Powder toy is actively developed and while it's much more complex, this simple WebGL thing is great just in that - it's very simple, yet just so cool.
I can only dream of creating some of the 'scenery' in PT some people are capable of. ;(

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Absolutely amazing stuff. Just how it reacts when it hits the screen border itself is awesome. Just amazing, I love it! More stuff like this please!

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Yeah, one has to sympathize with this poor girl's motives.

Really, really bad, cliché one-liners that people around her can't stand any longer.
She thus still being a maiden, because, well, who would want to stick he... WITH her for too long.
And so yes, she is full of fury.

I bet that at the end of the game, since she behaved in such a manly manner, she will be 'rescued' by a latent gay version of Duke.

When watching some of the gameplay videos, I couldn't stop thinking about the whole thing. It was generally disturbing so I stopped.

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Too many comments, sorry, I didn't read them all.
Well, I'm neither a Steam user, nor a *buntu one, so I basically don't care much. But yeah, Valve being unable to deliver 64bit Steam is part of it too, although many of the games are 32bit only, yes. But that doesn't mean Valve should be encouraging the use of 32bit anachronism.

I read in one of the comments that most people consider Linux to be Ubuntu. People meaning non-linux users? Because most of Linux users are not gamers at all and really not *buntu users either. Really.

I'm no fan of Debian either for that matter, for various reasons, including package management and actually the way multilib works in Debian based distros. Frankly, it's sort of nightmare.
And Canoncial = Shuttleworth. A guy who's words are lacking truth much more often then I'm personally comfortable with.
So, maybe time for celebration after all? No thing or occurrence is by definition negative, only someone's specific opinion makes it so you know ;)

So, yeah, nice times, keep it up Mark, all is on a good way! :D

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Well, I don't want to ruin the party again or anything.. :D
But.
While your emotional outbursts are something I can understand, sadly, that's the price to pay for using proprietary software.

I don't do Steam. I did before back in the day of HL2, as it was inevitable. In time I also bought some stuff that was Steam only, but relying on some authority to kindly give me keys from the garage where my cars are locked wasn't anything I could stand for any longer. Well, the 'cars' are not even mine in the proprietary software sense, I of course only have a permission to use them. Nice.

So no, I avoid that for this reason alone. Second reason is, not many REALLY games are being made these days.
If you saw the Stadia presentation video, those mentioned games are in my opinion only good for some rather unbalanced individuals who probably don't go out anymore..

So actually, yes, as much as I think that Stadia is a sick experiment (which according to current mental state of the human race in general actually has a big chance of success), it may very well remind people of what better not to do.

I can't use Steam, so the idea that some authority will not only have the keys, but will also not allow me to have the game files on my own hardware for offline use and even use their hardware for rendering the stuff is completely insane, completely.
What you see now with all those stores is only the beginning of something much more fun, so to speak.

It's sort of funny, but even those PS4 titles that have physical media available are actually much better than Steam, as there is no activation whatsoever and you can again sell them, as the buyer will be able to use them like he bought them new. Aaah.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCe3upLwfVU [External Link]

With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cye1OJbJOMY [External Link]

D9VK With Core i3 8350K Tri-Core @ 5.0ghz + Zalman CNPS 10x Performa+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdMNHd2HPk [External Link]

^_^

It's not related to the topic, but since every Wine version is posted here, it shouldn't be a problem. ;)
You know, I have to ask: Where did you get the 8350K with just 3 cores? Basically, there is no such thing, at least not officially as far as I know.
Did you intentionally disable one core to save some TDP because even if it has no turbo, 91W at full load can be a bit too much or something like that? Or is the rare case, where one core is dead and it still works, because you pumped too much voltage to get it to 5ghz? :D

Just curious.

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That depends on the subject the sense of humour is supposed to touch. In this case, no, nothing really happens if I try, sorry.

I don't want to be presumptive or anything, but could the empty servers suggest I may not be the only one in this particular case? Just a thought of course.

I probably don't even want to imagine what kind of 'games' are waiting for us in the future after seeing (not only) this. DeusEx - Barbie vs mankind?

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Hm, no wonder they are empty, because seriously?
It would be too long, but...some retarded farmers running on pigs who shoot other farmers with plants!?

No, gaming is officially dead.

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Quoting: SamsaiObviously this wouldn't be a problem if people just stuck to Linux and Linux games. Shame on those that have bought Windows games! /s

I hope this is meant as a joke, otherwise I also fear for Linux gaming's future..

There are titles which are and will always be Windows only. But that itself doesn't make them bad games.
So I have some Windows only titles and I still play them from time to time. And so we have Wine, which is probably the best of Linux gaming available. I can still run Borderlands and a ton of other Win only games that I loved.

Your proposal simply means, put Linux before good gaming fun. That's not gonna happen, unless the person is a Linux zealot beyond repair.

Linux and the whole GNU stack is not directly connected to gaming, especially not to closed source and even Steam DRM-driven gaming, that's nonsense.

If people like Linux for it's technical advantages and GPLed code and just hate anything closed source and with DRM inside, I don't understand why would they be bothered with Linux gaming in general, apart from those few good OSS games.

With this kind of thinking I may even start bothering myself with stuff like whether or not to buy GOG version where it may not be counted as a Linux buy, or buy the Steam version with DRM I really don't like, but to have the Linux purchase counted. Geez. No, I get the GOG version immediately, because I don't trust Valve in their relation to Linux at all, plus having any authority to let me kindly activate the license and having the need to use their client software just to run it still almost feels outrageous to me.

