Wow, awesome, what an appropriate use of dubstep! (there are very few such!)

Wishlist for me as well of course.

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I remember trying this years ago, I never played Masters of Orion, and multiplayer seems fun!

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Yeah this is a real gem, kinda rough around the edges (the sound design needs alot of work), but it's very fun in BR mode, quite tense! Has alot of potential, and a nice art style.

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Thank you very much, that West Area Computers story is very interesting and quite uplifting. A bit like the story of R. Admiral Grace Hopper.

But it is not what i have in mind. The story i had heard (which may be false) described an army of people doing extremely basic operations. People selected with no mathematical education so an not to be distracted by it. Extreme mathematical Taylorism. Maybe it is an urban legend.

I read a science fiction novel where they did that. "Souls in the Great Machine" and sequels, by Sean McMullen. It was pretty good.

There is also a book called "the Three Body Problem" by Liu Cixin where that happens as well. But that books was pretty crap so I wouldnt recommend it :P

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I think this looks like an awesome game, will probably buy soon! Seems much better than CJ.

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Quoting: jarhead_hI don't think that Valve and AMD have some secret business arrangement. As for Valve becoming lord and master of Linux gaming, they aren't just using all open tools to accomplish it, they are sending their code back into the projects they are using, meaning GoG can do this too. Humble can do this, too. EA can do this, too. ActiBlizzard can do this, too. YOU CAN DO THIS, TOO. Valve got there first, so yep, they are going to be top dog.

Right now there IS NO LINUX MARKET worth noting. Half of a percent is nothing. Have you noticed that Valve has already said that they have no plans to incorporate any of this into their Apple storefront? Why? Answer = everyone that wants an Apple computer already has one. Their marketshare if anything is DWINDLING as their people tire of paying more for hardware they can't upgrade to run software that's also available on Windows. So if you are Valve you know the only hope you have of keeping Microsoft from forcing everybody onto some new Windows Live and off of Steam is to directly fund a competitor that can actually GROW it's marketshare. Apple doesn't want the help. Apple doesn't care, or worse, Apple has it's own plans and might work against you(Metal anyone?). So what do you do if you're Valve?

Valve is using Linux as a weapon against Microsoft. Valve wants to make and sell games, not operating systems and office productivity software. If FreeDOS, BSD, or ReactOS could do this then Valve would have gone with one of those for SteamOS. But none of them are mature enough. They CAN'T fill this role. But Linux can. In fact Linux is the ONLY OS that can do this, precisely because it's a mature OS that no one can truly control. Okay. Now they have an OS, all they needed was an API to rival DirectX because OpenGL already lost that fight repeatedly.... and thank you there's Vulkan(pray that Sony chooses it for the PS5).

You give a Windows user a computer with Mint Cinnamon on it and they are right at home. And now they have all their Windows games on Steam that install and play identically to their Windows experience(more or less). Even with the reality that maybe half the games work with Steam Play across all distros right now, it doesn't matter. As long as the situation continues to steadily improve people will start to switch knowing that there will be a future where Valve has their back, and that future means not having to deal with Microsoft or Apple.

As for the open sourcing of V-EZ and redirected target, from the description it looks like it would help out indie devs that know nothing about Vulkan, and if we know anything about AMD's software side of things, they need all the help they can get. I also cannot stress this enough, Linux's future is tied to Vulkan. We really need to realize this. Right now "Linux support" means Vulkan and no extra DR beyond Steam for WINE compatibility. All the help they can get is good.

Well spoken, I agree, it is very clever of Valve and a good strategy.

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Quoting: Fenix2412Interesting, may it be that Valve convinced AMD to open source the product and to change the "target" of it?

Possibly yeah. This was a thought that crossed my mind too.

The recent revelations from Valve has made me rethink stuff and falling into tin foil hat thinking, like, what if they made SteamOS slightly uninspiring and their general linux strategy slightly unimpressive, just to make all competitors think "oh look, linux gaming is a dead end, just look at valve, they are getting nothing for their trouble" and then POUNCE on the linux market like this, so that they have a competetive edge by being first and best? Because in retrospect, becoming a patron and master of wine and linux gaming seems like a good long term plan really.

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Wow, this is awesome! I hate wine man, I pretend to be all cool like "Yeah no, I just setup wine liek this and that and you know, just RTFM noobz" but secretly I spend hours and get nowhere ^^; This is for me.

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I bought it on itch no matter the extra VAT - come on, it was like 1 dollar extra. I'm happy to support with that extra dollah!

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I'm too much of a scaredy cat for this stuff o__o

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