That very long trailer looks like a lot of fun. It would appear they dealt with the problem of ship-to-ship combat in pirate games always seeming to be kind of cheesy by . . . not doing it at all. But you know, it looks like there's so much piratey flavour in there that I don't mind. Kind of amusing that they made "pausing the game" and similar mechanics into in-game features bestowed on you by your ghostly cursed pirate skull artifact thingie.

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Quoting: drlambThis is now fixed as of today. Thank you Crytek! :heart:

And the crowd goes mild!

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It has been my experience on Linux that you can just use it on easy mode (e.g. by using Mint), which is what I almost always do nowadays, or you can use bleeding edge software, but you cannot generally do both. If you want the bleeding edge stuff, you need to learn a little about how to do stuff.

Back when, the state of the Linux software ecosystem and even to some extent the OS itself, particularly drivers, meant that it was pretty much imperative to use bleeding edge stuff, and I grumbled and did so enough to be deeply familiar with the expression "dependency hell". But now, stuff dated enough to be included in the Mint repositories is fine for me; none of the brand new stuff is compelling enough to make me want to do things like interact with Github, install a package from the command line or whatnot. But I'm aware that if I do want the brandest newest stuff, the price is I'm going to have to learn how again.

As to PPAs, even those I've only used a couple of times. But I like them because once you've added one, your distro will include it in the stuff to be updated and so it will update automatically--you have in effect added it into the stuff your distro is automatically managing for you, meaning you won't have to manage it yourself. Add something by hand and it's your problem from there on in. They're safe enough as long as you know who made the PPA, which is pretty much the same for things on Github, Flatpaks or whatever.

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Quoting: Guppyevery new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI guess that's one way to stop people from cheating.

If nobody can play, nobody can cheat! It's brilliant!

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Quoting: ZeloxWow! This update brought such an upgrade to the screen.
Im not using the OLED one and I see a complete difference in how the screen renders stuff. Its like the colors pop more, the details are more detailed.

But if you're not using the OLED one, how do you know all this? Do you have clairvoyance?
(Sorry, sorry, just couldn't resist--that must be the most efficient typo I have ever seen)

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Backpack Hero . . . So, this is a Dora the Explorer game? :whistle:

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Well. It looks kind of amusing, and it's pretty dashed cheap. Maybe I'll get it.

In the mean while, I think the word the Wild Gentlemen were looking for was "palate", not "palette".
(I didn't put that in the corrections thing 'cause it ain't Liam's mistake to fix)

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumPlus, I'm trying to reduce my overall e-waste in general (this is why I stopped buying mainstream phones, and am now looking to more repairable devices).

Ah, yes, me too. That's why I've never yet acquired a cell phone--not because I'm a skinflint who refuses to pay $50 Cdn./month for a device that will let people bother me when I'm alone. Nope, it's the e-waste thing. For sure.

:grin:

In fairness, I don't take out those sorts of contracts either, and it absolutely is because I'm frugal. I buy my phones outright immediately, and then just use a pay-as-you-go style SIM card. :happy:

Thing is, Canada may be the worst market in the world for cell phone plans, even worse than the US. Far as I know, around my way there are no genuine pay-as-you-go things--there are things that say they're pay-as-you-go, but then you look at them slightly more closely and it turns out the money expires after a year whether you've used it up or not, and/or there is actually some kind of semi-hidden monthly charge, and stuff like that.
I've considered getting a cell phone just to use where there's wi-fi.

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I am quite fond of this movie. Recently it occurred to me that one adorable thing about it now is that it comes from a more innocent time, when there was some reasonable chance an American mugger wouldn't be wielding a gun.

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