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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI have a question: The descriptions says "via OpenGL and Direct3D". So, does/can/should Vulkan relate to this in any way?

Vulkan support was added in 2.0.6, their description is probably just outdated.

Excellent! Thank you.

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I have a question: The descriptions says "via OpenGL and Direct3D". So, does/can/should Vulkan relate to this in any way?

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Quoting: DJVikingFor them it is all about the money.

That's the sad part. The original intention of Electronic Arts (and the name was carefully chosen) was to acknowledge and foster the creativity of its developers, at a time when even admitting there were real people making videogames was a rarity*. Modern EA is basically the diametric opposite of what Hawkins set it up to be.

*Of course, the founding of Activision is a similar story. And it went the same way.

Both EA and Activision (and many more) . . . It's almost as if there were some sort of economic system pushing people to go that way.

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My eyesight must be going. I could have sworn I just saw a headline saying Electronic Arts was doing something interesting with Linux.

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Quoting: ShmerlThe last remaining milestone for it now is Mesa landing transform feedback patches.

And for a wealthy few, inclusion in the 410 drivers. :D

I would guess that those* few, including me, have to wait for a new short-term drivers version to appear. The 410 driver is a long term driver replacing the 390 series. I don't think that this (410) version will receive such a big feature update. But you never know ;)

* should it be "these" instead of "those" in proper English?

No, I don't think so. The "including me" bit sort of introduces a context shift, new information--up to that point you're still talking as if third person. If you wanted to convey that information without the "including me", you'd say "we few", as in "we happy few". Very Shakespearian. :wink:

"These" wouldn't really apply whichever way. The difference between "these" and "those" is subtle, having to do with, ah, immediacy more than anything else ("these" being the ones in front of me, as opposed to "those" over there across the room), but they're both third person. "Those of us" is a weird exception, but it only works in certain formations . . . "Those of us who (bla bla)" and like that.

Thanks a lot too, that should really help to remember the differences in the future.

PS: I really like reading your posts. Please keep you wordiness :). I'm really glad to see that there are still lots of people that can tell a coherent story with more than 140 characters.

Well, thank you very much.
I remember being flabbergasted when Twitter first came out and was popular, and I was like, "But I have email, and it already lets me use as many characters as I want! Why would anyone accept such a horrible limit?" I didn't get it. I sort of see the point of all the follow-y stuff now. But I'd still kind of like to see an anti-Twitter that enforces a minimum post-length.

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Quake Champions . . . for some horrible reason this sent me onto a train of thought: There should be a game, maybe a series of games, about heroic mushrooms. Quake Champignons, Eternal Champignons, Deathrace Champignons, Ultimate Arena Champignons and so forth.

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Quoting: jens

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: ShmerlThe last remaining milestone for it now is Mesa landing transform feedback patches.

And for a wealthy few, inclusion in the 410 drivers. :D

I would guess that those* few, including me, have to wait for a new short-term drivers version to appear. The 410 driver is a long term driver replacing the 390 series. I don't think that this (410) version will receive such a big feature update. But you never know ;)

* should it be "these" instead of "those" in proper English?

No, I don't think so. The "including me" bit sort of introduces a context shift, new information--up to that point you're still talking as if third person. If you wanted to convey that information without the "including me", you'd say "we few", as in "we happy few". Very Shakespearian. :wink:

"These" wouldn't really apply whichever way. The difference between "these" and "those" is subtle, having to do with, ah, immediacy more than anything else ("these" being the ones in front of me, as opposed to "those" over there across the room), but they're both third person. "Those of us" is a weird exception, but it only works in certain formations . . . "Those of us who (bla bla)" and like that.

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Quoting: GuestPlus, if this continues with system76's legendarily awful build quality, it'll be a total flop.

I've heard quite a bit about System76 over the years, and yet this is the first time I've heard about their awful build quality. I infer that it can't be that legendary, being as how "legendary" implies "people have heard about it".

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Quoting: EikeI wish them all the best, but IMHO, such attempts are doomed to fail. In the end, it will cost more than hardware off the shelf, not offer more, and there's not enough people caring enough for the topic to make it a success nevertheless.

Good luck.

Define "fail". Will it grow them to the size of Dell or Apple? No. Will it make money? Maybe. Yes, this is a small market niche; I'm sure they know that. But they're not a huge company. Even a small market niche, if they're the main people on the planet doing it, could well bring in enough revenue to be a rousing success by their standards.
I mean, how many computers get sold in the world every year? How many computers do you get to sell if you have a niche representing 0.1% of that? Quite a lot. Enough to keep a few people in bread and butter, I expect.

It will also double as quite effective marketing buzz. Lots of people who may not buy this in the end because of practicality issues, will still hear about it, be interested, become more aware of System76 and maybe feel friendly towards them for doing a cool thing, and maybe end up buying something else they're selling.

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I watched a gameplay video. It's not like Invisible, Inc. at all. There is very little tactical gameplay, it's an almost entirely strategic game. You send your agents to different countries, assign them to do actions (finding scientists, bribing people, investigating diplomats for weaknesses and blackmail info), have them do hacking to get information. You have meetings with organizations and countries and try to get better relationships or get them to do things for you. If you piss off another country bad enough it could declare war on yours; I'm not sure what happens then but it seems to be a bad idea. Seems like clumsy operations can also piss off the authorities in your own country and then they won't support you as much or something. There's a sort of minigame if you try to kidnap a scientist, but even there it's like a series of little decisions on how to bypass the cops, there's no real tactical action. Meanwhile, every turn you get a little "Here's your Sigma tech tree progress" update, which is what the whole spy game is really about maximizing--you want to steal scientists, bribe or seduce them into sending you data and so on, so as to get ahead of the other countries in the race for supertech.

It does look interesting, but it's very different from what I was imagining.

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