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'd be happy if they updated the controls a bit too. Like, zoom the map with mousewheel and stuff.

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Plus, Steam Deck was not part of their Kickstarter promises so it's a lower priority.

I appreciate people who think that "what they promised" is an important factor.

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Quoting: mr-victoryAs I read the comments, a few things make me feel weird:
1. Most of you are Linux users for a long time, while I use Linux since 2020 and play on it since 2022.
2. Despite only recently starting gaming, it was nowhere near an OOB Just Works experience. I dealt with forcing games to use Nvidia GPU, any Vulkan application freezing due to a driver bug, Apex Legends stuttering even with GPL and mod problems with HOI4. I even patched Proton (only a week ago!) so Paradox Launcher would well behave.
3. In 2 Steam accounts around only 5 games were purchased in total (and only 1 pirate game which I can't acquire in a different way) while everyone else here has hundreds if not thousands.

In general, I totally get you. Although for me, it's all OOB experience because anything that doesn't work I just shelve and play something else. Like Galactic Civilizations III, for a long time my only ever non-Linux-native game purchase. It didn't work, but I never tinkered with it, I would just try every year or two to see if Wine/Proton had started working (when it finally did, I was quite disappointed in the game and wished I hadn't bothered). Vampire Survivors doesn't work for me; maybe one day it will. But there are plenty of other games so I can't be bothered to tinker trying to get it going.

One tiny specific I-don't-get-it . . . you patched Proton to make the Paradox launcher work . . . why would you be using Proton with the Paradox launcher at all? Aren't all their games Linux native?

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Quoting: 1xokI only found out about it by chance at the end of 2014. Before that, I hadn't played commercial games for over 15 years. I've been using Linux since the mid-90s and at some point I got tired of the dual boot installation. It was a weird feeling for me at first to pay for a game. My first game was Tropico 5, which I even bought at full price. I can still remember hovering over the buy button for a while, wondering whether I should really do it.

I had a kind of similar experience. Didn't start Linux quite as early; I dunno, around 2000 or slightly before. Somewhere in there I came to the conclusion that Linux on the desktop wouldn't become a thing until there were games, so I started following GoL even though I didn't actually play computer games much. Then a year or two after I started paying attention at GoL, suddenly there was Steam on Linux; I didn't really understand at a gut level how important that would be because I knew nothing about Steam. But it was only once Steam was available that I started actually buying games (other than a couple of Loki ones way back). And it definitely felt weird the first time or two.

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Quoting: JuliusThis is really starting to sound like a slot machine... I wonder if that is intentional?

It probably is, going by the analysis made in this video; https://youtu.be/bkVKLPvXBUc [External Link]
It's an interesting analysis of how games use such psychological tricks to either make the game more fun (like Vampire Survivors) or drain money from it's players (what many mobile games do).

And indeed presumably that's why slot machines evolved to be that way . . . at that I think modern slot machines may have picked up a few tricks from good old arcade pinball games.

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Quoting: Lofty

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Quoting: LoftyFix Bot problem.

okay thx bye.

Framework's SSDs have a bot problem? :dizzy:
Think maybe this went on the wrong article.

okay i need more sleep, 4hrs was not enough last night. i thought i was posting on the TF2 thread :cry:

I had a feeling. :grin:

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Quoting: LoftyFix Bot problem.

okay thx bye.

Framework's SSDs have a bot problem? :dizzy:
Think maybe this went on the wrong article.

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Yay, a blog post! Ah, and it's announcing something. That's good too.

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Scott Adams? Is that the old, old, ooooold Scott Adams text adventures that fit in 16k? I remember failing to complete most of those. I'm pretty sure I finished the pirate one though.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumGreat.. now I am thinking of pie and rum... :unsure: :grin:

One of the best desserts I ever had in my life was dark rum creme brulee. Ohhhh, it was fine!

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