PS4 was mentioned. Well, it's actually great for gaming and for getting rid of similar problems.
No driver issues, no activation on some third party servers for boxed versions and some exclusives are really great games. Unless one really gets into Bloodborne, gaming is slipping through their fingers. ;)

So my opinion is the opposite. If you like some Win only game, just go ahead and buy it. Linux doesn't stand on gaming, it's primarily used for completely different activities.

Good day and luck with defeating Blood starved beast. :D

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Hi people.
I just registered to express my opinion about this, I had to.

Yeah, the number looks cool, but as others posted, many of those released are crap.

I visit GOL from time to time just to see what's new that can maybe a good time waster, but sadly, whole PC gaming business is what it is. I intentionally wrote "PC", not just Linux gaming.

I game since my MZ-800, I'm not a subject to ignorance as many younger people.

Today's titles, including most of so called AAA ones, suffer from two problems.
First, they suck as there is mostly just a lot of content, but missing game itself. More like interactive movie, often with completely unoriginal story on top of that. And open-world, crafting and sandbox words are making me sick. Or there isn't that much of movie parts either, just crap.

Like Doom. Seriously, feels like bad joke. Playability doesn't even reach the levels of original Doom, it all feels flat w/o any meaning, crappy sound and the brutal part just ripped from Brutal Doom mod. After experiencing this, stuff released by Id, I felt something is really, really wrong.
I fired up Quakespasm and made my run in dis_sp6. Unbelievable what kind of fun this can provide in contrast to this pos.

Second, their technical problems are so many, that even though there can be some real game inside, it's impossible to get to it, till like 5 patches were released. Dishonored 2 is a good example of a later game that falls in this category. It's tremendous performance problems on some hw configs is something I simply can't understand. Developing for many years, yet after release, crappy performance. Not just that, issues with different ARs then 16:9 etc. I would expect similar issues with some indie game, but not here where tons of money were poured, yet this.

I haven't played Dishonored 2 on PS4 e.g., but I'm not aware of similar problems there. But that is the case with other titles that are shared between consoles and PC, regardless of whether the PC version is Windows or Linux based.

Well, and then there is Steam. And SteamOS.
People, I don't want to ruin anyone's day or something, but SteamOS feels like vaporware. It's all just steam. :D Yet, there is this sense of making it real to the Linux audience, but it's all just wrong. Whoa!, new controller design! Oh my! Another VR is going to be on it too, awesome! Uaaah. No.

What's more, Valve is not here for Linux. It's here only to use it for their possible profit. Even if SteamOS makes it somehow, there is not much work for them to make Linux Steam either problematic to use or to make it not work at all on Linux. Whether Valve would go that far is a question, nonetheless, possible.
Plus the whole idea of me paying for license and needing to have access to some third party to actually use it is sick. Yeah, I know many people don't consider it a problem, but I do. I think it's totally immoral.

I definitely prefer running native stuff on my CentOS, but I simply gave up on anything from later games.
If the particular game is worth anything, it's usually on Steam anyway. "Fortunately", there aren't many of those. There are notable exceptions though, like X Rebirth. ;)

All this leads me to console market.

Since PS4 is x86 based, devs making engines and games are not restricted by complicated rewrites for completely different arch, like in case of PS3 and it's Cell nightmare.
There are also crappy games on PS4, sure, but many titles can be considered games, with some of the best stuff I ever played. Last of Us remastered e.g. was a blast I haven't had in a long, long time. No stupid bugs, great performance and extraordinary symbiosis of gameplay and story.

I never liked consoles, never. But since PS4's switch to x86 and Xbox being x86 as well, the paradigm simply changes here. HW itself is powerful enough to provide great visuals, but it doesn't cost a fortune, yet no stupid issues that shouldn't exist. Especially on a system that is meant for simple fun time.

Some titles on PS4 also have patches for PS4 Pro and automatically use higher framerate or gfx improvements e.g. Basically, all stuff for PS4 will run on it, and some of them in 4K even. And if not in 4K, they will have more stable framerate and improved visuals on PS4 Pro. With the same game that can actually be played.

It's also the only market I'm aware of, where physical copies of games can be sold later. One just pops in the disc, it installs in the background. Then it's only needed for verification during the game launch.
But nothing is activated anywhere, no web connection required at all. Well, unless it's an online game. Playing that w/o net is complicated ;)
Physical copy where I actually have a right to use the license w/o any restrictions. Because physical copy in terms of any Windows game mostly means Steam game. Once installed, it's useless as it's bound to the account.

It wasn't easy, but the decision to use Linux simply for work and some light gaming, while using PS4 Pro for entertainment only was a good one for me. I no longer want to have unnecessary mental burden associated with finding some really good game to play, w/o possible stupid issues or being it Steam only.

Even if there were like 3 games on PS4 I want to play, just like those 3 I play now, it was a great investment, because all of those 3 really do rock. Probably the reason they are also PS4 exclusives. And my time is what is important, so money well spent.

So yes, the number in the article is looking nice, but is not telling me anything, although I wish it was.

Open source is great for general computing use and so I will always use Linux on my machine as I have for the past 9 years. And so it will of course be RedHat based for the same reason. And since PS4's system is based on FreeBSD, so it's not that far. :D

Nice weekend and have something real play, not to fight with. ;)

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