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Quoting: CyrilWhat is "silly" is what they did to Overwatch (the first one). I think I will never understand that move.
And about Blizzard as a whole, where is Warcraft IV? WoW II? Starcraft III?

You won't be getting a Warcraft IV ever; that's what World of Warcraft was/is.

But... it's not, WoW isn't an RTS and never will. We can't reduce a game solely on its lore, it's bullshit.
Don't you think it's sad?

We shouldn't be able to just reduce a game to its lore, but as is, that's what Blizzard has done. World of Warcraft is doing better than any singular Warcraft game did, so they aren't incentivized to go and do another. And the Warcraft team is basically wholly focused on WoW (and occasionally Hearthstone, but that's firmly intrenched in the "tangentially related" category).

A Starcraft 3 is more likely as an RTS entry, in this day and age. Especially with Microsoft as their overlords and breathing down their necks.

Thinking about WarCraft... an RTS WC4 is probably a production liability for Blizzard. Would make less than some WoW tokens or WoW mount or whatever, would cost much, MUCH more to make, would throw a wrench into the WoW content dev cycle, such as it is. It can't be a sequel to WC3, we already got that and the years of slop that followed it, it can't exactly be slotted into the WoW story, and it wouldn't be fun if it were some side-thing that WoW mostly ignores so there's a path forward for a WC5 should they want to ever make that. It's, like, work, man.

Not to mention I no longer trust Blizzard to make a decent game. 6 years they've been trying to remake WC3 into what that game was at launch. And failing. Perhaps the best WarCraft 4 is no WarCraft 4.

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Quoting: ArdjeDo not charge your anything if it can not ventilate.
My macbook refused to suspend which I didn't notice, and it committed harikiri with a 0load machine. No thermal throtlling. Just a dead hot piece of trash.

I had something close with the Steam Deck. It had an update, I turned it off and put it into the case. Some hours later I wanted to take it out - and turning off didn't work! (There was another update the next day, so I guess it was a bug.) That smelled of hot, nearly burned plastic...! It still works today, so lucky me. ("Luck in the bad luck", as a German saying goes.)

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Zombutcher also sounds like the fermented drink hipster zombies would drink.

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we can count html/web browsers as linux as well ;) ( i mean we can play those games)

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Looks interesting. Looks like a monster hunter style game, not sure why they opted to have heroes instead of sticking to classes though.

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I do like GOG, but I would be lying if I didn't say this wasn't off putting. It's a little frustrating to think that donations and purchases aren't even going to funding artists aswell.

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Quoting: JarmerAbsolutely love what S76 is doing with Cosmic. 🥰

Right now, a lot of people say "pick gnome or plasma" when installing distros and I can see a future a few years out where cosmic replaces gnome in that sentence.

I was actually thinking of trying out cosmic again but the github issue where the games aren't capturing the mouse and letting it go to second monitors is a deal breaker. So I'll patiently wait for epoch 2 / 3 / whatever.

I am really still missing some features. As the whole printing / scanning / cups implementation (that said, the gnome implementation is pretty bad too, KDE does a really good job there). Which I do understand why they didn't do yet. Cups being cups, and well.. who prints and scans stuff nowdays?. Except for me, of course.

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“The full single-player campaign must be playable offline..”

That there just became a huge marketing line with the current Stop Killing Games thing. They would be crazy to change their stance on that now.

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Hope it supports 4:3 so I can play it on the ole vga monitor, seems fitting

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Mavis Beacon, the next generation! :P

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So, implicitly . . . the game's objective is to kill your host and die? Is this, like, some kind of billionaire simulation?

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Quoting: Linux_RocksHopefully it's easy to make the populous happy, cause we don't need a bunch of Angry Beavers. 🦫

Soon you will have Hundreds of Beavers!

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awesome game! finished it just recently (and have like ~80h of gameplay… so innocent thing! :D)

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Quoting: ArdjeDo not charge your anything if it can not ventilate.

