I posted this on the "Is this game really as badly translated as it looks in the screenshots?" thread for the game:

English is the second-hardest second language to learn, after Turkish. Ever since Facebook, I've seen native English-speaking people making some truly egregious spelling and grammatical errors (Libety Or Tranny?). I cut non-native English speakers a lot of slack, personally.

nil_a, I don't think you were being abusive as the thread title cited above would indicate; you're just pointing out correctable spelling errors to some people from Ukraine, for whom English is definitely a second language.

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This is a game you have to spend a few hours on its wiki to even begin to understand it; Dominions 4 is easier to pick up.

There is reward aplenty once you figure out the interface and how to play a game and do anything but get blown away.

And great to see you, Liam!

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro

Quoting: HamishWell, and everyone else - it really is a community effort after all.

For sure, the OS we know and love today has been made possible by many, many people over the years.

I still think that people like Linus and RMS deserve special recognition for their efforts though. If it weren't for Linus' kernel then we might have been left waiting for years before HURD was finished and FOSS probably wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today.

This is 100% spot on. I do think that RMS has the right to ask us to refer to our OS as GNU/Linux. People, of course, can call it what they like...and we're still waiting for HURD to be finished, and that gives us all a notion of the hundreds of man-and-woman-hours it has taken to get the Linux kernel to its current awesome (a word I do not use lightly) state. We shouldn't forget the similar amount of work that followed RMS's announcement of the GNU Project, and, let's never forget that the OS we know and love is 95% GNU Goodness. RMS also gave us the GNU License, which is the definitive document for FOSS, and some consider it his greatest accomplishment.

Richard M. Stallman and Linus Torvalds got two balls rolling, and the world is better off because of these two mens' existence.

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CIV V, X-COM, AI War, Crusader Kings 2, Dominions 4, OTTTD.

And Witcher 2, which is also running very well indeed for me. Love the game, the characters, the action, the story...

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Thanks, Linus. Again!

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A most interesting article. I'm doing fine with a a pretty old CPU (AMD Phenom II 965) with an nVidia 650ti (soon to be a 750ti, which is twice as fast and uses half the power and is far quieter than my current noise source),16GB PC1333 RAM, because I do more than play games, but all the games I play play just fine and dandy. I'm not a FPS obsessive, but I have no chugging in any of my games, including Trine 2 (about the most GPU-intensive Linux game I know). Again, the 650ti is one noisy little sucka, so I'm replacing that with the 750ti ASAP. Then I really should get a 128GB SSD, but,on my motherboard, I'll have to disconnect my optical drive, or find a PCI SATA card,or buy a new motherboard...

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Again, I can wait. Already playing a beta of the first game I Kickstarted, Wasteland 2. I had paid the $15 for the finished game, so I see this as a big bonus (besides, I got Wasteland 1 and The Bard's Tale as well as W2). It's probably a Unity problem, since that's the engine they're using, for cross-platform Gaming Goodness. It's not like I don't have some Really Cool games to play while I wait, and they're native (which gladdens my Linux-loving heart). Well, except for Witcher 2, whose wrapper has greatly improved, BTW. I'm about six hours into the game (still in Part One, after the two hours plus of the Prelude), and I haven't crashed since the crash when you first get to Flotsam, and I've played far beyond where I had crashed, thanks to some diligent work by the wrapper devs.

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I dunno...I've been playing with mouse and keyboard for so long that controllers feel "wrong" for me. I remember successfully mapping an X-Box controller for Skyrim, and I was terrible with the controller; moving was jerky, aiming was an exercise in frustration, and I was always hitting the wrong button while trying to hit another one. Again, this is because I've never used a controller that much. It may be that the Steam controller will be what I have needed all along, but, so far, you can have my mouse when you pry...

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This was the second game (after Wasteland 2) that I contributed to on Kickstarter. It's too bad that the beta is Windows only, but I certainly have lots of other games (currently playing Din's Curse and having fun) to while away my time with. I'm also waiting for Torment:Tides of Numenaria, and a finished version of War For The Overworld, and a couple others I Kickstarted.

I have been very happy indeed with the beta (now gamma!) of Planetary Annihilation, which was playable the first day I got it (note that I did not say "winnable") and which I also supported on Kickstarter.

And that's one old video, from back when it was PROJECT Eternity...:-)

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I agree about To The Moon. Not Planescape:Torment, but a damn good story. This prequel(?) looks like another winner.

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