Quoting: Purple Library GuySo for practical purposes, for me, it's like turn-based only with variable-length turns

That makes sense! The variable length turns reminds me of Aurora 4X, where to can advance a variable about of time (it's always paused in that sense).

I did that with Star ruler 2 (great 4x), although since the battles were also real time on the map, it still be came very hard to manage, lol.b on the other hand, it did open up some really interesting possibilities with the regards to battles on multiple fronts.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIf I'm thinking of the same thing, I heard good things about Stars! but never got my hands on it.

I believe it is freeware/abandonware. I've played it. It is very much a product of it's time.... Windows 3.1 spreadsheet UI with almost no graphics. I found it hard to get into for that reason. I gravitated toward the older (and simpler) MOO 1 (and then later 2)

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Civilization and Stellaris were originally the main inspirations for the game, but New Stars is it's own game

Interesting... Didn't expect that based on the name. Kinda figured it was inspired by, well, Stars!.

I bounced off of Stellaris pretty hard, I think part of it was the real time aspect, which I've never really been good at, lol (I get too distracted by... Everything)

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Quoting: DrMcCoyYes, the Linux client was released in 2003. They originally said it's going to be ready for release in 2002, but that got pushed back. I remember waiting for it

And then the Linux client came and it didn't play any of the videos, because they were Bink files and RADGameTools had no Linux Bink library at that time. The community came up with an LD_PRELOAD hack that hooks into the game and starts mplayer. Of course, you had to re-encode that videos beforehand, using Wine and the RADGameTools toolset. Fun times.

I don't think I even knew about the videos!! (Probably explains a lot). I haven't played it since 2004/5 maybe.

In have to admit, I could never finish NWN or any of the other games. In fact the only aurora/infinity styled rpg I ever finished was Planescape Torment.

I have have and played them all. I would just get... Bored. Which is sad cause these games seem like they would be right up my alley (huge worlds, epic story, complex characters, etc). I just never felt connected to the world.

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Quoting: Mountain ManJoystick drift is actually common across the industry. I know a number of Sony's more expensive controllers have suffered from it, but for whatever reason, they don't get hammered for it like Nintendo. And to be fair, Nintendo continues to offer a free Joy Con repair service, at least here in the US, so while they may not have offered the groveling apology that some people seem to want, they have implemented what I think is a reasonable remedy.

I had a joycon die on me. The switch was pretty new, maybe only a few months. They are very small and feel delicate. But, I went online, sent the affected joycon in for service and had a brand new one back in a few days. No waiting on the phone for support, no complex shipping (I did have to provide my own box), no super complex hoops to jump through to prove it wasn't working and it wasn't magically my fault. They just did it.

Quite frankly, that better customer service than what I experienced from Valve, Logitech, Asus, or Microsoft.

Ironically, #2 would firmly be Microsoft and only because I had to do it over the phone to resolve my issue, so I was on hold a lot.

It is a shame they DCMA'd the emulator though. Alot of their games are really good, I'd love to be able to play them on PC!

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This was my first Linux game, back in 2002. I remember you had to go into the website to download the Linux executable as it wasn't on the DvD.

21 years later and I still never finished the campaign, lol.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyQuoting: Holzkohlen
I'd argue that being a DM is overwhelming anyways even when playing fully analogue

Yes.

You still need to prepare the actual meat of the session and stay nimble to improvise, that doesn't change.

Agreed!! I think the system can also really play a role there in prep time. My group moved away from maps and minis, which helped out a ton prep wise. I can put a good session together on one page of notebook paper, compared to proper DnD style, which always seemed to take a lot more prep.

Although, to be fair, the end result does look and play a lot different. I always enjoyed the tactical aspect of map based play, but building good tactical encounterd takes a lot of time (and I'm the only one in my group that really enjoys that)

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One been meaning to try Prey. Thanks for the recommendation!!

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Quoting: GuestWow, Is the Deck just 40% AdobeRGB?

Somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, since I'm more pratocal about NTSC and SRGB colorspaces, but it seems AdobeRGB is equivalent to NTSC, and 40% means seriously washed out colors (how does the red looks on the Deck, kinda orange-ish?), more or less the same you find in 300/400 euros laptops; good for office use, but definitely NOT for running games or watching movies, what a shame.

There's also the general public "education" component to consider; where the general market favors an inferior product over a superior one due to high familiarity with the cheap one and a lack of technical knowledge to fully understand why the cheap product is lesser. The differences are seen as faults, because, well it's different and weird.

Good examples are the box wine comparisons and the preference for certain headphones over higher quality options.

I am curious if there was a similar effect for cheap screens.

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Would one even be able to notice the difference in resolution on a screen that small?

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I just use discord and Qownnotes.

These tools seem really interesting to me, but also seem very overwhelming. Like the amount of "pre-work" and setup and learning just scares me off of trying.

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