Quoting: Philadelphus

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: DuncI had to resort to the magic SysReq key to reboot.

The what now? :O

Raising elephants is so utterly boring [External Link]. :)

That's amazing, I'd never heard of that before! :woot:

Now given how infrequently my Linux machine actually freezes up that badly, I'll probably have completely forgotten it the next time I need it. :wink:

I don't think I'd used it since I had an ATI card (yes, it was that long ago). Catalyst used to lock up all the time.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: DuncI had to resort to the magic SysReq key to reboot.

The what now? :O

Raising elephants is so utterly boring [External Link]. :)

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Quoting: Doc AngeloAnd, I have to say... it's an absolute mess regarding performance. Yes. it's a beta. But honestly... an open beta from Valve shouldn't be so incredibly bad with performance.

I was just about to say I've had three unrecoverable lockups in a row, the first after simply leaving Steam running in the background for ten minutes. I had to resort to the magic SysReq key to reboot.

I quite like the changes, but after months on the Beta channel I'm going to have to go back to stable.

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Quoting: NanobangMakes me want a better tablet every time I use it.

Same here. I bought a (very) cheap one a few years ago because I'd lusted after tablets since the 8-bit days, without taking into account that I can't actually draw to save my life. And don't have the space on my desk for it (I'm using a trackball rather than a mouse as it is).

But Krita is absolutely brilliant with it. For all that I actually ever do with graphics, GIMP (with G'MIC) is more than enough, though.

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I love the announcement about it going free [External Link]. Even if you're not sure if it's your kind of game, that should bring you round. :D

(Oops. Didn't realise you'd already linked to it. It's still worth doing again, though. :) )

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Mumble really isn't comparable to email hosting, unless you want it to be. Back when a friend and I had our own private Minecraft server (which was properly hosted), I just used to run it here on my PC and send him my IP address over Minecraft's text chat. I could have used a dynamic DNS service I suppose, but that would have been more work. :P

It worked like a charm. The audio quality was better than anything else, even turned down pretty low, and it never dropped out.

Steam chat's easier, but it isn't reliable. We've actually resorted to Mumble again a couple of times when Steam's been playing silly buggers.

I've been meaning to look into Riot - it sounds really interesting - but I don't do much voice chat these days (never did, in fact - which was the main reason for that ad-hoc Mumble setup - but now less than ever).

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Quoting: EikeShould I (liking point and click adventures in general) play "Beneath a Steel Sky"?

Well, it's free. :) I hated the voice acting, but the game is great. The first time I played was the Amiga version which had no voice acting. Then later tried it voiced and just noped out of there fast.

I put up with the voice acting because it was a novelty, although it definitely didn't fit with what I heard in my head the first time around. But yes, if it hadn't been released for free it would probably be considered a sort of forgotten gem at best, rather than an out-and-out classic. It's definitely worth playing, though.

The original box is an item of rare beauty, unusually understated for that kind of thing. Looking forward to the sequel. It's been a while. :)

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The gameplay's obviously very different, but yeah... a definite 3DMM vibe going on there. Which may have been the first ever computer (as opposed to console) game that I ever played, a disturbingly long time ago. I've still got my copy somewhere...

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Quoting: scaineBit of a random though this, but I always assumed that since the only "godot" I'm aware of before hearing about this game engine was "Waiting for Godot", that the last 't' is silent (the book's author was Irish, but wrote the book in French).

Does everyone agree or is this another one of those cases like when people mispronounce Ubuntu as "Oo-bun-too" instead of "oo-boon-too"??

Back on topic - love these updates. Godot is really shaping up to be THE game engine of the modern age. I just became a patreon this month, as it would be amazing to see them cross the goal line on their next hire.

As far as I know there is no set correct pronounciation of the name. There is a google talk by one dev (I think its Juan) and he says it can be either the french sounding with silent t or go-dot with a pronounced t.

The other pronunciation problem is that in Britain it tends to be pronouced with the accent on the first syllable - GOD-oh - while Americans usually put it on the second: g'd-OH.

Despite being a Brit myself, for computing terms I generally accept the American version - the “zee” axis instead of “zed”, “color” rather than “colour”, etc. - so I'm going with the second version.

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It's a bit of an aside, but it occurs to me that this sort of thing is very much a modern phenomenon that's only possible with online distribution. Stellaris is almost a different game to the one that was first released too. And it's even more true of, say, Minecraft. In that case, it's definitely a Good Thing, especially as most of the older versions are still easily available for those who prefer them (right back to the astonishingly basic rd-132211 if you're so inclined). In others, I'm not sure.

Genuinely so; I can see the advantages, but what if most people like the changes but you don't? It's like having a game you enjoy snatched away from you. (To be clear, this isn't a comment on DOTAU itself; I downloaded it since it's free, but I've barely played it.)

Interesting times.

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