Quoting: M@GOidI personally have no horse in this race, since I prefer tradicional packaging over Snap/Flatpack.

I do too. Still have a smidge of an opinion about Snaps/Flatpaks though.

Quoting: M@GOidAlso, since I'm not a Canonical hater, I also do not see any problem with this. Other distros don't promote Snap, so why Canonical had any obligation to support a competitor option?

Is it really a "competitor option"? I don't think Flathub is maintained by some specific other distro company. My understanding of Flatpaks is that they are just an independent piece of software, like LibreOffice or something. If Canonical were to start considering the whole open source ecosystem to be "competition" they would have problems.

On the other hand, for every other distro, Snaps really are a "competitor option" since they're created and maintained by not just a particular distro, but by a for-profit corporation, and Snap as currently written works with just one repository, Canonical's. It probably would be do-able to change that, it's not like Snap stuff is closed source, but what's the motivation to bother? You'd have to fork it and maintain the fork because Canonical ain't gonna accept any patches to do that; it'd be a pain and a big controversy. So nobody else is ever going to seriously adopt Snaps, but any new distro has no problem including Flatpaks.

Basically, if Canonical's thinking about Snaps is just that they're a handy tool to be used by Canonical, then there's nothing wrong with their approach. If on the other hand they are imagining Snaps as a technology competing with Flatpaks and other packaging things in the broader Linux software ecosystem, they have kept them too closely attached to Canonical to be able to spread, and will fail.

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Quoting: Craggles086Does this make Civilization one of the longest running games franchise?

Elite predated Civilization by a few years, but Elite Dangerous bears little resemblance to the original Elite, whereas Civilization is technically the same game.

Wikipedia got a list of the longest-running video game franchises, because of course it does!

Both Civ and Elite are on it, but maybe not where you expected them to be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_video_game_franchises [External Link]

Whoa. Not even close, huh.

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So looking at the comments, apparently nobody likes or plays CS:GO. I guess the massive stats are all just bots playing bots. :wink:

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Looks kind of fun. Must say the music does put me in the 80s mood.

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Anyone have any idea what those

Optional Splitlock changes to help gaming

do?

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Is is just me, or does the phrase

loading throbber

sound kind of rude?

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Quoting: Mar2ckI really hope they make it so the PC version has controller support. With Civ 6 I'm stuck between Steam Deck which runs well but controls awfully and the Switch version which controls nicely but drops to 20 fps when there's even a slightly developed city on screen.

Huh. But aren't Steam Deck controls pretty customizable? Couldn't you, like, rejig the controls to suit you?

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Quoting: KimyrielleTo be honest, I am not even sure what kind of changes to the game would warrant a new game at this time. Civ VI isn't perfect, and a handful of things were done better by previous editions, but other than that, I'd have considered Civ VI the "finished" Civ. With the only exception that I am not a fan of Civ VI overly cartoonish looks. Maybe they will change that, there is always hope.

I find myself going back and playing Civ V as much as Civ VI. There's something about the district schtick I'm not always in the mood for. But between the two of them, yeah, I'm not sure where I'd take it after that.

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Quoting: pageroundInteresting! I hope they produce a Alpha Centari 2. Keep the gameplay, update some graphics, print money. I will be watching to see what Solomon does.

I always figured this was Beyond Earth... at least the premise is similar. I should actually play the two and compare.

I mean yeah, in theory.

And BE has some things that ought to be interesting, about the tech setup with the web shape, and like event-ish quest-ish things and stuff happening, and like the three sociopolitical tendencies of, what was it, it was like Purity which is about staying all old-Earth and there's one where you're all master-of-tech and go cyborg and stuff and there's the environmental one where you master biotech and mess with genetics and hybridize with the planet's life.

But somehow it all doesn't resonate much. One thing that doesn't help is you can actually master all three tendencies at once, and aside from a few extras you mostly do that just by acquiring tech, so if you get advanced enough (which why wouldn't you?) you'll just maximize them all. So you never really choose a social direction or pick a set of benefits or anything, you're just grabbing it all so it just turns into a side benefit of research. And the tech web turns out not to be interesting. I guess because the technologies are drastically graded in cost it mostly works out to being a wide-ish tech tree that's been splayed around to look like a circle; you start at the cheap ones and work your way up to the expensive ones, it's just early cheap tech is at the middle not the bottom, and late expensive stuff is at the outside not the top. It's not a bad tech tree, and there's nothing wrong with the web shape, but it doesn't really add anything. I also don't really like the factions and their specials all that much in Civ:BE. And personally, I miss the less science-fictiony but more real political/economic choices for your society that you get in Alpha Centauri. I guess I also miss vehicle design; in Civ: BE you get a few generic types which get better as your tendency-thingies advance, and a fair number of weird advanced units linked to specific technologies that require strategic resources so you can only have a few of them. The weird advanced units can be pretty cool, but I do kind of miss being able to say "I'm putting this kind of weapon on this kind of chassis and giving it this and this special abilities". Civ: BE does have something like the Civ 5 style civics thing, which is kind of nice.

Civ: BE isn't a bad game. I've played it through a few times. But somehow it feels like it's less than the sum of its parts, and for me doesn't really make a worthy successor to Alpha C. They got too cute and lost the heart, or something. And I've seen a lot of people express roughly this opinion.

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I bought them. Wow, I suck even more than when I was young.

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