Ladies and Gentlemen, que up `BagRaiders_ShootingStars.wav`, Linux has never been better!

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Demos needs its own filter in the left hand menu filter.

Also, will there be ratings and reviews on Demos that __dont__ carry over to the released game to help measure public response? Or does that not make sense.

Also, I would like to optionally remove Demos from my account and couldn't find the button the other day -- maybe I am on Steam Client Beta and the button has gone *poof*

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Quoting: Joeg1484I used to live right behind them in Oakhurst Ca. on Victoria Ln with an old girlfriend that used to work there stuffing boxes with game disks and instructions LOL... I havent heard from her in years, but found out that her dad still had a closet full of those old games still in their original package LOL.

Proly worth allot of money these days :).

Scenarios like these make me curious what the tax deduction value is to donate to a museum. Like one a year, and whether that value would surpass what it could sell for on auction or the open market.

That's really cool! Small world.

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Wow this looks epic!

https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_Sierra_Entertainment_video_games?lang=en [External Link]

I would love to hear about the Caesar III series, also I see Half Life + HL Blue Shift and some Spyro Games. I know their logo as well as the Sega Genesis startup screen.

Edit: Speaking of documentaries, Highly recommend the HL Unforseen Consequences Documentary [External Link] -- also the unreleased game Ravenholm documentary [External Link] was really interesting too both by Noclip

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To go along with @akselmo and @wvstolzing -- my experience was poor too.

I can't even launch it on Arch Linux & Sway.

I have 0 interest in "AI" in my editor -- that's just a buzz word like "The Cloud" where it means everything will be enshitified.

"Multiplayer"? What is "Multiplayer"? Like "Multi-user" -- it feels juvenile. old_man_yelling_at_clouds.jpg

To their credit I am very interested in that it is made in Rust.

Quoting: akselmoYou can luckily toggle off the AI bullshit from the settings but it being plastered everywhere really tells me who the audience is, and I don't think it's me. Also they seemed to equate Git with Github, because only Github services were supported.

Hit that nail on the head. I don't think the audience is me either -- I'm not a l33t teen coder looking to show off -- but to their credit maybe that is the strategic market to appeal to who knows SMS.

The GitHub = Git thing is absolutely daft, tonedeaf and ludicrous.

Quoting: akselmoOn positive side though, it was very easy to get going with it and the config, while being editing json files (why??), was still alright experience.

I'm cool with the JSON thing, probably because I haven't actually seen another configuration format that I feel is better than JSON is easy to parse with jq in scripts. I feel like JSON is Gen 2 of configuration formatting, and I can't wait to se what Gen 3 is. YAML?

Quoting: akselmoEdit: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 [External Link] oh no

Zed downloads NodeJS binary and npm packages from Internet without user’s consent #12589

LMAO. NGL that's pretty funny. What a mess.

I know this is a little judgemental and may be a bit premature as it will take time to see -- but they are reminding me of Manjaro a bit.

This bug precisely underscores why a lot of folk like to use old tried and true things instead of "The New Shiny".

Me personally, I don't have the time I used to have to delve into new software daily. The $99 I paid for Sublime Text already paid off in multiples due to time saved.

Atom Editor used to open waaaaayyyy to slowwww. Sublime was faster, and I could easily open 100 - 1,000 files or even a PHP Project with 10k files when I needed to a recursive Find & Replace.

I am willing to give Zed some slack, some good will (for now), while they get it together because they are new and interesting, but so far it seems like they are off to a cold start.

I will credit them with any innovations they coin if other editors copy them too. We'll see -- hopefully they are not full Manjaro.

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Quoting: dmoonfire[...] Atom [...] contributed a decent amount of code. When Microsoft canned it, it was heartbreaking because all my work was basically just canned.

Sorry for your loss, I remember being extremely unpopular 5 or 10 years ago warning everyone during the "Microsoft <3 Linux" phase, that based on decades of behavior [ Eg: SCO vs Novell Linux lawsuit funded by Microsoft ], Microsoft was still the same.

It hurts to find out first hand. The buying of Github, I feel bad for MineCraft fans. It was already bad enough Microsoft bought out Halo when it was already a Mac-first game around Y2K.

Sucks. But I'm glad people see it now and are not going to be surprised when they try to pull leverage in The Linux Foundation and all their bureaucracies to get the insider scoop and hurt us more.

Hell they ripped off KDE Plasma theme, Workspaces, it'll be funny to see what they rip of next -- Scrolling Tiling Window Management? Thieves.

Peak Microsoft.

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The new version has been done well and earned my dollar. I bought it.

I love to see old games given tender loving care and am happy to pay. What I'm not happy to do is buy these insults of a "Remastered" like Square Enix FF6 and Chrono Trigger -- those are both epic games and the cellphone look + smudge art really is a disservice and they should be ashamed to try to sell such half-assed games. Same goes for FF8 Remastered -- a total mockery of 8.

In total contrast to the new Myst and new Riven. I would easily pay for all of these games at full price if they followed in* Riven's footsteps.

I have heard first-hand stories relayed to me about the development behind myst and the blacked out windows and constant flow of coffee before they first came out. Absolute mad-lad developers, much respect.

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Looks like I'm buying this twice.

Quoting: sonic2kk

Quoting: HJLike the good ol' days after nine-eleven!

"Check the Internet lately?"

Welcome to the Internet? {NSFWish} [External Link]

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Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new [...] app

Valve has solved the Chicken and Egg Problem (a intellectual causality loop) with Proton.

Having been there before Proton dropped there was a large discussion in the Linux Community over the cost/benefit analysis of giving up native ports for native-wine ports. There was a large concern that Proton would be bad for the future of Linux gaming.

And now years in the future we see the effects. So many 3rd parties even Microsoft, and Sony have deployed to Steam Deck and therefore Linux.

I fire up a hand coded Wine Bottle Shell Script and the differences between 2024 and 2019 or 2016 are night and day. Most things "Just Work" as a result of Valve funding CodeWeavers, WINE, DXVK, SDL and others to solve problems. They partner with AMD and Nvidia to solve graphics issues with great success and have done major work in the Linux kernel as a faithful steward of Linux & Humanity.

In any case, back to the original sentiment -- The Chicken and Egg paradox is solved when I see headlines like this. Well done everyone -- I know a lot of Baldurs Gate people that will be happy to use a mod manager like this (although I know they are also happy with Steam Workshop coming too.)

Less Time Fiddling, More Time Gaming :P

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Stardew Valley was made because Harvest Moon SNES never got a proper successor for decades by a super fan turned dev tycoon.

This was made because ??? Stardew Valley made a lot of money ???

Which to me makes it feel like it's a: "The Product".

I won't know if it has a soul or not until the reviews start to roll in.

It's graphically "adequate", but as the Nausicaan's say: "you talk and you talk, but you have no guramba!"

We will see if it has guramba or not.

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