Charger goes into laptop.
Laptop goes under duvet at end of bed.
Toes stay toasty during sleepytime!

😜

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21:9 support, finally! I played HK in ultrawide in 2018 through the magic of hexediting hollow_knight.exe, kinda crazy it took this long to sort officially.
Kudos Team Cherry for continuing to support the game, some 9 years since release by now.

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Quoting: SzkodnixSo far the only good thing in Epic is that they got regional pricing right for me (or at least in Poland)

Similar here, where I live if a game has regional pricing it will most likely be around %50 cheaper on Epic. If it doesn't then Epic will have almost the exact same price Steam does but in the local currency instead (doesn't change the end cost)

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Quoting: F.UltraAnd I pointed out why I think different.

No, you acknowledged 2 claims. But your earlier statement was I contended only the first which I never did.

Quoting: F.UltraConsidering that you just replied to a list of reasons for why it wasn't about 30%, no.

A list in which you state: "[they] simply do not want to give Apple any money". So, yes, that's the whole point.

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Quoting: tmtvlSo long as GOG keeps using AI I'm not gonna buy games from GOG.

So long as Valve doesn't shut down the CS skin trading, doesn't reduce their 30% cut (and stops doing the stupid 'the more you sell the less you have to pay' nonsense), and doesn't stop ('allegedly') pressuring publishers to sell their games at the same price on other stores; I'm not gonna buy games on Steam.

So long as Epic doesn't stop buying exclusives I'm not gonna buy games on Epic.

So long as Itch doesn't properly re-index adult games and doesn't stop withholding payments from creators I'm not gonna buy games on Itch.

That leaves... er... Zoom? I'm sure I can find some controversy there as well.

Every platform has its issues, but at least GOG has an anti-DRM stance, which immediately makes it way better than Steam or Epic. If your feelings really are that strong, at least switch to Itch or Zoom, but don't come here to complain about GOG using AI and then go and buy games on Steam, because you're just being a hypocrite at that point. And for those who complain about 'IP theft', you don't know that they didn't use something like Adobe Firefly. Just going 'AI -> IP theft' is a clear sign you have no idea what you're talking about and are just looking for an excuse to put GOG down (and indirectly advocate in favour of current copyright law, which is horrible and stupid and should be reformed).

We humans have differing priorities each, as we are not exact clones of each other. It is a concept difficult to understand for bots.

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Been playing it for years. It's cute and pretty relaxing just watching your little beavers run around and there are no "enemies" or "evil" outside of starvation or sickness. It has some niggles and when you find a balance of food / water to beaver ratio it's pretty easy to just "sit and build" without worrying about food. Expansion and population growth is the hard balance to strike.

My only real problem with it is that the inter-city "trade" just doesn't work well / is buggy / should be smarter.

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Not going to lie, that was an awesome trailer.

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the city builder genre is always fascinating to me. There seems to be a never ending stream of eleventy billion releases per year in this genre, and I have a group of friends who are almost all active gamers, yet not a single one of them including me plays anything in this genre. LOL. I can only imagine the core dedicated players of this genre are just ravenous, and pick up a ton of releases. I guess if you're a fan, life must be beyond excellent.

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Absolutely love what S76 is doing with Cosmic. 🥰

Right now, a lot of people say "pick gnome or plasma" when installing distros and I can see a future a few years out where cosmic replaces gnome in that sentence.

I was actually thinking of trying out cosmic again but the github issue where the games aren't capturing the mouse and letting it go to second monitors is a deal breaker. So I'll patiently wait for epoch 2 / 3 / whatever.

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Hopefully it's easy to make the populous happy, cause we don't need a bunch of Angry Beavers. 🦫

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when I travel, I like to put my deck (inside its case) inside my backpack so I can play at the terminal, or on the plane. This would make that impossible, so while it seems like a great idea on paper, I think it's just too big for me.

