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Quoting: ShugyoushaNow I just have to start with the Japanese translation of the library documentation...

Dude if you can perform a translation of that magnitude on your own then get on it right now the quicker the better.

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So if you can translate

DO IT NOW !!!

The sentiment is respectable, but could be perceived disrespectfully. Ask yourself if you honestly are capable and motivated to persist in pouring hundreds of work hours into this project for a "thanks" yourself? If yes, then you are a very rare human being indeed.

It is presumably not trivial by far. The translator should be familiar with low-level game architecture and programming terminology in both Japanese AND English. I think that is a very rare talent to come by and probably have better things to do with their time.

I think the best here would be to organize a IndieGoGo/Kickstarter/etc campaign to fund the translation and then contact people from all kinds of fighting game communities to share the news for those who care (Reddit, Forums, bridge the gap to Japanese communities as well). You also need a succinct explanation in Japanese why this is a good thing (if you want to increase your chances of funding the translation).

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Quoting: razing32Hmm , wondering if they model the societal factors correctly.
I saw a lot of grieps on Democracy 3 that the only way to win was to go the route of the dev's politics.

Isn't that the problem with nearly every simulation game as long as one is paying any attention to the underlying mechanics? For almost every mainstream (and obviously non-mainstream) theory (of thing) there are those who have alternative views about how thing actually works. I'm pretty pissed off at most games that have societal or history-themed simulations in them.

Also thanks for sharing that piece of information. I never got around to playing it nor reading/watching any opinions/analyses.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI don't know why more developers don't just use the vulkan option. I've know a developer to test it out under Linux earlier this year and he said their is absolutely no problems using it. No excuse really.

A hypothetical excuse could be not having the hardware to test it (only GPU-s that are pre-Vulkan). And there is a time and effort cost to organizing someone to try it out for you. Especially if it is a passion-project rather than something you get paid to do - you would always rather work on the parts that you enjoy.

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Quoting: GustyGhost

Quoting: KithopHonestly, I can't wait for "x86" (or the weird bastardization of what's left of it as a mess of decoder logic taking up wayyy too much space in modern CPUs) to die and be superceded by a much more open RISC-V implementation anyhow. One day. ;)

Normies are going to ensure that this remains forever a pipe dream.

At a point where playing x86 games (and using other software) with decent performance is possible on RISC-V, adoption can start to grow. At least here it isn't one company against another necessarily. Intel absolutely will start selling us RISC-V at some point if it seems lucrative.

Quoting: 14Speaking about AMD laptops... are they good these days? I like AMD as a company, but I also don't dislike Intel. The last AMD laptop in my household was ten years ago, and it was bad. It was an HP something. Perhaps it was bad design around the chips, but that thing was pretty bad. It ran super hot, loud, and slow. It also had stability problems pretty quickly. We got rid of it after owning it for only about a year I think. So, anyway, that's the last taste of AMD in a laptop for me. Worth a taste again? I know AMD has been in gaming consoles many times.

I don't think it is entirely fair to speak of "AMD laptops" or "Intel laptops". I mean, CPU/GPU design might affect how the laptop runs a tiny bit, but I'd argue that the majority of how it performs is on the manufacturer's shoulders there. You can always cool and excellent CPU or GPU poorly (loud or hot or slow).
My personal opinion is that consumers are sometimes even oversimplifying too much when they are talking about producer brand affecting the performance of a device. In general past experience is a good indicator of future experience in this, but reviews are so much more reliable - a generally good producer can produce a shitty laptop and a generally poor producer might produce a great laptop.

All of this applies to desktop computers as well, but much more so for laptops where compromises between price, noise, energy draw (battery life), hotness and performance is especially impactful.

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Quoting: ShugyoushaHaving the game roll back transparently in case of wrong predictions but not letting you experience any delay...

I found a 60 minute GDC talk [External Link]about rollback networking, but that might take a long time to getting around to. Would you mind trying to explain how does the transparency work for rollback networking? Thanks.

EDIT: I watched almost half of that talk and I'm not interested enough of low-level game optimization currently to watch the rest of it.

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Quoting: Alm888You can always check my GOG profile. I am not hiding unlike the majority.
And, please, refrain from personal insults from here on, OK?

Before logging in:

Quoting: GOG.comThis profile's section is private

Alm888's current privacy settings limit visibility of their activity

After logging in it just doesn't show the games (for me). Looks a lot like some kind of browser/website bug...

It does though show that you have 156 games.

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@lunix I agree that the majority of users might give a pass to monopolistic behavior, but imo that is not acceptable at all. It's bad for us in the long term and should be called out for it. If you want the best GPU right now, and don't care about what happens a few years down the line because of it, then that's the right choice for you, but not for the vast majority of us.

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Yeah, the money for a good cause is appreciated. But I think these kinds of things are almost always a calculated move to somewhat legitimize their market dominance and wealth. So I still like competitive markets more.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI doubt they would drop Linux support, given it did previously work so nicely. They just need to sort out Coherent to work properly and they're good to go.

Yes, but how do you sort out third-party closed-source middleware? It's not like they're an extremely important client with a lot of leverage. And even if they did, would they want to use that resource for Linux gamers? :/

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Quoting: SupayIf the new launcher is there when it updates, I am going to cry.

In the latest EU4 dev diary [External Link] among the very few things they said was

Some Linux users find the game failing to start unless they launch the game directly, which is a high priority for us to fix as soon as possible.

Yay! We're a high priority as soon as possible!

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