Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: PenglingAm I the only person who can't even find the physical wallet cards anywhere? All of the places that they list as UK stockists don't seem to actually carry them!

Like so many geeks, I'm frequently told that I'm difficult to get gifts for on traditional gift-giving occasions (and I always say they don't need to worry about it, and on it goes :tongue:) - physical Steam cards actually being available would be kind of helpful.

Same here in Aus...... Even EB No Games [External Link] doesnt have physical Steam wallet cards you can buy online..... I doubt they would have any in their shoeboxed sized stores filled with Pop! Vinyls [External Link] and other "gaming" tat......

Heh. I saw "vinyls" and I thought "What do old LP records have to do with gaming?" Then I followed the link and . . . oh.

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Wonder if it's moddable. Seems like it would be good if people could add custom furniture packs. My taste, for instance, tends to be a bit more antiquey than what I saw in the trailer.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIt always weirds me out a little bit when someone basically takes an open source project and throws it up on Steam and hopes to make some money, or they don't fully support all the operating systems that the opensource project supports.

It was released by the creators of the original game, for free, as a part of building hype for the upcoming sequel.

And it's a good thing to do--I have no problem with it. But I do have to agree with slaapliedje that it's a bit weird in that there is a Linux build all packaged up, I for one can testify that it works with no issues, so why exclude it from the Steam release? It doesn't matter because I'd install it from my distro's repository anyway, it just seems a bit odd.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: suchThe fact that NWN2 is listed on GOG, but no one bothered to fix it for Steam if it was causing some issues there (as I think I've heard ages ago) is... odd. Especially since it seems that it does function. Surely, it's better for a game to earn something than nothing at all?

...right?

NWN2 was removed from Steam ages ago, so that is likely why. There is a thread requesting it be returned, but there of course is always some dick that has to say 'why bother, it sucked' I still think Obsidian sucked for not making a native Linux version back when it was released.

It was a lot better than NWN1, as far as I'm concerned. The artwork doesn't look phoned in, for one thing. For another, 3.5E fixed almost every gripe I ever had with 3E.

Ha, the closest I have gotten to play either of those were Neverwinter Nights 1 and a little bit of 2. Then I played one session of actual D&D 3e (where my friend's brother in law pissed me off by 'grabbing and picking up' my character... even though he was a dwarf with a 9 dex and I was a halfling with 19 dex...

Then I have played a decently long game of Pathfinder 1st edition, which I've been told is more like a D&D 3.7 or so edition... They fixed the things that 3.5 didn't fix, or something. Still haven't had the patience to keep playing Wrath of the Righteous or Kingmaker, as I'm wanting a game to use PF2e... :P

Ah, D&D! Played lots of 1st edition back in the day, and a bit more during Covid for nostalgia. And played a bit of 5th, which surprised me with how similar it really was. And I had some fun doing that, don't get me wrong. But . . .

GURPS is better.

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Well, the frame story seems kind of interesting, but I can't help noticing that the actual game seems to consist of moving around a small space pushing things. I guess that could be fun if the puzzles are interesting?

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Quoting: soulsourceIf one doesn't care about Steam additional features (like Steam Input, Remote Play Together), it's probably more convenient to just get it via the distribution's package manager. I only checked Debian and Gentoo, but they both have it in their official repositories, the package name is "uqm".

That's how I play it on Mint.
And you know, it's still a fun game.

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This seems like a Good Thing. Well done Valve.

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Quoting: PenglingLuckily, there's usually an option to disable the touch, anyway, and that was what I did - might be worth looking for. :smile:

I should have thought of that. I'll check it out, thanks!

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Quoting: redneckdrowWhat's worse, children under ~10 expect every screen to be a touch screen. :angry: I still remember being shown one when they were a novelty in '94 and thinking "Who would use this when buttons and a keyboard are so convenient?":tongue: I still hate touch interfaces 30 years later.

Yeah. I mean, sure, if you don't have a mouse and you don't have a keyboard, then OK, I guess a touch screen. And if the interface is built with that in mind, it works OK. But for a normal computer I don't get the appeal. My laptop actually has a touch screen, because I bought a laptop that didn't have one, and it broke shortly after, and they replaced it with a different one, slightly newer model I guess, that had a touch screen, so here I am. And . . . I never use it, because why would I want to get finger marks on my screen? Plus mouse is just easier. But sometimes when a crumb or something gets on the screen and I go to flick it off, that does something and I'm like "argh, bloody touch screen!"

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This file renaming thing is kind of uniting two of my pet peeves. I find it annoying and pointless when people rename their companies or projects or whatever to an acronym based on what previously was a perfectly good actual name with a meaning, often claiming that the acronym doesn't even stand for the name it was based on but is just meaningless now. Why?! So for instance, what was once the Royal Bank of Canada, a perfectly good, dignified name, is now RBC, which according to them means nothing whatsoever and does not stand for Royal Bank of Canada but is just three arbitrary letters. What the fuck, really. But I mean, banks are evil so what do I expect, right? So this project, which used to have a descriptive name so if it got mentioned I'd be able to tell what it was, now has an acronym which if I see it referred to I'll be going "So what the hell is 'ES-DE'?" (Acronyms are also generally less searchable than actual names, because there are so often other things with the same one, so it's a pain and a bad idea in the internet age to change a descriptive name into an acronym)

But since it's a project with computer files involved, it gets to also add in my pet peeve about filenames and data formats and stuff, which is that in this day and age with lots of memory and sophisticated string handling there is no excuse for making such things less human-readable rather than more. So before, if I was browsing around and saw this configuration file, I'd be able to tell, ah, that's a configuration file for that Emulation Station thing. Now, again, I'll be going "Huh. What the hell is this file? Should it be there? Will something break if I delete it? No clue."

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