Quoting: xavi

Quoting: xaviMaybe I'm confused but seeing the Top Contributors, there are 500$ contributors and a 3000$ contributor... aren't we collaborating to money laundering of ACLU?

I explain a bit better my comment:

What I mean is... if I collaborate in the bundle, of course I will put the money on MSF. But lots of people from the government will use the bundle to money laundering sending "white money" to ACLU. So, individually, most of us will help MSF and this is really good thing, but the whole platform can be used to wash money related to political campaigns.

I live in Spain, here lots of people from government received 2*500 euros (black money) in exchange for donating 1000 euros. You can translate this news:

http://valenciaplaza.com/exasesores-del-pp-revelan-presiones-para-donar-1000-euros-que-les-devolverian-en-billetes-de-500 [External Link]
http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20160129/exasesores-del-pp-valencianos-revelan-presiones-para-donar-1000-euros-les-devolverian-billetes-500/1292885.shtml [External Link]
http://www.abc.es/espana/comunidad-valenciana/abci-exasesora-pp-destapa-trama-blanqueo-negue-1000-euros-porque-turbio-201602021238_noticia.html [External Link]

That's an interesting scheme, though in that case those were donations to a political party, if I read it correctly? I don't know anything about the ACLU, though, so it might be comparable. Edit: I did my homework, so I will strike that. I'm however not implying that the @xavi is right about that; just that there seems to be a political connotation to the ACLU. In a country that's not mine, furthermore; and I dislike the idea of involving myself in abroad politics.

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Quoting: lucinoswill be playable from linux terminal? If not, I am loosing a lot of interest because that would be awesome!

That's the big question for me as well. Playing it from the VT would be awesome!

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Quoting: GuestI'm not giving money to charities anymore, a lot of them are just first world puppets supporting imperialism.

If i want a game i want to pay the developers, if i want to be hypocritical and think i'm a good person by giving money to charities i can donate directly, but not for games.

Well, I give to Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without borders). I have met a few doctors who work for them, and they really need every donation we can afford to make.
It has already been mentioned in the comments, and I can confirm it's not sketchy.

This bundle looks interesting. I already own most of these games, but some are interesting enough that I think I will take it. Overgrowth, for example. Plus, I'm not against giving to charity. Congratulations to the developers for giving their games to support a good cause.

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Quoting: GuestI'm ready to see thousands of crappy Visual Novels on Steam. But i'm not ready to see female nipples on them.

To be fair, while I agree on the principle, they would have to make their guidelines consistent. For now, there is a thin line between what's pornographic and what isn't. I seem to recall that this issue was briefly touched during Gabe's last AMA.

For example, you have games such as Genital Jousting, Watchdogs 2 and the Witcher (3). I don't see why nipples should be banned from visual novel while being allowed in the Witcher. I think it's a matter of consistency. But that's not an easy one, to say the least.

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Quoting: Lenno121trust microsoft to eff up something! just because linux is a better os, microsoft want to cripple its success!

Uh? For this particular story at least, the launcher got ported. One of the devs at least was using Arch Linux, and asked for missing dependencies. There's even an official AUR.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/minecrafts-new-launcher-is-now-available-on-linux.8939

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Quoting: TheRiddickWondering if the GL Threading patch that's being worked on could help this title since its CPU bounded pretty hard?

Actually, I would really be interested in CPU consumption on Windows. If it's the same as on Linux, it means that Aspyr simply did their best, but if it has multi-threading, it means that Aspyr could really do better with their ports.

Check out this image I putted in my first post on page 1. There is no way a FX8350 would be on par with a Core i7 4770k if the game is only mono-thread in Windows. And pay attention to the i7 in the top spot, is a 8 core part, like the one Liam uses.

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To be fair, this looks pretty CPU bound, so it's likely to be monothreaded as well.
On the other hand, AMD CPUs aren't *that* bad in my experience.

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Quoting: Asuargh still need to finish V first...

Finish Civilization? Fool. Civilization finishes you!

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Mesa 12.0.1

What year is it? 2015? :P

Thank you for the interview, Liam, Michael. This sheds some light on the porting process of this title.

As for the star wars titles, One of my personal favorites would be Star wars Galactic battlegrounds :wub:
But I'm afraid that it's not going to happen.
It's still a favorite regardless ^^

Edit: Also, regarding SPIR-V shaders, having them in a binary format does not magically removes the need for optimization, as different cards have different architectures. Plus, some optimizations are only available at runtime (video settings, etc). As I see it, most of the optimizations that can be performed on SPIR-V could be done on GLSL as well. I believe that radeonsi benefits from quite a lot of llvm optimizations, however. Then, it's a tradeof with compilation time, but there are some ways to mitigate this, such as asynchornous compilation (First pass without optimizations, then recompile later and change the shader), shader cache, etc.

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Quoting: STiATEither they've designed the engines extremely well from the start up to make it not too complicated, or they're really investing a lot of time even in their old titles.

From the thread, it looks like it's someone's side project that's coming to fruition.

I also gathered some important (to me) information: It seems that SS fusion will be a new game that every owner of the other SS games will receive, and they will be able to play every level from the games they own from this "gateway", on the new engine.
2017 is also part of their new versioning scheme for their engine, it looks like they adopted something a bit more similar to a rolling model. They probably decoupled even more the different parts of their games: game logic, graphics engine, etc.

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Quoting: M@GOidMultithread is bad in OpenGL? Well, call me skeptical on that.

Anyway, 4A and Feral did it, so technically OpenGL is not blocking a multicore CPU utilization in Civilization VI.

A GL context is bound to a thread, IIRC, so you have to dispatch the calls yourself.

Any word on the Digital Deluxe edition vs. the regular one? It's quite a bit more expensive, and I don't know if I will play the game that much. Does it includes the two already released DLCs?

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