Quoting: Leerdeck

Wine is a rather heated topic at the best of times

The only people who have a problem with Wine are the narrow minded ones that only care about their games and nothing else ;)

Well, I'm glad you winked that, but it doesn't much take the sting out of a cutting remark! I don't have a problem with Wine except when it's touted as the solution to a gaming problem. Or indeed, any nearly modern problem.

The one non-game case I'd use Wine for is Office 2013 support, since my work mandates its use. However it gets a bronze rating on Linux and doesn't even install fully. However, funnily enough, Crossover have just (last week) announced full support for Office 2013 in their next release (date tba). I might finally have a reason to buy Crossover again, after my initial purchase back in 2009 lapsed, since my experience with it, like Wine itself, was so tainted by complete inconsistency.

I agree with Liam - it's awesome software, fully deserving of the greatest respect... but I'd never recommend anyone use it. It's a complete crap-shoot if software works and even the AppDB reflects this - multiple reports from near-identical distributions with results varying wildly.

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Looks amazing, but it also looks like their "flexible funding" choice has crippled their chances. Only 6 backers after 6 days: for such a beautiful looking project, that's criminal, but I can't honestly remember the last time I felt like taking a risk on a flexible funding project, even when I was active on crowd-funding. Flexible funding is an IndieGoGo curse. I wish them luck, but they're going to need a lot of it.

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Just started playing DoWII now. Absolutely fantastic game - not normally my thing either, but I'm loving it.

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Quoting: swick

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: swickSo much better.

My article was obviously only scratching the surface and touches on different things.

"It's the drivers! And look, we don't deserve good stuff anyway because we're so few people! And do you even notice a difference? With 2 Titan X you can barely notice a difference because our eyes can't see over 30fps anyway."

Whatever.

Do you know how you sound when you try to childishly belittle the people who make this site possible in the first place? Take your Steam Forum bile elsewhere, please. It doesn't belong here.

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I've been playing [External Link] Shadwen. Great fun, and the stealth works, although it can get a bit slapstick sometimes, with barrels, crates and wagons flying through the air and then hearing the stock guard responses of "I thought I saw something there...".

Also nailed a bit of time into Battlevoid:Harbinger. It's a slow starter, but has a really nice FTL vibe after a few hours. I think I might be a hooked now, 9 hours in.

Finally, I got round to playing Kingdom Rush: Frontiers. Like the original, only better. Probably the best tower-defence game out there.

And for some reason, I found myself playing a few hours of Borderlands 2. I think that was a subconscious response to hearing Feral's announcement regarding Mad Max. Bring on the 20th!

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Loving the "sexy voice" comments on tonight's stream. Liam has an admirer.. but I think I'll stick to ShadowSigyn's stream myself though! Just as well you two don't clash. Don't make me choose between you!

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Quoting: ElectricPrismSteam Survey 3 months in a row.

Random, but awesome comment. I got it two months ago too - first time in years. Literally, years.

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They've been aware that voice chat is broken on Linux since release and have done nothing about it. I don't trust those guys to not break this game again in future. Their next project, Payday 3 is pretty much dead to me, to be honest. This one is a pretty good shooter too, so a real loss.

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Quoting: scaineInteresting! But a bit of googling seems to completely disagree with your example of German Law. Can you point me in the right direction? What I've found appears to suggest that German law is very close to UK law - you can make copies for your own use, but copyright law is still in effect - that is, only the author of the works is allowed to redistribute/reproduce it for anything other than personal backup purposes. There appeared to be a debate around this in Germany around 2002/3, but nothing I can find suggests that the law changed significantly.

Your google-fu is bad ;)

German law interpreted by a lawyer [External Link], please use goole translate or the like to translate it. The paragraph is linked from there, too

From that article, it's crystal clear that copying in Germany is ONLY allowed:

for their own private use without profit
and this not be distributed or published

So your example of making a copy for your friend is still obviously illegal.

Quoting: voyager2102

Quoting: scaineBottom line, ask yourself how you'd feel about selling one hundred copies of your work, only to discover 100 thousand such copies were being enjoyed by the masses? I'd be pissed off. How about you?

It's true - I really don't understand anyway who defends piracy. At all. Happy to be "educated" however, but that education must address not just laws and jurisdictions, but more importantly how that defender-of-piracy would justify and accept living on the street if they were the artist with no income and not the pirate.

I actually answered that in your other post (going bottom up). It is a mental excercise - you need to overcome the reflexes learned in countless hours of education, TV, advertisement etc.

Ask yourself:

1) Are you going to prevent piracy with any form of protection? No, you are just going to make life harder for your paying customers and maybe prevent the pirates to use if for a while. Everything gets cracked sooner or later - law of nature ;)
2) Why did those evil pirates download your software? There are different groups:
a) The ones that do it because they don't care about you and download it to save a buck. Those are a lost cause <snip!>

You're getting confused here between "is piracy legal?" and "is DRM a good thing?". I don't care about your justifications for why people pirate material. I'm asserting that in most (relevant) countries, the answer to that first question is "no, piracy is illegal".

And as for this:

Quoting: voyager2102Now that you ask - I actually would expect people to download and pirate it as that is the way things are. If they can't afford to buy it they are indeed welcome to download it for free and if they wouldn't have bought it anyways and read it because they pirate it then all the better - maybe they will find it fun and pay me afterwards or buy my next work!.

Well bravo. We agree to differ and you're a bigger man than I. But it sounds like you can afford that attitude because you don't rely on copyright law to pay you for your work. My point was that if you were starving on the street because, despite your talent, piracy deprived you of income, I'm pretty sure there's not a human being in the world who would defend piracy let alone advocate it.

It sounds like both sides are pretty entrenched here though, so like Liam I'll try to duck out of this now. No promises though...

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Quoting: voyager2102Anybody who discounts that there is a severe difference between a physical and a digital good can't be taken serious, I'm sorry. Of course there is a fundamental difference between me taking an apple from a tree and me copying the technique that the apple farmer uses to keep the birds off of the apple tree. In one case I dimish what he has and in the second case I do not unless I take away from his customer pool.

So if you write a book, stick it on Amazon for six euros, you'll be cool when I and thousands of others download the torrent instead? It's only digital, right? I wasn't going to buy it anyway!! Apparently I'm entitled to your cultural contribution without paying?

Man, I'm really trying here, but I just can't understand it.

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