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Just Crow Things looks rather chaotic and releases August 15
19 Jul 2024 at 5:30 pm UTC Likes: 3

Fun developer. And I like crows. Maybe I'll get it.

Steam stable update released, and a Beta with lots of fixes for Desktop and Steam Deck
18 Jul 2024 at 2:56 pm UTC

Quoting: TangoBaker
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: TangoBakerThe only thing game recording has ever produced on my steam deck is a black screen. Oddly, it works fine from my desktop.
With Steam or Non-Steam games? Worked fine for me when testing it at the first Beta.
With Steam games. Ironically, posting this actually inspired me to try and find a fix. I found several posts that mentioned having decky loader installed would cause this. I don't remember ever having it installed but I downloaded the installer, installed it and then uninstalled it. No good explanation why but this seemed to fix it.
Computers are weird.

Amusingly British point & click adventure Heir of the Dog now on Kickstarter (demo available)
16 Jul 2024 at 6:14 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: whizse
Quoting: Purple Library GuyI swear I already own this game from like a few years ago.
Hair of the Dog [External Link]. It was an hour long free game. Sort of a proof of concept?
Ah, there we go, so I'm not going crazy. Or rather, this particular issue is not a sign of my going crazy . . .

SCAD is Twisted Metal meets Vampire Survivors and I want it now
16 Jul 2024 at 6:10 pm UTC

For some reason I'm feeling the pizza delivery game (a few articles over) more.

Marathon 2 a classic FPS originally from Destiny developer Bungie now on Steam
16 Jul 2024 at 6:06 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: williamjcmOh, it even has the XBLA graphics via a free DLC.
It occurs to me that a lot of what we say these days is really ephemeral. Like, we say things that make sense now, but didn't make sense like ten years ago and will more or less stop making sense except to retro enthusiasts in ten years time. In the year 1300, if you said something it probably made sense a thousand years previously, certainly would continue making sense for a few hundred years, and may well still make sense now.

Amusingly British point & click adventure Heir of the Dog now on Kickstarter (demo available)
16 Jul 2024 at 6:01 pm UTC

I swear I already own this game from like a few years ago.

PS2 Emulator PCSX2 2.0 is out now and it's a huge upgrade
14 Jul 2024 at 12:31 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAs an avid user of PCSX2 im very excited to see the 2.0 update.......
Looking forward to seeing 2.0 come to mint in 2 years...... Joking..... :wink:
Well of course you're joking. Maybe 3. :wink:

Open Source implementation of GOG Galaxy's Communication Service, Comet sees a first release
12 Jul 2024 at 2:53 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: dibz
Quoting: CatKillerGOG's Linux-hostility means that I last gave them money in... 2017, and I have no intention of giving them more in the future. It's good to have tools to stop people's GOG libraries keeping them locked into Windows, though.
What do you mean by hostility? To me it's felt a lot more like they probably had one or two people wanting to support linux and they were cool with it, then it faded for whatever reason -- like the same people moved on from the company or something.

Honestly the Galaxy Client itself, ignoring Linux for a moment, feels mostly abandoned as it is. I believe the single person they had maintaining the integrations quit quite some time ago, and was never replaced. While they did promise Linux support, it's always felt like you often see with .Net apps -- especially around the time Galaxy was being made -- where MS loosely promised Linux support in .Net, then the next version of .Net, then just Nah but you can use 3rd party to implement the GUI, and naive promises were getting made by people/devs that didn't do their *homework. The client just isn't great; Heck, if you use "Surprise me" to have it "reveal" random games -- they're always the same games, chosen in the same order, every time you restart the client.

My point is Galaxy itself feels low priority, and very loosely managed. Very much feels like people "feeling like doing this or that", and the someone that felt like doing linux things is... probably not even there anymore?

*: You'd see the same exact thing with stretch goals in KS projects promising Linux support, because their game engine claimed to support it; And again, failed to do their homework only to find out later they actually had to put effort in, and likely plan and develop from day one so they make good choices. Then you'd see "Blah blah not worth the effort (we made bad decisions but this is a popular excuse right?)" and they just don't do it.
I take your point and think that was generally well put . . . but at the same time I think making a comparison with Microsoft in your argument that (thing) is not hostile to Linux is fundamentally unpersuasive. :grin:

Satisfactory 1.0 is releasing in September
11 Jul 2024 at 12:08 am UTC

Sooo . . . from what people are saying, it seems like this game is quite Satisfactory.

Sea Sniffers is a cozy fishing RPG from the dev of Mighty Goose
10 Jul 2024 at 8:26 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Philadelphus
Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt looks nice, but I'm feeling this weird disconnect in those screenshots. On one hand, there's this journal page talking about what good eatin' this kind of fish's tail is. The description talks about catching and selling fish, although it's unclear what gets done to them after they're sold. On the other, there's a shot where your seal is chatting with a fish. So, you're talking to fish, but you're also eating them and selling them into slavery and/or to be eaten? I always kind of feel like it's not nice to do that stuff to people who talk.
I believe the trope for that is Carnivore Confusion [External Link].
On the quote from the top of that entry--Timon got some great lines.