I remember 10 years ago when I wanted something like this and couldn't fathom why application launchers were so crazy and excotic -- Kickoff [External Link], Lancelot [External Link]

For a GUI app, Panther Launcher by Rastersoft (a fork of ElementaryOS Slingshot) [External Link] got the closest to what I was wanting.

This one looks really good too.

I also really like TUI apps like parsing .desktop launchers with fzf (sway-launcher-desktop) [External Link].

This one from System76 looks pretty good too. Simplicity & effective function is really good.

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I bought a bunch of GOG games a while, and then upon trying to install them in WINE I just wished that they had Steam counter-parts.

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This vertex glitch was funny as fuck. I got lots of hilarious screenshots and had a game with 21 head-shots just the day before it rolled out.

It was interesting to see AWP and others in scope mode was just fine.

As much as I would like to live in a perfect world where these kinds of issues don't happen, I wouldn't trade Valve style for the stick-up-the-ass passionless corpo style disguised as gaming companies and yeeted onto the stock exchange to go Neo-Harkonnen on quarterly earnings -- that is the kind of capitalism people bitch about all the time. Privately owned like Valve and bam you have literally nurtured one of the biggest multi-billion dollar entertainment industries into existence, and manage to rank as the most lucrative company per employee in the United States a few years back.

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Hmm, it would be cool if I could donate a Pizza and some Beer to them as thanks for doing such cool work, but I know that's not why they do it.

They've really done an amazing job on this.

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If it plays like Age of Empires II I'm in.

This is worth a look. At first I read the first two sentences as "Planetary Annihilation" and facepalmed, apparently the "X Annihilation" naming schema is more popular than I realized.

Edit:

After digging through their site the relevant links at this time are:

https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/BYAR-Chobby/releases/download/v1.1252.0/Beyond-All-Reason-1.1252.0.AppImage [External Link]

https://flathub.org/apps/details/info.beyondallreason.bar [External Link]

flatpak install beyondallreason

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For the first time in the history of the Internet, people everywhere are forced to develop patience after the supply dead-lock monkey-wrench. A year or two ago the rage would be at a all time high and now I just read comment & comment about solidarity.

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Quoting: HolzkohlenI forgot this is a thing. I believe I still have it on CD somewhere though my cd-rom drive has not been used in quite a while. Best be buying it again :D

Not only is it a thing, it's a pretty damn good thing. It plays well at many resolutions.

I think you basically just need to extract the files on the CD to your home folder ~/.local/share/OpenRCT2 ( I think ) and then you don't need to worry about it again unless you nuke your $HOME dir someday.

This is definitely a project that continues to impress me (like Augustus & Julias re-implementation of Caesar III and others, even 0AD has come a long way these last few years).

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Minigalaxy, a simple and open source GOG client for Linux version 1.1 is out

I like this title because it doesn't assume the reader-base is already familiar with this tool.

Which is smart considering Steam Deck is nearly here and there will be lots of new people looking for tools like this.

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It's been a long and great journey, I tip my hat to all you fine people.

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