How about a steampunk version called Imperial Racer? :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI've been gradually seeing more mentions of Pipewire, seems like it's kind of becoming another "next thing that will finally make Linux sound great" (although I understand it can do more than sound). What do people figure the prospects are this time around?

Given that someone's finally decided that rather than completely replacing the existing APIs with a new one, it might be a better idea to unify them under one server, I'd say they're pretty good.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI quite enjoyed the demo when I played it last year, and am eagerly awaiting the full release! :woot:

Seattle [External Link], 37.49; Glasgow [External Link], 49.01.

I see your two mildly damp cities, and raise you Hilo [External Link], Hawaii: 126.72 inches (3,220 mm) average annual rainfall. :grin:

Well, if you live slap-bang in the middle of the wet side of the world, what can you expect? :tongue:

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Quoting: DMGAdvertisement? Sorry, but I won't buy this game. Still thinking, that it's not worth trying at current stage.

Oh, it really is. As Liam says, it's not perfect - for me, the inventory system feels a bit fiddly, and I can't quite put my finger on why - but I've seen plenty of final releases that feel less “finished” than this.

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What a hilarious little game. Who knew bomb disposal guys give up because it's raining? :grin:

Quoting: Purple Library GuySeattle? Rain paradise?! Bah. As a Vancouverite we concede nothing to our neighbour city on that score! There's no way they have more rain than we do.

I looked this up once when someone on another site was banging on about the rainfall in Seattle. Average monthly precipitation in inches: Seattle [External Link], 37.49; Glasgow [External Link], 49.01. And look at average annual hours of sunshine: Seattle 2,169.7, Glasgow 1,265.

It's practically a desert.

(Oh, and you're right [External Link]

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It's a really interesting question, “Portal or Portal 2?”. If I could only choose one to play for the rest of my life, I'd probably* go for the sequel. In every objective sense it's superior: higher production values, more varied gameplay, multiplayer, user-generated content. I'd get bored of it far less quickly. But if I had to choose one to save for posterity - erasing every copy of the other so that nobody could ever play it again - it has to be the original, without a second thought.

The thing is, you can only play it for the first time once. Its genius lies in the way it reveals the story, and the twist(s) in the tale, through gameplay, often creating textbook examples of the principle “show, don't tell” in the process. You can appreciate that a second time, but you can't be surprised again. And while the second game tries very hard to replicate some of that, it's not nearly so neatly done.

Portal 2 is a great, great game. Portal is a work of art.

*Probably.

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Quoting: no_information_hereThe first comment on the Ars Technica article said it succinctly:

It's almost like if you cancel enough consumer-facing projects, consumers won't want to take a chance on your new projects.

That's it right there. Even if I wanted to subscribe to a service which could remove any games I've bought at a moment's notice, and entirely if it were to close, I wouldn't subscribe to one run by a company with Google's record.

As with Microsoft, trust is easily broken but hard to earn. And I just don't trust 'em.

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Quoting: DuncMind you, my TV's still SD. Not, again, that I don't appreciate higher resolutions, but... meh, it's only TV.

I have an old CRT tv too for to play old Sega Genesis and Snes games via emulators.

My second monitor's a CRT, but my TV's actually from that very short window when they made SD LCDs.

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Quoting: 3zekiel4k is nice on a projector, but never really had the need on a PC screen ... And yes, unless you got latest gen hw, 4k/120fps is dead. Even if console makers pretended they could actually do it, they forget to say it is 120fps or 4k. or that it is with "dynamic resolution".
And yeah, some people are kinda absurd with their requirements.
Personnaly, I think 2K is becoming the sweet spot, and will be for the foreseeable future. You can actually get high framerate, with high setting and without spending 1K€ on a GPU + 300€ on a 850w power supply to accommodate it (supposing you can even find a new gpu ...).

I remember watching a documentary about IMAX a few years back, where it showed them meticulously cleaning each frame of film by hand then carefully digitising it... at 2K. I'm not going to say 4K is snake oil - more resolution can't be worse (leaving aside compression issues, etc.), and I'd be surprised if IMAX wasn't using it, or even 8K, today - but it's way overkill for relatively small screens, at least with current technology.

Mind you, my TV's still SD. Not, again, that I don't appreciate higher resolutions, but... meh, it's only TV.

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Quoting: benkeJust bought Baltic and Black Sea DLCs so I am back to ETS2 :-)

I've had the Italian, French, and Scandinavian DLCs for a while and never really played them. But at the moment (for reasons we needn't go into) I need something not-too-demanding that can be paused at a moment's notice. ETS2 is perfect.

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Quoting: junibegoodI'm now starting a full rerun of the three Witcher games. The first one hasn't aged really well... :whistle:

Played that again in December. Don't agree that it didn't age well. It's a bit ... odd. But if you accept that the game mechanics are the way they are, it still holds up quite well. Especially considering it was basically an indie game.

I started a full run a few months ago, but ended up going straight to TW2 because I have fond memories of it and no patience. But the first one hasn't aged as badly as I thought it would.

(And I still haven't finished my re-run through TW2. I don't think I've ever finished it on PC. Let's be honest... that final chapter gets a bit tedious.)

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