Quoting: slaapliedjeIs it weird how much I want to just write an entire thesis on how Gilgamesh and Hercules are so similar that many of the key story points for the two could be assumed that Hercules likely stole a lot of elements from Gilgamesh, or in fact the hero stories of the Greeks just expanded on the original Sumerian?

And why do we assume that Gilgamesh is original, and not simply a collection of earlier myths and stories that were never written down?

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Quoting: emphyWhich still doesn't quite answer the question of why it isn't in the drm-free version of the game.

Could be simply because it's a free DLC on Steam and Sega decided there's no money in it. Or maybe because of worse regional availability controls on GOG and they didn't want to worry about gambling regulations in some region that GOG serves? We can only speculate unless you can get a statement directly from Sega.

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Quoting: emphyWhatsup with that? Does the pachislot machine happen to be a place where one can gamble away real money, either directly or via in-game fantasy currency?

I read about this at some point and asked a coworker who is a fan of the series, and they told me it's just a rather pointless Japanese-style slot machine minigame where you can win items that can all be obtained elsewhere. I don't mind fun minigames, but this one sounds like a waste of time to me.

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If that's their take on Pinky, I don't want to see the Brain.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: legluondunetHow do you install Gamescope on Ubuntu 24.04? Package is available throw official Ubuntu depots?

it is in multiverse:

 
f.ultra@Sineya:~$ apt-cache policy gamescope
gamescope:
  Installerad: 3.12.3-1
  Kandidat:    3.12.3-1
  Versionstabell:
 *** 3.12.3-1 500
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
f.ultra@Sineya:~$ 

The above on a 23.10

As of yet, the gamescope package doesn't seem to be available for 24.04 according to packages.ubuntu.com.

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Quoting: Vortex_Acherontic

Quoting: JarmerWhat exactly is "frame pacing" ...?

Usually frames are rendered in sequence 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...
Frame paceing means frames are displayed in the wrong order.

1,3,2,5,4,7, and so forth.

That's actually worse than simply bad frame pacing, and thankfully less common. What frame pacing actually means is how smoothly and consistently frames are rendered. Bad pacing causes fluctuating frame times, resulting in choppiness or microstutter.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: legluondunetWhat distribution you will advice for gaming?

Not Mint. I love Mint, I use Mint, but Mint is not a serious gaming platform--all its stuff is old, and although I'm sure there are ways to make all the relevant stuff be up to date it's probably a pain. Luckily for me I don't play the kind of game that needs you to be up to the minute.

I run a fresh kernel and the latest stable Mesa from a PPA, but I don't see why games would care about anything else. I suppose one might want to play around with gamescope and Wayland etc, and you'll get the new bells and whistles quicker on some other distro, but no game actually requires that stuff as far as I know. I think Mint is a perfectly fine distro for most gamers.

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Quoting: basedIts the company that made me hate zombie games, and I still don't want ANYTHING zombies anymore. Dead Island 1 and Dying Light were a suffer to go through with bad gameplay design and glitches.

I don't generally enjoy Zombie games, but I thought Dying Light was well worth finishing. And "The Following" DLC was even better than the base game. I don't remember having any major problems with the native Linux release either.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeA lot of the original work on Mesa started on an Amiga...

Are you sure? I don't remember this being the case, and I don't see any mention of Amiga on the project's history page.

EDIT: Found this, written by Mesa's original author here:

QuoteMesa was originally designed for Unix/X11 systems and is still best supported on those systems. All you need is an ANSI C compiler and the X development environment to use Mesa.

Others have contributed drivers for the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, and Windows 95/NT. See the README file included with the Mesa distribution for more details.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThis is the ONLY Stardust I will recognise.......

My preference:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/

No, this is Stardust.

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