Last time I played this, I was happily expanding my empire when I discovered a sort of Doomsday type creature that would just swallow my ships whole, and pirates took over one of my colonies and turned all my civilians into slaves.

So maybe I already have the 'Dick' update.

:grin:

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: GoboStatistically they have sold more than one copy for every current citizen of Denmark, one of the regions where vikings originated from. Or more than the whole population of Scandinavia 200 years ago. With one game. By five people.

~1,03 copies for every danske.
~1,11 copies for every nordmann.

(Based on population numbers from wikipedia)

Which means means that if they ever publish which contries bought the game, we'll see that half was sold in Denmark, and the other half sold in Norway. Stands to reason.

And they have sold 153 copies for every citizen living today in the city Iron Gate comes from (Skövde, Sweden) :-)

Ha, would be amazing if that were the company size, and the whole village exists to make the game.

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Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: GoboStatistically they have sold more than one copy for every current citizen of Denmark, one of the regions where vikings originated from. Or more than the whole population of Scandinavia 200 years ago. With one game. By five people.

~1,03 copies for every danske.
~1,11 copies for every nordmann.

(Based on population numbers from wikipedia)

Which means means that if they ever publish which contries bought the game, we'll see that half was sold in Denmark, and the other half sold in Norway. Stands to reason.

I need to play this more. Anyone know how to make it a borderless window in Gnome, or do I need to maybe boot to a different DE and play there? Maybe in general some way to make games full screen borderless windows? Pretty sure I used to know how to do that... Guess I could DDG it... :P

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1904445/borderless-windows-on-linux [External Link]

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Ha, Yeah I bet I own every single one as well. I usually will buy the bundle anyhow as some goes to Charity, and then I give away the keys.

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I watched Total Recall with my brother and sister the other night. Mostly we just quoted the lines from the movie as they were happening, and complained about how bad the remake was. It was bad. I only saw it once and the entire time I watched I was thinking "Shouldn't we just watch the original?"

Philip K. Dick is an amazing author. Don't forget Man in the High Castle is also one of his works. Along with Screamers, and many many other fantastic ones. Probably one of my favorites.

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Quoting: FLKYeah so at the end you agree with me ? It was a risky move. A whole sector can crash because "reasons". Note that it did at the end of his investment. And apparently he didn't study enough to see it coming right? Just casually losing 500k (3M to 2.5M), no big deal.

To be fair... when you're going from 200k to 3m then to 2.5m... I seriously would still consider that a win, and not care about that extra 500k... It's like when Google loses a billion to a lawsuit. They're probably like 'meh, we'll earn it back in less than a year anyhow.'

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Quoting: EhvisWait, no funky puns in this article? You seriously need some time off Liam! :tongue:

Coincidentally I was looking through the GURPS update pdf for 3rd to 4th edition, and found the 'Punning' skill.

Still find it amazing how detailed one can make their character in the game. Granted someone was arguing that it shouldn't take as much points to learn Weaving as it does to learn Sword, etc. But the game system takes care of that as it doesn't really take the same amount of points to be as good at one over the other. Though to be fair, I tend to think being able to weave would require more knowledge than being able to pick up a metal stick and swing it through the air.

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Quoting: HoriIt.s all fun and games but when you hurt your mental health and gravely endanger the your (or worse, your family's) financial security, it's really NOT something that should be praised and be proud of.

Lucking your way in life is not something that should be praised and advertised.
What happened there was a gamble, the money acquired is not really "deserved" as they are not a reward for something you've produced or offered.

The fact that they say fundraising is bad but yoloing and basically gambling is not is just making things worse and triggers me. At least with fundraising the money would have been the reward of your hard work.

Also advertising it in such a way that makes it cool/laudable/heroic is irresponsible and just promotes this kind of reckless behaviour that most often ends in serious losses or even bankruptcy.

PS: I've got nothing against responsible and productive investment (which I actually think it's really good thing). But this does not to seem to be that at all.

Dude chased a dream and caught it, what isn't to like about this story? Sounds like he took the current profit of the game and invested it wisely until it made him enough capital to fund future development. Where is the gambling here?

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: CreakEDIT: looking at Flatpak's wikipedia page, the support out-of-the-box seems as important if not more than for Snap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak#Support [External Link]

Quoting: slaapliedjeWhere flatpaks and AppImages are open.

Well I have repeatedly stated above that this is the reason I think FlatPak is the superior "next-generation" package manager... I find that Snaps have noticeably better performance and they have certain technical advantages over FlatPak; but at the end of the day, being more "open" is more usually more important in the Grand Scheme of Things (at least in my opinion, anyway).

Which is weird, as everyone I have read says that snaps have terrible performance. The main reason I don't like Flatpaks is that they seem to use a lot more space than normally packaged software. I mean sure, part of that is that they don't use linked libraries, but it's large amounts, to the point where I've had to remove all flatpaks so I had disk space...

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That is an amazing story, actually. I also feel the same way about publishers. They're usually the ones who end up taking away from the original vision of the developers. Though sometimes they are a necessary evil, as some games just like to sit in perpetual 'Early Access' forever.

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