Ok sorry my little joke turned into a bit of a chaos. (Come on CatKiller, be nice)

The point of the joke was that as others pointed out, it was an unfortunate choice of words when presented to a community with strong open source values. I get that it meant "not using someone else's".

But on a more serious note, I realize you must be proud of doing the engine, I would also totally write my own engine if I ever get to make a game, but you should know boasting it is not actually helping as you might think. Basicaly what it tells me (gamer), is that I should expect bugs, rough edges and issues with buggy drivers.

From one developer to another, I'm happy you had fun and were succesful in writing an engine. But my advice is to keep that information to yourselves and not scare away gamers who have been burned many times.

Thanks for supporting Linux nevertheless :)

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Is it running on GL or Vulkan? It's very easy to introduce inefficiencies with the Vulkan Swapchain API, so if it's Vulkan and this isn't blowing up in memory or crashing on some drivers due to fence cleanup issues, kudos to Godot!

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Has a Mark of the Ninja vibe, which is a good thing, though the game art looks a little basic.

I love how they consider this a feature:

> Proprietary engine.

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Happy to say I finally switched to Debian last week, no more Canonical nonsense for me thank you very much.

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Quoting: mahagrI tried to play Black Mesa couple of years ago and it just kept on crashing. I posted a negative review because of that (to help others on Linux to decide) and people just kept on saying that I should uninstall Linux and use Windows instead. After that I just lost interest to the game.

I still have conflicted feelings if I should try it again. Maybe when it's ready?

I bet it crashed equally as much on windows too, but losers will be losers, don't feel too bad.

When I played it a year or two ago, I had a game-breaking crash too. I had to load a save file from a few levels before so it wouldn't crash on that spot.

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Alternatively, don't support terrible anti-cheat practices with your money.

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I have mixed feelings about Black Mesa. Visually it's fantastic, and it's great to replay Half-Life with a more modern look. But as the game goes on, they diverged more and more from the original. Zen is huge in Black Mesa, and while it *looks* great, it's so formulaic (combat, platform, puzzle, repeat) that it feels more like a drag. Half-way through Zen, I felt like I'm just pushing forward just to say I finished the game.

There was something about Half-Life that made it a great game, the new Zen doesn't have that something.

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I've been putting a lot of time in Rogue Legacy 2, and revisiting Dome Keeper on my SD.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: EikeI don't want to predict, nor did I say so.

That's what fitting the data to a curve is.

QuoteI want to describe what has happened.

That's what the trend line does.

Which you already know because of your super statistical analysis skills, obviously.

Should you wish to examine the positive trend line for any range of the data, you already can. Slapping an arbitrary curve onto the data is pure fappery.

I'm sure you are both old enough to understand internet arguments like this don't get anywhere. Can we de-escalate please?

CatKiller is right that fitting a curve to the data is dangerous in that you are claiming that's the function the data is following, but it may not be.

Eike is also right because their claim is exactly the same thing! That the linear fit here is wrong, is exactly the same argument CatKiller has, any fit can be wrong.

So either don't fit anything, or if you do, I tend to agree with Eike that a line is definitely not the right fit as it ignores a major event point in the history.

It's like making a trend line on global temperature since 5000 years ago and make it look like global warming isn't happening. The industrial revolution happened and that changed the trend.

So my suggestion is, forget the trend before Steam Deck! The extrapolation of that trend is a hypothetical that's never happening, nor does the "what if" matter. Instead, if you have to fit a curve, fit one with the data from after the release of SD only, as the data from before does not correlate with it, and it presents a more meaningful prediction of what the future may look like.

Edit: lol, looks like you sorted things out while I was typing this

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Currently doing local coop with my wife, we're mid-autumn first year. I don't think we'd start over though, just got my tools in gold :P

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