I played Dino Run (I don't think it had "DX" in the title) as a Flash game a long time ago. If this is the same game, which it looks to be, I'm glad to see it preserved.

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Does it ban you if you install games with LGBTQ characters?

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Thankfully, Cloud Gaming fans still have the likes of GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud Gaming and Luna

Where do cloud gaming fans who don't like subscriptions go?

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I played the first half of this game on another platform. The dev didn't give me a Steam key, so I can't review it.

There was one plot hole in the second world that sapped my enjoyment of the game. I don't mind plot-holes in games like Super Mario Bros, where the story doesn't matter to the gameplay. But this game is pretty plot-heavy, so plot holes are a big deal.

The plot hole I'm thinking of is the part of the game where

Spoiler, click me

the protagonist sends a messenger to demand that a king free a bunch of slaves. The king is initially willing to free the slaves, but then the very same protagonist hardens the king's heart to make him refuse.

Did they fix this plot-hole in the Steam version? If so I might drop a few bucks to play it again. Otherwise I'll probably

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business model that Google had with you needing to buy full-price games was pretty much doomed.

The only thing wrong with the "business model" was that they completely failed to communicate what the buisness modal actually was.

Xbox Cloud and Luma require a subscription to use and you lose access to them completely if you ever cancel your subscription. Playstation Plus requires to to pay a subscription and buy an expensive piece of hardware. Geforce Now requires you to pay a subscription and buy games individually.

Stadia gave you a choice: either subscribe and get games as part of a subscription (but lose them if you cancel your subscription), or buy games individually and never have to pay a subscription. But that didn't matter, because potential customers couldn't figure out what it actually required (many people mistakenly thought it required both individual purchases and subscriptions.)

For example, exhibit A:

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Okay help me out here not being douchy why did you like a service where you have to pay to get the hardware pay to be a member then actually buy the game with craptastic prices

None of those were true. You didn't need to pay for hardware, and you had to either pay a subscription or buy the game on it's own, not both.

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For a split second I thought that giant green goblin with a crown was King K Rool from the Donkey Kong franchise.

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Quoting: Hohlraum

Quoting: belisamaSo this is using a QR code to log into the website? Ugh, what's the point of that, logging into a real website on a real computer is easy. With something like KeePass, it's just a few keystrokes. What would actually be useful is using QR codes to log into phone apps, instead of having to do a prolonged, error-prone hunt-and-peck.

What you are avoiding isn't just the username/pass. It's the 2-factor code (which is also a pain in the butt).

TOTP 2-factor authentication is not a pain if you use a good app (I use OTPClient and it just 2 extra clicks.)

Steam doesn't support TOTP though: they use their own nonstandard system. That seems like the real problem.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47I've been using Mint as my main distro since 2016, and this update was harder to install than either of the previous two major version updates. The upgrade script got stuck trying to update the deb package "context," (a dependency of texlive-full). I aborted mintupgrade and tried to run  sudo dpkg --configure -a
But that just got me stuck on the same package. Then after fiddling some more I tried using "sudo dpkg -r" to manually remove context and its reverse dependencies. Then I tried running mintupgrade again, but it got caught with an error saying "there are 1220 packages that need to be upgraded." Rather than upgrade them automatically, the mintupgrade program got stuck in a loop of telling me to upgrade deb packages until I aborted it and ran sudo apt upgrade...

...except my apt configuration had somehow been broken, so I was left with three packages that couldn't be upgraded. I tried mintupgrade again, and this time it got caught in a loop telling me "there are 3 packages that need to be upgraded." So I aborted again, apt purge'd those three packages, and then ran mintupgrade yet again. That time it worked. After rebooting, I reinstalled texlive-full.

The developers said mintupgrade was supposed to be more beginner-friednly than the upgrade process from Mint 18.3->19 or 19.3->20, but for me it was the opposite. It feels so disappointing, because I've liked almost every other mint-specific change in the last six years.

Now that I've actually finished upgrading, I really like it. I'm impressed that they managed to rebase Cinnamon on an almost completely different window manager and still preserve all the features I love, and I look forward to using this operating system base for the next two years. Hopefully they can iron out the bugs in mintupgrade before 2024.

Update:
The above post was for my laptop. I tried again on my desktop. This time, I started by uninstalling context, texlive-full, sagemath, and everything that was only pulled in as a dependency of those packages. Then I ran mintupgrade, and it worked without issues. I then reinstalled the troublesome packages.

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The store page on Steam doesn't wow me, but the description "Pong with gay aliens" wins me over. I gotta add this to my wishlist.

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I've been using Mint as my main distro since 2016, and this update was harder to install than either of the previous two major version updates. The upgrade script got stuck trying to update the deb package "context," (a dependency of texlive-full). I aborted mintupgrade and tried to run  sudo dpkg --configure -a
But that just got me stuck on the same package. Then after fiddling some more I tried using "sudo dpkg -r" to manually remove context and its reverse dependencies. Then I tried running mintupgrade again, but it got caught with an error saying "there are 1220 packages that need to be upgraded." Rather than upgrade them automatically, the mintupgrade program got stuck in a loop of telling me to upgrade deb packages until I aborted it and ran sudo apt upgrade...

...except my apt configuration had somehow been broken, so I was left with three packages that couldn't be upgraded. I tried mintupgrade again, and this time it got caught in a loop telling me "there are 3 packages that need to be upgraded." So I aborted again, apt purge'd those three packages, and then ran mintupgrade yet again. That time it worked. After rebooting, I reinstalled texlive-full.

The developers said mintupgrade was supposed to be more beginner-friednly than the upgrade process from Mint 18.3->19 or 19.3->20, but for me it was the opposite. It feels so disappointing, because I've liked almost every other mint-specific change in the last six years.

Now that I've actually finished upgrading, I really like it. I'm impressed that they managed to rebase Cinnamon on an almost completely different window manager and still preserve all the features I love, and I look forward to using this operating system base for the next two years. Hopefully they can iron out the bugs in mintupgrade before 2024.

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