Quoting: MarlockHe used to have time to even do bissections and notify devs of the exact commit that caused an issue, but it's been a few years since I last read an article where he mentions doing so.

It's unfortunate, but he's only human and very tired (measurable by how well or poorly structured his phrasing is at each article, and trending down).

I wonder if ad revenue for independent websites has gotten skimpier--is Google siphoning off more of the cash than it used to?

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Talk of "frontiers" reminds me of a terrible old Star Trek joke:

How many ears does Mr. Spock have?
Three. One on the right, one on the left, and the final, front ear.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: inlinuxdudeAs someone who has almost 2,500 hours into StS, I'd disagree with this.

Wow, good job. You're on a whole different level from me, with my 110 hours. The last 50 or so of which were trying, probably 75+ attempts, to beat the Heart as Ironclad. Every run, Ironclad, 75+ times, no ascensions - but no luck. I beat the Heart with one of the others... can't remember which now, but not with the Ironclad.

I didn't really dig into it in the article, but one of the reasons I mostly gave up on StS is that problem - the sheer randomness of it. There's very little you can do to influence what relics you get, or what cards you're offered. So in around 75 runs, I faced the Heart a few times thinking I had a chance, but only a few.

Same here. Well, I've never actually beaten the Heart. Came close a couple of times, and maybe I'll get back to StS at some point and give it some more tries. But the difficulty step between everything else and the Heart is so huge--I can have someone absolutely kicking ass on everything else, and find it's not close to enough against the Heart.

I never really got the knack of the Ironclad. The one with the orbs I find really chancy, sometimes it clicks and is just steamrolling, usually it's fragile, but when I can get a good combo going it's a lot of fun. And the one with the poison I can usually scrape together something pretty tough one way or another; if the poison doesn't get going, the shivs or something will. The one with the stances I can usually get some badass stuff happening too. But I can't get the Ironclad to really GO--maybe it's because a lot of the key Ironclad things seem to be sacrifice plays and I've never really had an instinct for that approach. So it's never really bad, but in my hands it's never really good either.

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Quoting: grigi

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's nice that they're putting out powerful Linux laptops.
But, could somebody maybe do a wimpy Linux laptop? That's more what I'm in the market for.

RIP netbooks. :sad: Something along those lines would make a great (and, for my purposes, much more useful) alternative to Chromebooks in this day and age!

My wife manages OK with a Chromebook most of the time because her computing needs are very modest. But when she wants to do something it doesn't want to do, she's basically hooped. If MacOS is a "walled garden", ChromeOS is a "walled planter"!

What about something like the StarLite [External Link] ?

That looks rather nice!

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Penglingalternative to Chromebooks

Quoting: Purple Library Guygreat replacement for my wife's Chromebook

Install Linux, give them a second life.
https://mrchromebox.tech/ [External Link]

Ugh. I looked up stuff about how to do that once. It wasn't pretty; on top of the basic Arm difficulty, Google seem to have gone out of their way to make it hard. Given this site which looks helpful I might give it a try, but I'd for sure want to have a replacement lined up in case it didn't work.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's nice that they're putting out powerful Linux laptops.
But, could somebody maybe do a wimpy Linux laptop? That's more what I'm in the market for.

RIP netbooks. :sad: Something along those lines would make a great (and, for my purposes, much more useful) alternative to Chromebooks in this day and age!

My wife manages OK with a Chromebook most of the time because her computing needs are very modest. But when she wants to do something it doesn't want to do, she's basically hooped. If MacOS is a "walled garden", ChromeOS is a "walled planter"!

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's nice that they're putting out powerful Linux laptops.
But, could somebody maybe do a wimpy Linux laptop? That's more what I'm in the market for.

Pinebook-pro may be what you're looking for:

https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ [External Link]

Arm, huh? That might actually be even more wimpy than I had in mind. But it might be a great replacement for my wife's Chromebook (which still fundamentally works fine, but Google have decided to make it gradually unusable by ceasing all updates).

I can't tell from the website what Linux it has on it, if any. I wouldn't be up for too much fiddling, especially for something my wife would be using.

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It's nice that they're putting out powerful Linux laptops.
But, could somebody maybe do a wimpy Linux laptop? That's more what I'm in the market for.

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Quoting: NanobangIt's amusingly ironic to see Microsoft in the position of trying to adapt to a Linux device for a change. Or it would be if the whole thing weren't DOA---dead on arrival.

That part's just amusing.

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For a game that seems to be full of combat, the trailer has a very relaxed feel.

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