Quoting: PhiladelphusHave you mentioned being left handed before?

Maybe? No recollection, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's come up.

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So, as someone who knows diddly about programming I gleaned two main things from that post.
1: Gnome is annoying for developers

Factorio does not need to provide decorations on any other platform, nay, on any other desktop environment, but GNOME can (ab)use its popularity to force programs to conform to its idiosyncrasies or be left behind.

2: Open source is great

I was hoping to utilize SDL's built-in clipboard functionality, but unfortunately SDL does not support incremental transfers. This means there are three options:

--Continue linking against X11, requiring users to install X11 on their system to be able to run the game (I don't want to mess with static linking).
--Figure out how to do runtime linking and implement that.
--Upstream our incremental transfers code into SDL so we can leverage SDL's clipboard functions and other SDL-based games can benefit from our work.
As you might guess, I chose the third option. The work to upstream our code is ongoing but should be done in time for Factorio 2.0's release.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksThe logo for the game looks like Eggman wants to touch Tails inappropriately. :x

Well, Goo goo g' joob!

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That's nice to see. Not that I ever play shooty games, but I'm left handed so it's a good feeling.

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One thing to keep in mind is, I bet a lot of those characters are not just copyrighted, but trademarked. And the thing about trademarks is, if you don't maintain them by stopping people from using them, you can lose them. This can push companies to behaviours even more annoying than they would instinctively do on their own.

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Quoting: quasilyteGame developer here.

Quoting: Purple Library GuySounds kind of interesting. It says PvP . . . can you play solo at all?

It's a mostly single-player game. You can play through 100% of its content solo.

Well, hurrah! I'll give it a shot.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusHad to Google what the Viossa language is – apparently it's an artificial pidgin [External Link] constructed from dozens of source languages, where the only way to learn is full immersion on a Discord server. :huh: (And which also apparently isn't big on standardization of things like spelling – one of the guiding principles is "if you're understood, you're speaking correctly" – which means formalizing a single version stone in Minecraft could be interesting.)

Armadillos are cool. Pangolins [External Link] are cooler (:tongue:), but they're already the #1 mammal we're killing for their drops in real life, so we prooobably shouldn't be encouraging it in Minecraft.

So, artificial pigeons and armadillos. Got it.

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Quoting: DoctorJunglistI'll have to give Sunshine a proper look one day.

Yesterday I could have just looked out the window. But today--well, earlier it was raining. Now I guess there's just Risk of Rain.

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Quoting: wvstolzingOn the cli, it comes with a package manager of sorts; otherwise it integrates with gui managers like KDE Discover, or GNOME Software via packagekit transparently. I use `flatpak update` on the cli, whenever I check for stuff on the regular package manager.

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualYou just click the Update All button in GNOME Software or KDE Discover to update your system + Flatpak packages. They're all managed via PackageKit.

Quoting: belisamaYes, Mint has integrated Flatpak updates into its update manager.

Thanks everyone, that was very informative. And actually makes me much more likely to grab something from Flathub in future.

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A lot of talk about the high seas . . . It occurs to me that if you were actually on the high seas, in international waters, with a satellite internet connection . . . piracy would be legal.

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