I bought an Evoluent vertical mouse a few years ago and gave up on it after a while. The size made it inconvenient and was slightly too big for my hand, the middle click was uncomfortable for similar reasons to Liam’s, and I never could get the same precision as on a traditional mouse. It was like it threw my x/y axes off-kilter, plus I had hard time setting the right movement speed. I pulled it out to give it another shot a couple months ago since my hands were doing poorly, and within an hour I felt them get even worse, so it’s dead to me now.

Maybe another model would serve me better, but I’m not the kind of person to keep buying tech and throwing it away until I find the right one. Currently I alternate between a standard mouse and a graphics tablet, since holding a pen/stylus also changes the arm rotation. I’d be curious to try a trackball someday, since I find using my laptop’s trackpad reasonably comfortable.

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Quoting: apocalyptech...The result is that you end up moving around the map a lot and picking out the best sorts of attacks that you think will work against the current enemies, but you very rarely get into a raw typing-speed fugue like would often happen in Epistory. It's almost like the typing is a mere standin for an "action bar" of abilities, like you'd see in a Diablolike-or-whatever, rather than the main focus of the game.

That actually sounds encouraging for my overused fingers, and I do remember that I would feel locked in place as soon as combat started in Epistory because I had to focus on reading and typing. That could be a welcome change of pace for me :) So thanks for the explanation!

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Oh, I didn't hear about the Linux build being released! Epistory was a lovely little adventure. My fingers might hate me for doing so but I will definitely be considering Nanotale :smile:

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Good sign – I would have been worried otherwise :happy:

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I wish I had any idea what those specs mean in Intel/Nvidia terms. I could see myself buying this to replace my aging laptop even though I don’t much care for a handheld gaming device per se. As long as the virtual keyboard is reasonably roomy and it runs concurrent productivity apps smoothly.

Either way, their expectations regarding Proton sound very promising :)

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: SalvatosWell, if they’re bleeding so much money that they can’t stay in business, they won’t be able to support charities at all.

They already don’t support charities. We do, when we buy games there and set some amount to go to charities.

So people who run fundraisers, advertise charities and provide incentives to donating to non-profits don’t support charities if they don’t also give themselves? That’s an odd argument. By the same token, I guess people who donate hair for cancer patients should just shut up and do it instead of turning it into an event to increase awareness and raise money? Because supposedly those charities would receive exactly the same amount of money in the end without anyone nudging people to donate?

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Quoting: Cyril

Today we’re sharing some updates coming to bundle pages and how they will help us continue to support charity.

Yeah, sure! :sick:

Well, if they’re bleeding so much money that they can’t stay in business, they won’t be able to support charities at all.

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What’s the change for Remote Play Together?

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Quoting: NezchanWow.

All the characters they could have picked, there's what, 120 of them? Almost all with amazing, visually impressive designs and costumes, flashy abilities and compelling backstories, and this is what they picked? A generic looking human warrior whose outfit is mainly brown?

Gonna have to agree on this. Plus their one-liner synopsis is the most non-descript and cliché I’ve seen in a long time. "Warrior dude wants to be a hero, unexpectedly teams up with princess who is more than she appears, gets more than he bargained for." I’ll go out on a limb and guess that the dragons he used to fight aren’t as evil as he thought, the princess has a quirky pet for comedic relief and, I don’t know, the order he works for is actually behind the scourge somehow.

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Quoting: NezchanSo the solution here is that game devs should be nicer to Liam, and they've found the road to success.

It’s definitely an easy way to pump up your Linux sales, based on the comments on every article about a game dev discussing their experience selling Linux-native games.

Quoting: NanobangI almost skipped right past this article because the game just looks like something I wouldn't be interested in, but I didn't understand what the headline meant by "not to sleep on Linux."

Same! I also thought the game had failed to see release based on the "postmortem" bit so all in all this was a much more positive article than expected.

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