The trailer reminds me a bit of the original Beneath a Steel Sky.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI would be really surprised if Valve were unable to persuade those people to enable their anticheat to work with Proton.

The fact that they don't need to is the key point, remember that most of the profit from steam comes from Windows users so Valve isn't losing anything from developers not supporting Proton.

Don't forget that the release of the Deck is a major event, so there will be adds, and promotions and perhaps even parties. As a game dev you want as much publicity / visibility as possible so they should be interested in being included in the upcoming Deck promotions.

This is one of the reasons why the big publishing houses never release a native linux build even though they obviously have one internally (for Stadia) -> that doing so won't get them inclusion on some big event and why they instead release on say the Switch since Nintendo will give them free air time.

So if Valve handles to release of the Deck properly then there should be huge interest to be on the hype train.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismHave you seen the data on Sweden? (To be blunt: It looks like your most vulnerable -- obese, diabetic & old probably already were taken out, thus the lower death rates in the present)

Not in the slightest, remember that we have "only" 14.868 deaths out of a population of 11M, we have a lot of more obese, diabetic and old people than that.

There are far too many confounders to say anything regarding country vs country when it comes to covid, perhaps in a decade or so when the scientists have managed to go through all the numbers it's possible to say anything but not today.

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Quoting: GuestPlace when I life this year: excess number of deaths is above 100 000 and Covid kill 6 000

That just means that in your country there is a huge under-reporting of covid cases. In every single country where there are great covid reporting the covid cases is very very close to the excess deaths number so if the same would not apply to your country then your country is an extreme outlier, so the most logically conclusion, unless reasonable evidence of the contrary can be produced, is that it's simply under-reporting of covid cases.

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Quoting: scaineI mean... wow. Yeah, I mean in-game. I wasn't implying that GTA fans like to kill cops in real life? I kinda thought that was obvious, but I suppose I didn't state that explicitly.

Thanks for the clarification, you had me really worried there for a moment!

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Quoting: scaineI just find it weirdly funny that a title who's sole premise is to promote car theft, prostitution, drug crime, gang warfare and violence to police is now relying on a posh LA lawyer to prevent "loss of sales" due to a fan effort. It's kinda pathetic.

I say "loss of sales" and not "piracy" here too, because this fan effort required the original games to play. GTA 3 is £5.99, as is Vice City. San Andreas is £9.99.

So what's the betting that the "Trilogy" remake will be more than £22...

Because if it's less... well that would be even funnier. Cost of huge lawsuit to shut down fan effort that promotes sales of ancient games, only to create their own version that costs less again. It would be the kind of brain dead thinking you often see from publishers (re: DRM).

Are you sure that the sole premise of these games are to promote said criminal behaviour? I would claim that the sole premise is to allow a gamer to take part of said illegal activities in a pretend matter.

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Quoting: dpanterMaybe they should come back to Sweden then, we just decided to drop all restrictions and pretend the pandemic is over even though we have several fatalities and hundreds of new cases every day. What can go wrong... :cry:

Still massively better (all trends are going down) than the situation on Romania (all trends are going massively up), compare the trend curves:

Sweden: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ [External Link]

Romania: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/romania/ [External Link]

The difference most likely down to vaccination rates, Sweden have so far vaccinated 63.7% of the entire population while Romania 28.1%

Valve where idiots for first complaining that Sweden refused to host their event in the middle of a pandemic and trying to actually host one in Romania, just as I said back when they announced that they would switch.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: elmapul"there will be a lot of disappointed players if some games are blocked when they ship with the Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3 distribution."

or players instaling windows :unsure:

IMHO some 99% of steam users don't know how to even install Windows on a normal PC. They all get it preinstalled with their gaming pc.

on my country people didnt knew how to USE an computer, but they were able to put an pirated copy of windows to replace the shit linux distributions that came on cheap computers due to tax exemptions for machines running linux.

to be fair, things were much worse back then:
1)prety much no games
2)an shit distribution
3)an country who is used to pirate stuff.

hopefully things will be different this time, but i would not hold my breath, its better to not create any expectation and be surprised than create and be disapointed.

Of course there will be an amount of people being able and willing to do this, but I don't think that even in your example we where talking about millions of people.

edit: I mean e.g there are lots of people running custom roms on Android phones, but when compared with the total number of Android users they are still a tiny minority,

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff.

Could you share some examples? Being a web developer I would be genuinely interested in such pages, because so far I haven't come across such websites (or rather these which showed quirks showed - different - quirks in Blink based browsers, too). And since I web development is my daily job, I'd say nowadays you have to put in some real effort to get something to work on Chrom(e|ium) but not on Firefox.

Huh. Maybe it has something to do with extensions, then. Perhaps I'm typically using an adblock on Firefox but not Chrome? I should do a bit of experimenting.
Examples that stand out in my mind are articles on the CBC website (that's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's BBC equivalent), where Chrome seems to show the conversation threads below but Firefox does not, and EBSCO, a major player in scholarly journal publication. I work in a university library and often have reasons to follow links to articles in our holdings. Chrome shows Ebsco articles no problem, Firefox shows a blank page. The problems seem to be the same on Windows at work and on Linux at home.

Just tested it with Firefox 92.0 and with Adblock Plus on and I could see the comments section on the first article on CBC website. So it's probably some other extension.

Looking at the Firefox I'm using at work, I do have Adblock Plus and one other extension . . . but they're both disabled already, so I dunno.

So Wizards and Warlocks then... The web have become far to complex.

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Quoting: GuestUbuntu will get a lot of hate for the switch to snap for Firefox even though this is driven by Mozilla and a lot of the arguments used against it just aren't true anymore. Frankly I think it this move makes perfect sense and I would wager that the vast majority of users won't even notice the change

Not really driven by Mozilla since they cannot dictate what Ubuntu does or doesn't do. Sounds more that Ubuntu wants to no longer have to rebuild Firefox for every release and just hand that and support off to Mozilla.

My issue with this is how it will effect extensions, I remember when Chrome moved from a deb to snap in one version of Ubuntu and none of the databases from the extensions where moved over and simply deleted from the machines at work.

And this will probably not be a problem with Firefox since it should really only have access to the Downloads folder but since Ubuntu moved Totem from deb to snap it can only open videos from a few specific locations which e.g means that it refuses to play videos included as extra or DLC in games from Steam unless I copy the file to the Desktop first.

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