Quoting: KorsAnd for sure, Dusk has the best OST in 2019.

Loved its OST as well as the one of Ion Fury - and thankfully, two votes were allowed ;)

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Quoting: redneckdrowGuys, you've gotta chill out. TheSheep, if you don't like the controls, Dfhack has plugins that improve the UI a great deal. Also if you want to remove the menus, just hit TAB twice. What do ya expect from two a game designed by two Math Phds? If you'd like, here's the link [External Link] to the latest Linux version of the Lazy Newb pack, which is what I use myself.

Wormzy, he's entitled to his opinion and as my Psychology teacher used to say in high school "Opinions are like rear-ends, everyone's got one, and no one wants to hear about anyone elses.".

There's never a need to get mad at anyone over a video game. We're all friends here.:)

Discussions are like soups.
Boring without spice.

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Quoting: WorMzyYeah, there's no need for all that.

Aka "I'm fine with it, therefore it is perfect".
Very convincing.

Quoting: WorMzyAdding mouse-driven menus and buttons would just slow things down and add nothing to the game. :|

You heard it here first, folks:
Making your game more smooth and comfortable to play, or playable for some to begin with, adds nothing to your game.

You should go ahead and spread the word.
I think most developers (probably all of them except this one) still believe having a proper User Interface and making their game accessible without sacrificing anything is actually something important.
Just think about the resources wasted developing UIs for games like these in the past 40 years! If only we had known earlier...

I cannot wait for the mod that finally removes all those annoying menus and buttons from Cities: Skylines or RimWorld so that I can enjoy the experience without all that clutter!

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPNow that the most important feature, animal petting, is in, maybe now they will have time to work on minor, unimportant stuff like.... F*CKING MOUSE SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I tried to play it. I even succeeded (well, as much as you can succeed until everyone goes mad).
But what a chore to play without mouse support.
I won't even take another look at it while this isn't in - which likely means I'll never take another look at it, I know.

It's had mouse support for over a decade. It's even enabled by default:

data/init/init.txt:
Change this to NO if you don't want to have the mouse involved at all.

[MOUSE:YES]

:P

That's not real mouse support. You can do a few select things via mouse, but not nearly close to what you really want to do with the mouse. You still need to know pretty much all of the hotkeys to get anything done.

That's more akin to mouse support in something like lazygit or certain things in SSH sessions.

The entire UI would need to be overhauled in Dwarf Fortress for proper mouse support.
Or, rather, there would have to be a UI to begin with, not just "beautified" ASCII. You know, with buttons 'n stuff.
Basically, it would have to become like a game that was released after 1980 ;)

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Now that the most important feature, animal petting, is in, maybe now they will have time to work on minor, unimportant stuff like.... F*CKING MOUSE SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I tried to play it. I even succeeded (well, as much as you can succeed until everyone goes mad).
But what a chore to play without mouse support.
I won't even take another look at it while this isn't in - which likely means I'll never take another look at it, I know.

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Quoting: KuJoGuys, the service is not even 90 days old!

In my eyes, that really is "whining." Because in my eyes, many things are seen in a wrong light and a perceived situation becomes reality.

And I encourage everyone to see for themselves. If you look at it you see the real shine and not just the black patina that is on the outside because of all the whining.

The problem lies with Google themselves, and people willing to look at how Google actually behaves now and how they did in the past figured that out by now.

Everybody (except Google, I guess) knows by now the service was started almost a year too early. Google had no need to push this thing out when they did - and they did it anyway.

This project has all the same markings as all the other failed Google projects from Google Plus, to Hangouts, to Glasses, to...
And where did all of those projects end up? Abandoned. And those are just the most famous ones.
Which is extremely likely the same fate that awaits Stadia.

Anyone wanting to spend money on Stadia - or rather, single games on Stadia - should know that they are spending money on something that might just cease to be usable based on how Google "feels" about it.
And since Stadia is (and rightfully so) getting mostly negative press and reactions by now, the chances of Google wanting to potentially sink even more resources aren't exactly high.

Google is quite simply the last company one should put their faith in when it comes to struggling projects.
They shoot out ideas and see what sticks and what doesn't. And Stadia clearly isn't very sticky.

That has nothing to do with whining, I sure wish the situation was different, it is just an accurate analysis of the situation. Spending money on it right now is just not a good idea.

And the reactions Stadia gets are also partly so sour because all of this would have been perfectly avoidable. This sinking ship situation was entirely unnecessary - and that does not inspire confidence, either.

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Ohh, I loved this back then.

Nowadays, the constantly wobbling faces are a tad bit too hilarious to take it serious, but I guess a remaster would fix that ;)

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Quoting: PhiladelphusFor those of us who can't easily do conversions from UTC in our heads, would it be possible in future articles to include a little widget or a link to somewhere than can do the time zone conversions? That'd be a nice quality-of-life addition. :)

Yeah, I think the standard time zones for most here are GMT (which is the same as UTC, I think?), EST and PST.

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Quoting: DuncAnd if it ends up wiping out half of humanity, you can learn how to escape in Kerbal Space Program. :D

While the rest can prepare via Fallout.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: BielFPs

Simplified Chinese the current most popular language on Steam.

I wonder how is the current status of Linux usage in the Asian market (Japan, China and South Korea). I think the Chinese one would be bigger if they had PUBG and LoL avaliable natively.

There is big potential for Linux in China. Due to the conflict between Trump and Huawei, the Chinese are threatening to drop Windows in all of the government offices [External Link]. Also WPS Office [External Link], that is the standard office suite for at least some government branches, already supports Linux [External Link] (and is really good actually). But until something more concrete happens, I don't think we will see a lot of Chinese Linux users.

Of course all of this is just conjecture. :S:

Biggest point keeping Chinese people from using Linux is the ridiculously bad support of... Chinese.
In every single Distro, it is a maddeningly hard thing to get even some support for Chinese typing going. Digging through many menus, reading through many guides, getting many failures as things are done radically different everywhere (so the chance the guide you are reading will completely work for you is very low)...
And even when you do manage to set up something, it is not up to speed with Chinese implementations on Mac or Windows.
ibus, fcitx, they are honestly all not only user unfriendly, but actively hostile to beings who are not tech heads themselves. I'm definitely a techie, and this is consistently catastrophic across all distros I ever used.

It truly shows you the worst effects of Linux's fragmentation. A single useful ibus-variant would be 10x better than all the crappy substitutes.

I see no way for this to change without a significant monetary investment to get professionals working on it beyond hobbyism.
Bit of a hen/egg problem. No Chinese users -> bad pinyin -> no Chinese users.

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