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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThis is the ONLY Stardust I will recognise.......

My preference:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/

No, this is Stardust.

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No....... This is Stardust........

This is madness!

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo it's basically XCOM with superheroes.

Yeah. But the "superheroes" thing likely leads to some serious emergent properties, which might make a very compelling, or perhaps game breaking, difference.

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Quoting: natis1I don't like platform support as a stretch goal, but it is made in Godot and they do go on a big tangent about only using open source tools they can control, so they would have a very hard time shirking responsibility if they decide not to deliver on Linux support.

Incidentally, looks like we're gonna find out whether their word is good--they've hit that stretch goal.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusProps for an inventive trailer, I guess…? What did I just watch?

It's educational though, innit? I had no idea Athens was like that.

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Well, I backed it. First time in quite a while I've done that.

Oh, this is interesting. I read through some of what they were saying about the game, and this caught my eye:

QuoteThe Ur-Quan Masters is from an era of printed manuals and maps, where players took their own notes to solve puzzles and mysteries. Our plan is to translate the classic experience into the new game, where you can consult your interactive Star Map, and build your captain's log with a combination of personal notes and automated tools.

That sounds kind of neat to me. And yes, I definitely did take notes playing the old game, including a piece of graph paper on which I'd roughed out the, um, shortcuts-through-space map with notes about which hole brought me out where.

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If the plan is more sinister than anyone could imagine, then the game developers couldn't have imagined it, which means the game must be unfinished . . . they should warn us about that kind of thing.

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Sounds kind of interesting. It says PvP . . . can you play solo at all?

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Quoting: fenglengshunFor me, Ubuntu and anything Ubuntu-based just feels archaic. I've hopped on the NixOS and Universal Blue (Bazzite and Bluefin/Aurora primarily) train, and nowadays I can just define my system through a config file.

Uh . . . the way of the future, I'm sure. This is how we'll get all those Windows and Mac users into the fold--letting them define their system through a config file! Yup, I feel so archaic now.

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Quoting: NathanaelKStottlemyerNot really Decent, rebirth doesn't come with the game data. You have to buy it yourself, so does Descent2.de. It looks that this one is too.

So the exact same situation as with Doom or Heretic. The bespoke license used here is tricky, but the same was true for Doom and Heretic initally too, before id and Raven smartened up and adopted the GPL instead. Just a vistege of the code coming out so early on.

Quoting: NathanaelKStottlemyerIt's not really open source, in my opinion, because while the engine is now open sourced, the game data is not. I think it's kind of disingenuous to call it an open source game when the game in entirely isn't open source. Just the game engine.

Well, it is certainly not free media; I could muddy the waters and say any software not created through the open source development model is not "open source" too, but at a certain point that is just arguing semantics.

I'm not intentionally trying to be argumentative, just when I saw the headline "Descent 3 has been made open source" I was like OK a game like wesnoth or 0 A.D. That's not the case unfortunately.

In this case, it really is arguing on semantics. It is open source, but it's not free. So I went with plain open source, rather than "free and open source". Hope that makes sense. I don't really see it as a productive argument to have though :P

So I guess it's "LOSS" ("Libre Open Source Software", but without "Free")
But I don't think it's a total LOSS.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIt would only make sense to me.

It would only make sense to you? You mean it wouldn't make sense to anybody else?

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