I can't use environments which don't allow that.

That's a pet peeve of mine as well; as I like having the abbreviated name of day / day # in month / abbr. name of month / week # in year / hour:minute on the taskbar. ('%a %d %b %V %H %m')

Though I think all except GNOME allow setting the date format.

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proper remaster like what we have seen recently with System Shock etc

Are you sure you're not talking about the re*make*? Because there's a full on remake of SS, and *also* a remaster, both by Nightdive. The remaster mainly updates the UI scheme of the original SS, because that original was flight simulator levels of complicated.

The remake of SS is, well, a complete Unreal 4 remake from scratch; because the original SS is a sprite based game that ran on the Ultima Underworld engine -- which came out before Doom, by the way.

This DX *remaster* doesn't claim to be anything other than a *remaster*; so it makes no sense to compare to the SS *remake*. The $35 price point might be a little steep, but that's another story.

I'm now beginning to suspect that people lamenting the fact that Nightdive isn't doing this don't know the difference between the SS remake & the remaster.

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why all the love for Nightdive

I find this a bit odd as well, not just here but on reddit too (yeah I hate myself); partly because around the time of the System Shock remake's delay, and engine change, they were dragged through the ground in online spaces with all sort of allegations of fraud, incompetence, etc. Since then, of course, the SS remake redeemed itself, and they've recovered their reputation, and I'm seriously glad that they did -- but have their remasters been SO well received, that by now no one else is deemed worthy for a DX remaster?

And the System Shock 2 remaster isn't even out yet, is it?

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My number 1 game of all time!!

-- and I'm sure you're familiar with this little homage to Friend R. D. Olivaw, at the Area 51 terminal:

Deus Ex Wiki: Area 51 Computer Terminals [External Link]

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This looks fine to me; looking at some of the comments I was fearing it was going to be like the badly lighted, lumpy upscaled abomination that was on the GTA III 'definitive editions', especially when they first came out.

If they make the controls a little less floaty, and non-lethal gameplay a little less impossibly difficult (?!), that would be improvement enough, IMHO. Also eliminating the need for Kent's launcher, which has done great service over the years making the game playable on newer systems of course.

DX was an imbalanced game when it came out with branches in the skill tree that didn't make sense, very strange damage points for the weapons, and even stranger upgrade paths -- but IMHO, all of that contributed to it feeling less like a homogenized playground experience and a bit more like a sim. So I hope they don't go around over-correcting too much.

edit -- oh, and the ridiculously over the top accents for the locals in Hong Kong & Paris -- don't ever change them; I mean, they were so funny no one ever got offended by them, I don't think.

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"FOR ALL PLAYERS AND SCREAMERS", I suppose that means it will be multiplatform.

I think the 'screamers' is a reference to 'scream streamers' on twitch; they may have tailor made this game to farm engagement via those channels.

So it's for 'players' on xbox, and scream-streamer-viewers otherwise.

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Oh wow the clown prince of cringe is back.

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UPDATE: re- saxonica- ok, sure, the culprit was the aria2 download manager, which kept intercepting the xml .... AAARGHHH ... thanks for prodding me to explore this further.

-- though by the way I have the aria2 extension also on Chromium, and it doesn't intercept anything on that side.

But still, Mozilla & Apple do want to remove native xml rendering on the browser.

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Re: Saxonica working -- all I'm getting on Firefox 143 from the arch repos is a download prompt to save 'welcome.xml' to disk; it doesn't render anything.

Saxonica addressed this in a recent blog post: The full url would be blog dot saxonica dot com slash norm slash 2025 slash 08 slash 21-styling.xml.html -- so do you think I need to inject saxon.js independently? If you guys are surprised about saxonica not working then you probably haven't set up that kind of injection manually.

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Maybe I'm very lucky but I've never seen that kind of websites

I think what's more likely is that websites do break in subtle ways, which don't catch your attention.

And it's also important to note that user-hostile breakage doesn't just come from google's side. Something that I recently ran into: Apparently there's a 'technology working group' called WHATWG, and it wants to *remove* xslt processing from browsers altogether -- why? Who knows, it *has to* be something security related, *of course*; *why else*? Right?.

(I'm not pasting the actual external links to spare Liam from having to approve them. Incidentally: My sincerest contrafibularities & a two-fingered salute to the British government.)

'WHATWG' describes itself as:

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving the web through standards and tests.

'community of people' ... right; though it doesn't really mean what your average free software enthusiast understands by 'community of people':

The WHATWG was founded by individuals of Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software in 2004, after a W3C workshop. Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML, and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world web developers. So, in response, these organisations set out with a mission to address these concerns and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group was born.

So anyway, as a result Mozilla just went ahead and removed the ability to style xml immediately on the browser. As a result a subset of webpages that relied on that capability just stopped working on Firefox (& possibly Safari & Opera too, since they're part of this fellowship of individuals as well) -- with no warning whatsoever. Too bad if you need to download something from the saxonica website, because you happen to need an xpath 3.0 capable xml parser. Chromium *currently* has the ability of open that particular website.

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