 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library GuyTrusty dogsled? Dude. There were skidoos in 1970.
In the game they all went 23 skidoo.

Fanatical running an awesome 'Dollar Collections' sale
11 Oct 2022 at 12:33 pm UTC

I'm on a spending hiatus at the moment, but TWD have been on my wishlist for a long time. For one euro I will certainly make an exception!

Steam Next Fest - October 2022 Edition is live now
4 Oct 2022 at 5:15 pm UTC Likes: 3

These ones tickled my interest:

A Castle Full of Cats [External Link] (Native)
Cute hidden object game. Might be a little on the simplistic side for my taste, even for a game in this genre.

Rosewater [External Link]
From the developers of Lamplight City. It's an (alt) wild western adventure game. Have there been any of those before?
Big thumbs down for not having any aspect ratio correction.

Foolish Mortals [External Link] (Proton)
Classic adventure game. Art and style I very much associate with Broken Sword, the Voodoo story-line with Gabriel Knight 1 so it ticks all the boxes!

RXC - Rally Cross Challenge [External Link] (Proton)
Top down rally cross, simucade. Might be interesting to anyone who thought art of rally was lacking in the wheel-to-wheel department.
The driving AI needs more work to be challenging for single player. Quite often all opponents makes the same mistake and get stuck in the same corner leading to a Three Stooges kind of gridlock.

Rush Rally 3 [External Link] (Proton)
Pretty cool to find a indie dev (and single developer) driving sim. Reminds me a bit of the early Colin McRae titles.
Claims to be "simulation-style" but even on extreme difficulty it's much too forgiving. Still quite fun.

Blizzard don't officially support Steam Deck / Linux but they still fix issues for it
27 Sep 2022 at 4:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh my god. You just can't do satire any more, it's all real.
Another option is to simple buy a house inside Disney World:
https://www.disneygoldenoak.com/home-availability/10030-enchanted-oak-drive/ [External Link]

Blizzard don't officially support Steam Deck / Linux but they still fix issues for it
27 Sep 2022 at 11:33 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: slaapliedjeI bet if Disney could buy up large amounts of homes and create a Disney City, and just lease it out to people, they would.
https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/ [External Link]

DOSBox Staging 0.79.0 is out now
22 Sep 2022 at 10:20 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Craggles086So the official DOSBox is version 0.74-3, and this Staging is version 0.79.

No one thinks we might be ready for a version 1 yet, after how many years of DOSBox?
Just to be clear, despite the name, this is a separate fork and project from the original DosBox:
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/about/ [External Link]

(Yes, it's a confusing name considering the Wine and Wine-staging relationship which is quite different.)

Both projects might reach 1.0 at some point, but they have different developers and different goals.

Fight against socks and sandals, grey suits and more in Fashion Police Squad
9 Sep 2022 at 1:04 pm UTC Likes: 12

Fighting socks and sandals - on a Linux system? Heresy!