It's my favorite timeline. It will be hard to resist this buy. Even though I don't even know when I will find the time to play this. :cry:

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Given the recent moves of both major proprietary engines (one using the devs as meat shields and then throwing them under the bus hoping to get an advantage in their legal crusade against the world, the other entertaining the opaque business opportunities offered by Malware practices) it should be clear to everyone that, pretty much like for OSs, engines too should be open, free and non controllable by a single actor for the sake of the whole industry. So I hope this workaround to console NDAs helps Godot to gain market share and features.

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Quoting: fleskunless you also use it for driving.

What a waste of rare earth elements.

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Quoting: LightkeySo I just learned the other day that Elon Musk was removed as CEO of PayPal [External Link] because he tried to move the infrastructure from Unix to Windows. Guess he learned his lesson. :wink:

That is hilarious. Sadly that is basically what happened to Hotmail after MS bought them. Moved all their stuff from FreeBSD to Windows, and like the majority of all things bought by Microsoft, it turned shitty.

Anyone knows what will happen next time an OS Update is pushed to an operating SpaceX rocket?

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Quoting: soulsourceComputer games in a car... What could possibly go wrong?

(Edit: Just to be clear, I'm joking. I'm expecting them to prevent access to games while driving.)

I dunno. Car OSs are all wrong imho.

I can do everything on my android phone while driving. Call people, browse facebook, play angrcy birds, educate myself on youporn. Everything except set a destination on the damn google maps. For which I'm forced to use the car touchscreen, which takes 5 times longer to achieve the same result, if you even can with just keyboard input
(most often you just want to look on the map and click on a spot).

Even if I turn off the car the maps remains locked for minutes so don't even think about taking a advantage of a traffic light or an emergency pitch. I hope there is place in hell for the guy that designed this.

So yes.

Since gaming is something that you shouldn't have to do everyday while driving I'm 100% sure they'll allow it.

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Nice. It seems like a second choice alternative compared to buying a Tesla though, which promises to let you play for weeks with a single charge! :grin:

Now I expect any time Ikea to announce Steam integration in their Angalisk furniture line.

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Paraphrasing a popular Tuscan adage:

Better a disconnected steam pal in your team than a "eos user" in your lobby.

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Nice to know.

I will join the parent club soon. So I guess I should start to get updated with the Minecraft news. :P

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Quoting: stylonAre there any other games out there that play like Diablo 3, work on the deck and support gamepad controls? I got D3 working and it looks great but I hate playing it with the trackpad. :unsure:

Look for victor vran on YouTube and see if that is something you might Like.

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Quoting: bisbyxThe broken part was that in my first 200 hours of D3 at launch, I found 2 legendaries. And they were poorly itemized. A crossbow with int and a caster offhand with dex. The drop rates and itemization were broken. If they left the RMAH in place, and just fixed the drop rates then there would be no issue.

Drops and items were not "broken". They were made in that way to force people to buy and sell from RMAH.

Ofc the result was poor even as a microtransaction game.

The "theory" states that the first levels must be fun and rewarding. That you should unlock frequent "free" boosts that you can collect from the store (to train people to go there). That the subsequent levels should start to be tedious, but that can become fun again using the free boosts (to teach users that boosts save them time, time is money, boost is worth XX$). And then levels should become awful to do without paid boosts (finally prompting people to spend money in it... with just some occasional free boost to "remind people" that boosts are good and to make them go to the store to discover time limited 90% discount bundle and the likes).

The problem was that D3 skipped the "whale" training phase alltogether, it gave you nothing to make you addicted to the game before asking for money and instead immediately pointed you to the RMAH. So the game was unfun from the beginning. D4 instead follows the rules of the f2p bible. Its early levels are super fun. But one who knows how f2p works, knows what comes after that. I recommand any user that is susceptible to gamble and addictive mechanics to not even try the early levels of DI (and any other f2p). The self controlled people can ofc play the fun part (the early levels) and then forget the game when it starts asking for money.

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