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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Cummerbund Bandersnatch

If this is the level of humour of the game, I don't even need to play the demo to know that I'm going to love it.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: soulsourceThe Blacksad game is quite good, though they might have overdone it a bit with the (sometimes not so) unexpected twists.

It had some minor technical issues with Proton when I played it, but nothing critical.

I honestly don't know how I've never heard of this game since it was released. First giveaway that got me genuinely excited.

I think it hasn't seen much marketing... I only noticed it during a sale too, and I would consider myself a fan of the comic series...

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The Blacksad game is quite good, though they might have overdone it a bit with the (sometimes not so) unexpected twists.

It had some minor technical issues with Proton when I played it, but nothing critical.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: foobrewI've finally reached mid-game in my current playthrough (just got Battleships) and it's actually getting a little boring now. No wars happening anymore, all systems have been claimed so we're all locked in and all anomalies and such have been researched. I'm basically just spending my time researching, building my fleet and improving my defensive starbases. Is the game normally pretty slow like this for mid-game?

Yeah, it can be, if you look strong and you don't start a war yourself. But there should be some things starting up soon one way or another. Warring marauder clans will unify and start trying to take over the galaxy, you'll fix one of the weird gates and behind it will turn out to be the gray goo nanite people armada, some early crisis will attack, one of the stagnant ancient types will reactivate and start trying to take over the galaxy. That kind of stuff should start happening.

Me, at that stage I'm usually trying to clean up all the archaeological digs and really-high-difficulty anomalies I left alone while my priority was exploration. And trying to get to where I can build up some megastructures. And I'm not so much building up my defensive starbases, although I might do one or two badass ones at really important chokepoints, as building up my trade-network and anti-piracy starbases.

My current playthrough I've been at war a lot. Sheesh, just because I'm a devouring swarm and mean to eat them all, people don't seem to like me!

Those events require DLC to happen though. The Marauders are part of the Apocalypse DLC, and the L-Gates are part of the Distant Stars DLC. Also, some diplomacy mechanics that are very interesting during mid-game are part of the Federations DLC.

Without those expansion packs, the game probably is quite boring during mid-game...

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Quoting: GuestStellaris 40000

Always has been. [External Link] Also, there have been Shroud Entities (aka off-brand Chaos Gods) in the game for quite a while now.

Regarding the linked song, I'm just kidding though. I tend to play galactic carebears, trying to get everyone to join my peaceful Federation. I've done more Fanatic Pacifist / Xenophile playthroughs than I'd like to admit.

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Oh, come on...
They are releasing new DLC faster than I can finish my playthroughs.

(That said: Wishlisted.)

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