If I could have one wish for Dwarf Fortress, it would be the current version of the game, feature-wise, but with the controls and UI from before the Steam release. I'm not talking about the ASCII art, I know that's an option in the game, but about the keybindings and especially the building menu functionality.

I know that this would be no easy task, with all the changes to the game other than controls, but I found the old ones more powerful. Especially when it comes to building, where the new controls are just overly convoluted (or even buggy). Building stairs is a chore now, because you can't place individual stair pieces. So you have to designate more than you need, and then cancel designations again... Or, worse, some combinations that were easy to do in 0.47 just can't be done due to broken input, like building up-stairs from already dug-out areas into not-dug-out areas.

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Whoa, I'm honestly impressed by the discussion my snarky (and not at all serious) comment started.
I've learned something here. Thanks!

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I'm a bit torn on this one. On the one hand it looks really interesting. On the other hand it's €20 that will be spent on nothing once it gets pulled from Steam because of (rightful) copyright claims by The Pokémon Company...

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Touchpad where?

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Oh, and I just realized I answered my own question. If you don't use those API calls, you don't make the codecs available to the end user, and should therefore be fine (I guess, ianal).

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: soulsourceI just saw this toot [External Link], and now I'm wondering if one really needs to worry about licensing if one uses those APIs...
Or, worse, if one needs to worry about MPEG licenses if one uses unrelated parts of Vulkan...

Kind of an overly alarmist take. The API being able to do it, doesn't mean you have to use it. You're not subject to patents you don't use - if they even cover this.

exactly and one cannot patent a function call. In any case nVIDIA, Intel and AMD have all licensed the MPEG patents to be able to implement the hardware decoder (since the patent covers the algorithm) so this is all covered.

Iirc the hardware and drivers don't need a license, only the software that makes the codecs available to end users. At some point Fedora even removed some Mesa features related to those video codecs because of that: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/PYUYUCM3RGTTN4Q3QZIB4VUQFI77GE5X/ [External Link]

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I just saw this toot [External Link], and now I'm wondering if one really needs to worry about licensing if one uses those APIs...
Or, worse, if one needs to worry about MPEG licenses if one uses unrelated parts of Vulkan...

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Terraformers is Verified now? Cool!
I'll have to play it again soon then. Last time I tried it it was already working well enough, but sometimes one still needed to use the touch screen, as some gamepad bindings weren't set up correctly back then yet. I guess that's fixed now?

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So, just to get this right:
Everyone who signs up has 1 chance to win a Steam Deck.

Everyone who logs in via Steam has 1 additional chance to win a Steam Deck.
Everyone who is masochistic enough to suffer registering on Shitter and follows 2 channels can get 2 additional chances.

So, masochists have twice as high chances to win...

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The soundtrack is just amazing. :heart:

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