Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: drjomsNot pay to win they say. So if it's true, seems like very good game.
I have seen games with micro transactions which were all right.

In some games it is done fine, CS:GO has a good balance for example.

Dota 2 and TF2 have a nice balance, not the best examples since they are free, but they still do it nicely.

This comment monkey-wrenched my brain since CS:GO and Dota 2 + TF2 were separated as if to contrast.

So Pay to Win = Buy Item to Pwn Noobs
Micro Transaction = Customize Character, Items, etc...

I don't know about TF2 or CS:GO, but in Dota2 the buying/selling of items, skins, etc... for Steam Wallet Money seems like it enhances the game as no items really effect the player's stats.

Then there's League of Legends where you can pay for runes to get a 10-15% advantage over competitors and noobs. Also pay real money to unlock heros that are new and overpowered. Yeah...

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Sometimes I don't get devs, why not disable incomplete features and slide into Early Access buying time to complete those features?

Sometimes the Unix Philosophy of getting a working product even if primitive right away is better than vaporware.

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Still want to play, hopefully its worth the wait it when it comes.

Steam is like 1,000% easier than pirating and its nice knowing that your money is going directly to the creators and not some 3rd party with their hand in the candy bowl renting shelf space in some brick and mortar store and taking a big cut.

Also, have fun reinstalling each game every time you change to a new distro and having 50 bugs per game and a huge mess.

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Quoting: burnallIt seems like that Russian's are more interested into Linux, perhaps due to NSA spying issues with Windows in last years? As for the game, It's kind of a COD in Russian way to me.

From a purely hardware perspective consider that they see AMD and Intel / IBM x86 as "western processors" which makes ARM more desirable to them.

Also, the whole UEFI and CPU blobs no doubt cause some concern, consumers have legitimate reasons to mistrust the US after NSA.

Guess who is the king of ARM? Linux ;P

Also, Russia is a big place, not all Russians are good at technology and not all Americans are fat and obnoxious.

This game looks hella fun.

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I'm not gonna turn on the hype machine but....



For the right price I could be swayed into picking up a collection like this for my Big Picture.

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Quoting: aL

Quoting: BdMdesigNOn the Linuxside, why not only .deb and .rpm based Destributions?

This is too broad to even make sense. going further... what is arch? rpm or deb?

This question confuses me. Both .deb and .rpm are both zipped files and vary slightly different.

That's why alien exists to convert RPM to Deb.

Arch is tar.xz and Arch AUR installs both RPM and DEB when someone writes a wrapper around something like XMind.deb - the important part is that Pacman knows which files have been added to the root file tree incase it needs to remove the package.

Actually PPA/Launchpad hell is one major reason I left debian based distros, PPAs destabilized my system nearly half a dozen times.

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I tried so hard to make the move from Gnome 3.18 to Plasma 5 yesterday, so far no go.

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And its.......... Halo 5 Dafuq?

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My girl is loving her Cities: Skylines games, the number of mods is amazing in the Workshop.

This game is a huge improvement over Cities XL, Winter sounds cool

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Words of warning, I bought a pair of Corsair VOID RGB headsets, [External Link] of course it was USB / RF

They only half worked and half froze Gnome , definitely do some research to make sure Linux is compatible before throwing down.

Some headsets have aux backup in addition to rf or bluetooth, I think those are a good thing to look for.

Last I looked these were interesting as they had analog, bluetooth and some sort of built in mic.
Sony MDRXB950BT/B Extra Bass Bluetooth Headset [External Link]

I dunno if the Mic is too good, but the thing that put me off was after owning Sol Republic I wish all headphones were as indestructible as Sol Republic

Skip Ahead to the bendy parts.
View video on youtube.com

I hooked it up with a Magnetic Mod Mic and it works pretty good although having 1 cable is still a little annoying, but I guess I buy stuff like I use Linux - I like 1 point of failure, it seems like when a device like a All In One Printer, Scanner, Fax is together that 1 part of the unit never works right and if 1 area breaks the whole thing breaks.

I guess what's why Sol Republic is nice with Mod Mic imo. They have Bluetooth Tracks Air too with backup analog, so thats cool.

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