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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't really get the appeal of having my building options restricted by which cards I draw. This may be a bridge too far for the deck-building concept.
(Edited to add: Especially if I don't draw the "bridge" card during my playthrough)

I guess in games like these you need to play your cards right :tongue:

In something like Slay the Spire, the random element enforces player to adapt the gameplay placed on the cards they get. It affects even the more long term strategy as you really can't wait forever to get cards for your favorite strategy.

I don't remember Fantasy Town Regional Manager doing that kind of stuff based on the demo. Or maybe I didn't figure out some of the viable strategies. The game isn't ready yet though, maybe the have something planned that makes the gameplay more interesting.

I wrote short review based on the demo earlier: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/steam-next-fest-is-live-again-with-new-demos-livestreams-and-more/comment_id=205231

Slay the Spire - type games are one thing. In theory at least (I haven't yet actually played any of 'em) I kind of dig the cards concept for those, and for a few other things.
But I play a lot of build-stuff-up games, and having what I can build determined by drawing random cards just doesn't sound fun to me, and kind of conceptually stupid. Like I'm imagining calling the work crew together and saying "OK, so I know that what the town's economy really needs right now is a marketplace, and I promise that's what I was planning. Unfortunately, everyone seems to have simultaneously forgotten how to build one. All we can remember is house, watchtower or library. Maybe we could, I dunno, build a library and people could trade their chickens there? Anyway, sorry about that, hopefully soon the marketplace concept will pop up in our brains again."
Workers: "Uh, just what drugs are you on, boss?"

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I don't really get the appeal of having my building options restricted by which cards I draw. This may be a bridge too far for the deck-building concept.
(Edited to add: Especially if I don't draw the "bridge" card during my playthrough)

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Quoting: ShmerlSince they own RAD, let them open source all those weird Bink codecs.

They own the Royal Academy of Dance?!
(My daughter is a qualified instructor--she says it's a racket, to maintain the qualification you have to keep doing their courses for $$$. But on the up side, it opens doors--if you have your RAD, you're in demand to teach dance anywhere in the world.)

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Quoting: GuestI'm a software engineer in Canada working for a financial institution. I'm a full stack developper working on web applications with C# .NET. I have no experience with C but I'm willing to learn. Also, I'm a contractor.

Do you guys think they would hire someone like me ?

I suspect they'd really prefer someone with some C under their belt. Far as I can make out, C, with all those pointers and stuff, has a lot of gotchas that languages like C# have very explicitly gotten rid of because they're difficult and a PITA and require quite a lot of anal making-sure-every-damn-thing-is-taken-care-of-just-so. So if I had to guess, I'd say it's likely they'd have a strong preference for someone who knows their way around that stuff already, so they won't have to worry that they'll be creating subtle errors by forgetting to undo things that were done, and stuff.
Disclaimer: I have zero practical knowledge of any of this. I've just been listening to techies talk for a long time.

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I thought an auto-battler was like that racing game that came out a little while ago where you can have the cars fight. :grin:

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Quoting: loggeThank you for your manual how to play that natively - it was in my library forn a long time, and the first thing I thought when I read news about the Quake remake today was "Will that run without proton?".

Its a shame what "id" and "bethesda" became in regards to their linux / open source commitment.

There's a lot more superego than id about that outfit nowadays.

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Quoting: BielFPsI wish Mate and XFCE team could join forces to adopt and support wlroots compositor in order to improve it. I think those awesome but underfunded projects would have a lot to gain from this kind of mutual collaboration.

XFCE are still debating whether they will port to Wayland at all, because "We do not have the resources to maintain our own Wayland compositor"

I'm not counting on a cooperation of MATE and XFCE.

So, what's their plan for when Wayland becomes pretty much the only game in town?

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Hurrah! I use Mate and I really don't want it to get left behind by or hold up the shift to Wayland.

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Quoting: NociferBut I don't see myself moving on anytime soon, because one thing is indisputable: passing through all these hurdles (which is really required only once, i.e. on first install) will end up with you having built one of the best and most solid Linux systems you can get, and with the added bonus that during the process you will have acquired a more than vague idea of how this system actually works, which means you'll have made your first step(s) towards transitioning from computer n00b to an actual computer user :)

That first point is actually quite disputable. You assume that the person doing all this stuff is fundamentally competent at technical stuff--no doubt because you yourself are. If they suck, they could go through all that and end up making themselves a wonky piece of crap Linux system. I mean, there's been plenty of lousy distros, and those are put together by people with pretensions to technical knowledge; I don't see why many users couldn't similarly do a poor job configuring their own system.

The learning part is fundamentally good . . . but for many, not an important enough good to repay the time spent. I'd be in that camp. The world is big and complicated and there are many, many things to know about. I can't possibly know about them all. There is not enough time. And it so happens that on my list of priorities of things to know about, any more than a pretty dashed basic understanding of the nuts-and-bolts of my computers' operating systems is quite far down, well past quite a few other things that I will also never take the time to learn.

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