What do you mean random? My first post says the game's acronym ten times!

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See the link, the episode was "Waiting for God" from good 'ol Series 1.

I was introduced to Red Dwarf by my parents. Back when they were living in Calgary and B.C. they recorded a bunch of the British comedies that were playing on the nearest American PBS station at the time (Blackadder, Red Dwarf, etc...). So when I was growing up we would watch those tapes, complete with the tedious pledge drives. Sadly, the only time I knew of a Canadian station playing it was around ten years ago on Bravo when they would sometimes play Series 7 and 8, and at one point we saw one on BBC Canada which has REALLY gone downhill since then.

Not that the Dwarf is exactly unknown here, my father was able to buy Series 4 and 6 on tape when he was temporarily living in B.C. for work (and thus gave us some relief from the pledge drives) and the Edmonton Public Library has every episode of Red Dwarf on DVD, as well as most of the novels. But I would not call it a big hit.

Still, I can see another thread split coming.

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Lister: Never mind this tot, where's the Cat?
Rimmer: Tot?
Lister: Tot!
Rimmer: Tot?
Lister: Tot!
Rimmer: Tot?
Lister: Tot!
Rimmer: Tot?
Lister: Tot! [Leaves.]
Rimmer: [Shouting after him.] We'll soon see how totty it is, laddie, the quarantine period's nearly up! Bastard!


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Sorry, I could not help myself. :p

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Well, from the free ones at least Rusty, we do have plenty of commercial ones that offer good single-player.

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Well, they have reached over $1 Million USD now. Also, Braid got an update today:

Changes since original build:
- Added support for systems without S3TC support.
- Added support for PowerPC and 64-bit Intel Macs.
- Added support for amd64 Linux systems.
- Possibly fixed never-ending black screen that some Mac players experienced.
- Now attempts to choose correct language at startup, if a translation is available, on both Mac and Linux.
- Added notes on useful command line options to Linux README.

Notice anything in particular there? :D

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Here you are folks, straight from the horses mouth:

QuoteMost people that are hitting this have s3tc support disabled in their video drivers, which means they can't run most modern video games. Use driconf to turn it on, I've been told.

Most of the other problems seem to be video drivers that fail on Braid's shaders. I think we'll shake these issues out over time, but I suppose the bulk of that work falls on the backs of the driver teams.

I don't know what anything but Braid is doing for installation, but I just installed it to "/home/icculus/Braid With Spaces" and it installed, ran, and uninstalled just fine.

If you're having an install failure with MojoSetup, though, please email me and we'll figure out what's going wrong: [email protected]

--ryan.

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I see no reason why Braid would need to use S3TC, it is just a 2D platform game after all. For those of you who do not know the history, that particular patent on S3TC texture compression has been a thorn in the side of the free graphics developers for years. Hopefully the developer will smarten up and switch to something a bit more free, or maybe Ryan could make an alternative just for the Linux port. Though it is somewhat ironic that I am evangelizing a change for the benefit of the free drivers while writing from my Fedora 14 system running Catalyst 10.12... :p

Still, what GPU are you currently using then Rusty, still stuck on an Intel?

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As I said, I plan to kick in 10$, my brother is also going to put in some money, but we shall see how much we in the end do contribute to their coffers. The problem is we need to balance this around necessary vehicle repairs. :(

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The developer himself originally tried to port it, but was not able to figure it out:

http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364

Some people were using it to claim Linux was not a suitable gaming platform at the time.

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Going to put 10$ CDN into the effort, even if things are a little tight at the moment. I already do own Osmos though, as Maxim is quite aware of course. And thank you Ryan C. Gordon for getting that whole Braid fiasco cleared up once and for all!

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