Quoting: sigzHow many units have been sold from first wave ?

Nobody knows. "Enough to make the Steam Deck the #1 seller on Steam for 4 weeks running" is all the information we have.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47and, ironically, people spreading FUD falsely claiming that you need a subscription to play on Stadia (which you don't.)

I think normally for something to qualify as FUD, it needs to be known to be false by the persons saying it, who are doing so because for other reasons they want to deep-six whatever they're criticizing. In the case of Stadia, most of the people saying it needed a subscription said that because they honestly thought it was the case, because Stadia were incredibly muddled in their messaging and it was actually hard to tell that you didn't need one. So that's not really FUD, even though it's inaccurate information and does make someone look bad.

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaCan't to overthrow the bourgeoisie once the bugs get fixed !:tongue:

Unfortunately, I think it's the other way around: You're trying to keep the people pacified so they don't overthrow the bourgeoisie.

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Quoting: Jpxe

Quoting: Philadelphus2,500! Only, what, ~55,000 more to go? :grin:

I kid, but obviously that's still a good milestone to hear. Wonder how high the number'll be by the time I finally get my order email in Q3?

I wonder how many of the games actually have players.. There's a lot of asset flips with zero or just a couple of reviews.

And I'm presuming the verification process is emphasizing real, often-played games.
Still . . .

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There's a couple of things I might use this for. Mostly open source games, actually.
(But yes, I'll probably wait until it's available straight from my distro)

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Quoting: LNX

Thanks though to Proton

for killing native linux games development

No, really, get over it. Linux game development was dying anyway. With Steam Deck, which could not exist without Proton-or-equivalent, we could see enough market share for Linux game development to rise again. Without it we were on a slow train to nowhere.

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Quoting: scaineEh? They ARE "the" linux distro. They have been for decades. THEY STILL ARE, despite quite a few mis-steps in recent years and some momentum around Arch. They don't divide people - they have, by far, the biggest community in the Linux "world". For a long time, people argued (myself included, although I don't really feel that way any more) that we should stop referring to Linux and start referring to Ubuntu.

OK, that, that right there, strikes me as a reason some people might have started to get shirty about Ubuntu, no matter what the rights and wrongs of Mir and Unity and whatnot.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: dpanterI'm a bit concerned what the endgame is for Embracer Group.

Extinguisher Group

Yeah, but that'll be a while. Wonder what will happen during the shift to Extender Group?

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: damarrinThere’s people who still play d&d? How awesome.

My package hasn’t moved an inch since Fri evening, I guess German people don’t work on weekends, even in shipping companies.

Ha, 5th edition is HUGE right now. Granted, I hate it, but sadly you go where the players are.

I've been playing it some lately too--when Covid started, my group decided to add an extra game, and we went for a nostalgia hit with old school AD&D 1st edition, doing the original Giants/Drow modules. After a couple of years we got a bit sick of the shortcomings of 1st edition, so we thought hey, let's update to the latest--translate our characters into 5th edition.
After playing it a bit, I'm sort of surprised by how . . . not different it is. It has some cute new stuff, all the character classes have various interesting options and schticks they can do. And the system is clearly more systematic--rules are more consistent across the board and stuff.
But you're still really limited by the class system. And there's still hardly any way to do stuff that isn't fighting. Skills are very limited, if anything more so than in late 1st edition. And the spells are still just this ad hoc list of "If the system has this particular spell, you can do this particular thing"--there aren't a lot of utility spells, and your wizard might be able to sling a fireball but there's no feeling like they generally know anything about fire.
All in all, it's kind of fun for a little short term experiment, but there's no way I'd go for it as a system to use for a real campaign.

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I presume he's implying that the elements listed are not unusual but rather fairly normal. I don't know enough about zombie games to have an opinion about whether that's true.

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