I'm going to throw this idea out to the universe right now...

Someone make MOM, and mix it in with random waves of randoms.

MOM being a fantastic game that was made by Electronic Arts (back when they made fantastic games) that is actually called Mail Order Monsters. These games already remind me of this, yet MOM was more of a one on one game, but I think if there were random creatures in the arena it'd make it quite fun!

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Quoting: TheRiddickThat's a very easy thing to fix. Just make it a stick on pad with a click-in solution, I could prototype one myself with my resin printers even.. lol

I actually ordered one and have it on the way, but they're basically sending out the fixed version with a non-magnetic kickstand to replace the magnetic one. And eating the cost of that, which is impressive. They suggested to hang the magnetic one from the fridge to represent some major fail.

But yes, since the fans have metal bits in it, if the magnets were strong enough, I could see them slowing down the spinning of the fans. It was only specific manufacturer's fans as well.

Edit: Sorry, let me clarify, they are sending the magnetic ones out for those that pre-ordered already, and will later be sending out the fixed chassis / kickstand free of charge, which is pretty awesome.

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Quoting: BielFPsI knew it

Anyone who knows anything about Google pretty much knew it. They try to diversify their businesses, but they almost always end up giving up on them and going back to 'give us data to sell ads to'

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Quoting: BigHatThey don't have to support Linux really. However, supporting proton compatibility would be nice since the largest PC game store is popularizing it.

Blizzard doesn't care. They don't sell any of their games on Steam, and likely never will.

Quoting: tpauI think having a native Linux version of Battle.net that uses Proton to start their games like Steam does it, would be fine.
Having their games eventually move to Vulkan and become easier to port to Linux would of course be even better.
I can imagine Hearthstone being a nice addition to a portable computer like the steamdeck :)

You'd think they would figure out a way to get more players via a console-like thing. I'm betting Diablo games would be the only ones they make workable with controller though.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: Craggles086So the official DOSBox is version 0.74-3, and this Staging is version 0.79.

No one thinks we might be ready for a version 1 yet, after how many years of DOSBox?

Just to be clear, despite the name, this is a separate fork and project from the original DosBox:
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/about/ [External Link]

(Yes, it's a confusing name considering the Wine and Wine-staging relationship which is quite different.)

Both projects might reach 1.0 at some point, but they have different developers and different goals.

It's even sillier to think that DosBox-X is yet another project as well.

Curious; Luxtorpeda supports DosBox Staging? I thought Boxtron would be the one to support that

I seem to remember hearing that Boxtron kind of ran out of steam a little while ago. Maybe Luxtorpeda is sort of extending to fill the gap, or something.

Ah, that makes sense. Though I thought they were all developed by the same people? Maybe it merged? Guess I should try Dark Forces with it. Funny enough I have TRIED getting MIDI working with my Roland SC88 Pro with Windows and failed miserably. Boxtron works great under Linux.

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Quoting: 14I like computers.

I like Ice cream... but my stomach does not.

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Quoting: GuestI'm surprised they directly addressed it instead of a quiet fix. I know Blizz has been secretly pretty Linux/WINE friendly, but they don't usually come out and say it like they did here, do they?

Longer time ago, they even officially sent some patches to Wine to make WoW run better. :wink:

Never knew that. Way back they even had that unreleased internal Linux build of WoW, so the desire is/was there. Nice to see them keeping it up, even if it is unofficial.

Apparently there were ways to allow WOW to run with opengl with some ini file tweaks and it would run better on linux than on windows

Yeah, I was wondering if they made a vulkan renderer how it would perform.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI bet if Disney could buy up large amounts of homes and create a Disney City, and just lease it out to people, they would.

https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/ [External Link]

Oh my god. You just can't do satire any more, it's all real.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1dnqKGuezo [External Link]

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Quoting: scaineWell, I feel like I need to pick apart a couple of points on that. Hopefully I'm not mis-quoting you, as I generally don't like "quote spamming" a reply, but here goes.

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's worse when you have Ubuntu having their own modifications to Gnome, and then Pop_OS hating Gnome

That's not "worse", or "hating" - to me, that's the opposite. Ubuntu and System 76 LOVE Gnome, but they recognise weaknesses, and have addressed those weaknesses. No idea what Ubuntu do to Gnome, right enough, other than add the Dash to Panel extension, but it's been a while since I tried it. As for System 76, they just wanted a better dock and better tiling.

Quoting: slaapliedjeSo is it that people hate Gnome? Do they hate a flavor of it? Do they hate that they have to install extensions 'to make it usable'?

Again, when you perservere, continuously, to improve something instead of walking away from it, it's clear to me that they absolutely love Gnome, but just want to further improve it.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI've been using Gnome-shell pretty much since about 3.10 or so? Once you understand what they are trying to do with it, it's actually quite good.

Good stuff. It didn't work for me, and I gave it a year. It's not terrible, but when I looked at the list of things I had to do to be pleased with it, I ran out of patience. Lots of extensions, tweaks, replacing Nautilus with Nemo, and so on. It felt like a burden.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI think my biggest complaint about KDE is that the default has always just reminded me of using Windows

Sounds like you might be a bit out of date on Plasma. It doesn't feel very Windows-y to me. The start menu, I suppose, is vaguely similar, albeit no tiles. I mean, if that was genuinely your biggest complaint, I'd suggest spending some time with alternative panel widgets and some theming. Although, Plasma's theming is pretty unintuitive. But if you're comfortable on Gnome, why bother?

