Quoting: flesk

Quoting: PhiladelphusThat sure was a trailer, all right.

More like a teaser, I think. I quite liked the first game, so I'm going to buy this one too.

That makes a bit more sense! I was just confused, since to a person like me, with no idea about the original game, it gave me zero information as to what this game might be like or whether I might want to play it.

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Quoting: damarrinThis is actually wrong. The UK has those huge sockets that can only work one way for electrical reaons (as far as I can tell), but other countries really don't. The US situation you describe is the norm, not the exception. This is alternating current, it'll work both ways because the current changes direction multiple times per second.

In Poland we have these grounded sockets/plugs that actually can be plugged in one way because there's a ground rod in the socket, though that is a limitation of the physical, not electrical, design. In neighbouring European countries they use almost the same plug but without the third rod and with two contacts on opposing sides of the plug and these can be put in every which way.

That's true, I forgot about the reversible European plugs. Though looking at the Wikipedia page for plug and socket standards it still looks like non-reversible is the norm and reversible the exception globally. (If nothing else, the socket used in China is non-reversible.) But perhaps it wasn't the best example.

Quoting: damarrinLinux and apt have been fine before they came along and breaking one's system is part of the learning experience and now there will be people who will be denied that.

I mean, you can totally still break your system in any number of other ways. In fact you can still break your system in this exact way, it just takes one extra step. (And personally, I've yet to break my system in 7 years of using Linux and that's one "learning experience" I'm happy to continue avoiding.)

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That sure was a trailer, all right.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: PhiladelphusAre you fighting Mr. Blobby in that screenshot? Only recognize that from watching British YouTubers... :whistle:

Look, I went to Blobby Land as a child and know how evil Mr. Blobby is okay.

Oh I wasn't debating that! :grin:

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Quoting: soulsourceI consider catering to users who intentionally ignore critical warnings a step in the wrong direction.

I'm not trying to be elitist, but seriously, if there's a very clearly worded meessage telling the user that they are going to break their system, it's the user's fault if they type in "do as I say"...

Linus is the only one who can know his intentions. You and I can only guess. An honest mistake can't be ruled out, especially by someone knowledgeable enough in one domain (Windows) to critically overestimate his ability in another.

I'm reminded of Murphy's Law: "If there is a right way and a wrong way to do something, someone will inevitably do it the wrong way." Hence why eletrical sockets the world over have mechanisms to ensure that you can only plug a device in the correct way, rather than backwards which might fry your device or start a fire*. It sounds like you can still "plug things in backwards" with APT if you really want to, it's just removed the label on the plug telling you that's possible, which should stop a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't think to do it.

*And yes I know North American sockets can technically allow plugs to be flipped either way (because for some devices it doesn't matter), but that's both an exception to the rest of the world, and if the device really should be plugged in only one way there are two different physical mechanisms to enforce that. (Making one prong slightly larger, and using the third grounding prong.)

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Are you fighting Mr. Blobby in that screenshot? Only recognize that from watching British YouTubers... :whistle:

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Sounds like a fun idea, feel like the interface could stand a bit more polishing...

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All this discussion of desktop environments has me thinking: you know how we have the little icons for our distro of use/choice next to our names? What about adding a second icon for DE? Might be interesting to see the spread of what people use, especially since users of the same distro might be using very different DEs. Just a suggestion, no idea how much work it'd be to implement. :smile:

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Superliminal is right up there among "games I never would've guessed would get a battle royale mode", but I enjoyed the game itself enough that I'm...curious, I guess? Even as someone with no real interest in battle royale-type games. Actually, what I've love to see (maybe from modders with the level editor) would a Portal 2-esque co-op mode—imagine if, say, resizing your partner(s?) was the solution to puzzles.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd the technical purpose of the banana is....????

Reminding you to get your daily potassium intake. :wink:

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