Quoting: GroganYou guys make me feel like an old nerd or something... I've never seen "SHMUP" before lol

(I had to see the list of games to clue in that it was a contraction of "shoot em up"... rather than some new kind of RPG acronym or something)

At first I read Shrimp Fest 😋
I had to read it again, but now I’m hungry.

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Quoting: Mountain ManIt seems strange to me that driver developers have to make their drivers work with games instead of game developers making their games work with drivers.

There’s a large amount of duct tape, popsicle sticks, paper clips and bubble gum holding most software together, unfortunately.

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That reminds me of the days helping out with the LinEAK (Linux Easy Access Keyboard) project to get the extra multimedia keys to work back in the Wild West before everyone agreed on a standard.
Fairly sure it’s all merged into the kernel HID driver now

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Grim Fandango did it first

https://youtu.be/RM_QMtTxlQI?si=iLg6tVo9_I2PWgsj [External Link]

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Is there a slider labelled “Make me less terrible”?
:neutral:

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Quoting: LachuCopy of Heroes Of Might and Magic.

Except that it’s Hero’s of Might and Magic in Spaaaaaaace!

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Quoting: Guestcorrect me if I am wrong, this is what I made up in my head to put some ground under my hate for refurbished hardware. the problem with refurbished devices is not replacement of failed components. the problem is why those components failed. sometimes it is because they were defective, but other times it is because of other defective components that deliver a wrong current somewhere else that eventually leads to frying other components, but not the faulty ones. so you buy one of those decks, it works for a week, breaks again, and everyone's time is wasted.

If it were some random repair shop or company doing the refurbishing then I would completely agree.
But if Valve themselves are doing it, I would expect them to put all the components through the same testing done during the manufacturing process. But I could be wrong.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAnd yes it did feel weird to make a real news comment post and not a dad joke........ :tongue:

At least you resisted the urge for a racey joke

I have your back :wink:

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I have fond memories of playing Baulders Gate when it first came out.
When I got it home and opened the box and saw it was 5 CDs :shock:
That was complete craziness at the time lol

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I ended up picking this up and Liam is right, it’s intriguingly addictive.

Gives me a bit of nostalgia for my TRS-80 colour computer as a child only better :smile:

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