Announced recently at the Microsoft E3 conference, "The Last Night" is a "post-cyberpunk", pixel art adventure game inspired by Flashback and Blade Runner that blends traditional pixel art with 3D composition giving the game a very cinematic look. While the game's website doesn't directly mention Linux, the trailer and the game's Steam page clearly mentions SteamOS as one of the target platforms.
The game is described as an alternate take on the cyberpunk genre, based on a 6-day prototype from 2014's #cyberpunkjam (playable on Linux), with the following text providing the outline of the story:
While this does sound like an interesting take on cyberpunk, paired with tweets from a few years ago by one of the game's creators, Tim Soret, it might not be something everyone is entirely comfortable with. Rock, Paper, Shotgun has collected the relevant links if you want to know more.
No matter the influence or importance of those tweets, this sure looks like a game to keep an eye on. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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The game is described as an alternate take on the cyberpunk genre, based on a 6-day prototype from 2014's #cyberpunkjam (playable on Linux), with the following text providing the outline of the story:
QuoteHumans first knew the era of survival. Then they knew the era of work. Now they live in the era of leisure. Machines have surpassed human labour not only in strength, but in precision, intellect, and creativity. Stabilised by universal income, people struggle to find their calling or identity, and define themselves by what they consume, rather than what they create.
The Last Night immerses you in the everyday life of Charlie, a second-class citizen living in a city brimming with augmentation and citizens living a gamified existence — none of which Charlie can experience himself due to a childhood accident. Apathetic and disheartened by the seemingly pointless world around him, Charlie is presented with an opportunity to take matters into his own hands. But at what risk?
While this does sound like an interesting take on cyberpunk, paired with tweets from a few years ago by one of the game's creators, Tim Soret, it might not be something everyone is entirely comfortable with. Rock, Paper, Shotgun has collected the relevant links if you want to know more.
No matter the influence or importance of those tweets, this sure looks like a game to keep an eye on. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Communism doesn't actually fail hard.Tell that to the 100Million people killed by Stalin.
I never wrote that??
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Wow, looks incredible! Flashback and Out of this World were two of my favorite games as a child.
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Communism doesn't actually fail hard.Tell that to the 100Million people killed by Stalin.
Care to give a credible source that Stalin killed 100 million people?
http://historyofrussia.org/stalin-killed-how-many-people/
This list the number of deaths associated with Stalin's dictatorship is 20 million according to this source.
Many of the deaths caused by his rule was of indirect causes e.g malnutrition and starvation.
Of course there is disagreement on how many deaths, but nowhere do I see the number 100 million.
I would like to know if you believe that democracy with possibly capitalism is going to be mainstream or global political systems of the future, e.g after automation and AI and robotics have basically disrupted our entire civilisation?
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Would be great if this site could just not parttake in the outrage-baiting "cleanse the industry of wrongthing" nonsense at all.
I don't understand what this means? "cleanse the industry of wrongthing"?
I misspelled "wrongthink".
I'm referring to the shitstorm on Twitter and on sites like Polygon. Ben Kuchera refused to even ask Soret for a statement in his hitpiece (one of many) on the guy because he has "super shitty views that directly hurt other people" while some developers from other companies called him "garbage" and worse, threatened to torrent and seed his game and called for outright, ideological vetting of colleagues, McCarthy-era style.
All this over a couple of years-old tweets that aren't even inflammatory or hateful.
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Guys, keep the comments clean please.
Too late mate.
Abandon thread.
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Communism doesn't actually fail hard.Tell that to the 100Million people killed by Stalin.
Niggling about ludicrous totals aside, Stalin was certainly a very bad dude and certainly a boss of a Communist country/empire.
Hitler was also a very bad dude who also killed lots of people and was certainly the boss of a Capitalist country.
I don't infer anything in particular about the characteristics of Capitalism from Hitler, it would be silly. Similarly, it does not tell us anything about the characteristics of Communism to shout "But Stalin!!1!"
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I'd agree that there seems little chance the uberwealthy are going to be willing to share any of their stuff, that they will in fact go to extreme lengths to avoid having to do so, and indeed are already demonstrably willing to live with the recessions and instability that accompany lack of demand in the economy as long as their share gets more lopsided.
indeed. Capitalism is just a tool that once again is corrupted by human nature via Corporatism. No system is perfect.
Communism doesn't actually fail hard. It's not a system I support but there's no reason to be unrealistic, pretending it failed hard is just American mythmaking
Communism is an idealistic system which on paper offers many things that other systems do not. But the issue is that the paper is burned by the basic desires and drives of human nature which cannot be avoided. Even an ideal system can be flawed if everyone is not willing to play by the same exacting rules.. it's the enforcement of those rules that has caused many millions of deaths and low standards of living.
There is no perfect system.
I don't think I have a huge argument with that. I would want to claim that there can be systems better than either Capitalism or Communism, although these would still not be perfect.
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Communism doesn't actually fail hard.Tell that to the 100Million people killed by Stalin.
I never wrote that??
No, pretty sure that was me. You are being unjustly impugned, my friend.
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lucifertdark Jun 15, 2017
It does actually, it proves Communism isn't a good thing to be involved with.Communism doesn't actually fail hard.Tell that to the 100Million people killed by Stalin.
Niggling about ludicrous totals aside, Stalin was certainly a very bad dude and certainly a boss of a Communist country/empire.
Hitler was also a very bad dude who also killed lots of people and was certainly the boss of a Capitalist country.
I don't infer anything in particular about the characteristics of Capitalism from Hitler, it would be silly. Similarly, it does not tell us anything about the characteristics of Communism to shout "But Stalin!!1!"
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It does actually, it proves Communism isn't a good thing to be involved with.It doesn't because Stalinism does not reflect Communism as the whole. Stalin's regime for example, had one-party state, thing that doesn't define most of the Communism.
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