Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: AussieEevee

Quoting: scaineGreat guide though. Thanks for this - the gifs tell the story better than words ever can. It's nice to have a guide on a Linux technology that doesn't need you to open a bash shell!

I have honestly never understood why the bash shell is such a huge problem for people. I mean, a lot of stuff is easier, faster and more precise to do via a shell command than in the GUI. Especially when people have different desktop environments.

For example, installing programs. I only use synaptic when I don't actually know the package name... or I want to install a large list of programs.

sudo apt-get install firefox

is much faster and easier than going through the GUI. (Using Firefox as an example)

That said, I think that articles and posts that give people commands to run could do a better job of explaining those commands.

Well, everyone works differently. Some people are heavily visual learners, command line tutorials do not help them in any way.

It's also the perceived difficulty. A quick few buttons to press, compared with typing out or copy/pasting commands (which if done incorrectly, can at times break an entire install) is going to be much more inviting to Windows dual booters and converts.

There's many guides out there for the command line for people to go and find if they want them, I aim to make things simpler for the average and below average users.

I'm somewhere in between. I understand why people are intimidated by the command line thing. It looks intimidating and it's, how to put it, obvious that you don't understand what it's doing. I mean let's face it, when you click a button on a GUI you don't understand what that does either, but it has a simple word or image on it that gives you the impression that you understand. So you don't feel intimidated.
But when it comes to troubleshooting, copy-pasting some instruction into the command line is in actual fact often easier to do, significantly less dependent on specifics of version and distro and such, and will work for a much broader range of problems. After all, often something goes wrong and there isn't actually a thing to click on a GUI, however deeply nested into the depths of settings you go. In Windows there will be a tendency to give up at that point; on Linux there will be somebody somewhere who can figure out what you need to copy and paste into a command line.
So while I understand why people are intimidated by the command line, and I'm pleased that there are more GUI things to use for many things on Linux than there used to be, I still think it's good for people to get over the idea that the command line is to be avoided at all costs.

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So, when does it 'release'?

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Quoting: wvstolzingI wonder if they'll have to rename it to 'Foreskin Maiden' or somesuch.

Ion Foreskin?

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Reminds me of this old manga with beautiful, classical Japanese art:
The Wandering Dick [External Link]

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Quoting: Colombo

Quoting: riidomHow is the multiplayer? I see currently 338 ppl in game, thats even less than Robocraft.. is the match making done in a way that the low numbers doesnt matter much?

Don't think Robocraft. From the Depth is as similar to Robocraft as it is to Minecraft in the sense that you build stuff from block. It is more similar to Factorio that you build complex machines (that can move).

Robocraft is like pew pew game where you can build your vehicle, but it is primarily pew pew game about using that vehicle to combat other people.

From the depth is about building complex vehicles. You don't just plop laser or gun on your ship/tank. You need to construct the gun from dozen of part *types*. Depending on how you assemble your gun, the number of reloaders, gun chambers, ammo magazines and many other parts, then your gun will perform, you can build it as a minigun-type cannon firing really fast, but fairly weak. You can build a howitzer type cannon with huge shells with shaped charges that will make serious damage to slow and well-armored ships, but won't hit anything fast. You then put AI computer on your ship and configure it so that it behaves like you want. You can even script your own AI in LUA (which you probably should if you want to do some well-honed airships that dodge shots, missiles and stuff thanks to their fast and chaotic fly patterns).

Similarly, every vehicle needs engine that most often runs on oil/gas. Right there you get stuck into complex engine patterns that do various tradeoffs (and some are just better than others) with space, power and efficiency (which you will get by pumping hot air back to the engine cylinders or so, forgot the details). The place where I stuck a lot is that your engine might be just bad (compared to the well-honed designs). Thats still fair. Problem is that your gun might be bad becuase there are some breakpoints and so on... a lot of stuff to know and experiment.

So the game is mostly about SP and building your stuff. Campaign is that you go against several predesigned factions that have different ways of building ships (slow armored vs fast flyers). I believe you can play the campaign in MP as coop or design stuff together in vehicle tester. But don't think about competitive multiplayer.

In fact, this game won't work in competitive multiplayer. Is f-ing compex. I wanted to say that you need PhD to understand it, but I have PhD and still got lost (by flying ships flipped for some reason, didn't flip X version ago though, probably different design, I went for single-turbine before instead of multiple ones).

Whoosh. That sounds good, and yet I'm not sure I want to invest the time it would take to get good at it.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: GuestIf you don't want to gamble to get something good just go to the market and buy the item you're after.

You do realize that the overwhelming majority of these lootbox-driven games makes these desirable items available ONLY through gambling, yes?

Yes, I have no problem with gambling.

What, none?

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. Potentially interesting I guess, but my "replacement for Steam" for FOSS games is called "My distro's repository" and the "software manager" GUI thing.

I don't know software managers to put software into own categories or such. (I think there are some to at least site a screenshot?)

I use Mint. Its software manager does categories, at least in terms of "Games" vs "Office" vs "Graphics" or suchlike. It doesn't have subcategories of games, but there aren't enough FOSS games for me to really need to worry about that. Well, not enough working FOSS games that I want to install for me to need to worry about that, anyway . . .

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Huh. Potentially interesting I guess, but my "replacement for Steam" for FOSS games is called "My distro's repository" and the "software manager" GUI thing.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo they've got "hardcore tactical components"? Well, good to see they're not messing around with any lousy softcore tactical components.

We all know what that means for pr0n, but what does it mean for tactical components.

Is that like D&D vs GURPS.

For those that don't know about either. D&D is usually 'roll your too hit chance, okay you hit, roll your damage.'

GURPS is 'roll your skill. Okay, enemy rolls their dodge. Failed dodge, roll damage. Okay, he has leather armor, subtract 2 from your damage. You rolled a 4 with an impaling sword thrust, so 4-2 for DR, is 2, and times 2 for impaling, he takes 4 damage. Not quite half of his Health, so doesn't need to roll to see if he is stunned. Next round.'

Now that is softcore vs hardcore :)

I'm a GURPS man, myself. Have a GURPS character I've been playing off and on for more than 30 years.

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Quoting: PatolaYou answered your own question: you mention Adam Smith which is far from a free market defender, indeed he was one of the main inspirations of Marx himself in his economics. For some reason, many teaching institutions (universities, colleges, etc.) refuse to acknowledge or let known any real libertarian theory (*) and arguments, specially the Austrian School of Economics [External Link]

IMO, the reason would be that they're a pile of nonsense, both economically and philosophically.
A sidelight: I was interested to find out a while ago that the works of Ayn Rand are in good part popular because of the efforts by certain right wing think tanks to subsidize their sale and their placement in such places as school and university libraries. So much for free markets.

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