Quoting: PatolaA Total War/XCOM hybrid would be quite welcome indeed...

Shush you don't give Creative Assembly that kind of ideas :D

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Quoting: pete910But I will answer, Having children is only relevant to ourselves, so yes in the eyes of the world/corporations it makes no difference what you or I, the guy down the street does . That is what I am getting at.

And that's where you were wrong in the first place and you were being a jackass to the person saying that those pre-req were steep by saying and I quote "in what world is a 970 a steep ask", if you don't want folks to give you a public buttslap maybe don't be so dismissive and diminishing to your fellow humans.

TL : DR if you don't want to be ripped appart all jaws out , maybe don't bite .

Wind ya neck in !
Please tell how was I wrong? The i5 which is stated as minimum even lost to AMD's bulldozer line in some benches so to say it's in the high end/super computer class is plain wrong.

How was I being "dismissive" ? You assumed I had not done my part financially to support my children as to fund my computers! In essence you was being a assumptive know all.

So to quote "stop being a dismissive and diminishing jackass"

I litteraly quoted precisely where you were being dismissive and have putten your own words in bold ...
So since you feel like playing dumb on the block list you go

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Quoting: liamdaweHah thanks, some people think i'm too heavy handed at times but it has to be done otherwise shit gets out of hand.

Actually to be honest I think it's quite the opposite way around you're too light on the moderation hammer use. But I know damn well that when it gets out of the drawer and is wileded a bit too often it loses its impact...
Sad that some people are so slow to pick up on certain things.

But yeah so far you're doing a good job at trying to get everyone to play nice.

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More X-COM 2 is always welcomed.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIn the name of equality I wonder if people would have been outraged if Humble Bundle had a "Male Protagonist Sale"

I guess if male protagonists will ever be grossly underrepresented and marginalized in gaming in the same way female characters are today, it might actually be a thing!

If...it -really- will ever come down to that, I will sympathize. Promise!

And

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIn the name of equality I wonder if people would have been outraged if Humble Bundle had a "Male Protagonist Sale"

There's always gotta be that one guy...

Thanks for beating me to it .

I won't even bother answering the casual terfism in the thread ...
Weird how you will all conviently forget about those two pages barely one more news above (so barely an hour of wait time judging by Liam's output speed) and say that GOL is all roses and rainbows and sunhine ...

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Quoting: ageresdeputies and bureaucrats are PC gamers and would evolve into Linux gamers if there was Linux on their computers at work.

Actually both in France , Germany and Spain we already have a few and they are elected already so no, fresh new blood is indeed finally pumping into our political class and thankfully some FLOSS defenders and some gamers are among them.
Problem is most outlets don't exactly want to be talking about those points because "it ain't really news worthy , and what would be the headline anyway ?"

Heck over here in France a tv channel that is tax payers funded and is solely dedicated to political life debating the new laws text etc made a tiny documentary about the relationship often troubled and tumultuous between game studios and politicans , and focused their first part on "those elected officials who love video games" and only showed Alexis Corbière and Rachid Hamioui , and well let's just say non green party and non left wingers politician who are gamers weren't all too pleased to be left out of the documentary...

As in they threaten to sue the direction team for that "spiteful and clearly politically charged omission" ...

To which Vanessa Derivière answered in her great usual style "Politically charged no, revealing that I was afraid to even ask and only went asking to the ones that have been "out of the gaming closet for a while now" that's for dead certain. And given your reactions and the way you attack me and attribute me malicious intent I sure as hell won't be giving yer silly asses a ringer for part 2 when I'll be filming it . Kindly the evil biased documentary director"

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I just read all of you and at times reading you feels like you have a bit too much frown in you guys/gals :P

Sure proton made "wining" games million times easier and this brought a big change, and yes there is still things we need to work on. But come let's just remember the distrowatch motto and take it to heart. How about we put the fun back in computing.

Yes there are a lot case scenarios for gaming where we still need to do a lot of tweaking but hey let's take it as a fun puzzle.
In fact I think that this is truly what we need to do in the long making videos showing us havin' fun experimenting.

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelUnfortunately the X games are notoriously bad in terms of flightstick support and configuration.
So yes, you are good to go with keyboard and rodent.

Sadly if I recall correctly and maybe the situation has evolved since then, although SDL 2 , is real good when it comes to regular old gamepad in terms of Flight Stick sucks at making the support and the integration a straight forward affair.
Again it may have evolved since then but when I talked about the potential support of flightsticks under linux to the devs of Polynomial 2 they answered to me that sadly SDL 2 wasn't exactly cooperative in that regard . Hence why there is none to be found in the linux version of the game actually. And by the way yes we're still talking with Alex and Dima and well life is a bitch they're both sick as a horse and can't get around to code more content for it. But they manage to squeeze some juice here and there.

Quoting: pete910But I will answer, Having children is only relevant to ourselves, so yes in the eyes of the world/corporations it makes no difference what you or I, the guy down the street does . That is what I am getting at.

And that's where you were wrong in the first place and you were being a jackass to the person saying that those pre-req were steep by saying and I quote "in what world is a 970 a steep ask", if you don't want folks to give you a public buttslap maybe don't be so dismissive and diminishing to your fellow humans.

TL : DR if you don't want to be ripped appart all jaws out , maybe don't bite .

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Quoting: pete910The fact you have 4 kids is irrelevant to the question! Plus the fact I'm in the same boat, kids/mortgage ect.

Irrelevant huh ? I'm sure your kids and the social services will be glad to hear that them being fed and clean and having school furnitures doesn't have priority over new shiny rig ...

Don't even bother to answer.

And again as I have stated even if hefty requirements it's an Egosoft game just like Paradox titles those guys are playing long haul and long term sellers type of buisness plans so it can wait. And they can wait .
X Rebirth was released in 2013 and to this day it still receives frequent patches.
X games are long term investment not just for the players but also for the dev team. Not being a day one buyer won't make you miss much of anything (heck if anything you'll end up having a better first impression than the early adopters )

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Quoting: pete910In what universe is a Haswell and a 970 classed as a supercomputer today :huh:

And to be fair I don't think anything lower from NV supports Vulkan

In the world of a daddy with 4 kids short on many things counting money who didn't plan on buying a new rig before a year or two because short on money and kids come first ...

Didn't have too much thinking to do to come up with a receivable answer here...

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