Quoting: anthMutiny!! [External Link] is on sale on Steam at the moment for much less than it has ever been before [External Link]. Maybe they're cashing in on the publicity, maybe they're getting something for this while the still can.

I just went and bought that and every other linux-game tagged with "Nudity" that was currently on sale on steam. To support the devs and to up the statistics.

And wrote angry tweets ;)

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Quoting: NanobangMaybe because [fantasy](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fantasy [External Link])? ;)

I'm a (Fantasy-)LARPer. There's a credo here: Never use "Fantasy" as an excuse for bad costumes and props. "Fantasy" is here so you don't have to adhere to limitations, not to make shittier stuff than they had historically.

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Why do the ships in fantasy games always look like crap? They should look like this:
http://www.martins-live.de/ralfsmodellwelt.de/bausaetze/marine/kogge/kogge_28.jpg [External Link] for instance. Or this:
http://www.esys.org/Piraterie/Schiffe_der_Piraten-Kogge-hq.jpg [External Link]
Or this:
http://www.gk-modellbau-shop.de/WebRoot/Store2/Shops/61220080/477F/EB87/EB4B/1377/BEEF/C0A8/28BA/AE22/99-002.jpg [External Link]
Or, if you want to be modern, this:
https://www.steingraeber-modelle.de/upload/images/kr800925.jpg [External Link]

Did you see what all of them except the early cogs have? Yes, a tumblehome. Don't design them without. And what they don't have? An extremely high poop, without also having an extremely high forecastle. Also, they are not straight in the middle like a modern freighter, but curved outward.

But lack of tumblehome, an unbalanced high poop and a straight middle seem to be the hallmark of fantasy-ships, and it always looks like crap.

D&D, no tumblehome and a straight middle:
http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/original_328353_niT0lP2bfEIAKXM7i7eod6YDW.jpg [External Link]
No tumblehome, straight middle, no forecastle.
http://www.fantasycartography.com/maps/projects/12/buc_BlackContessa.jpg [External Link]
And of course, they have rooms & cabins. Which, apart from some storage-closets in the forecastle and some cabins in the back, ships didn't have.

Early medieval ships and late medieval cargo ships are usually all storage and no real accommodations (hang your hammock wherever), while late-medieval warships tend to be all guns (yes, guns are earlier than plate armour), and for guns you need lots of free space, so the decks are again, completely open.

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I like the screenshot/icon of the post. I've got those in front of my flat every day :).

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These are excellent. I only ever played the first one, and wasn't able to get the others until now.

To give you an idea about the style of the game: The spell "increase bust size" does not work on Gretchen, it only works on marble busts.
'nuff said.

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I've got a GPD Pocket http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-7-inch-laptop-indiegogo [External Link] It's out, it has a better resolution and is apparently cheaper. It doesn't have the game-controller-keyboard, though, but I'm not a game-controller-user anyway.

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Quoting: scaineHope you get back into it though - a lot of fun, despite that bit of frustration!

I actually did, probably because of your comment, and I finished it ;). Thanks.

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I played some 7 hours or so yesterday, and it doesn't really feel like I'll finish it soon. Maybe that's because they added stuff, or maybe it's because I just suck, or maybe it's because the fucking pieces of shit of other bots level the same speed as me (what's the use of levels if everything else gets better the same time as you? I hate it).

It's lying in the corner because of shitty leveling mechanics now, together with Borderlands.

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Anecdotal evidence from my local LUG (Linux User Group)

Quoting: BlackBloodRumYou could come to the conclusion that perhaps many Linux users are not using steam for verious reasons, No games of interest? Don't like DRM? Simply don't play games?

- Most don't have steam. So 10% of the Linux users to have steam could be accurate.

- A lot, like more than 50%, don't play games.

- Of the rest, quite a few only play drm-free games, some of them have a gog.com account, others only play open-source games.

- There are also a few that only play on console. Usually PS3/4, sometimes Nintendo too, rarely XBox.

And finally

- the avid players usually also have a windows-machine for playing, some even use Windows exclusively for gaming, and don't have steam installed on Linux.

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Quoting: GuestThe survey is pointless anyway since Valve does not mention the sample size.

Actually... If you have multiple incomplete studies, you can correlate them against each other and infer the estimated number of unknown cases. Something like this https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ [External Link]

I think it should be possible to at least find the order of the sample size of the steam survey via other statistics. But it's definitely something for a statistician better than me.

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