It's out for Linux and while the Steam Sale is still underway? Saints and Angels are smiling on this release. I'm gonna go get me a copy immediamente amigos!

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Steam is a Global shipping company to the Epic Store's one-man bicycle delivery service. Comparing them solely on the basis of their cut of the action is the act of a moron or a shill. Westing was CEO of Paradox, so he's not a moron ...

As for the whole "'70s Warner Brothers 30%" song and dance---even if it is true---so. the. fuck. what. That 30% is figured into the asking price by the game dev/publisher up front. It's added onto and not taken from the maker's net (not gross) profit, before the game ever gets to Steam.

Speaking of which, are games being sold on Epic's store for 18% cheaper? If they're not, then that's more money for the makers, nothing good for the customer. Win/lose in that relationship.

How about for the employees at the game companies like Paradox? Are the board members, share-holders, and executives using that additional 18% profit to hire more employees, or give raises to current employees or otherwise improve working conditions? I don't know, but from what I've seen of corporations, not unless you put a gun to their collective head.

Saying that providing the services Steam does "doesn't cost anything" is only slightly less stupid and fallacious than saying Steam was taking "a 30% tax" on the gaming industry.

I'd be more interested to hear the likes of Fredrik Wester to be critical of Epic's crap store. He's just taking cheap shots at Steam, and he's doing it from the dirty sheets of Tim Sweenye's bed.

Everything about the Epic store continues to smack of lies and greed.

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Coming to Linux? Gaaahhhh! Ok. I'm gonna wait till then. I want the dev to see my purchase in response to a native Linux release, not as a Windows/Proton sale, so I'll wait. But damn, this looks soooo like my kinda game, it's not going to be easy.

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I gave up trying to play these "sale games" ages ago. I didn't even know what the game was this time around, har.

Steam blew it for their indie folks, though. Even if the free games were chosen at random from people's wishlists, folks would cull all but the games they wanted to win. I wouldn't, but clearly people would.

My wishlist is a dumping ground for every single game I see that I think looks even remotely interesting. I sort by discount, and a few times a week I see what's being sold at what price. Until I play a game, I don't know how much I'll like it, and the less sure I am, the lower the buying price will have to be.

About the only time a game goes off my wishlist is when it's an Early Access game that hasn't been updated in years and looks abandoned. Even then, if the price is right, and the current state isn't outright broken, I might buy it anyway. ;)

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Maybe the Index will (eventually) become inexpensive enough that I'll be able to pick one up. Can these things, VR headsets, be used like for games with normal controllers?

I love the thought of the audio/video immersion brought on with VR headsets. Surround sound and vid, yeah. Can one play non-VR only games with these like normal, but with surround sound and vid? That's enticing.

All the rest of it leaves me a bit tepid. I'm not so "yippee" about at the thought of standing up, waggling my arms to play video games. I do a lot of fairly physical---some might say strenuous---labour, and video games are an ass-decidedly-planted-in-couch time of relaxation for me.

Also, Liam, thank you for taking the time and effort to transcribe Gaben's speech. Transcription, especially of less than stellar audio, is very not-at-all fun under the best of circumstances. Your going the extra mile for we readers is very, very appreciated! :)

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Looks cute and fun, but I'll need to see how it handles death (running out of hearts) and how one keeps track of where one is and one is going---I don't see a mini-map onscreen and that worries me a little in a game like this.

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This feels more like someone made a mistake at Valve than anything intentional. I'm being gracious, admittedly, because this is Valve, after all, the gaming company from the next dimension over. I don't pay too much attention to this aspect of Valve, but it seems to me that for all Valve's capriciousness, it's usually edge Adult sexual or Hate crime sorta cases that are rejected---not loving/blooming homosexuality or language learning. Was a reason given?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: NanobangIoT: More ways to be hacked, more ways to be spied on. Socio-techno dross. Also pretty unrelated to the article at hand---not as unrelated as, say EMF sickness, but pretty fuckin' unrelated all the same. :D

It is predicted that 5G (= EMF) will benefit IoT innovation. So the IoT revolution in which Ubuntu is an important player will make living organisms (and people) sicker by increasing the EMF radiation.

This seems to me to contradict the Ubuntu philosophy:

"You cannot only be human and when you have this characteristic - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves too often, because only individuals, separated from each other, while you are connected and what you do affect the entire world. When you do it right, it spreads; it's for all humanity. "

The link between Ubuntu Linux and EMF disease is therefore 5G technology that plays a central role in both cases.

I admire the passion you and others have about this topic. I certainly wasn't arguing against you, merely saying---albeit in a glib, somewhat snarky way (sorry)---that the topic of Ubuntu/IoT/EMF---however important it may or may be---really has no place in a discussion of an article about Ubuntu's 32 bit support.

Please, let me explain. 5g may play a central role in Ubuntu Linux and EMF disease, as you say, and I'm not saying it doesn't nor that it is or isn't an important issue. I'm saying that it's an issue that's considered separate from what this article is about.

This article is about Ubuntu's most recent position on 32 bit support and NOT anything else about Ubuntu. We'd say that the topic of the article (the article is about) is this particular, specific aspect of Ubuntu (32 bit support) and not Ubuntu in general nor any other aspect of Ubuntu.

Talking about Ubuntu's involvement with IoT (and subsequently EMF) is to discuss Ubuntu---yes---but because it's not about 32 bit support, it's not about the same topic, You see what I'm saying? IoT/EMF isn't what the article is about. We'd say IoT is a different, particular, and specific aspect of Ubuntu.---and so we'd say it's a different topic.

I'm trying to explain this to you on the off chance you are not a troll but simply don't understand why I'm saying IoT/EMF are off topic. I hope I helped.

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IoT: More ways to be hacked, more ways to be spied on. Socio-techno dross. Also pretty unrelated to the article at hand---not as unrelated as, say EMF sickness, but pretty fuckin' unrelated all the same. :D

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Quoting: PatolaI am eagerly waiting for the Steam announcement for a supported distro.

Me too, hermano, me too.

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