Quoting: LinuxerJust for the record: "Odin" is a fabricated term in the times of our forefathers' time "new normal" after some known conquests to north. The original is Oden, and Oden means the sun. Not a person to begin with.

Actually the original is a combination of Odr and ìnn (which is the equivalent to the English "the" but used as a suffix due to how the oldnorse language worked), Odr is a word that have many meanings including "mind", "spirit", "rage", "extacy", and "poetry".

In old German you have wut (meaning rage) so among the German tribes the name of Óðinn was Wutan, in Old English you have wod for rage and Oden was known as Wōden there. That two other languages and cultures refer to the same god by using the same attribute (rage) points to this being the origin and not something else.

Óðinn has never been seen as a sun god so I don't really know where you got that from? Sun-gods are connected with fertility and life and that are attributes much more akin to Frey/Freya and Thor.

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Quoting: TcheyHum, i cannot launch any Proton games at all now, even if i change Proton version.
I click Play, and after a couple of seconds, nothing, back to click "Play".
Yesterday, no issue, and no update since then. Weird...

Tried to reboot? Sounds lame but I have had similar problems on a few occasions before and they where all solved by a reboot, not sure why but it did.

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Quoting: GuestThat game sounds fun though but what i mean is in 1984, computers were already more capable than what this game suggest.

Yes, the C64 even had GEOS (even though it didn't come out until 1986 it was still running on a c64 from 1982). I got a copy of GEOS for free back in the day as compensation for a faulty disk drive. And GEOS was way more advanced than the Comet64 from the trailer :)

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Happy Yule everyone!

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestI do and it's not the taxes.

The whole rest of your post was reffering to taxes, so I assumed the first sentence would, too.

Quoting: GuestIt's the wonderful 'digital single market' or whatever it's called. Back before this AAA game prices on release were around what 15-20 eur cost now (kind of like the price of the game if you buy it in russia atm), and now we are paying 60 euros.

I can't say for other courties, but if I compare the prices of games in the eighties with thhose today, taking into account inflation, games are actually cheaper (here) than they used to be. (Would actually be interesting if I find my Wasteland I bill. :D )

Pretty much the same over here, taking inflation in account I paid €43 for Wasteland back in 1988 and that was for the C64 version, most likely the PC version was close to double that.

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Quoting: HamishAny word on Linux support for Wasteland Remastered?

I don't think that we will ever see one, the remaster was outsourced to Krome Studios who have zero Linux experience.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleWe do. It's a DirectX 12 game because of the raytracing support. The Stadia port is Vulkan, so I guess they do have a basis upon which they could include Vulkan support on Windows with some effort, but for now it is DirectX 12.

Where has it been stated that Stadia port uses Vulkan? All I've read are peoples expectations.

Sounds like a valid expectation though since e.g the patch needed for Proton wasn't needed for it to be playable on Stadia.

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Quoting: DeathByDenimBizarre, why would Moonlighter be DRM-free on Windows and macOS, but not on Linux? That makes no sense to me.

Even more so since the DRM-free version is available on GOG already...

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Quoting: The_Aquabatmore space waste, another drop in the ocean. who cares right?

The gnome will burn on reentry so there should be no space debris from this (also I don't think that Nasa would allow the mission if there would be debris).

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleWill it work? Well, publishers are phenomenally stupid. They will happily develop for e.g. Stadia because it's a "new" platform pushed by a big company. But if you say "Linux" they hide under a table. My guess is that when Valve is ready to start rolling out Steam Machines v2, they will hardly even mention Linux in any marketing, but rather push it as some great new thing they invented between lattes.

That is because platforms like Stadia gives free marketing to the publishers worth tons of money, meanwhile them doing a Linux version will not give them free TV ads or a free spot at some gaming convention.

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