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Latest Comments by whizse
Steam Next Fest is live again with new demos, livestreams and more
17 Jun 2021 at 8:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: whizseI tried Death Trash, but wasn't immediately hooked. I found the scenery and colour scheme too drab. Gameplay wise there's a focus on combat and not so much on quests and dialogue. Mind, that's just first impressions from 30 minutes or so of gameplay...
Turns out I was dead wrong about Death Trash. Played for another hour and loved it!

Still not too fond of the colour arrangement. Too much brown. Like Quake 2 mixed with early Ubuntu. However, the protagonist has the ability to regurgitate on demand so I can at least brighten up the landscape with colourful spots here and there!

Steam Next Fest is live again with new demos, livestreams and more
16 Jun 2021 at 9:18 pm UTC Likes: 2

I tried Death Trash, but wasn't immediately hooked. I found the scenery and colour scheme too drab. Gameplay wise there's a focus on combat and not so much on quests and dialogue. Mind, that's just first impressions from 30 minutes or so of gameplay...

The rest of the evening was spent tinkering with the WRC 10 demo in Proton. I got it from immediate error message, to black screen followed by an error message, hurrah! I guess among other things the DX12 support in Proton needs to improve.

(Ironically it doesn't sound as any of the WRC titles are all that good, but it is where all the esports happen so I would love to see it working).

Overall, I'm glad Valve is bringing demos back. But please, keep them in place after the festival is over. There's no way I have time to try out even half the titles that catch my fancy!

Learn to break locks in Sophie's Safecracking Simulator
28 May 2021 at 8:56 pm UTC Likes: 4

So $2.50 for the game, I learn to pick locks, and afterwards I never have to pay for anything ever again? Pretty sweet deal!

Resident Evil Village gets better on Linux with the latest Proton Experimental
15 May 2021 at 6:57 pm UTC

Eh, I bet it's riddled with bugs. I mean, it comes with a built in flyswatter...

Super Woden GP looks like a promising upcoming top-down racer
11 May 2021 at 6:08 pm UTC

Quoting: leillo1975Yo can take a look how runs on Linux three months ago on a testing build in this video (in spanish):

https://youtu.be/2-oKZGyt5B4 [External Link]

Now the game is even better than in this video, and more things are being added.
Or, you know, try the demo! :happy:

Seems like game store GOG is doing well overall in their new figures with revenue up 114%
28 Apr 2021 at 8:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: scaineLike, Dpanter mentioned in Discord recently that GOG just released Voodoo Kid [GOG [External Link]] which is Windows only. So what's the problem? Well, it uses BoxedWine to run. BoxedWine [External Link] is a Linux emulator which runs a pre-packaged wine version. So now you have a Windows executable, running a Linux emulator, calling Wine, to run a Windows executable. And they released this marvel... only for Windows. <sigh>

They're not even trying anymore.
To paraphrase Marvin the Paranoid Android, "It gives me a headache just trying to think down to that level".

Though it is kind of interesting to see Wine becoming a better Windows than Windows.

It's your time to Wine with the 6.7 release out now
24 Apr 2021 at 9:10 pm UTC

Looks like some people like theirs bottled [External Link], others boxed [External Link]. Anyway you take it I guess it's grape fun to hack on Wine!

Scoot Hard DX is a new GZDoom powered FPS with vertical combat and MLP characters
22 Apr 2021 at 3:52 pm UTC Likes: 1

Scootaloo? Meh, Fluttershy with a BFG 9000, now that would be something...

Linux Kernel dev bans University of Minnesota for sending malicious patches
21 Apr 2021 at 9:30 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: GuestWhat do you call foreign when the subject at hand is Linux kernel development?
The BSD crowd.