Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: SalvatosInteresting event, although I don't have any games currently tied to its achievements. Very interesting prizes too. The way it's designed, though, it looks like everyone should just join the same team (i.e. corgi) to ensure they are eligible for the free games.

Wrong. Only X players from the top 3 teams will win prizes. Meaning that you want to be one the smallest winning team. Corgi is probably the biggest now, not the best choice.

Well, so far it seems impossible to gauge which teams will be #2 and #3, so it's a risky call to make since you can't change your team. Since lower positions also have fewer random winners AND fewer prizes per winner in the case of the final draws, the best position depends on the actual number of entrants per team, and it might not be worth risking being completely excluded from the draws. Perhaps a safe position will have emerged by the end of the first period tomorrow, but every other team has been uncharacteristically close ever since I started looking at the race.

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Interesting event, although I don't have any games currently tied to its achievements. Very interesting prizes too. The way it's designed, though, it looks like everyone should just join the same team (i.e. corgi) to ensure they are eligible for the free games.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI simply look beyond a few personal inconveniences at the bigger picture.
And the bigger picture is that progress requires sacrifice. Can't play some games/use some apps anymore? So be it, if that's the price to pay to finally get rid of old stuff like 32bit for good.

Because . . . the libraries take up a few megs on your terabyte+ hard drive? Yeah, surely it's worth getting rid of some functionality to get that!!!
But you know, all you have to do is delete the relevant libs. Nobody's stopping you.

That wouldn't serve any purpose, as it would only be for me. As I said, I'm looking at the bigger picture here.
And the bigger picture is that right now, 32bit is like an annoying mosquito at the butt of many developers and users... just look at this very situation.

I don't know about that. I've never had to check or ask myself whether a program uses 32-bit or 64-bit architecture because my 64-bit system can run both. That's hardly a bother for me as a user. No longer being able to run certain programs and finding out that they use older architecture, though... that would suck.

In my simple opinion, complaining about 32-bit being supported because you don't want to use it would be like complaining about a distro having printer drivers because you don't intend to print anything. If they bother you that much, you can remove them, but there are certainly enough users out there that need them to justify shipping them by default, or providing an easy way to install them (meaning they still have to be maintained anyway).

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As well as "Compelling multi-layered story".

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Quoting: linuxcityDaedalic has been really good to linux

Took the words right out of my mouth! I haven't really played RTS's in years, but I'm intrigued by this one. I'd be happy to at least talk about it around me as a token of gratitude for that continued support.

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Aspyr's page now says this:

Update: Mac and Windows are now back in-sync. At this time we do not have an ETA for an update to put Linux back in-sync.

Balls :|

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Quoting: Luke_NukemI'm still pretty bitter over Carmageddon. Can't even play it through Proton.

I got it to work recently, no tweak needed. Still runs like ass, though, and drives even worse, so eh.

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Quoting: eldakingI think a positive example of crowdfunding Linux-wise is AI War 2. The game isn't finished yet (and, of course, it is late). But we have had Linux versions of the beta (and alpha, I think) for years already. The developer is also very open about the development (almost too much, but I like it).

Hand of Fate was a good one too, I don't remember if there was much of a beta but Linux was included at launch and they were responsive to bug reports. Armello also worked on day 1 and has continued to be supported as far as I'm aware (I haven't actually played it in ages, but everything looks in order). Even Slain, with its abysmal launch, worked on Linux and kept support through the relaunch.

Quoting: eldakingI still think crowdfunding is an interesting model. It worked great for the "local" RPG scene; it helps a lot the vibrant indie community and enables the translation of mid-size RPGs that didn't really work traditionally. But I have grown skeptical of it for the really big projects, with $100k+ goals, huge teams, bombastic campaigns with lots of stretch goals or exclusives, ridiculously polished version right at start and so on.

Yeah, I've taken part in a couple projects by Cool Mini Or Not and the experience is vastly different. It's really just a glorified pre-order full of exclusives and shiny things meant to line their pockets early so they don't have to take out a loan to pay for the print run. I'd rather just get the basic product everyone else gets at release, off the shelf of a local store, and not have to pay for insane shipping.

Funding small teams has been a lot more rewarding since you get the sense that you're actually helping them make something that couldn't have been made otherwise for actual lack of money. Many of them are also more interested in feedback and backer participation along the way, and thankful for it, especially those who didn't have an audience at all prior to coming to the platform.

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Quoting: Tchey

Quoting: SalvatosSomeone decides to make a new language that everyone could speak in common, and now there's just one more language that most people don't speak.

Well, that sounds like someone without any real knowledge of what Esperanto is meant to be, and is, actually.

Correct on both counts. Do you mean that it wasn't meant to be a common language, or that most people do speak it?

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Esperanto is basically the equivalent of the multiplication of standards [External Link] in technology. Someone decides to make a new language that everyone could speak in common, and now there's just one more language that most people don't speak.

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