Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead.

Quoting: AzPI guess all politicians end up in hell...

yes, but some more than others. If any, Thatcher, Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, etc. are on the top list.

Quoting: robvvNow, if it had been Corbyn's Techbase then I'd be there ;-)

I wasn't aware that Corbyn ruled and has done concrete harm by his political decisions? But I'm not from UK :)

To go back to the subject, amazing the longevity of all these DoomII revivals. I would mean that 1994 was a singularity year in video game?
For me, it was more 1996 with Civilization II, 1997/1998 with Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, Diablo and Fallout. And 1999 for multiplayer game (FPS were boring before) with Unreal Tournament.
No a fan of DoomII

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I bought the first with discount. What an experience! Instabuy also at remote price: i like the speed, the rogue-lite gameplay, the sound design (crispy!), the variety of weapons, the combo of tactic and skills to win in each new room

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Quoting: ExpalphalogTook me maybe 50 hours to get acquainted to the game (more or less). But in the end, CKII became my first game that hit 1000 hours on Steam. :).

Same for me, I accepted to spent 10h on it completely lost...and i gave up. Not understanding all, ok that's fine but after 10h don't understand how to do an army and attack, cannot be able to tell what choice (i already met) results in what consequences.
If I was a teenager or unemployed, may be I could enter it, but with a family and a time-eating job, no way even if it's my cup of tea.
I succeeded to enter Stellaris without those troubles

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Is this a tactical move from Unity to strike-back the increasing interest of (open source & new) developers for Godot?

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Nice laptop, not fan of 13 inches, I prefer 14 or small 15 for less 1.4 kg. It misses one or two usb port (for one usb-key and one mouse) and one HDMI port (for presentation). Adaptors are not long-term viable solution (get lost, etc.).

I can't wait to see the performances and electricity consumption of those iris Xe in in-gnulinux-game conditions ^^

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Quoting: soulsourceI think the Gauls should just have been called Celts.
Would have better fitted the Hallstatt Culture, which, while it also reached Gaul, was by far not limited to that region. Hallstatt itself is considered to be on the border between "western Hallstatt culture" and "eastern Hallstatt culture", and is already located quite a bit east of Gaul...

I think you took the stuff in the inverse sense they had: they first defined their civilization as Gauls and try to find specificities with keywords, which came through 'Hallstatt' to name the wide art style Gauls developed. Ambiorix is quite an anonymous king in Gauls, and archeology already demonstrated that all the tribes didn't consider them as 'Gauls' and showed strong difference in their politics, art and culture. Gauls are construction of Roman historians. Gauls are too complex (and celts at a even higher level) to be united under one civilization. You see that in Hallstatt: you have 'core' and 'influence' area, and the core is defined because German defined it like that. Moreover, by saying Gauls, they target the end of La Tène III period, thus the Gaul as Romans described in their writings, thus corresponding to part of France+Switzerland+South-Belgium+western-Germany.

The most know and powerful Gaul king in the remaining writings was Ambigatos (or Ambigat) king of the Bituriges Cubes, which power, wealth and economics scared and threatened early Roman civilization but also grecs and other Mediterranean civilizations, and German and britains as they raid them every year during the 'raid season' when field works have ended to get cattle, slaves and for fun (in their culture a way to gain prestige). His nephew even conquered, sacked and burned Roma as a challenge at the end of Ambigatos reign and this nephew (Bellovèse)settle down is kind for centuries in the north plain of actual Italy (he built and reigned on Milano, Venice and Torino, and his descendents too, even under Julius Cesar), which structured all the roman politics for centuries afterwards and give so much credit to Julius Cesar when he succeeded, by a trick (he leaned on the threat of the Helvetes from Genova that decided to conquer the eastern Gauls after difficult momentous successions all at the same time in bituriges, sequani and senones, helped by allobroges as spies) to conquer them: he put an end to this sword of Damocles on the head of Romans, only Gauls may threaten them (by its production of wealth, his renown warriors and advanced technologies specially on blacksmithing, war-machines, cavalry technics). We can't understand the early Roman civilization without this 'Gaul menace'- in fact historical alliance between Avernes, Turones, Senones and vassal tribes under the direction of Bituriges, corresponding the center of actual France and Alps western part- that structured all their developments.

end of my course XD

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I missed the 'node' modes from UT2004 with vehicles called "Onslaught". As many here, I spent so many hours on UT99 (mostly capture the flag), UT2004 (Onslaught) and UT3 (warfare with titan mod) with friends and unknowns on the net. It nicely mixed FPS with team strategy & tactics. I find this mix of FPS, strategy and tactic recently in APEX:legend and titanfall2, but the idea of controlling multiple nodes are still poorly exploited in the current multiplayer FPS.

The current Unreal Tournament misses those kinds of game. Capture the flag is too frontal, it doesn't allow bypassing, splitting, organizing fast strike-back, pincer attacks, etc.

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Quoting: PatolaOf course, I have to repeat it again, even if somehow they are objectively monsters in personality, that's absolutely unrelated to their creations.

My thesis, opposite to yours: Nobody separates the artist and its creation IF you know its biography. You can't disjoin individual and their actions, if you know the individual.
Let's push your idea to its end...may be to the Godwin point for fun: You won't get married with a girl that killed people before, you won't have children with her if she killed some of her before. You won't joke about jewishs with a nazy, but you will do it with a jewish. You won't send your children to a school where teachers were judged for child abuse, even if it did not happen at school.

By playing a game from such a guy that publicly tells such uncommon (and illegal) opinions, I would fear to be placed in situations in his work coming from his illegal phantasm/opinion, so yes, it is important in video game and all creation to be in phase with the artists. At least, they should try to be consensual or if assuming their opinion in public, don't cry when people disagreeing won't buy their creation.

Finally, let's state that he recognised he wrote racist jokes, and expression of racism, by denying human fundamental right to some other human (that are here the true victims), is illegal in most countries.

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Quoting: robredzWonder when they will get RTX capability into the Pressure vessel or Proton

For games that do ray tracing with Vulkan, nothing needs to be done. Unfortunately there's only one of those, but it does work perfectly.

For games that do ray tracing with DirectX you'll need to wait till they implement it in VKD3D. AFAIK, that's not a priority for them at the moment.

Yes Quake 2 RTX works absolutely perfectly, got better FPS in Linux at same settings as Win 10.Don't think they would implement a fully ray traced game like Quake 2, more likely several aspects, shadoes etc. Amid Evil does look great with RTX on, but its not a must have reason for someone to buy RTX GPU. am finding more Steam games work fine in Linux, just some I can't get working with Stream Play, or WINE./

does Minecraft RTX work on linux also?

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Well, it was written since the first minute of the project [External Link] considering the people and the project itself [External Link].
Let's hope that the OBJ or STL files of the box will be released at some point.

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