There was this one moment in the trailer, about 1:03, where the look was clearly Super Hot.

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Liam said:

As an Arch Linux user myself

Maybe you should try taking things more seriously, then. :tongue:

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Quoting: niarbeht

Quoting: Purple Library GuySolar panels? That's lovely, but . . . up until now through this whole game and all its updates, we've been running a space program with probes and all, without solar panels?!

Solar panels have been in the game for a long, long time.

I'm willing to believe you, but I was just commenting based on the article, which says

There's plenty more that's new including solar panels

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Excellent games. If I didn't already have them all I'd totally go for this.

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Solar panels? That's lovely, but . . . up until now through this whole game and all its updates, we've been running a space program with probes and all, without solar panels?!

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Ananace

Quoting: F.UltraJust to clarify the

Valve had meetings, and spoke to the Swedish Minister of the Interior to get it reclassified which was "immediately denied". Valve also appealed directly to the Swedish government who claimed they couldn't help with it.

So the "Swedish Sports Federation" Riksidrottsförbundet (or RF as they are known in Sweden) have zero to do with the Government so the Government and the Minister of the Interior have zero say in what they do or don't do (unless they break the law of course).

Aka RF is a non political people/social movement and 100% private.

edit: and It's against the corona lockdown rules to gather so many people in a single arena unless it's a "sporting event". Which of course is quite logical if you think about it since the thought behind allowing more people to be at the same place in a outdoors activity such as a sport event does not really match that of a Dota2 tournament.

edit2: Not really sure how Valve intended that classifying it as a sports event would solve anything though. The current restrictions for sports events are: Max 50 people for indoor events with designated seats, max 100 people for outdoor events without designated seats and max 500 for outdoor events with designated seats.

And of course, the correct thing to do here is not to try and - as Valve attempted - classify e-sport as an "idrott" - which is what Riksidrottsförbundet have influence over, but rather to get a proper classification for non-physical sports and so prepare rules that allow for such events as well.

It's not just e-sports that have been denied allowances either. Both bridge and chess tournaments have equally had sporting visas denied so far, because of the simple reason that Sweden only has special rules in place for "idrott", not "sport". (The words in Swedish have a slightly different meaning; "idrott" being more a physical activity that could be for training - like football, yoga, swimming, or jogging. And "sport" being more something you could compete in - like chess, hockey, spelling contests, or speed climbing)

Well to be honest Valve didn't try to get e-sports classified as a sport in Sweden, that have been an ongoing battle by the e-sport federations in Sweden for years to be able to be a member of RF which RF for whatever reason have denied so far.

What Valve tried to do here is to get a Minister to get them special privileges to circumvent the lockdown protocols, perhaps not knowing that in Sweden a Minister is not allowed to influence how an administrative authority decides in a particular case. Perhaps that is allowed in the US where Valve have experience but over here this is outlawed as form to minimize the risk of corruption.

And this is why the Minister of the Interior immediately denied the request.

edit: Looked it up and not only is it allowed in the US it's also apparently seen as the norm. So this is a case where a US company not understanding the rules in a different country.

There's a lot of stuff seen as the norm in the US which most other places is considered corruption, bribery etc. and against the law. That's how the US can advertise itself as a not-so-corrupt place trying to watchdog other people's corruption . . . they make it all legal and accepted, and presto! Not corruption.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlHigh end Linux laptops are a dime a dozen. I wish there were more mid range Laptops to choose from.

I wish they were a dime a dozen--I'd totally buy a dozen of 'em.

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Cute title.

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Quoting: PangaeaI often feel like a bit of an idiot here, or a noob at least, because everybody are so experienced with Linux. I think that experience may change preferences when it comes to distro, tho. From my viewpoint, Linux Mint is the reason I'm on Linux and not on Windows. It was so easy to get used to. It probably looks more like Windows now than Windows itself. And I don't say that as a curse on Linux Mint. It is easy to start out with, and that means the threshold for actually doing the Windows > Linux change is lower, also for people that aren't very computer savvy, or Linux experts. I tried many times with various other distros before, but got confused and it was always so darn hard to figure out what to do when something inevitably went wrong. I'm glad there are many different distros so people get an OS that fits their wishes. But I also think people shouldn't underestimate the importance of "simple" or "stable" distros like Linux Mint.

For me it has been excellent, no doubt about it, and I'm sure there are many others in the same camp :)

I've been using Linux a long time. Put it this way, when I first started using Linux, I was dual booting the family computer with Windows 98. But I'm no techie and while in the early days I taught myself a tiny bit about the command line because you really had to at the time even with the least user-unfriendly distro, I've forgotten half of that. I'm very happy to be using Mint and almost entirely not needing to worry about command line stuff, having something that gives me a user experience as straightforward as Windows except with more power and without all the "Microsoft being annoying" stuff.

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Quoting: Nerve

Quoting: barottoIn a market pushing for 70$/€ per game this is so unusual and uncapitalistic (they can do this only because they're privately owned).

Kudos to them!

Uncapitalistic? If they make more money selling games at the lower price point, would that not make it more capitalistic? It would seem that the behavior of large, publicly-owned multinationals drives people's perception of market activity generally even though small and privately-owned businesses with no incentive or desire to behave that way constitute the vast majority of businesses overall.

You have a point. The tendency in certain groups to go with prices as high as they think they can get away with based on industry standards, rather than say trying to undersell the competition, to some extent reflects something cultural rather than anything inherent to capitalism overall, much less I think any solid information as to which strategy will maximize income.
Mind you, there's a distinction between "the vast majority of businesses" and "the vast majority of business". Sure, there are lots of little businesses, but it takes a lot of them to stack up to the size of a Walmart. It's not really a warped perception to see big business as the main event.
Large businesses are so dominant in our society that I think an oligopolist or cartel mindset, where everyone takes care not to compete too much on price to keep artificially high profits for everybody, is very common.
But on the other hand, in most businesses fixed costs make price competition a tricky prospect even for small independents. Making money on every transaction isn't good enough. If you have a little independent coffee shop and you try a price war with the other coffee shops, and everyone's prices stabilize to where you make just a little bit on every coffee and snack, good luck making rent. Digital goods like games are a bit unusual in how flexible the plausible price point can be.

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