Reason to take a late lunch :) if it's the Raft from itch then your source is correct -- probably a top 5 Linux game on itch IMO.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. I'm a Vancouver man myself. And really, Victoria? Cold in winter? Half the US is colder than Victoria in winter; I think half the time they never get a single snowfall. Or, like, maybe one or two, that stick for a day and then there's rain the next day. Even Vancouver doesn't get much, except this year which has been a total Global Weirding bizarrefest.

This winter was horrible. I actually had to shovel snow. Can you imagine! That...didn't happen in the past 10 years or so.
And I have no idea why I am mentioning that, but the US East Coast is getting hit by a blizzard while I am writing this. But WE are the frozen wasteland! Yeah, right!!! No snow here. Just rain! As is proper! *flails arms*
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I'm a bit further south (TX) where we've had the warmest winter on record (12 days above 80F, and only around 11 days of freezing, no snow that I can remember this winter). Compared to Victoria, avg. high during the winter <= 47F vs. our avg. high <= 63F. From what you said and looking around, it looks much milder than most of Canada and much milder than many parts of the US. I'm sure I could buy a coat and make the move :) I definitely wouldn't miss summer stretches of >= 100F, which can be weeks on end.

They could put us in with our special unit being a hockey team

Would they pronounce it the correct way, or the funny way? I always get a laugh out of how CA says 'hockey' :P

If they would just put us in the game. Once.

I agree. There is more than enough historical events and culture to include Canada - it should be in the game. Who knows what the reason for excluding it is...

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Quoting: MegazellLove itch.io So many odd gems that I discover it reminds me of the early days of indie gaming as they came out of flash site and starting make computer games.

Ahh Flash... I keep Chrome around for anything that must have Flash support (that list is growing smaller by the day...) for anyone on Firefox, you can completely disable Flash support in about:config,

plugin.state.flash

set to 0. (1 = ask to activate, (should be the default setting in FF 53), 2 = always activate (current default in FF 52)).

Definitely recommend also setting the Chrome config to 'ask to activate'. Having it on by default is just silly in 2017.

The number of exploits that involve Flash has a long and nasty history. I'm guessing that browsers have kept it around because developers have been so slow in migrating to HTML5. Maybe because browsers have continued to support it... circle of life : )

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Quoting: KimyrielleI am utterly not interested in the DLC, but the "free" patch is nice and welcome.

As a side note, I really wonder if really EVERY country on the planet gets added before Canada does. I know, I know. We're America's hat. But still!

Canada is way too nice to be a war monger : ) I went to Victoria recently and would move there today if it wasn't so cold in the winter..

Agreed, as I mentioned in a post re: performance on ARK (or maybe I took it out) anyways, they should focus on getting the OpenGL version at least to a 9/10 mark before saying that they're going to work on Vulkan.

It's almost like the silly comments you see sometimes that make you think that people believe that bad/slow game + vulkan = fast game. There are always trade offs and I always hope that developers recognize they have priorities that come before other editions/DLC.

Maybe if OpenGL is at it's limits and Vulkan makes sense.. but I don't think, in my example, ARK is at that point., and looking around it seems as though people have said that for a while. Eventually computers will catch up, but not anytime soon. E.g. unoptimized BASIC would still be fast on today's machines.

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Quoting: STiATitch.io team needs to get rid of their callback hell and creepy .. i don't know how to call that what they do. unnamed functions to a variable being later parameter to a function reassigning to a callback...

const code = `(function () { document.body.scrollTop = ${oldScrollTop}; return document.body.scrollTop })()`;
this.webview.executeJavaScript(code, false, (scrollTop) => {...

brrrr. I have no damn clue how they can maintain their software except if the guy or girl who wrote it is still there.

And ye, I plan to get an ugly code example for itch client on each release :D.

Agreed. That's gross. Did you lose formatting in copy/paste? Many people forget that the code you write is only for human eyes.. that's what the compiler is for :)

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You can thank/hate me for the critical bug.. I was hoping they'd fix it immediately but maybe I missed the cutoff for this release. I didn't dig into their release cycle.

