I backed the game on KS and while I do think it's a nice little game, I can't help but also feel somewhat disappointed. Not enough to not recommend people to give it a try, but still...

Personally, from a game that sells itself as tower defense + Zelda, I expected more tower defense (you can only build a handful of towers at once, no mazing and practically no time to plan anything) as well as more Zelda (the game is 95% linear and it doesn't look like you unlock new abilities that unlock new paths).

A bit of a shame, really, as I'm a total sucker for tower defense games (and at least sometimes for Zelda-likes), but the game didn't manage to scratch either itch for me.

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Quoting: itscalledrealityEr…we’re halfway through the year and there’s very little about fixing multimonitor support, one of the biggest hurdles for those switching to Linux.

Huh?
I don't think I ever had a problem with multiple monitors on Linux.

Some games do have issues with multiple monitors on Linux, but that's the games' fault, not really on Linux or any certain distro.

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No idea why the original dev is being such a weirdo about the entire project, sounds to me like there is some very personal beef here.
Coders can be absolute drama queens, though, especially about hobby projects, so this really isn't surprising me much.

In the end, a name's just a name, though. I don't know if they HAVE to change it (I doubt it, given the history), but I don't see too much harm in them doing that.

PS: Why would you disallow distro-specific patches?
Some weird ideal that all distros should be identical?
Seems entirely counter-productive.

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Quoting: Liam DaweFood: £20
Internet: £30
Water: £20
Diablo Immortal Micro: £100,000
Mortgage: £400

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Mortgage seems optional.
Aren't there shelters that you could run this operation out of for free?

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Wadjet Eye always has some of most interesting setting ideas in adventure games.

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Quoting: ZeloxSo there is no reason to even boot in to windows anymore, except for work then.

I don't even do that atm, I just run Windows inside of a VM if there's something requiring Windows (e.g. client needs a program to run under Windows).

But of course, that does require a bit beefier PC to run essentially two OS at the same time...

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It pleases me to see that the Deck is indeed not maidenless.

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Quoting: s01itudePlayers should know that they will need to enjoy platforming as well to enjoy this game though!

The store page literally has the three last elements Liam wrote in this article, under a big banner saying "platforming".

Any player who buys this without expecting platforming only has themselves to blame.

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Quoting: Mountain ManClassic virtue signaling.

Usually I would agree, but in this case doing "something" is almost required.
This is not just the usual "we stand for diversity! *implements gender toggle without any effect to get headlines written about how great allies they are*" identity politics garbage, but a problem that is actually real.

In the current situation, releasing anything Russia themed, even as innocuous as a truck sim DLC, will be putting a very big elephant in the room.
And elephants in the room are always better off addressed and dealt with.

If this particular course of action, stopping the DLC entirely, is the best course of action is a different debate.
I agree with the notion that they should've released the DLC and given the profits to some Ukraine-themed charity, at least assuming it was almost done anyway.

On the other hand, you have real people working on this.
If I currently had to work on a product that basically made me create a model of Russia in some form or another, I would not feel good about it, either, not in the slightest. This might have been a decision meant in favor of the devs themselves more than a PR one.
Russia is a do-not-touch topic right now, and will remain so for many years to come. Tragic in all regards, but it is what it is.

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I've been using this as a combined EGS and GOG client and must say it works really well.

It's especially the "run executable on prefix" functionality that has turned out to be incredibly handy (e.g. to install some fan patches or mods) and was lacking or much more cumbersome to use in other clients.

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