Reading about Raft on RPS reminded me about this article. I updated itch, installed Raft, and re-re-re-installed I am the Captain, (which at long last works on Linux, thank Almighty Tux).

Itch is incrementally getting better, though it refuses to maintain my "dark" theme on any other page but the first, and the font size is still inexcusably microscopic and unadjustable. At the very least they could allow the user to take the font size from the system default.

I see the itch client is on GitHub. I have no idea how to code jack-diddly-squat, but my annoyance with this unnecessary annoyance is rapidly inspiring me to learn enough to fork it so I can read without straining my eyes into a new set of glasses.

Itch on my 55" 1920x1080 Panasontic TV that's ~ 10 ft/3 meters away [External Link]

Grrrrrr and Humbug!

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Quoting: 0aTTFor Mumble you will need a server, of course. But for everything else you will also need a server. For mail, homepage, wiki, blog, jabber, nginx and simply everything else you do online.

Granted, but that doesn't address my complaint that I don't know how to set up a server, let alone maintain it. (And I've found scant "how-to" set up Murmur written for the clueless, such as me.) There seems to me to be a vast difference between "needing" to use a server and setting up and maintaining a server to use it. I'm rarely (by which I think I mean "never") required to set up and maintain servers for anything I do online.

Quoting: 0aTTThumb rule: Only use services if there are indispensable advantages. Valuable services are e.g.: Steam, Twitch, GitHub and some more.

I agree. And Discord offers me one such "indispensable advantage:" I myself don't have to set up and maintain a server to use it. THAT feature alone marks Discord as a very "Valuable service" indeed!

Quoting: 0aTT... at the end of your life you will not have saved time.

Au contraire mon ami! Look at all the time I've already saved using servers set up and maintained by others, Discord not least among them!

Quoting: 0aTTHow do they earn their money?

However they do it, it's more ethical than Microsoft, Halliburton, Union Carbide, AT&T, Chase Manhattan ... or countless other bottom-line feeders lurking in the murky waters of international capitalism.

Discord, probably collects data to sell. So be it. I use the internet; I'm going to leave a data trail. But I do what I can to minimize my trail by using duckduckgo instead of Google; subscribing to a reputable VPN service; using Firefox with a host of privacy add-ons, and clearing session cookies, LSOs, and history upon closing; and regularly testing my system with tools such as doileak.com [External Link] and DNS leak test
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I don't need people telling me to use open-source software, I need open-source people telling people like me --- normal, non-technically-minded people --- how to use their software. Until then I'll make do with what tools are avalable to me.

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I won't tell you what my most anticipated game of 2017 is (it's a secret), but I will tell you it wasn't two games I so eagerly anticipated in 2016: Homefront and Shadow Warrior 2. Darksiders taught me that once a game fails to materialize on (or even around) it's stated release date, I best cease to anticipate it.

Quite a few nominees were new to me, but a little duckduckgoing quickly remedied that. I'm particularly keen to try out The Dark Mod. I'd never heard of that one before.

I was a bit saddened that my favorite gaming related FOSS project --- sc-controller --- wasn't a nominee, though I suppose that's because it's written in Python. Ah well, we all have our favorite shouda-rans, I'm sure.

;)

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OMG I'm so jaded. I saw the headline:
Pixel Princess Blitz, a roguelike sandbox action RPG that plans Linux support is on Kickstarter
and without missing a beat the voice in my head read it as:
Pixel Princess Blitz, a roguelike sandbox action RPG and the devs have heard of Linux.
Lol, I guess that's about all the excitement I can muster anymore about promises and plans (let's call them what they are: rumors) of Linux releases-yet-unborn.

All the same, though. I do appreciate hearing the rumors nonetheless! And, yeah. It does look like a fun game. Thanks for the heads up, Liam!

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Sauerbraten/Inexor are just PvP arena combat games, aren't they? Or are they something else altogether?

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Ooooo neat-o! I'll take a look at grabbing a copy of Lugaru, then. I was under the impression that Lugaru was sort of the predecessor to Overgrowth, but it sounds like it's also a part of Overgrowth as well? Do I understand that correctly?

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I've been using Discord (Canary)for the better part of the last year for two reasons:

1. It's commonly used amongst my online friends and
2. I can use it now whilst I figure out how to set up/use Mumble/Murmer(M&M)

Setting up the M&M client was pretty straightforward, granted, but the server? Not so much; not for me. It usually goes something like this in my head when I revisit M&M:

I have to set up a server?
Where?
On my machine?
And I have to be an admin on it too?
How do I do that?
And then what about these settings?
What do some of these even mean?
I can use other people's servers?
I'll just pick one out and try it, shall I?
Okay, ummm, why are some of them hi-lighted green?
Whatever, this one has a good ping.
"Enter User Name," --- ok, I'll just make one up then?
Ok.
"Sever presented a certificate which failed verification,"
uhhh.
"The certificate is self-signed, and untrusted,"
Gahhhh! Close! Close! Close!

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What would they need to make open source, I wonder. There's the firmware, then there's the configuration/mapping tool that's baked into BPM and its overlay, right? I would be a bit surprised if Valve didn't eventually make whatever-it-is open source, once they've got its development closer to its "final" form.

Since I drank the SC Koolaid, I'm a fanboy now, so I can't fathom ever wanting to use another controller --- lol --- though I admit others do. In this I'm heartened by kozec's sc-controller project. It is open source, so whatever Valve decides to do, I'll still have a way to configure and enjoy my SC. Although it's not quite where I need it to be --- feature-wise --- SCC is, in some ways, already more powerful than Valve's configuration tool. I anticipate its only ever becoming more so.

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I never knew about any of these problems, mostly because I don't interact with Steam in ways that would cause them to appear, I guess. The closing to the panel thing is the only one that I suppose would maybe have shown up, but it's not been a problem on Gnome 3.20 on Ubuntu 16.04 except for not re-launching Steam if double-clicked. I've just been clicking "Store" or "Library" and it re-opens.

The Big Bug for me has been, and continues to be, that the Steam Controller still won't work wirelessly without Steam running. Steam knows this and refuses to fix it just to make me cry. They like the flavor of my tears, the bastards!

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Yay! I love it! It reminds me a lot of classic Chuck Jones in its art and a little bit in its animation. Off to Greenlight I go for another upvote. What a truly delightful find, Liam!

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