Quoting: scaine

Quoting: PikoloMonster Train is definitely the highlight - I've had that on my wishlist for a while!

Absolutely superb game. If you have a couple of mates to play with, I also recommend the dev's second game, Inkbound, too. I have nearly as many hours in Monster Train as I do Slay the Spire (although they're very different games, of course), but triple the time in Inkbound!

Interesting, never heard of Inkbound before. Might check it out!
Edit: Online required - that's not for me

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Always allow the Steam client to fallback to X11 when SDL_VIDEODRIVER/SDL_VIDERO_DRIVER is set to wayland.

Is not great for testing if steam does work on wayland :/

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A `Commend` is not a thing, commend is purely a verb. A `Commendation` is likely what they're going for...

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Monster Train is definitely the highlight - I've had that on my wishlist for a while!

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Quoting: StellaWhy are these Linux patch notes always so cryptic :cry: in the Windows Patch notes, you read things like 'game ready driver for this and that', 'optimal settings for this and that', 'fixed this bug'. Whereas with the Linux drivers i feel like I need a degree to understand that. What the frick is VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control for example

A Vulkan extension. https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/man/html/VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control.html [External Link]
You can see which driver supports which extensions on https://mesamatrix.net/ [External Link], except proprietary drivers are missing from there.

Windows release notes are written for gamers, hoping they update drivers or are encouraged by game developers to do so.
Linux release notes are written for compositor developers, game developers and distro graphics drivers maintainers, to let them know if it's worth backporting a driver to a stable release and which workarounds they can try disabling.

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Quoting: nwildnerThat is huge when we are talking about 7y old kids playing, with no mouse ability whatsoever. And this is something that could break more often if Microsoft decides to release updates in a faster pace.

You might want to get your nephew a really small mouse and keyboard instead - not being able to use both at 7y seems like a serious impediment at school.

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I tried this one as a demo, and it got repetitive fast. The optimal strategy is to build a wall of turrets asap, an as turrets can't be moved by environmental disasters, the fully counters the game's standout feature. Eventually, waves become a slow slog, with certain bosses only going down when pausing the game and spamming a few thousand spells to hit at a single point (some enemies have insane healing)

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I tried it - it's a fun concept, but the performance is terrible. For how simple the graphics look, I didn't expect the lag on explosions to be so bad

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`Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit` is probably the snap version of Steam - is the the default packaging on Ubuntu 24.04?
Ah, Ubuntu changed the default package type found in software centre to be snap, and Steam snap is out of beta.

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Quoting: bonkmaykr

Quoting: TheRiddickI wonder if Valve will setup a expected death of account owner timer. So once you turn 80yo they consider you dead and invalidate your entire library, lol. That would be dystopian but I suspect in 40years time we will all have MUCH more pressing issues to deal with other then computer stuff.

GDPR has already been pushing tech companies to nuke accounts after 2 years so it actually could very well happen.

2 years after you stop using it - so long as you keep logging in, you should be good.

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