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I bought a System76 laptop last year as I was teaching my trade at the local college.
I didn’t even try out Cosmic, I immediately installed Fedora KDE on it.

Does that make me a monster? 😂

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This looks like Gnome but without all the Bullshit.

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Quoting: tmtvlEvery platform has its issues, but at least GOG has an anti-DRM stance

eh, maybe im just getting tied up in word semantics but the word ' stance ' implies some kind of principled moral position. But in fact, it was just them carving a niche in a market that in any other way they could not compete. It was a financial business decision with the marketing aimed at "look see, we are authentic & care about freedom "

a 'Super ethical corp Inc' moment. Not so ethical now it seems.

(depending on your stance on 'Ai')

ohh and lets remind people that Valve have no hard 'stance ' on DRM games either. There are titles on Steam you can download and move from drive to drive without even launching steam and they will still run, on Linux.

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Do not charge your anything if it can not ventilate.
My macbook refused to suspend which I didn't notice, and it committed harikiri with a 0load machine. No thermal throtlling. Just a dead hot piece of trash.
Now that warning is out of the way:
If this has enough things to cool and ventilate, I would want it. My biggest problem with the steam deck I have when playing is that I want to lay it on my bed, which would block the fan ingress.

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Quoting: F.UltraHow one earth can you claim that I was misquoting people, this very quote below was your OP comment that I replied to:

I've already pointed out why.

And I pointed out why I think different.

Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: F.UltraNo the DSA is not fighting the power to take 30%, they are fighting the lock in, which is why they also have forced Apple to allow external app stores to be installed on iPhones in the EU. And ofc you can care about Apple's payment processing beyond the percentage that they take, perhaps you want to be able to sell in app items in countries where Apple does not conduct payments, perhaps you simply do not want to give Apple any money and might use another payment processor that takes an even higher cut (working in the Finance industry for 30 years I have seen many such cases so this is not as convoluted as it first sounds, some people/organizations simply are this way), and so on and on.

It's actually the DMA not the DSA, sorry for that mixup.

Emphasized by me: Exactly - challenging Apple's 30%.

Considering that you just replied to a list of reasons for why it wasn't about 30%, no.

Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: F.UltraGood luck trying to find that in their lawsuit (they are not), the only thing that they presents is in their FAQ where they claim that Valve is doing this with weasel wording trying to avoid the fact that is all about Steam Keys. We all went over this in 2024 when they filed it.

Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 127 Filed 03/23/23

204. TomG also explained to another game publisher that the publisher should “[t]hink critically about how your decisions might affect Steam customers, and Valve. If the offer you’re making fundamentally disadvantages someone who bought your game on Steam, it’s probably not a great thing for us or our customers (even if you don’t find a specific rule describing precisely that scenario).” In that same thread, TomG responded to a question by stating: “we usually choose not to sell games if they’re being sold on our store at a price notably higher than other stores. That is, we’d want to get that lower base price as well, or not sell the game at all.”

Valve's response Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 128 Filed 04/06/23

204. Valve admits that the quoted words appeared in forum postings. Valve denies the remaining allegations in paragraph 204.

Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 127 Filed 03/23/23

205. In response to one inquiry from a game publisher, in another example, Valve explained: “We basically see any selling of the game on PC, Steam key or not, as a part of the same shared PC market- so even if you weren’t using Steam keys, we’d just choose to stop selling a game if it was always running discounts of 75% off on one store but 50% off on ours. . . .”

Valve's response Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 128 Filed 04/06/23

205. Valve admits a Valve employee made the statement quoted in paragraph 205.

Thanks for those. I had for some reason misremembering these from the Wolfire papers in that is contains so many "Valve denies..." that in my memory they had denied all of it, apparently not.

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I really like the glass look. Looking forward ro it, even when I still need a proper atomic image to use it on top of ublue or bazzite (origami I don't like browsers installed on the system, you are more or less stuck with zen unless you layer).

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