I wanted to love this game, but it was pretty frustrating trying to train your avatar to do what you wanted.

Haha - it reminded me of the actual angry frustration I'd feel in later games like RimWorld where I want a certain job done right away, prioritise it as high as possible, deprioritise or remove EVERYTHING ELSE, and my workers either ignore me completely, continuing what they were already doing, or just to rub it in, sit around doing nothing! I'm practically shouting at the screen - DO THE THING!

Man, these colony-builders are clearly not for me.

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I have to agree - the palette makes it difficult to distinguish enemies from background. Add in the Doom-style speedy-movement and I'm gonna struggle with this.

Reminds me of Mortal Sin [External Link] - a game I'd buy in a heartbeat if it only changed its colour palette!

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Quoting: EhvisSounds kind of similar to the Campo Santo thing. Which was kind of sad because I wanted to see their next game. But it also gave us Half-Life: Alyx, which was amazing. So I do wonder what they're cooking up.

I'm still sad about Campo Santo. I loved Firewatch and the team joining Valve were adamant that they would get to finish their new game.

I had high hopes, but a few months later one of the team members claimed on Twitter they just being used to create assets for a new unreleased game. Turned out to be Underlords a year later. And while I enjoyed that game, it wasn't the Campo Santo game were were all waiting for, and which years later still hasn't surfaced. Slated for a 2029 release. [External Link].. that's some Valve time right there. Sigh.

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"Inconvenient"???

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: scaineNate Graham covered that in his post. The moment that you've just installed a desktop isn't the right time to ask for donations - you have no idea if you're sticking with the distro or desktop.

And I just covered that that welcome screen pops up on every new Plasma version... But let's make it more clear; so if a user keeps using Plasma, upgrades to 6.x, they'll get that window again with a mention to donate.

So you were ambivalent about plasma 5, you get the upgrade, a donation box pops up... are you going to donate?

Of course not. As I say, this is well covered in Nate's post. At the point of upgrade? That's not when you ask for funds with any success.

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Quoting: emphyHowever much the funding is needed, it is an abuse of kde's position on the system it has been installed on.

Why? It's free software, simply asking for funding. That's an "egregious abuse" in your book? If so, your book is stunningly privileged. Free and Libre Open Source Software is an absolute anomaly in our (mostly) capitalist society. Give them some money, and if you have no money to give, then at least don't complain when they beg for funds once a year, in a trivially ignored pop-up.

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Quoting: PyrateDoesn't the welcome screen for every new Plasma version mention donations and such? I don't think the "if you're not a follower of those [...]" bit is being genuine here.

Nate Graham covered that in his post. The moment that you've just installed a desktop isn't the right time to ask for donations - you have no idea if you're sticking with the distro or desktop. Also, most welcome screens are quickly dismissed, never to be shown again. Various other ideas of where/when to do this were mentioned too.

Quoting: Piejacker875I'd like an "I've already donated" flag that can be set somewhere in a config file

Your distro can disable it from ever showing in the first place. Or you can disable the kded module. Or you can simply right-click on your system tray (the down arrow) and turn off notifications for this app.

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Quoting: rambo919I dislike the idea of history becoming an amorphous fantasy plaything.

Gotta say, that's a weird take for a gamer. There are swathes of alternate-reality franchises: Bioshock, Wolfenstein, Battlefield, pretty much any Steampunk game, it's a big list. I can't see how fiction is "disrespectful", but maybe you only meant in the context of the Civ games directly? But even there, the entire premise of Civ is to allow you to build alternative histories, YOUR history, YOUR perfect civilisation. It's hardly going to be historically accurate.

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I rarely make it to endgame in these games anyway, or if I do, I just start a new character, so very excited for this one.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: scainebut it's definitely triggered by Steam

What happens if you start a game without Steam?

True story - I don't have any games installed outside of Steam!

But I have both a GOG account with about 50 games, and loads of freebies from Amazon Prime, so I downloaded Heroic and gave it a shot. And... goddamit, it still happens! I get the exact same errors!

So it's not Steam, it's Plasma (probably). In fact, it looks like a weird clash between pulse and pipewire, but given that I was convinced it was Steam before... I'm doubting everything! :grin:

I suspect part of the problem is that because Siduction is a rolling release, there's a few upgrades that need additional work, but I haven't noticed. For example, when wireplumber upgraded from 0.4 to 0.5, they ditched all the Lua script support, and moved everything to a new json format. So I've changed all that to support the newer 0.5 version... but what else have I missed?

I'll dig into the legacy pulse support a bit, and see what I can find.

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