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Latest Comments by ElectricPrism
Planetary Annihilation: The journey of a Kickstarter
4 Jan 2016 at 11:50 pm UTC

I was annoyed when they did a mandatory update at cost to the players.

They sure did a poor job managing funds & delivering as a well oiled machine.

Their split was a move to drop off all the negative reviews on their steam page.

40$ for a poorly built RTS? I say poorly because my kind of RTS is StarCraft 1 & 2.

My girl & me couldn't get into PA. And we're not willing to pay more money just to see if its still terrible.

There's my opinion.

AMD has announced their 14nm FinFET Polaris GPU architecture
4 Jan 2016 at 11:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

Sure I like that I can use Open Source Drivers. What I don't like is how much juice I get out of AMD.

Who cares if its 16GB and 3Ghz if I only get 30% juice out of the card on Linux.

I never thought I would spend 800$ on 2 GTX 970s but I did, I would have rather owned AMD but that requires equal or superior specs to nVidia on Linux as its my only platform.

So AMD - Fix It. I don't care how, just do it and take my next 800-1200$ please!!!!

New Linux Gamer Survey For January
1 Jan 2016 at 7:55 pm UTC

Logged in, didn't get steam survey idk.

Edit: My waifu got a survey for the first time in like 6-8 months on her Arch.

my brother didn't get it on his Arch today playing Terraria.

Happy New Year
31 Dec 2015 at 10:36 pm UTC Likes: 2


Ori and the Blind Forest won't come to Linux for now, thanks to Microsoft
30 Dec 2015 at 9:19 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: Avehicle7887Ehhh, not sure why devs keep making these kind of deals, if they were lacking funds I can understand that but on the other side of the coin, there are alternative ways of obtaining funds such as kickstarter.

I'm sure they've had their reasons but looking at the bigger picture here they're leaving 3 platforms dry which could mean some good profit, especially from the PS4 side.
It's probably safe money versus taking a chance.
I understand taking the safe side.
1) Or a dev could literally think about their destination before beginning to code and selecting the games libraries, and causing a dependency entrenchment.

2) Or a dev could code in a Interface class to abstract library access to make porting as simple as dropping in a new Interface to Linux/Mac libraries.

3 ) Or a dev could maintain a optimistic view without falsely coercing a crowd to gather excitement for X game.

Nothing personal, but when a dev fails to release for Linux this is what crosses my mind

"I don't know how to code outside Microsoft Visual Studio 2015",
"I don't know how to Linux - looks like DOS to me, choice is confusing",
"Android is Linux? What?"

FNA, the open source reimplementation of Microsoft's XNA first official release
30 Dec 2015 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Excellent, Ethan is doing the lawds work :) I specifically love Axiom Verge & Terraria in that list.

Changes to login on GOL
30 Dec 2015 at 4:20 am UTC

Cool, I browse on my phone and 2 desktops

OpenRA Christmas 2015 Release (20151224)
29 Dec 2015 at 3:22 am UTC Likes: 1

This is pretty sweet, I love open source engines re-implementing classics.