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Quoting: InterloperHonestly, after the Cuties incident [External Link], Netflix should not get any kind of publicity.

Nefarious and disgusting company. I hope they fail.

They made a terrible poster - let's not throw the whole company out over one bad marketing decision. If you have an issue with the movie itself, I suggest you read this [External Link] to at least get a picture of why it exists.

That defense is absolute hogwash. She is either dishonest and knew exactly what they were doing, or she seriously has the most flawed logic on this planet. [...]

Regardless of what you think of the film or the director, Netflix's part in this is that they picked up the feature film debut - the script for which had already won the Sundance Global Filmmaking Award - of a director whose previous short film won over 60 awards.
They are a media distribution company and this film certainly qualified as something that had a good chance of finding an audience, at least on paper.
Remember, they didn't produce it, they picked it up for international distribution and the defence you read in that article should give a decent indication as to what they intended to distribute, no matter how the film ended up connecting.

Anyway, games.

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Quoting: EikeJust when I thought: "Hey, don't we need a seventh cloud game streaming service!?!"

Considering how poor the global availability is of the current ones, some competition that might be able to reach other locations surely can't hurt :)

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Quoting: InterloperHonestly, after the Cuties incident [External Link], Netflix should not get any kind of publicity.

Nefarious and disgusting company. I hope they fail.

They made a terrible poster - let's not throw the whole company out over one bad marketing decision. If you have an issue with the movie itself, I suggest you read this [External Link] to at least get a picture of why it exists.

Anyway, back to games.

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Quoting: hardpenguinFirst thought: Wadjet Eye? YAY!
Second thought: horror? heck no, I'm scared

It's more of a surreal horror atmosphere, there aren't any actual scary scenes or moments (well, there's a dog bark - that's about it).
More Poe than King in other words :)

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I can confirm that this is worth your time. It's a very well written game, with gorgeous (squishy) art and an excellent, atmospheric soundtrack. The game is darkly philosophical and seems very personal, so expect more musings than action or flat out jokes (though there is humour here, however dark).

Disclaimer: I helped beta test the game, just in case that affects anyone's perception of what I wrote.

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We're nitpicking file names and build/port terminology now? Wow, how could any developer ever think we're a closed-off, dismissive group :whistle:

.exe means nothing. It's a convention, not really related to any technical choice. E.g. many Amiga programs are labelled .exe as well, even though that platform doesn't even use file names for mime types.
For games, it even makes somewhat sense to follow that convention so newcomers to Linux have an easier time knowing what's what.

build vs port: Yes, it's a native build which likely has seen parts of its code ported to run on Linux. As native build could also mean that they didn't port anything, but compiled against Wine, I think this phrasing actually makes things pretty clear. We all know what they mean here and the terms they use aren't even wrong, just short-hand. Give them a break.

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Finally! This was honestly the main reason I was looking to replace my RTX 2080 Ti with an AMD card; both Alyx and Elite: Dangerous are nausea-inducing without async reprojection, which really shouldn't have been the case on a rig like mine.

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Quoting: GuestThe noise in the trailer is unbearable :(.

You mean the distorted rhythmic bass element? While it's certainly characteristic, I didn't find it troublesome at all.
It wouldn't suffer much to be lowered 1-2dB though, so maybe that's something to suggest to them if it's actually causing you discomfort.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: nevvyThe article title makes it sound as if this was a proactive stance by github, whereas they are just mechanically following the DMCA protocols, as the original TF article clarifies.

Really not sure why you got that impression. It was very clearly noted that Theo got GitHub to restore it, not that GitHub did it to help anyone out. I've added another part to explain it even further.

I think it's just the title. "Github restores ..." does make it sound (on first glance) that they did it. Perhaps "Fork of .... restored on Github" would make it more obvious for the ones that don't actually read the article?

Anyway, good to see someone willing to fight this DMCA nonsense.

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(Kickstarter backer here)
It looks amazing and plays - functionally - well, but it is quite repetitive and has some really odd difficulty spikes when playing solo. For example, I can't get past the first stage as the level itself is so easy you could do it on autopilot, but the boss for the stage requires one to do timed shots against a ranged enemy while - another player probably - hacking down an increasing horde; doing both is probably possible, but it's way past my skill level and completely out of sync with the rest of the level.
There's also a limited amount of continues, so it's a lot of repeating the very-very-easy first part of the level over and over again in order to try to defeat the boss.

It's not a bad game as such, but it's not worth the asking price in its current state.

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