Bioshock. Such a brilliant game. Engrossing atmosphere and gameplay, great music, and a strong story. Probably about half-way through the game now. Those Big Daddies sure are tough buggers though. Blink, and you wake up in a Vita chamber (after having died).

Once I'm done with it, I'll try to get Bioshock Infinite running on Linux as well.

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Sounds cool. And I love the Settlers 2. Okay, I do play the 10th year edition as it's such a great remake, and like to replay the campaign every few years. Love those little guys standing on their heads and whatnot :heart: Also, the Vikings campaign is excellent, in some ways even better than the original.

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Update: The bundle has been a huge success so far and many more developers have submitted their projects. We've added a new round of games & more. All previous and future buyers get instant access. There are now 1,000 projects included.

Wow!

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Quoting: Liam DaweThe comments have been cleaned up, again.

As stated earlier, there's no room for inflammatory comments or racism here. There is a clear link to our rules above the comments box I suggest everyone familiarise themselves with and we do moderate. If people post stuff that's clearly aimed to antagonise then do not quote them! Report them by hitting the flag icon and leave them. You make our jobs harder when you keep quoting such comments.

Aha, so this is why the thread had a surprising lack of vitriol. Thanks.

Let's hope this "rebellion" brings real change this time. Feels like we've gone through this cycle every few years, and then nothing really happens.

As a huge sidepoint, Michael Jackson has a few songs that are glorious right now.

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Played this as an adult too, for hours upon hours, and it was still a ton of fun. The Corsix version wasn't all that great back then (a few years ago), and I recall we couldn't place heaters properly and they took up a whole square instead of part of one, as in the original game. That probably works properly now, though.

A great game :)

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Quoting: TuxeeReally? Showing an image of a flatpak package to prove the bloatedness of a snap? Really? (Besides I can't find a XNView snap to see whether this is different.)

Ah yes. Another sinister conspiracy...

Maybe read what I posted then, instead of barking up wrong trees. With bloat I always talked about the hilariously ill-named flatpaks. I have never used Snaps and don't intend to, so have no idea if these are bloated too or if the downsides are more about the Canonical lock-in.

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We can speculate as much as we like as to why but we may never really know what's going on.

Probably due to Microsoft employees working from home :whistle:

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Here is an example of what I mentioned earlier. And I've tried to install such things in the past and it did indeed take up an enormous amount of space - wildly more than the actual program does. I don't like bloatware, and you'll be hard pressed to find bigger bloat than this. Are the sticking the entire Linux OS in there or what the hell?



If you download the program from their website, the deb is ~50 MB and the AppImage ~80 MB. And this isn't even the most egregious example. I've seen +2000% as well, maybe even more. It's totally absurd. I much prefer to download from the repo, or directly, or from a PPA that I can instantly disable afterwards.

Snap sounds even worse, but in different ways, so I'm very happy about Mint doing the right thing here and ensuring the safety and interests of their users. If people absolutely want snap, you can manually install the stuff.

Not the first time Canonical has done something dodgy -- and surely not the last time.

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Great news. Keep that filth out of our otherwise free systems. People who like bloatware and lock-down can stick with Windows and Macs.

Hardly a fan of "flat"pak either. Instead of installing something that usually takes 50 MB for example, it takes 1.9 GB. Errr, no! :crazy:

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Quoting: scaineI guess it does annoy me a little when people complain about free to play games because of grind. I'm not sure what those people were expecting? That a good sized dev studio will just, year on year, rattle out free content for the masses? Of course there's grind! Of course you bypass it with money!
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Similarly, Warframe. Similarly, Path of Exile. And probably many others. I don't think you get to complain about end-game content in a free to play if you haven't actually spent any money to support the developers.

Or, well, sure complain away. I'm just not really going to pay it much heed.

And none of this is really aimed at you, Pangaea. The only bit I really disagreed with you on was the word "technically" in your original post! It's definitely free to play and I got an enjoyable 30 hours on it before moving on.

From that perspective (first quoted), I can understand your frustration. I was frustrated with such posts too at times, when people complained there weren't enough free tabs or things like that. So then you may be glad to hear that I did in fact pay for the game. I bought various stashes for around 40$ I believe, so roughly what I may spend on a normal game. And with how much I played it at the time, that definitely felt needed, because the game was throwing various items (especially currency and league needed items) at us like confetti, and often had low stack numbers, meaning trying to keep control of this in the few stashes we get by default was an impossible game of Tetris. But I liked the game at the time, so had no big problems with paying for it.

Ultimately my beef is with what @Patola mentioned, though. The game itself is designed around these limitations to push people to pay for it, and micro transactions up and down the wazoo. But perhaps even worse, which doesn't touch on the free to play and suchlike aspects, is that the game itself has such immense levels of grind, and kinda boring gameplay, because you ultimately just zoom around the screen and hit right-click a few times a second, and watch the screen die. Until you suddenly get one-shot out of the blue and lose 10% of your XP. Yeah, that's fun. Now you need to grind for 5+ hours to get back to where you were, as long as you don't randomly die again (and those who have played it a ton will know how randomly this can be, there is zero chance to react).

There were many reasons I stopped playing the game, but the main one was the design of the gameplay, that felt more like terribly boring monotonous work rather than fun. And things were getting worse, not better, which ultimately drove me away.

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