This could be interesting. Right now I'm leaning towards AMD for both a new CPU and GPU, though I will not upgrade until well into next year or even later. Unless there is a game that absolutely does not run I usually don't see a compelling reason.

Regardless, a third, serious competitor might not be bad for consumers, in the short term. In the long run, I'm not sure. There's only so much demand for discrete GPUs, so nVidia and AMD will eventually make less money. Might lead to new innovations, but could also spell doom and gloom.

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It's amazing to see what can be done with just 4 colors. Graphics wise, I'd love to play this, but it's the type of game I know I will suck at. So I'll have to pass it by, unfortunately.

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Anyone else that read Psygnosis in the headline? :-)

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Quoting: BotonoskiSteam basically killed physical PC game releases so finding a used PC game old enough to have a physical release floating around while simultaneously new enough to require Steam is pretty difficult.

Depends where in the world you live, I guess. Here in Germany, physical releases were still relatively common until recently, and the majority of those require Steam. So likely anything sold past 2010 is tied to Steam.

I've got a few DRM free games on disc, such as Broken Age, Broken Sword V and Book of Unwritten Tales 2, all of which even include the native Linux version right on the DVD, but the few more recent physical releases (Pillars of Eternity II, Kingdom Come: Deliverance) are tied to Steam, unfortunately.

I've been on the fence about physical vs. DRM for a while, but right now I'd rather have my stuff DRM free on GOG than a box with nice feelies that requires Steam. How cool was Thimbleweed Park in that regard: big box, feelies and a GOG key! (That had been a U.S. import, though)

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More and more developers have been kicking up a fuss about changes to MacOS, with a lot across our Twitter feed mentioning they will no longer support it with their games in future.

Having maintained macOS builds for my old open source project since what seems like forever, this is something that has been nagging me at the back of my head for a while as well. I have not yet given too much thought about the issue, but will do so when 10.15 is available in a stable enough version to actually risk installing it :-).

This is a prime example though how important an open OS like Linux is, where no single entity is able to control or dictate which software runs and which doesn't.

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you're often given a quick prompt between two options. They're not always meaningful though

They may not change the story, but I think they feed into the personality map that's also part of the journal. Not sure which methodology is in use (if any), but it might be fun to see into what bin your decisions placed you by the end of the game.

It seems the book author, Arthur, doesn't always agree with the decision you take too.

Occasionally it's also the other way round, with the narrator saying one thing and Jenny doing the opposite, and that's part of the humor. It also helps to see more in Jenny than a purely fictional character dreamed up by another fictional character.

Something to note, is that voice acting was a funded stretch goal on the Kickstarter which is not currently in the game.

That would explain why there's an audio setting for voice, but no voice over :-). Seemed odd, and releasing a game without voice over these days certainly defied my expectations, but I got over that fairly quickly. But if done well, it could make the experience even better!

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Been playing a bit of Kingdom Come: Deliverance in Wine + DXVK and Jenny LeClue in all its native glory! :-).

Not much to say about the former; the fact I've been playing that for close to 175 hours speaks for itself. I've only got one and a half DLCs to finish, though, so the end is drawing near.

Jenny LeClue turned out great, after all those years of waiting. It's delightfully funny and mysterious. It's not too difficult, but that also means the narrative flow doesn't get interrupted by unfair or illogical puzzles thrown in purely to stall for time. After Heaven's Vault, that's this year's second highlight in gaming for me!

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I only sold about 2 games I bought over the last 30 years, and likely bought a handful of used ones (some of those as collector items, so I would have come cheaper buying new). I don't see this changing much in the future.

Still, there's plenty at stake here, not the least our customer rights when it comes to software. And this can be much more far reaching than games, as software starts to permeate a lot of goods and could be (and already is, to some degree) used to prevent us from selling or passing on stuff that's rightfully ours. So I am generally in favor of this ruling and quite a bit curious how this will pan out eventually (guess the ruling isn't final and there are some higher courts that'll have a say on the final outcome).

Also, Twitter deemed to remind me that there is Robot Cache [External Link], a platform in development that is all about selling digital games. I have no clue how it's supposed to work, but it's not like the French have a monopoly on the idea :-).

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Yay! Here's to a developer that actually understands the meaning of super soon! ? :-)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: spayder26Actually he was not defending Epstein (he called him rapist), but declaring his opinion against laws against consented paedophilia, which is somewhat much more controversial.

You seem to have information differing from mine.

I read that he found the "most plausible scenario" that the girls have been "entirely willing".

Read again. A cursory search didn't turn up RMS's actual post, but my understanding of the quoted line is a little different than what you make it to be.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

But even that lacks the context of the whole, without the original source, so take it with a grain of salt.

Personally, I really wonder though how people can hang Stallman for his words, while nobody so much raises an eyebrow at the way Epstein's case was handled by the legal system. Makes me think priorities aren't what they ought to be these days.

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