Hey, I thought I knew these guys! I own Spectromancer and I played the heck out of Astral Masters via the now defunct Reflexive Arcade back in high school 'round '07-08. Wonder why they took AM off Steam, it's still available on its website [External Link]? I can highly recommend this developer, especially now that they released their engine's source and support Linux!

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I'd be interested in a key, and after looking at the pitiful number of reviews for this game, I'd definitely leave feedback on it.

Slight rant below:

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I mean seriously, some games get way too little exposure just by being buried by bigger releases. That irks me to death, and reminds me of how users of our favorite kernel/OSes get treated by those in the "mainstream" crowd.

We're still a punchline to most of the gaming community, who lack the wherewithal to even give Linux a try, or decry it the minute they're confronted by an unfamiliar problem. It stuns me how little many personal computer users know about the technical components of using one in this decade, when they claim to be "PC Gamers". They expect things to work without the slightest thought of how. If they had to setup Windows and its myriad drivers from retail themselves, they'd pull their hair out.

Sorry, I needed that.

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I'm downloading this, just to see what it's like. I've always appreciated and wanted to try virtual worlds, but things like Second Life are off-putting because of the time and/or real money required to get anywhere.

The one social MMO that I've really enjoyed is Toontown Rewritten, and that's not everyone's cup o' tea. I mostly stick to that these days, I'm sick of both allegedly free and subscription based MMORPGs that are everywhere. The fees for some are downright bonkers attempts at usury.

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Just snagged this myself. I'll write a review when I've spent a reasonable amount of time with it. But those sales numbers do look promising, and this article made me decide to pull trigger. Normally I wait a few months for early access titles, but the activity the game is seeing makes me optimistic, being that I love 'Mon games.

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Pokemon RBY/FRLG, Digimon World 3, Monster Rancher 4, the Siralim series, and an obscure PS1 game called Eternal Eyes are my favorites. Guess I'm still a kid at heart.

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B-b-b-but WINE Is Not an Emulator! :cry: :tongue:

Good Lord, I hate recursive acronyms, don't you? But in the strictest sense, WINE is more of a compatibility layer; the difference between the two for an end-user is mostly splitting cat hairs.

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Y'know for some reason, Mod Organizer 2's USVFS works fine for Bethesda games under the official 5.0-9, but isn't working with GE builds (which fix quite a few things for those games out-of-the-box, such as audio.) and I have no clue why, seeing as this patch [External Link] was added to upstream WINE in 4.21+.

Anybody got any ideas? I mostly use Bethesda games and their third-party utilities as a litmus test for new versions of WINE/Proton, seeing as they've historically been problematic.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWell, wake me up if this ever runs without gadgets on a PC. If that ever happens.

Meanwhile, more than enough other stuff to play.

Agreed, from what I've tried, VR is still very much what it was in the 90's (i.e. two screens directly in front of your eyes). The major headsets are extremely expensive, and the cheaper alternatives are little more than gimmicks. Now, I might invest in a PSVR one day thanks to OpenHMD, but that would be a big hit in the pocketbook and not a worthwhile one.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: redneckdrowUsed to use it, but since it went proprietary, I've found alternatives. Such as Pixelorama (really neat), Krita (my favorite program to color images with), Gimp, Inkscape, and so on.

I just hate it when a FOSS app goes proprietary for reasons such as him being upset about it being in distros repositories. Why did he bother making it GPL if he didn't want it distributed and modified in the first place then?! :><:

Also, Krita seems to do okay with sales, so Aseprite's dev's argument about open source hurting his bottom line is crap! He posted a huge talk about it years ago, which I'm too lazy to look up. Why does he think we call Linux based OSes "Distrobutions"?

Sorry :S:, had to get that out of my system. Politics aside it is a good program, just haven't used it in a while.

if its so easy to develop an open source software and make an living out of it, do it yourself.
the asesprite developer has no obligation in doing so, or in fixing his software once it was broken, not by him but by the mantainers of the repositories.

there is a good reason why projects like Renpy dont support the version on the repos (they dont even work, whetever did the renpy packaging for ubuntu didnt tested it, because an 2 minutes test could attest that it dont work)
perhaps that is the goal, create problems to sell solutions, sell integration, certification, deployment services.

First, please don't put words in my mouth. I said that it's possible to make money with FOSS, not that it was easy. Paid support is the best model in my opinion, like Krita, or Red Hat.

I also never said that the versions in the repos should be supported. In fact they should not, that's the job of the maintainer of the package for a given "Distro". That's why the no warranty clause exists in the GPL.

I'm saying that the author of ASEprite spouting "I don't like repo binaries existing" is an idiotic reason to go proprietary! Changing the license was the wrong way to monetize the program

As to doing it myself: hard to do with one hand. I have Cerebral Palsy [External Link] and I write scripts (bash and python mostly) in my free time. My hero in the world of FOSS is Bruce Perens [External Link] who shares the same malady.

I live in a state where healthcare is a roiling cesspit at the moment, subject to change at the will of politicians (read: morons) on either side of the aisle.

Don't make assumptions about my ability to do anything, that hurts. I struggle with my handicap every day, and I make sure that it never becomes a disability. Also, FYI, I have paid to support open source projects, so I'm not someone who wants something for nothing. I feel that I'm unqualified to contribute, sometimes, because I never went to college. I still code anyway, and nothing's ever going to stop me from doing what I love! So take all this for what you will, but please, assume nothing.

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Quoting: PopeRigby

Quoting: redneckdrowUsed to use it, but since it went proprietary, I've found alternatives. Such as Pixelorama (really neat), Krita (my favorite program to color images with), Gimp, Inkscape, and so on.

I just hate it when a FOSS app goes proprietary for reasons such as him being upset about it being in distros repositories. Why did he bother making it GPL if he didn't want it distributed and modified in the first place then?! :><:

Also, Krita seems to do okay with sales, so Aseprite's dev's argument about open source hurting his bottom line is crap! He posted a huge talk about it years ago, which I'm too lazy to look up. Why does he think we call Linux based OSes "Distrobutions"?

Sorry :S:, had to get that out of my system. Politics aside it is a good program, just haven't used it in a while.

Totally agree. Fortunately, somebody forked it on the last commit before the license was changed. It's called LibreSprite [External Link], and it's what I've been using.

True, but see this [External Link].

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Used to use it, but since it went proprietary, I've found alternatives. Such as Pixelorama (really neat), Krita (my favorite program to color images with), Gimp, Inkscape, and so on.

I just hate it when a FOSS app goes proprietary for reasons such as him being upset about it being in distros repositories. Why did he bother making it GPL if he didn't want it distributed and modified in the first place then?! :><:

Also, Krita seems to do okay with sales, so Aseprite's dev's argument about open source hurting his bottom line is crap! He posted a huge talk about it years ago, which I'm too lazy to look up. Why does he think we call Linux based OSes "Distrobutions"?

Sorry :S:, had to get that out of my system. Politics aside it is a good program, just haven't used it in a while.

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