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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GOG is having a sale right now too.

Which is how I learned about the Sequel to Myst -- Riven just came out 3 days ago.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/riven [External Link]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven/ [External Link]

Which is especially interesting because of the VR element.

Looking for Steam Deck / LAN games -- something tells me I'll be making some purchases for my weekly weekend LAN party. I just hope to get some good Steam Deck and games that run on mid-grade potatoes.

As dumb as it sounds, Left 4 Dead 2 @ 99 cents was actually a really fun play on Steam Deck last week.

Maybe it's time for a CS2 Poolday throwback :P

By all means please tell us what you're buying and your favorite / most clocked hour gamess @all

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Pool Day

I read on the internet somewhere -- Pool Day -- Where Boys go to become Men.

Such an epic map to see in this quality. Awesome!

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I really enjoyed the Bedroom and Bathroom maps, they were especially fun with Snipers.

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Then there's the Buck Nasty surf maps of CSS which never made it to CSGO in all their glory. Especially with the RPG+DeathMatch server mods.

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Iceworld! I could easily see Iceworld joining the list after years of fun! ( My favorite is the 2 levels one from CSS)

<3 Valve

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Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: ElectricPrismThe use-case isn't obvious to me. Maybe I'm just tired.

So this allows you to play VR Games on Gnome Wayland? Is that it or is there something more to this like a Gnome VR Desktop or something.

That should be it, yes. Currently, starting up (e.g.) SteamVR while using Gnome on Wayland won't work, it won't pass on the display output to the VR headset; with this new work merged, it will.

Awesome, I actually happen to current use Gnome with my Index in the living room. Although I have been steadily been switching to everything Sway. In any case normalizing Index VR on Wayland will trickle down my way I'm sure -- very excited to get a more definitive experience for __ videos __ gaming __ vr __ video editing __ and whatever else -- Wayland is doing pretty good.

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The use-case isn't obvious to me. Maybe I'm just tired.

So this allows you to play VR Games on Gnome Wayland? Is that it or is there something more to this like a Gnome VR Desktop or something.

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KINGDOM HEARTS

Normally I would instabuy a title like this, but I am pretty salty about them selling out as an exclusive to EGS.

And my people are pretty disappointed at the story post > #1.

Although I'm 50/50. It's on my radar, someone tell me it has Denuvo or some other dumb shit like a Square Launcher or whatever, or is always online or some other __dumb management thing__ so I can take it off my radar.

Japanese Game Studios love committing commercial suicide by insulting their fans.

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