I have a lot of mechanical keyboards at this point. But my favorites are actually the Unicomp and IBM Model M... the clickiness on them are just amazing.

That being said, the most inovative keyboard I own is the Wooting keyboard. I don't use it all that much as it takes some getting used to, but it is wonderful.

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Quoting: neon_soaked_chryssalidI'm probably going to have to get one of these at some point. I looked at the original Launch the last time I needed a keyboard, but I use the number pad a lot. So it was a pass for me then, but maybe not next time!

Same here. Ha, though a big reason I do is for old dungeon crawlers that use the numpad.

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Quoting: TeodosioI always said that the idea of "porting" is terrible. Porting means taking a Windows code and putting plasters on it until it runs on GNU. It results in inferior releases that eventually break.
The way to go is "native" releases, i.e. developing the code so that it compiles on both Windows and GNU. Many developers are doing that right, e.g. Paradox Interactive.

The sad thing is, most developers these days create an 'engine' to then build their games on (or license one from another company), and improve from there. Paradox has done this and so it's overall easier for them to just release native builds of their games now, and they've been doing it for years. Imagine if Bethesda had done the same for Morrowind, and they've used updated engines for Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout 3-4. It'd be easy for them to have provided Linux versions. Some companies just don't care about portability.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library GuyAfter all these years I still know very little about Assassin's Creed. The impression I get, though, is that in the later games

• You don't play an assassin


• You don't have a creed

um . . .

Both Odyssey and Origins literally make me want to visit these places in real life (Greece and Egypt) though I suspect Greece still has some of the beauty left over from the game, whereas Egypt looks very different now.
But yeah, you do still play an Assassin... sort of. Because the Hashshashin, from which the word Assassin comes from did not exist until the late 11th century.

So if you really had been called an assassin, it would have been historically inaccurate.

Isn't there one where you're a viking or a pirate or something? Just because a character kills people, that doesn't make them an assassin.

Well the story from the beginning of the games is basically there are two warring secret societies (basically ones whom have ancestral links to the Assassins (Hashshashin) and the Knights Templar.

Your character in the first 3 games was Desmond, who had actual DNA from one of the Assassins, and so they could put him in this thing called the Animus, which basically puts him (you) into the body of an Assassin from the 12th(?) century, and you have to find some weird egg (if I recall, it's been many moons since I played the first one). So there, you're an actual assassin, but not like 'some random dude who gets paid to murder people' sort of way, but a 'I'm part of what essentially is the first known 'terrorist' group, that decided it was more strategic to take out military leaders instead of just losing thousands+ of lives by going off to war.

I mean really, if you think about it, it's basically the same as Spock's "The good of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." Wack one dude to save many.

The games are all centered around this concept of 'perform actions through someone who is from the past, to try and gather information for the future.' Like say if they did one where you played a follower of Moses, you could try to figure out where the Ark of the Covenant is hidden, then in the modern times, go dig it up.

In Odyssey and Origin, you play characters who join what can only be considered as older cults along the same line as the Hashshashin, eliminate leaders of an opposing cult (in Odyssey it is the Cult of Kosmos) so as to relieve oppression and cruelty.

So yes, regardless of the actual official name the group you join (Origins has one, Odyssey you're on a personal quest for your own history so to speak) you are technically still what we would define today as an Assassin. One who plans out the annihilation of specific targets to take down an organization. Or you know, just sneak through an entire fort, silently picking off soldiers and stealing their loot.

But yeah, I'd actually qualify the ones I've played as you are playing an Assassin.

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Quoting: denyasisHad me at "Super IBS" 😂😂

Well now I think I need to figure out what the point cost of Super IBS would be for GURPS. May need to use that in a Super Hero (or villain) character.

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Quoting: KlaasI'm not surprised after the Bioshock Infinite incident.

Ah, do you remember the times, not so long ago, where a game was bug fixed and completed and then shipped out to people, because we didn't have the internet, if companies fixed a game they'd have to send out physical media to registered users? QA on a game was definitely better, and you had a choice of whether or not you wanted to use a 'fixed' version that could potentially be worse.

Those were the days...

Okay, sure it sucked when you had to mail order a game they kept telling you via letter, that they were out of stock... and none of this amazon prime stuff with one day shipping...

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: ForgeAssassin's Creed ended with III. The main story writer left and it shows, all the metaplot just dried up and blew away. All the later games are just stabbing-simulator with more weapons/outfits/etc added periodically. The new settings/times are neat, and I own them all, but I resent them.

Uplay has been running fine on my Deck, though, so this should be a net win.

Absolutely; they're sticking to the established 'brand/franchise name', though I really doubt if they'd sell fewer copies if they called the games 'Open World Stuff: Ancient Greece Edition', & the like. AC4 was a genuinely good game, & a genuinely good romanticized pirate history game, & perhaps it would've become a bigger phenomenon without being part of the 'franchise'. If they love their crazy backstory/lore so much, they could've kept the references to it in name drops or whatever, like hints at the so-called 'Cthulhu mythos' that are sprinkled through not just Lovecraft's own stories, but those of R.E. Howard & others.

They started with a fun variation on possibly the most hackneyed entertainment plot around; i.e. '2012 Apocalypse/Atlantis/Hidden History/Ancient Aliens' stuff (even DOOM is on the bandwagon nowadays). Some people got hooked on A.C. because they take stories like that seriously, as they're pumped 24/7 from fraudulent so-called documentary channels; the blandness of the game formula, & the half-baked-to-nonexistent stealth mechanics became notorious. I got hooked because of the authentic environments, & the Forrest Gump style interactions with historical personalities. It's not much of a game; but there's no other series where you get to fist fight the Pope, become Karl Marx's bodyguard, beat people on behalf of Charles Darwin & Lorenzo de Medici alike, stab Julius Caesar, become buddies with Blackbeard & Da Vinci, climb the Hagia Sophia as well as the Eiffel Tower, etc. etc. etc. either.

For Odyssey, it's argue with Sokrates, listen to Herodotus speak of history, and booting people off of roofs like a proper "THIS IS SPARTA!" Which is why I am thoroughly enjoying it!

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Quoting: chris.echozshame I already bought this on uplay due to a bug that gave me the $100 version for $10

Ha, that happened to me with Rayman on the Jaguar. Didn't realize it until I got home with multiple games that were on sale, but it was marked as $10 dollars and I got it for $1.

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Quoting: TermyThe fact they don't even seem to do any - however basic it may be - testing on linux really is laughable...

Let's be clear here. It broke for the macOS version as well. So it could more properly be said that Aspyr either has not had the time to fix this, or they aren't properly staffed to fix it (the third option would be that they're not aware of it, but it sounds like enough people have created tickets for them to look at that had some sort of response about the issue).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAfter all these years I still know very little about Assassin's Creed. The impression I get, though, is that in the later games

• You don't play an assassin


• You don't have a creed

um . . .

Both Odyssey and Origins literally make me want to visit these places in real life (Greece and Egypt) though I suspect Greece still has some of the beauty left over from the game, whereas Egypt looks very different now.
But yeah, you do still play an Assassin... sort of. Because the Hashshashin, from which the word Assassin comes from did not exist until the late 11th century.

So if you really had been called an assassin, it would have been historically inaccurate.

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