I'll consider this price increase as sign from my wallet to stop buying game until the economy stabilized.

I'd like to say thanks to Factorio, CK2, ETS2, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Starsector, Endless Sky, Streets of Rogue, Slay the Spire, and various roguelike, retro games and open source games that will accompany me in this trying times :grin:.

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my SteelSeries headset no longer worked. No matter what I tried, following guide after guide about PipeWire, nothing helped.

Huh, I thought I was the only one to face this issue, since every guides and wiki that I found only sing praises about PipeWire. In my case, my headset and speaker works properly after boot, then randomly stop working later. Sometimes it stop working several minutes after boot, sometimes several days after.

I'm planning to move to new distro, but I'm really, really lazy right now :neutral:.

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As far as I know, sanctions are supposedly done to punish a regime. It's an effective way to mounting pressure to a regime or warlord without having to do a full blown war. Unfortunately, since there are people living under the rules of said regime, obviously they will be affected by the sanctions as well.

With that said, while I feel sorry for Russians people, I agree with some of the sanctions and bans:

• Banning Russia from payment system can be used to prevent oligarch to run or funnel their money. Same with freezing their assets.
• Banning some exports to Russia for vital products like semiconductors, cement, iron etc is understandable as well since those can be used by Russia to enforce their military.
• Blocking some Russian account from social media, while a bit icky for me, is understandable as well to prevents propaganda from Russia government.

However banning people from purchasing game is not only useless but also evil. Who does GOG think purchasing their games? Putin? The oligarch? The military?

I understand GOG as Polish company wants to contribute to Ukrainian people, but banning purchase is not a way to go. This is why while I don't support pirating apps, I still believe it needed in this world.

Quoting: SamsaiSo, if the citizens are unhappy, they should know well who to send their complaints.

Aren't there already a lot of demonstration in Russia? According to Reuters [External Link] there are already 5,500 peoples detained since the start of invasion.

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In my case, I only buy from Steam because of the regional pricing. Without Steam's regional pricing, the cost of gaming is too expensive for me so my only choice is either to stop gaming or pirate the game (which almost impossible in Linux).

If GOG start using regional pricing then I might start buying from them. Until then, I'll keep on using Steam.

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Quoting: tuubiSomehow I doubt that it's the flexibility of the UI/UX that made Windows and Android successful. It certainly was never a big selling point for Windows.

While it's not their main selling point, I think Windows is quite flexible, at least for ordinary people:

• User can change the theme and wallpaper.
• There are no shortage of applications for Windows, and the installation can be done really easy.
• All hardware are compatible with Windows.
• Windows has a good backward compatibility, so even app from 30 years ago still usable and perfectly running in Windows 10 (my dad for some reasons hate Excel and still uses Lotus 123).

Quoting: tuubiAlso, a developer thinks their project's approach is better than that of competing projects? Oh my...

Isn't that ... normal?

I mean why would developers make a new competing project if they thought that the old approach are good enough. Thanks to this we have so many competing distros and JS frameworks, which honestly pretty annoying but give us freedom to choose.

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It's part of why I ended up moving from GNOME to KDE myself, that flexibility of setting it all up how I want it to be, not how designers think it should be.

It also helps that the designers in KDE know their stuff. The default Breeze theme is really great, and since migrating to KDE several years ago I never bothered to change the theme.

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Quoting: g000hAh. Well, if that is the case - i.e. Not being able to Quit the Game at any point, and return to the dungeon where you left it. That's not a Save Point, as such.

Ah yeah, that's correct. I should choose a better term.

Quoting: g000hAre you saying that Stoneshard doesn't allow you to quit out?

Yes, at least according to the most helpful negative review on Steam.

I'm kinda curious why they decided to create save point in traditional roguelike game. The common save system in roguelikes that I've played are :

• Save after every move (Pixel Dungeon and CDDA)
• Save after changing area (ToME)
• Save before quit

Besides the save system, another pain point is the movement in this game is slow since they need to animate the movement. While this make the game looks beautiful, it's become annoying when the save point is 5 minutes far. If they decided to keep save point I hope at least they add some kind of auto-travel like ToME.

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Quoting: scaineI'm pretty gobsmacked that they added all this new content, but didn't fix the one thing that's dragging their Steam reviews down.

And if you look at their roadmaps it seems there are no plan to fix the save system (at least until 2021) :sad:

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Has the save system been fixed ?

I really want to love it, but the last time I tried it the game only allow to save at some designated point. I think it's fine for games with fast paced movement like Dark Souls and Hollow Knight, but it's too cumbersome for turn-based roguelike game like this.

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I give up playing on Factorio for now. Right now I'm trying to play traditional roguelike. I love traditional roguelike because most of them has been developed for so long and quite slow paced thanks to its turn-based nature. Unfortunately, most of them are heavy on text and control so I always bounced out from it.

Fortunately, thanks to modern roguelike like Pixel Dungeon and Tangledeep I feel ready to take on the more classic one. With that said I've been playing Tales of Maj'eyal for several hours. It's quite fun, not as beautiful as Tangledeep but still intuitive with deeper mechanic.

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