Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: Purple Library GuyPacking some gorgeous alliteration there, pal.

Amazing alliteration, surely? :wink:

Heh. Technically, that would be amazing assonance.
Anyhow, I do my alliteration in classic Old English poetry style, where you alliterate the first syllable with the next stressed syllable: Packing . . . pal. :wink:

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You know, I feel like ever since the Steam Deck got going, contrary to some of the more pessimistic predictions, and even my own broad expectation, there have actually been more native Linux ports. People were thinking that with Proton working pretty dashed well, and Proton being to a fair extent the face of the Steam deck, developers wouldn't be bothering to do native versions but instead would rely on Proton. I thought so too, I just figured it would be worth it and eventually reverse if the Deck led to greatly increased Linux market share.

But even at this early stage, just looking at the native games mentioned here at GoL lately, it feels like that isn't how it's working. Instead it's like the Steam Deck has increased the visibility of Linux again so more developers are thinking about it and feeling like it's a viable platform. Sure, there's quite a lot of tweaking Windows versions to work better with Proton and/or the Deck, which itself may be an improvement since in the past a lot of those games wouldn't have had Linux versions, they just wouldn't have been tweaked. But I've been surprised how many articles I'm seeing about Linux versions of stuff, sometimes unexpected Linux versions of stuff. Maybe it's a false impression, I haven't exactly done a survey. But the native Linux front feels surprisingly positive to me lately.

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Huh. Not usually my kind of game, but there's something about this one . . . it looks less dependent on finicky quick reflexes, the art is interesting, and now I kind of want a Chicken Companion.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Romlok

Quoting: eldakingApparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.

Anyone up for making Gramophone Titans?

As we seem to be moving backwards in time, I'm looking forward to the eventual Codex Critters, Palimpsest Pals, Cuneiform Clay-tures, and Hieroglyph Helpers. :grin:

Packing some gorgeous alliteration there, pal.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: eldakingApparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.

Monster Rancher sort of did this when CDs were the norm, too - in the game you generated creatures by having the game read physical music CDs, and the later television adaptation therefore depicted them as being retrieved from stone artifacts that resembled optical-discs. Sadly but understandably, the modern reissues of these games replace the scanning of physical discs with a searchable online music-CD database, instead.

This was one of the earliest iterations of the "summoning beasts from physical media" idea (which always felt like it had its roots in that time when the general public's mindset about computers was that they were almost "magical"), though I don't know if it was the first. :tongue:

Huh. Where does Digimon fit into this history?

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Quoting: Nic264It was also rebranded as IceWeasel [External Link] in Debian between 2006 and 2017.

And remember how much of a kerfuffle that caused. But even so, from what Dr. McCoy is saying I suspect there are many more lightly patched versions of Firefox where the patches are sufficiently small that nobody ever commented. But if you had a hard and fast rule, where any patch = rename, you would instead have had three dozen different Firefoxes.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo are you allowed to knock your opponents' balls somewhere inconvenient?
Um, I didn't mean that the way it sounded . . . :grin:

Nope, you can only mess with your own.

Seriously, in terms of gameplay that's probably for the best, or nobody would ever finish a course.

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So are you allowed to knock your opponents' balls somewhere inconvenient?
Um, I didn't mean that the way it sounded . . . :grin:

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Quoting: eldakingApparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.

That's really weird.

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I remember when there was no such thing as a game with a 3.0 release.

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