Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe results of this could be . . . discordant.

If a certain Cupertino company got involved we could have quite an Apple of Discord on our hands!

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Quoting: denyasisFor me, the debate is less "Do I get value for the price?", and more "Can I afford it?". I don't think I was super clear and wasn't intending to argue that they are over priced (they aren't).

Oh, gotcha! That's totally understandable. For the record I didn't think you were complaining about the value for the cost, I kinda just wanted to gush about how impressed I was with it – but of course if one can't afford the cost in the first place it doesn't matter how good the value is.

Quoting: denyasisI played a bunch of Vanilla Expanded years ago. It was a lot of fun! I might have to try it again!

Yeah, I tend to play with a lot of the "Vanilla Expanded _______" mods, they're pretty great. :smile:

Quoting: PenglingThat's so cool! One of my favourite YouTubers posted a stream-recording of the game a day or so ago, so I'll have to keep an eye out!

Hahah, thanks. I'm pretty new to pixel art but the community's been super helpful and supportive. I'll check out that video, I love watching people's reactions to the various fusions! :grin:

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Quoting: PhiladelphusLike, you can flip a fair coin and get 10 heads in a row. It's quite a small probability to happen, but it's technically just as random an outcome as getting 5 heads and 5 tails

Nnnno.

Getting HHHHHHHHHH is as likely as getting HHTHTTTHTH, but there's many more versions of 5 heads 5 tails.

He didn't say just as likely, only just as random.

This. Getting 5 heads and 5 tails is the most likely result, probabilistically. But all results are equally random. But getting 10 heads doesn't feel random, even when it actually is.

And if you have millions of people flipping coins, statistically a non-negligible number of them will get 10 heads…then go online to point out how non-random their results are. :smile:

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Quoting: PhiladelphusMostly still Slay the Spire and Pokémon: Infinite Fusion. With the latest monthly sprite pack, some of the sprites I made are now in the game. :grin:

That's awesome! :grin: Which ones, if you don't mind me asking?

Not at all! Let's see, there's Shedinja + Houdour/Houndoom in February, then Magikarp/Yanma, Sandshrew/Aerodactyl, and Drifloon/Ponyta in March. In April (the sprite pack for which should be out pretty soon) I got inspired and did all the Eeveelutions + Aron, Remoraid/Wailmer (two variants with different teeth), and Lickitung/Ariados. Haven't decided my next project yet, I might go back and do Gyarados/Yanma. But it depends on where inspiration strikes. :smile:

Quoting: denyasisRimWorld is an old standby, but it'll run on my laptop. I'm debating buying the DLC. I know it's more mechanics than content (mods can add content easily). But it's a very steep price for all three 🤔

So, my entirely, 100% subjective opinion: I generally think Paradox DLCs are fine (and I have a lot); they're worth the price to me for what they add. The RimWorld DLCs feel, to me personally, like they could be twice as expensive and I'd still be getting a bargain for what they add. I had trouble believing just how much new stuff they each added, I think I've played full games with less content.

Not to say you should get them, everyone has different likes. But boy do they add a lot of stuff.

(And if you like mods, there's a really awesome one called Vanilla Psycasts Expanded that overhauls the sci-fi magic system from Royalty to make it less of a crapshoot and more like an RPG with skill trees for each psionic character! :grin:)

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Quoting: GuestThat's it, the Steam survey is definitely skewed against Linux users: out of the ~120 million monthly active users on Steam, 7 (seven) of them commented on gamingonlinux.com lamenting they never, or very rarely, received a survey.
Clearly, this should be a priority for Valve and fixed ASAP!

Haha, I wasn't lamenting it, just making an observation because several others also had. This made me laugh a bunch, so have a Like. :grin:

Yeah, I wasn't lamenting either, just pointing out my experience. I used to care about it more, but over time I've mellowed out. :smile: I almost added an addendum about how humans sometimes find true randomness "less random" than a pseudo-randomness that smooths out weird things like one person getting the survey every month for a year and another not getting it for two years, but didn't have time.

Like, you can flip a fair coin and get 10 heads in a row. It's quite a small probability to happen, but it's technically just as random an outcome as getting 5 heads and 5 tails, or 10 tails. But people tend not to see the extreme cases as random, even if they really did happen randomly. (One problem, of course, is that you can't ever really prove something did happen randomly.)

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What have you been playing?

Mostly still Slay the Spire and Pokémon: Infinite Fusion. With the latest monthly sprite pack, some of the sprites I made are now in the game. :grin:

…but I just started a new Minecraft world with a friend in the FTB Plexiglass Mountain modpack, so that's been the majority of my gaming time lately (and on my desktop, I wouldn't feel comfortable playing Minecraft with a controller).

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Quoting: t3gI haven’t gotten a Steam survey in over 2 years. Maybe Valve should use the actual login and playtime data vs some random survey.

I say this because every month these stats come out and gaming sites use them as gospel in the state of Linux gaming.

I got it last month or so, which made me realize I hadn't seen it like two years either. I used to get it fairly often several years ago.

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I feel like five people might be for the PvP team-style game: one person managing planets, one person handling diplomacy with other teams, one or two people coordinating fleet movements, one to oversee it all/choose responses to events…

Not quite my sort of thing, but I'd love to watch a big organized event like that. I might be able to get my friend who hasn't played since before the FTL rework to ease back into it with the PvE version.

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It also wasn't mentioned directly but the old Steam file picker when adding a Non-Steam game is gone, instead it now seems to use the desktop file picker.

FINALLY. If you've never uploaded a mod to the Steam Workshop, having to do it using the old file picker was pure, undiluted, unadulterated, torture.

Given the comments here I'll probably wait for this come out of beta, but I'm looking forward to it when it arrives!

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So soon after the last Story Pack? Paradox, you spoil us! :grin:

This sounds pretty cool, I love the idea of picking leader traits. I've always felt like scientists, in particular, are in a weird place because they perform two completely separate functions (exploration and research), can get traits for both, yet those traits have zero overlap. So my best explorer scientist levels up and gets…Expertise: Fields, well whoop-de-doo, I'm not going to put her on research, but it's completely useless for exploration. Hopefully being able to pick traits and "Veteran class" will help stop that happening. And make leaders feel a bit more alive; the council mechanic reminds me a bit of Crusader Kings, though we'll see if we have to keep council members happy or not.

Hundreds of new leader traits and two entire new tradition trees also sound amazing. I'm glad to see traditions are finally getting to where they always should've been, more like EU IV's idea trees as additional ways to further reactively customize your empire during play. (I tried the Politics tree that was recently added for owners of the Federations DLC, and it is… *chef's kiss* for those who want to throw their weight around as soft power in the Galactic Council. Made my leader Galactic Empress for the first time. :smile:)

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