Quoting: slaapliedjeI also kind of think macOS is kind of garbage

Back to the very first point of my original rant - I'd rather hear about things you love, than read about you (even politely) shitting on things you don't.

I'll try to clarify what I mean by it being detrimental to the Gnome project when particular distributions tweak it beyond the standard release. For example, Ubuntu does something to theirs (mind you I kind of what to know WHAT it is, as I was playing around recently and found a neat feature that I thought was part of 43, but in fact is not. This feature is that by the icon will be multiple little orange dots that indicate more than one window belonging to that application. Unfortunately it's limited to 3, but still an interesting feature. Also you can right click on an icon and it'll give a list of all the open windows you can individually close from there. One thing that I wish macOS would copy from Gnome is to have it's overview add close buttons on the mini windows, love that feature in Gnome).

Pop_OS no longer uses Gnome. They have ditched it in favor of their tiling WM, Cosmos. I think it's all GTk3 (I don't think they've updated to 4 yet). Which is fine, the problem is when they try to make it difficult to install Gnome on top of it. It's an either or, and some of their packages (nvidia-prime specifically) is removed if you install the standard gnome-session. I understand the reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I can't help but think they're going down the same road Ubuntu did.

With Ubuntu I kind of think of them like Apple, but with less money... and I suppose the way a lot of people feel about gnome. Like they make decisions that everyone should be happy with. I think the only reason Apple gets away with it is because they had a more charismatic cult leader :P Ubuntu did what Pop is doing now, they create their own setup based around gnome tech, when they can't quite get it to work out the way they want it to, they turn it into gnome extensions that are pre-installed into their distro when it ships. While I understand wanting to do this, I prefer a raw gnome so I can then extend it how I like (I much prefer a minimal amount of extensions. Like I mostly add the AppIndicator and then Vertical Overview (I tend to use the activities hot corner a lot, and having to bounce up there and then all the way down to the screen to the dash / favorites is... well bad design. Especially on a super ultrawide monitor like I have, it's nuts!) I don't like desktop icons, so I leave that alone.

Now with KDE and it's likeness to Windows. It's a very superficial 'at a glance' similarity for sure. And even the menus, due to xdg, are actually organized, unlike under Windows. By the way, Windows 10+ no longer supports the tiles, so KDE can still look pretty much the same as Windows. Now I know Plasma/KDE can basically look like whatever the hell you want it to, but as you can tell, I tend to stick with close to defaults usually. What I really wish KDE/Gnome would figure out is a standard between the two on a few things like keyrings, and such. It's irritating when you have both installed on your system, and you start getting prompted for akonadai unlocking when you're logged into Gnome... And yeah, I tend to have both installed in case I want to log into the other and test something. Ha, I think at one point under Debian I had Budgie, Enlightenment, Gnome, Wmaker and KDE all installed. Unfortunately I think I ran out of space on /...

Curious about why you switched from Nautilus to Nemo. I've been using Nautilus for years, and never had any issues with it. Then again, I usually end up doing copies of things with rsync rather than moving stuff around with Nautilus, I mostly only use it for files.

One quick note; I do really hate where UI design is going... Like do we REALLY have a hatred for the Window Title Bar? Firefox merging it's tabs into it makes it 100% useless for actually being able to grab it and drag it around on your desktop... and now with Gnome43, Evolution and Nautilus and others all have buttons in the title bar... it's weird. I guess the 'we must save the pixels!' people got their way...

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: GuestObligatory stop promoting Blizzard comment. [...] Blizzard, EA and Ubi can all go die in a fire.

I get the sentiment, but to succeed as a platform, we need support from these companies. Otherwise Linux will always be a niche market.

I wish I could say I agree, I mean I understand, but they are so anti-consumer no one on any platform should support them. My roommate was one of the ones caught in Ubi's little account purge scam now they want all sorts of legal BS to prove she's the owner of her account and she can't play the games she paid for.

I don't know how many times I've been screwed by Blizzard "freezing" my account due to suspicious activity. Suspicious login from the same IP that has always been logged in from...RIGHT...

This stuff transcends the platform you're on but it's accepted because everything is rented/leased and loaned -paid for or not these days. Sadly most the time when talking about this stuff you just get trolled by young kids who have no experience or clue they could OWN something without accounts or 3rd party reliance and still play it 20+ years later.

It's weird, right? Like you used to be able to buy stuff and think 'hey, I can keep this for 20 years and then play it whenever I want.' Now I've seen articles stating that a vast majority of young people don't even think they'll ever own a house. I bet if Disney could buy up large amounts of homes and create a Disney City, and just lease it out to people, they would.
This is one of the reasons why I randomly go back to playing older games on the non-connected consoles. Look at how many games on the PS2 can either no longer be played, or have lost multiplayer functionality because the services have gone down. That was one of the early consoles to allow network play.

How many games are now unusable on Windows 10+ because they dropped support for safedisc and securom? Unless of course you pirate, or are lucky enough to want a game already packaged up on GOG.

And the accounts... seriously hate it. I was commenting the other day about going to a physical store and then being asked for your email address. Like.. why? So I can get all the latest news from a store I visit once in a blue moon? No thanks, I'll pass...

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