Quoting: Guestso it is good to see them interested by what is a vast market of non free software

Looking at the bullet points, this seems more geared towards open source games and open source tools to create them, so I guess it stays true to what one might expect from fundamentalist beardies after all ;-).

That said, back in 2002 Debian was the first major distribution to package and include the game I had been involved with, so it's not like they have been oblivious to this particular pastime until now. It's nice to see them giving it some wider attention and publicity, though.

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18,212,157 successful murder schemes executed

Would this only include player-triggered murders or do they count the AI as well?

The wife of my son (and heir) had been murdered, and the popup made it sound like he was terribly saddened by this tragic incident. But when I moused over the cause of death, it said "murdered by her husband"!

And when I finally died of old age and assumed his role, he had a murder scheme against his younger brother going. I should have expected, but going from a diplomat, who was widely beloved even by the people he threw in jail to a murderous psychopath, who even scares his own children came as a bit of a shock. I hope I manage to make his reign as short as possible :-).

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Quoting: x_wingNot sure if the empty trunks are by design or a bug

They are present with the nVidia binary blob as well. Thought it was a statement on climate change, as odd as that might be in a racing game ...

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I tried the demo a while ago, and although I wasn't sure about the game's long term appeal, it certainly was fun for a couple quick races. Given that there are precious few racing games on GOG I went ahead and bought it. Though I also did get Pendragon yesterday and that ranks much higher on my want-to-play list. Right now though I am absolute hooked to CK3. First game in ages where I looked at the clock and it was already 4:30am.

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Waiting for RDNA2, but in any case I'd be looking at the 200€ price range and not the high-end models. I'm not hellbent on switching to AMD, but if they manage to build something with good value for money ratio I'd rather support the underdog than throwing cash at NVIDIA. Open source graphic drivers sound appealing too.

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Count me in :-)

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That's so great! Downloading my Windows games via the client was the one feature I was really missing. I would have been happy to have that without any Wine integration whatsoever. That they went the extra mile makes it a very convenient feature indeed! :-)

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Bought it yesterday and played the tutorial and then some. The one thing I do miss is a comprehensive manual. Despite watching plenty of videos in advance and following the tutorial, I still feel like I'm hardly scratching the surface of the vast amount of options the game has to offer. And I'd rather read 200 pages upfront to get a good idea of what's on the plate than chase elusive tool tips hidden in some submenu I might never ever stumble upon.

That said, I did have a couple of successes and the emergent narrative caused some good laughs already. Like when the spouse I chose for my son gave birth and it was revealed that not only is he not the father, but the actual father is in fact a very close relative of her. And that in a good Catholic family!

I'm still a bit torn between continuing the tutorial character or starting over as someone that suits me better, but I guess for the time being I might as well continue and see where all this will lead. And I'm really eager to take over as son and kick out the wife ;-).

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Lenovo laptops have always been quite Linux friendly. Just this week I've bought an Ideapad 5 for my mom's birthday (which does come with Windows, but will get a Linux makeover before I hand it to her). It's actually a bit overkill for what she needs, but compared to other offerings in that price region it seemed to be the best overall package (AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD).

Looks like that specific model does require a bit of tinkering to get the touchpad working properly, so I'm wondering if that's something they will address as part of their program.

Her previous machines were also from Lenovo and worked well with Linux. The first one I managed to get without Windows preinstalled, but not the one she currently uses. This time there were some models without Windows too, but they all came with some sort of disadvantage compared to the one I ended up buying.

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Played the demo of Paradise Killer with Proton. I have been curious about that for a while, but I'd never imagined how wonderfully weird or weirdly wonderful this was going to be. It's Windows only, but didn't notice any issues playing. And best of all, it'll be out by the end of next week.

Also started playing Beautiful Desolation. That must be the prettiest isometric game I've seen so far. Although it does indeed feel a bit desolate, with some of these large environments having little more to offer than an item or two. So apparently the name says it all.

Gameplay wise it's not quite a true P&C adventure, with actual puzzles being few and far between. Instead it's more a series of fetch or delivery quests, which will open up new locations with new characters that will want another favor before showing the way forward. And while it's got quite the interesting background, there's actually little incentive to go through all that hassle. No big mystery, nothing really at stake, so not sure if I'll make it to the end. Especially with so many games I'm eagerly awaiting right around the corner.

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