I had no idea that's how it works...Thanks for clarifying.

It is different from porting company to porting company but Feral in particular was AFAIK never hired by any firm to conduct a Linux port, instead they reached out to companies and bought the distribution rights for the macOS and Linux (and sometimes also Android) port.

This is different from e.g Aspyr what instead where hired by the game company to port their game to Linux and thus Aspyr got payed for doing the port by the game company and then the game company sells the Linux version just like they do the Windows version.

So besides the split issue that @Phlebiac brings up it is also possible that they also only bought the rights to sell their versions at specific stores (their own site, Steam and the Apple store) but that is a big unknown.

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Windows only? All three have linux ports done by Feral, it's what got me into tomb raider initially, i haven't played the other 6 or so older ones. I played all three Feral ports in Gentoo so wouldn't be getting this anyway, but would be cool if GOG provided the linux versions for them

Feral holds the copyright to the Linux versions and this is probably GOG making a deal with Square Enix and Square cannot sell the Linux versions since they do not hold the rights to them.

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so what is <currently> considered a high number of cores?

For the games listed and from their bug reports it looks to be from 24 threads and up (so 12 cores and above with hyperthreading activated).

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Never had any problem with RADV in the... Gosh, 9 years since? From all the way back with my beloved RX480. I still remember the "RADV is not a conformant Vulkan implementation: Here be dragons!" warning. How far we've come.

Great news in my opinion. I haven't noticed any ray tracing performance gap, but I'm also using a 7900XTX and avoid using raytracing on principle when I'm not checking "max settings" performance with a game.

I remember a single title, Metro Exodus, where RADV constantly crashed in the desert area of the game and I had to briefly switch to AMDVLK to complete that level. Probably since long fixed as well.

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it can reverse at up to 30 km/h

Some day some one will make something as cool as our old Strv103 that could reverse as quickly as it could go forward, 50-60km/h, since it had a backup reverse driver sitting in reverse behind the main driver.

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Somewhat OT: deepl.com translated surprisingly well for me (English<->German).

Could be an easier task (or deepl is simply better at this specific task), or we are not actually talking about a translation error but one of understanding. I simply assumed that the issue was with translation since I do not know French that well but now that I look into it further, every single translator program translates "buyback/redemption" to "rachat" and back and across various languages so perhaps I threw some dirt at the AI for the wrong reason (this time).

Except ofc when I asked it to translate it from French to German and it gave me Rückzahlung which is not entirely wrong but IMHO should be Rückkauf instead, aka Rückzahlung is more like a dividend (which a buyback could be seen as by way that it keeps the share price higher than it otherwise would be and thus giving me as a shareholder more value even if I don't get a cash dividend in my hand) but my German is rusty :)

So automatic translations can do strange and confusing things...

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Apparently this was initiated as a GSOC back in 2022 that have now been completed. While not entirely in their normal fold I guess that ScummVM sees this as a form of game conservation which in a way is what they are doing.

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I'm afraid you're unfortunately a troll. I don't know what your interest is in spreading false information, I find it sad. I'll leave you to your conscience...

Sorry to disapoint you in that every one that does not agree with you is not a troll. My interest is in spreading correct information since I always see people being slightly confused on how the stock market works and how stocks / public companies works, having worked for 28 years in the financial market (as a software developer / systems architect but still) have given me some experience in the matter that I am more than happy to share with any one interested.

Every thing I wrote in my earlier post is 100% correct, a board cannot authorize a take over, it can only give it's recommendation for or against. It is the actual share holders that have to authorize such a move by selling their shares or not, no one can force them to do it. And the fact that less than 20% of the Paypal shares are free floating (aka not held up by long term investors) so a silent takeover is not possible, the holding structure of Paypal is public information.

Or as in this case when you unfortunately have been given incorrect information from an automatic translation service. I can see that you still don't believe my but if you go to the link that you provided yourself and simply click on the "Voir l'original" button so you get the English original press release that have this text and headline : "The Board of Directors of PayPal Holdings, Inc. has authorized a buyback plan on February 4, 2025."

I hope this settles the matter?

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That's exactly what the Steam employee told me.

I want to point out that buying 51% of a company's stock makes you its largest shareholder and sole decision-maker...

And as you can read below, PayPal Holdings Inc has indeed authorized a buyout plan (article published on February 4, 2025)

Well that Steam eployee lied to you then. Yes buying up 51% of the votes (not the stock, but the votes) gains you veto power at shareholder meetings but there have been no such bid made on Paypal and 80% of the votes are held by long term investors (read institutions) so you cannot get 51% by silently buying up stocks from the exchange either (aka the free float is less than 20%).

When it comes to your link your AI translation translated it wrongly into French. That news item had nothing to do with authorizing any buyout plan (a board cannot even make such an authorization, what the board can do is give their recommendation for or against a buyout offer, also such a offer must have been made public before the board can make any recommendation and since there exists not such offer there also exists no recommendation).

No what that news item was about was the board launching a share buyback program worth $15bn.

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...A bank bought Paypal...

No they haven't, Paypal is a publicly traded company.

It's not that they want to protect children, it's about that the UK that wants to know who the adults are. All parties in the UK are bad.

If that was true then it would have far easier for the UK to simply ask their very own GRO since they already have a full register on every single UK citizen there. Not everything is a conspiracy, especially when one isn't needed...

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