Quoting: GuestGood. I'm all for a liberal attitude to what games are published on Steam. It is, after all, a content delivery platform and not a content curator. You know, it's funny, I would never have heard of the school shooter game that had people all in a lather had certain elements of the media not lost their shit over it.

Reminds me of two things.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03nkvqS4Oc [External Link]
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdVDIUsBWs [External Link]

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Quoting: elmapulits a shame we dont have any arm games to run on it.
at least not on steam... (and the steam client itself dont work on arm)

Well, technically you could, using LLVM. The only issue is that it likely would not be performant enough to matter.

you need the source code to recompile then to arm

I'm talking about skipping compiling games and applications to ARM and using an in-between program that would run X86 programs through a virtual CPU using LLVM.

Though, as I said, it would not be performant enough to matter, anyway. I was being pedantic.

Yeah, pretty sure using qemu-x86 through an ARM would be slow as hell. That's assuming ARM supports any sort of VT-d style function on the Tegra X1

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Quoting: Crystal DaggerI bought several games and it works great on Linux, the icon is missing on the game page itself but if you search the game on the steam store it is shown there along side the win/mac ones, so don't worry, it works like wonders.

The only feature that I miss that the windows version has is the "Simple Launcher" which is a WAY LESS demanding launcher. Sure the 3Dish room looks fabulous but once you've seen it a few times it is not worth all the resources that it "eats" for what it does, not even on lowest settings. I really hope they add this...

Asides from that, it works incredibly well and the price for the games is very reasonable in comparison with other companies that have released similar products in the past.

The 3D interface is really only useful in VR (Tested on Windows, wish Valve would fix SteamVR on Linux)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, did you ever see the documentary about the Atri New Mexico dump?

I haven't, but the Retro Hour podcast did a good two-part interview [External Link] with Howard Scott Warshaw about a year ago. Well worth a listen. He does point out that he volunteered to do E.T. in six weeks, even though nobody else on the programming staff at Atari thought it was possible. But yes, the fact remains that they were given that ridiculous timeframe in the first place. Crazy.

Interesting, they interviewed him for that documentary and I thought it was 5 months he said. I'd first heard six weeks too though.

Either way, Speilberg said it was great, so they shipped it.

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Quoting: frykI did not know "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice" until I read these comments ... and now I want it! It looks really amazing! So, Feral, if this is not it, you know what to do next :whistle:

I need to finish that game, what I've played of it really, truly is amazing.

I actually had bought it because there were rumors of it being released for Linux at one point.

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Quoting: MarkyIt seems odd that both the painting and the poem come from people with such similar names:
John Martin
John Milton

Could there be a video game character with a similar name?

It is Die Hard, with John McClane!

It's Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai, where all the Good Aliens are Jamaicans and named John.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI don't even care about MS in particular being involved here. But if people think mergers of this scale are a good thing, they need to start reading economics textbooks. It's not. If we want functional markets, we can't allow corporations to become that large. But I guess we still believe in this "regulation is bad!" rubbish. Until they day when the corporations start to regulate us.

Not that they don't already.

Remember when they were on the brink of being split up? Yeah that should be brought back...

I wonder if Apple was split into iPhone/Mac if the Mac would survive on its own.

But splitting MS into Office and Windows companies could have helped, not sure if we will ever know.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeA friend of mine was just giving me shit about hating github now. I was in the middle of the whole debacle when Elop killed MeeGo (still love my N900 and N9)

I still have my N950 with Harmattan, though more like a collection item.

I look for an N950 now and then. Ah, what could have been....

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOne thing I do find odd is that they show Tempest 4000 running on it, but Jeff Minter says he is currently unaware that he has ported that to Linux...

That's ominous. The Llamasoft logo jumped out at me from the Indiegogo page. Sounds like it's not as “confirmed” as they're making out.

But the more I think about it, the more the general strategy makes sense. In the light of Nintendo and the later Tramiel/Atari Games era, it's easy to forget how much early Atari was all about kids and families too. That's the market the original VCS was in. There were no “hardcore gamers” back then, at least not in the numbers that manufacturers saw fit to cater for. The 2600, with two controllers, sat under the family TV (because there was only one). That's why it had the woodgrain. Sure they didn't have something like Mario or Link, but that's only because the technology didn't allow for relatable cartoon-like characters and it hadn't occurred to anyone yet that a videogame company could do something like that. Even so, they did licence Asterix (in Europe), Sesame Street, E.T. (notoriously, but still, they had it), Pac-Man, Looney-Tunes, and, yes, Mario for first-party Atari-published titles.

I'm more sure than ever that this is what they're going for: basically the same niche that Nintendo has carved out since the Wii, but undercutting them on price (a little) and with an open platform.

Ha, did you ever see the documentary about the Atri New Mexico dump? Basically the guy who wrote Yar's Revenge (huge hit), and Indiana Jones (another huge hit) was given 5 months to complete E.T. he busted ass, got mostly there, showed it to Steven Spielberg who loved it, so they shipped it. So that game, along with Crystal Skull and War of the Worlds is why I will never watch Ready Player One.

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Quoting: NanobangFrom the beginning, everything Microsoft (why don't I see more penis jokes about their name?) has done has been not only about improving their bottom line by improving themselves and their product, but also damaging, killing, buying out their competition. [External Link]. They have done nothing worthy of anyone's trust, but perhaps trusting Microsoft to fuck people over and take away every freedom they can.

I'm glad to see so many people here saying that they left or are going to leave Github, it's reassuring to see that the Linux and Foss community are aware that Github is no more. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit. Profitable shit, but shit all the same.

A friend of mine was just giving me shit about hating github now. I was in the middle of the whole debacle when Elop killed MeeGo (still love my N900 and N9) and have despised Microsoft (Tiny and Flaccid, the opposite of Megahard, there is your penis joke) for many years. Pretty much since '95 when my parents first got a Wintel machine (I grew up using Atari computers.)

I told him I clearly wasn't going to be the only one pissed by this. Microsoft is toxic to the computer industry.

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