Quoting: OdisejCanonical is struggling and apparently needs some help either in people getting involved or in donations.

I was actually thinking about that. I used to spend some considerable money on S.u.S.E. Linux in the past (which was still cheaper than downloading and burning CDs myself). Then came broadband and Debian and later Ubuntu, but I never really considered giving back (even though I can afford it much more easily nowadays than 20 years ago).

If we value open source and the freedom that comes with it, it gotta be worth something to us ...

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Glad I did not spend the weekend installing another distro and did something productive ... uh, I mean, played some games, instead :-).

In the long run, I guess a way has to be found to keep old 32bit software running, be it through emulation, VMs, containers or what have you. The way the software world evolves, I fear it will likely be in a browser :-(.

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Still Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I really like how plain and quiet and unexcited it feels most of the time. And also when it occasionally surprises with vistas such as these:

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Perfect! This comes a day after I did a clean re-install of Ubuntu 18.04.2 :-(.

While I had been aware of plans to stop the 32bit variants of the distribution, I never would have imagined that they'd also remove 32bit support from the 64bit distro at this point in time.

Not sure what I'll do now. Back to Debian? A colleague suggested Manjaro, but after a quick search it appears as if there aren't any ready-made wine-devel packages. Don't really want to be limited to wine-stable or compile anything but 64bit wine myself.

Or I'll just sit it out and hope that somebody provides a PPA for the essential 32bit stuff. Will not upgrade before 20.04.1 LTS is out anyway.

That said, as a developer (and even as a user), I do not understand how in this day and age we're held back by legacy 32bit stuff. It's understandable that support is desirable when looking at games from 15 years ago, but why aren't things like Steam or GOG Galaxy or modern software install packages 64bit these days? The one bit that wasn't 64bit on my Linux system (before I ditched Windows as gaming OS in 2015) were the shoddy Canon printer drivers, and even then it irked me that I had to have a host of 32bit libs installed on top of the regular 64bit stuff. Maybe it's about time for some of the developers out there to move with the times! :-).

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance, now that the final DLC is out.

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I'm not too interested about the client part of Galaxy, but it would be really great if they could offer developers the game-related functionality, whatever that entails (cloud saves + achievements come to mind). I've come across games that will not release a Linux version on GOG, even though they have it on Steam, because they rely on the Galaxy stuff for their GOG release.

There are also a few occasions where I'd be glad about incremental updates. I don't mind re-downloading a GB or two, but when games measure 40GB or more it gets tedious fast. For those I'd consider using Galaxy. But generally, I like the Linux offline installers better, and once a game has matured I like to keep the final version around on a local drive, just in case.

So all in all, no big surprise, and not a really big disappointment either.

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The game is more than a little absurd a lot of the time [...]. Some of it's a little confusing though, although the puzzles are mostly pretty streamlined.

Played the first two chapters and that description sums it up nicely.

Looking at the purely technical aspects, there's nothing to complain about. I like the highly detailed, high resolution graphics and the art style. The story is also set up quite nicely, but then it takes a big dive. Dialogue is rather uninspired and not funny, which is doubly disappointing after being captivated by the subtle humour on display on their official website.

The overall writing isn't too compelling either: there's actually a lot going on in some of the scenes, but it all feels pretty much detached from our protagonist and our actions. That highly contributes to the aforementioned absurdity, but it feels more perplexing than hilarious.

In my view, that's its biggest design flaw: the absurd is not a direct consequence of what the player does, but a mere backdrop for a series of puzzles that will get you to the next screen. I mean,

Spoiler, click me

cooking turkey while the house is being raided by capitalist government agents!

Seriously!?

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I've been on the fence for a long time (as with some other places on the web I frequent), but this time I finally said "it's now or never". So I click on the Patreon link, 'cause everyone is on Patreon, right? And the first thing they want is my name!? WTF!?

So I try LibrePay, and they're cool with just the E-Mail address and do direct debit via SEPA. Thank you so much :-). So here's my measly €13/year. Don't spend it all at once ...

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Quoting: GuestHeh guys, did you know that there were more sound effects on the Amiga version if you had a memory expansion ? (more than 1 MB). With 1 MB you only got music and a couple of effects if I recall correctly. It was amazing to see such a game working great on a 7.14 MHz CPU :)

With more memory you could also choose bigger maps in multiplayer.


(That one is with 3 MB, the configuration I had back in the day)

Unfortunately, especially in multiplayer, it would inevitably cause a Guru Meditation, so I don't think many of those matches ever got decided. But it was still so much fun!

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GOG is my favourite outlet for acquiring games these days (unless there's a DRM free physical copy to be had), and it will remain so, fair pricing or not. The money saved that way never amounted to significant sums in any case, and if I really feel a price is "unfair" in my currency, I can just wait for the product to go on sale.

So I'm hoping for the best, that their service remains financially viable and stays around so I can continue to own future games. That's certainly more worth to me than a few cents saved here or there in the short term.

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