Quoting: HighballEdit: Back in the day, WINE released a libwine library for Windows applications. If you programmed with libwine that would make your program compatible with Linux using WINE. I don't know how much use it got or if it ever got any traction. But, I've said this before, Valve should be developing a libproton library. Or at the very least investing in libwine and promoting that. Future games starting with libproton and Vulkan would be 100% compatible with Linux at that point and use 1:1 translations just like WoW64 does for older Windows programs and games.

I think Winelib is still a thing, at least the user guide [External Link] looks up to date?

But its a native port by any other name. With the same problems. You need active developer support, you have two versions to keep up to date, you need to manage dependencies etc.

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I thought those were weaponized pizza slices and got all excited for a second, but it's just boring flaming swords.

Booo! :angry:

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Quoting: tmtvlAnyway, my expectation is that Nintendo isn't going to take it all the way to court, they're probably aiming at an out-of-court settlement and if that doesn't happen they'll probably back off.

That sadly seems likely and is of course the classic strategy of patent trolls.

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Quoting: PenglingI'm surprised this was approved, considering that there's prior-art - the 1994 SNES RPG Robotrek featured robots who were kept in capsules and sent out into battle, for example.

Not a lawyer, but as far as I know, the only prior art searches done by the patent office before approval is by looking at current/pending/prior patents.

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Quoting: tfkI'm a cheetah! I'm a cheetah!

Cheetah? When that's clearly a penguin avatar? I think he's lion to us!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou know, 20, maybe even 10 years ago I might have gotten into this. But these days I just wouldn't have the heart--not that I think nobody should be making such games, but for me personally, even pretending to be an oil producer would just make me itch.

Terra Nil [External Link] might be more to your liking.

Just don't stop me from playing this one, or, There Will Be Blood. :tongue:

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In-game currency is pretty much modern company scrip [External Link]. Ban it.

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If it's anything like real life I'm afraid it's gonna be 95% masking tape simulator.

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No no no? They want money now? I thought.... was it really capitalism all along?

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Quoting: dziadulewiczPs. someone apparently put a larger rock in advance of Kalle Rovanpera's stint to a inner turn at Rally Finland? He was (again) driving to an overwhelming victory. No way a rock of that size would have just "jumped there"

Edit: it's said that few locals don't like the rally going next to their house windows?

You're saying Kalle's shunt might have been caused by a user of Windows? :tongue:

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