Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere is still enough left of my 8 year old self to insist that that dinosaur she's riding is not a parasaurolophus.

I was gonna say the same thing; it looks more like a carnotaurus [External Link] with those horns. It's especially weird because in the video, at the 30 second mark, you can see someone riding what pretty clearly seems like it's meant to be a blue parasaurolophus. :unsure:

Yeah, I also think the purple one is Carnotaurus or at most a Ceratosaurus. The second video on Steam clearly shows the blue Parasaurolophus. I think their stylized depictions (especially some feathered dinosaurs) look amazing. I'm telling all my dinosaur-friends about this. 😁

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Huh, I can actually travel there by train - that's neat.

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Quoting: PhlebiacI wish there was a way to have a dynamic collection in the Steam client, that automatically included all games supported. You can do this with Steam Deck compatible games, but that's because the Steam client has explicit support for that.

So basically a third-party managed public collection? Because I don't think Valve can be expected to maintain such dynamic collections themselves. The developers of Luxtorpeda are better suited to manage that list of supported games. Or having it be crowd-sourced. But then it would maybe need a collaborative aspect (more like Github, less like Steam controller mappings).

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: officerniceOhh nice, did not know this existed. Is it better than running the game via Lutris and the community HD upgrade?

For me: yes! Because it's not just an HD/graphical upgrade, it has a tons of upgrades of gameplay/interface etc (and it's native!).
Running the original game via Lutris will always be the same, there is no update of it.
Meanwhile VCMI is updated frequently and so is better every day! :heart:

Sorry, but I'm in love with this project, do what you want from what I'm saying. :tongue:
Just try it.
That said, I was not using the HD patch when I was playing the game with Wine, but since some releases of VCMI I only play it through it and didn't launch the Wine version since then.

The HD community patch also has some QoL features added.

EDIT: I coincidentally stumbled on the list of features in the HD fan mod, but not in VCMI today: https://github.com/orgs/vcmi/projects/2/views/1 [External Link]
So there is a number of things missing. On the other hand, there is no list of what VCMI has, but the HD fan mod lacks.

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Quoting: neolith

Quoting: win8linuxIt ensures that the background source file remains accessible for a long time and by coincidence, also filters out any AI-generated submissions. I say coincidence since this requirement has existed for a very long time with open art contributions, well before so-called AI-generated or rather ML-backed image generation entered widespread knowledge.

Oh, I get that the source files should be provided. I am for that for the very reasons you mentioned.

But that wasn't the point I was trying to make.
The rules state that the source files have to be in a non-proprietary format – and that is simply impossible for many software packages one might choose. For example if you were to create your art in Maya, your source files won't be in a non-proprietary format. Same if you choose... say... DPaint on the Amiga for some stylistic reasons. According to the rules you are now excluded from entering.

I think it shouldn't matter what you create your art with.

As I understand you can either use proprietary software and export in a non-proprietary format (e.g. .blend from Maya) OR
import the proprietary file into a non-proprietary app and convert it there (open a Maya file in Blender, then convert/save).

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: pete910WTF :shock:

Am I in a some weird parallel universe of something..

When on earth did that happen????

Am so behind on well everything by the looks of it! :huh:

Quoting: TriasIt happened just last month [External Link], apparently. Loosing billions in brand value [External Link] in the process, of course...

Apparently the mobile app also now has the slogan "Blaze Your Glory!", which has a real childish-early-2000s-tryhard-wannabe twang to it. :tongue:

I feel corporations are hijacking our language. E.g. I frequently have to clarify what I mean or play around with context when using the words ex, meta, or apple. I am forced to think about those brands orders of magnitude more than I would otherwise. The trick is working. I much prefer names like Facebook, SpaceX, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nestle, or Mazda. I hope I EU will have some regulations about brand names one day...

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- A first-class, effortless experience if/when getting VR on Linux.
- Steam Controller 2. I regret only buying 3 of the first edition. I would like to have a full set of 4 - or better yet 8 :tongue:.
- Choosing a default from Steam game settings for those annoying popups that some games always start with (e.g. War Thunder, Europa Universalis 4).
- (Me buying an actual gaming pc).
- Steam client updates handled by OS updates. It would be one less annoyance when launching Steam after a while. I think game updates handled by OS is too far-fetched - but maybe one can also dream of that in 10 years or so.

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How would the oversharing-your-gaming-status work in practice? A setting in Lutris, but working out of the box on Discord-side?

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Quoting: THE0RRegarding Minecraft, maintainer of PolyMC appears to have gone rogue. Will you cover that?

For anyone interested, the coverage is here now.

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Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: elmapulis there any advantage of using stream deck over, i dont know... a phone? it dont seem something hard to replicate

Well phones auto turn off screen, don't have button feedback.
There are convenient issues with touch screen method of doing things.

One could certainly MAKE their own device with buttons and a touch screen in background, but it comes down to if you feel its worth your time and if your tech savvy enough to get all the bits together, probably also need 3d printing done.

Android has the option to not turn off the screen as long as the device is hooked to a power source. I think you can also have it always vibrate on touches.

For me though, the question is what kind of (FLO) software is there for such things? Can you effortlessly and quickly make menus to run arbitrary commands? And how would those things even integrate?

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