It's clearly inspired by "Spirited Away" the movie from Miyazaki, right?

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Quoting: 14The fact that Facebook gave money to OBS does not take away any of your money to donate somewhere of your choosing.

I never said that. I was just saying I disagree with the way you put it. It's not a "power to the people" thing as you say. It's a "power to the people with money" thing as Purple Library Guy said.

Quoting: 14I do not understand the point you're making. I mean, I get the point, but it's not applicable. A rich entity donated money somewhere, and that somehow makes it pointless for anyone that's not rich to donate anywhere...?

I think the point is applicable. The point is that indeed my ten bucks are not going to make a big difference compared to what a big company can spend.

Quoting: 14If Facebook is using OBS and they are providing monetary support because they'd like some features implemented, I don't see the problem.

I think that nobody everyone here said they were glad that OBS got the money. We were just talking about something else

Quoting: 14So, the OP was Facebook donating money, and that makes you angry. It's sounding to me like you wish you could control Facebook's money yourself. Or, maybe your solution would be that nobody is allowed to earn lots of money or not allowed to donate. What is your ideal here?

I don't think people that answered are angry about Facebook donating money. And i don't think either that they want to control the money themselves.
We were, or I was talking about the bigger picture, about why big companies do these kind of things, about real "power to the people", about controlling big companies. etc.

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Quoting: 14I think you have the wrong idea of the tax incentives for donations in the U.S. The tax system promotes donations of your choosing. This is a power to the people kind of thing.

Last time I checked, Facebook is not "the people". It's a big, very big company. So this is power to some very rich individuals and / or companies, to choose where their money goes because it's something that interests them or gives them a good image in the media or even both.

Quoting: 14The alternative is the government would choose which organizations receive that money, if any at all.

And why would that be bad? Even if I don't believe in the system "as is", the government is supposed to be representative of the people, much more than Facebook in any case.

Quoting: 14And in this case, I don't know that OBS is a non-profit, so the donations probably have nothing to do with tax incentives anyway.

I don't have the faintest idea if OBS is a non-profit, but in the end if Facebook does it, it's because they expect some kind of profit from it. I never used FB's streaming feature so I don't know if it can be related to that. But these kind of companies don't give money just because.

And to be clear: I'm glad for OBS, I would just love that FOSS could be funded in some other way.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: DorritOh no, female characters where they never existed, again.

"Eastern Europe"
There were plenty of women in military roles across EE during WW2, that's a literal fact.

"alternative WW2 setting"
Do people not read?

Genuinely didn't know this. Incredible stats and facts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_women_in_World_War_II [External Link]. I also found some interesting snippets on history.com here, but about the U.S. women's roles, where they were almost always non-combatant roles: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/american-women-in-world-war-ii-1 [External Link].

Just google Roza Shanina for an incredible story. Fascinating stuff.

I was going to mention the Night Witches, but you were quicker than me. They made a pen and paper roleplaying game about them

https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/ [External Link]

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Quoting: thelimeydragonThe App is the way to go, for multiple reasons.

I have an Android SmartTV and the Steam App runs great on it.

What multiple reasons? Would you care to share some of them? Because I only see drawbacks. Fortunately I bought the Steam Link, because I don't own a SmartTV (and have no plans of buying one anytime soon). And I think there are many people in the same situation.

Quoting: MerpIf you wanna try out something similar but with a Raspberry Pi, check out this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/9q580m/streaming_games_from_you_pc_to_you_pi_nivida_only/ [External Link]

Thanks for sharing this ! I use a Rapsberry Pi as a home theater with OSMC, and I have the Steam Link too. But I'm curious to give this a try.

Quoting: jardonHas anyone had any issues with the video freezing when streaming a proton game from a Linux host to another device? Audio and input continue to work but the video steam freezes when focused on some proton games.

I opened a ticket with valve but was curious if any of you had that issue. Its a shame cause it makes my steam link far less useful.

The two Proton games I tested and streamed (Warlock Master of the Arcane and Orcs Must Die) both worked and streamed fine. With what games did you have this issue?

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Quoting: mylka

Quoting: Thormack

Quoting: mylkai wonder how they have the ressources to support linux
https://steamdb.info/app/464920/graphs/ [External Link]
only a few 100 players

i am not complaining, but every time i see this, i ask myself: why can they do it and big companies dont. or why are games like RUST cancel linux support

Where did you find this 100 players information?
I opened that link and didn't find anything related to the O.S.

i didnt say OS. it is overall and they have to maintain the game for every OS

True, you didn't say OS, but the way it was formulated, one could have thought that you were refering to 100 players on Linux.
But I stick with what I said, their ressources are not tied to how many people play it per week, but to how many people bought the game.

And on this, we have between 200k and 500k owners. That's really not bad I think. Not on par with the biggest, but still.
and the amount of resources you need to have Linux support possibly depends a lot on your approach and your base engine. If they are using a cross-platform engine, then it's possibly simpler.

That being said, it's true that games like RUST (between 5 and 10 million owners, so like 15 times what Surviving Mars has, could possibly support Linux, if they wanted to.

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Quoting: Thormack

Quoting: mylkai wonder how they have the ressources to support linux
https://steamdb.info/app/464920/graphs/ [External Link]
only a few 100 players

i am not complaining, but every time i see this, i ask myself: why can they do it and big companies dont. or why are games like RUST cancel linux support

Where did you find this 100 players information?
I opened that link and didn't find anything related to the O.S.

I didn't see any statistics per OS either.
Plus, I think there's a misunderstanding between players and owners.

The game has between 200k and 500k owners.
In the worst case, let's say there are 200 000 owners, with 1% of them being Linux. That already amounts to 2 000 Linux owners.

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Wow I didn't expect this one... I was wondering if I should play via Proton now, but I'm definitely going to have a look at this to see if it really solves the crashes I always have. That would make me very happy, Warband is one of my favorite game of all times.

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Quoting: GuestI feel somewhat skeptical. While tower defense does appeal to me it needs to be well done, the last tower defense game I liked was defenders quest.

My favorite tower defense~esque game would be dungeon defenders (although it plays better on wine than native because it has some serious bugs gameplay wise, and doesn't support multiplayer between platforms)

You might try the "Orcs Must Die" series then.They play good on Steam Play or Wine (no Linux version). I bought Dungeon Defenders trying to find something similar to Orcs Must Die (mix of FPS + Tower Defense) but for me it's really not as good. On the same genre, there's Natural Selection, but still, not as good in my opinion.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunThis means they're giving up on it. GOG is there Paradox grand strategies go to die. Why do you think CKII and EUIV are not there?

I don't think so.
1- They are launching the console edition of Stellaris [External Link]
2 - They are preparing for a massive update, 2.2 Le Guin [External Link]

Concerning CKII and EUIV they were both on other stores before (I bought at least one of them on GamersGate)
Then Paradox decided to go "Stean only" for the multiplayer as far as I remember.
So, it's normal that no Paradox game was on GOG till now.

Plus, I don't see why putting it on another store would mean giving up on it.

EDIT: I just saw Liam's answer, should have gone to page 2 of the comments... :whistle:

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