TLDR For now, definitely disable the sandboxing. It's using an outdated library that has several critical CVE fixes since then. I don't even want to think about someone putting payment info into the client (hopefully that's done in the browser, but I haven't bought a game on there and wouldn't know).

I definitely appreciate the overall fast response time and feedback. I assume it'll be updated in the next release.

EDIT: Long term, on my TODO list is dig into the : / eek .. TypeScript and implement a native library method so that if you're on a rolling release and have a later version of the library it is used instead of downgrading.

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Quoting: GuestArk is the buggiest (not sure if thats a word)

So I am at a love/hate status with the game, and YES, buggiest is a word after getting this to work :) but I think that would be a bit cheerful on the state of this project. I think the word is ALPHA.

There are parts that are really amazing, A+ ready to go. But..

Then there are the rookie errors (I'm being very nice -- it's actually crap code with NULL pointer/page faults=crashing on start up) that cause your users to install all three current builds and watch no fewer than nine crashes before one finally gets off the ground.

Then I enjoyed the pre-game I call 'Can we get 60 fps'. It's a thrilling game of changing graphics settings until you've found the right combo to play the real game.

After I played for a couple hours, again, enjoyed a lot of the concepts, just not the execution (or lack of, pun intended lol)

OK, rant over : )

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Quoting: Mora

Quoting: liamdawe@Mora, you're running the 64bit Talos right? It only works on that as far as I know.

Yep, I sure am. It could have something to do with running 4k or SLI maybe. I've tried it on previous versions of Talos as well & have never had Vulkan work.

It runs in 4k (2160p) no problem... [External Link] You can see from my env that I do have export __GL_ALLOW_UNOFFICIAL_PROTOCOL=1 but that shouldn't impact launching Vulkan. You can always try it though..

For SLI, have you read through the release notes for the driver? Seems like there are a few things you have to set up to get it working.

The have a page dedicated to it [External Link] Change the URL for the release version.. I just have it bookmarked for my driver.

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Quoting: inlinuxdude

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: inlinuxdudeStill can't get it to run without crashing with Vukan on my home-built SteamOS brewmaster box.. :( Tried from the menus and with launch option.. boo

Are you running an AMD gpu? [...]

Nope, Nvidia 970..

For me, I have to do the following:

1) launch options +gfx_strAPI "VLK" It used to crash on me if I changed the graphics API in the actual game. This makes change to Vulkan before the game launches.

2) Choose 64bit option when you click on "Play"
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If you're still having issues, make sure you have the libraries installed. Either locate libvulkan or find / -readable -name '*libvulkan*' 2>/dev/null

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: saildataTwo games that I've avoided because of the negative comments on Steam : / I've gone back and forth on Ballistic Overkill since, as you said, it's so cheap. Dumb comments, lol. I'll get it.

I just wanted to write that I'm avoiding it due to early access. Now I saw "Last weeks of early access" and "Its cheaper now, and you’ll get some exclusive vanity items that will never be available again for participating and contributing with our early access. Because you're awesome."
Hmm...

Anybody can tell if it's realistic that they are getting out of early access soon? Did they reach the goals they are mentioning?
Does it have a healthy player base? Cross platform?

The comments that scared me where users that said, "others sit and snipe the noobs". Me <- noob.

For early access, I'm not that worried about the $7.00... they can stay in EA so long as they maintain their 'beta' quality. For cross platform, eh.. do we care?? I know GOL has a server for the game.. not sure how many people play.

Quoting: GuestArk is the buggiest (not sure if thats a word) [...] BO is great though and I haven't had an issue with it, but then I have only played 90 odd mins of the game so far! I am also one of those ppl that doesnt really read comments on a game I find someone playing it on youtube or twitch and see what I think from that.

I think I like your decision method better than mine. It's less subject to the trolls.

I always go with personal recommendations, which is why I really appreciate the articles and community involvement here. Not everyone will agree on everything, especially on Linux, but it's still a great group.

And yes? buggiest is a word. Maybe.

building and taming of dinos.

I seriously laughed when I read that. Do you build (objects) and tame dinos, or build dinos as well as maintain them :P jk.. I knew what you meant.

Thanks for the feedback, that helps sort out my shopping list.

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