Ark is the definition of Technical Debt.

Poor engineering decisions stacked on top of poor engineering decisions dictated by management. I actually feel bad for anyone involved in programming it as it was moving scope and a mess of a fork of the Unreal 4 Engine in the early days.

I'm not surprised they wanted to cut off the Linux port, the git differences were probably worlds apart and anyone who owns a copy and has played the Linux versions has seen how the graphics are absolutely butchered.

You can have a $10,000 computer with a $2,000 Graphics Card on Linux and the graphics were still absolute shit.

This move is not better, but it's not worse either. It's a side-grade.

Considering I have no problem with containerizing apps with Flatpak I have no problem with Valve containerizing games with Wine/Proton.

Games are not in the same software-class as Server Utilities, Professional Desktop Tools, Desktop Applications, etc... and it's totally acceptable to me if someone figure out a "1-click" way to make things work.

That said, a game that ships a Linux "Native" (They're technically both "native") version will go to the top of my list as it's advertised to work for my Platform.

I exchange money for support. In other words -- money in exchange for expecting my product to work.

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The main topic aside, the best argument I never hear is we don't want The State to have MORE broad powers over our bodies & individual rights.

I wish it was easier to filter and sift through the games on Itch, last time they had a bundle it took me nearly a day to download all the games and check them out.

792 items for $10

Most people probably have time to look into like 20 tops before being distracted and moving on to something else.

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It was kind of hard to find the link to the Steam Store in the article as it's above the last video to check it out.

Here it is again for visibility:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1202130/Starship_Troopers_Terran_Command/ [External Link]

Release Date: Jun 16, 2022

The music is such Nacho Cheesey -- it's a good sign that the makers didn't take the convent too seriously -- it has StarCraft 1 and Fallout 1 vibes. The gameplay looks great.

I was not expecting to wake up to a RTS Strategy CityBuilder.

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I love how this illustrates that when a product leaves a gap in a market how another competitor can come in and snap up that market.

I just wish Epic would go disconnect from civilization and go up into the mountains or something and spare us of their idiocy & hostile walled garden monopolistic practices.

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I'm tempering my excitement because of the development history of this, however I am highly anticipating this. They should take a page from the UNIX philosophy and just release it -- if they want to improve it with 1.1 and 1.2 milestones -- that's definitely the way.

Working copy works? Good -- ship it. Just imagine all the changes since Terraria was released, or Stardew Valley. It's okay to push perfection & details off after release and actually interact with the community to get to that perfection.

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The big blocker for me trying their laptops is that I strongly prefer AMD and would really like to have coreboot.

Every time I've ever bought a laptop with Nvidia, it always was a headache. I'd take Intel Graphics over Nvidia any day just because it works. But these days everything I buy is all AMD.

I like their lightup keyboard, but I'm not sure how I feel about the layout as others with locale needs have noted.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThere was some guy on Steam that was running his mouth off about even Valve switching Dota2 over to proton because he didn't understand what Steam Linux Runtime meant.

Fools always talk the loudest

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Yes, I have a Steam Deck, It's way more awesome than I ever could have hoped, you may touch the fringe of my sleeves.

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That 24 key M cluster on the left, I would love to macro Sway/i3 commands to those. Move. Resize. Navigate. Float / Dock.

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This gives me Black Mesa Xen vibes.

Also Half Life Alyx



BM:X

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