Quoting: denyasisCool, I'll be working then. I guess I could put it on in the background on my phone? As long as it doesn't require you to respond or anything if your name is called...

You’re good:

Quoting: Giveaway rulesWinners will be announced using their Steam persona name, on The Game Awards 2022 Giveaway prize page, no later than December 23, 2022.
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Steam Deck winners will also be notified by email to the email address associated with the winning Steam account; in that email, Valve may request shipping information for the sole purpose of delivering a Steam Deck prize to such winners.

You can also participate with a mail-in entry if you can’t watch the event live.

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Seems like the kind of game I would enjoy, but I’ve generally given up on buying games from AAA studios. Between the launcher idiocy and required account creation, the user-disrespecting EULAs/privacy policies and the strong tendency to require a connection to their servers for anything to work even for offline play, which inevitably breaks at some point, the grief just doesn’t seem worth it.

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The downside of Proton, Wine and family becoming so good is that there are way too many demos I could try now :whistle:

Quoting: PhiladelphusOoo, Potionomics [External Link]* and The Eternal Cylinder [External Link]** both have demos out before they release in the next few months!

The demo of Potionomics was disappointingly short. It doesn’t show you much more than you would see in a 2- or 3-minute gameplay preview video.

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Probably a rare full-price "day-one" purchase for me, though I’ll wait for the native version’s release out of principle :)

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: ElectricPrismYou got it all wrong, "Quality of Life" in this future context means to improve the life of 2K Games, and not you the product.

We might also be getting this all wrong.

"Quality of life" update doesn't mean that the QoL will be improved. It will just be updated.

Now there’s one to ponder for the "change is good" crowd :grin:

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoCan anyone make a .sh script or a program that allow me to convert regular gog game links to GOL affiliate links?

You could do it as a JavaScript userscript if you want it to automatically replace links in your browser rather than manually transform them in an external program one at a time. You can run this in the browser console to test it or save it in Tampermonkey or a similar extension to have it always active:

const goglinks = document.querySelectorAll("[href*='gog.com/game']");
goglinks.forEach((link) => {
let url = new URL(link.href);
link.href = "https://af.gog.com" + url.pathname + "?as=1636858786";
}); 

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Quoting: MohandevirBy the way, I'm not trying to convince anyone to do like I do, but, personnally, I found it's pretty easy to skip the Epic Exclusive stuff. I'm not falling for that "FOMO" feeling, particularly in single player games.

The way game releases work these days, it also means you’re likely to pay less for more content and features and a less buggy game, so I’m pretty much the same. Plenty of games out there, I can wait another year if publishers prefer Epic’s money to mine.

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Played through the demo on itch a while back, it quickly became addictive. Very fun to try different strategies and item sets, then find a new boss that makes your life hell and makes you want to try a different approach. Trying to fit one more item in the grid and find the optimal placement for your various proximity bonuses was a good kind of brain teaser.

Big fan of letting bosses kill themselves through retaliation damage while I pump up my defense :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhich makes me wonder . . . I knew the Chinese essentially didn't use Linux, like, at all. For desktops/gaming, anyway. But what about all the other non-English speakers? For the overall percentage to be less than half the English-speaking percentage, no-Linux has to be very common out there. Why is Linux so terrible at penetrating beyond the English speaking (gaming) world?

A few likely reasons off the top of my head:

• Linux spreads mainly through word of mouth, which is less likely to happen across languages;


• Development happens mainly in English, which means software then has to be localized into everything else and those localizations have to try and keep up with updates but will often fall behind and only offer partial language support – for people who prefer to use software in their language (whether or not they understand English), that’s a turn-off;


• Compounding the above two points, finding support when you need it (whether online or in computer repair shops) is proportionally harder the fewer people use Linux in your language, making adoption that much more difficult until your community reaches a critical size;


• Beyond mere translation, fully localizing a product means support for atypical writing systems (right-to-left, unusual fonts, completely different keyboards/input devices that don’t exist in the Western world...), which Western developers have little incentive, and rarely the means (e.g. devices to test on and knowledge about the issues involved), to do – meaning that Linux UX is likely to be very lacking in languages where there isn’t already significant adoption by people who can contribute to its development, making it an objectively inferior OS with regards to usability;


• Geographically, there are still many places (including English-speaking ones) where computer and Windows are synonymous, just like Facebook and Internet [External Link] are. This may not be simply a matter of average computer literacy in the population, but a result of Microsoft’s efforts to position itself as the default not only in retail computers, but in schools where they can train young users to use their products exclusively. In those places, even if you hear about Linux, the mere idea of replacing the main software component your computer runs on is probably absurd, let alone having the know-how and desire to do so.

So it’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem: since consumer-oriented Linux runs largely on community effort and is not backed by a company trying to break into new markets for profit, it needs passionate developers in those communities to become a reasonably good environment in those languages. But since it’s not already appealing to those people, why would they be passionate about it and dedicate so much effort to improving it for no personal gain?

Of course I’m generalizing with many of those points – e.g. there are people who see the other qualities of Linux, put up with its limitations and try to grow it in their language for altruistic reasons – but they are all factors that would significantly slow our growth, and every single linguistic/geographic group has to be grown individually and solve unique problems that aren’t easily addressed globally from the outside.

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I just received a wishlist sale notification with this image still in it:



Compare to the store header image:

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