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I'm sorry, what? 75€ for the DLC for a game that's about to be de-listed is absolutely bonkers.
Where's my "going out of business" sale?

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Not that I necessarily mind but can anyone tell me, is this normal?

It's a standard package management thing that if a version of a package is losing support for whatever reason then having that package will instead pull in a newer version that does have support. You won't normally be moved between branches otherwise.

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Ahhh, hardly anyone remembers the original TV show

You are absolutely correct! While i LOVED the Film (i tried to build those ships from cardboard and stuff), the series was awful. But i really jumped when i heard that Ron Moores version had an Adama played by the former boss of Tubbs and Crocket (my favourite Miami Vice character). And hell did he deliver. All of them, which must have been fantastic for Richard Hatch, who fought a long time to give this universe a proper end.

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And a return to a quicker release schedule on top.

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I had the oddest and quite unexpected thing happen to me with the Nvidia drivers on the previous update. I used the PPA as recommended in Liam's guide to get the 550 series. The last update to my 550 driver automatically installed and shifted me to the 580 driver. Not that I necessarily mind but can anyone tell me, is this normal?

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@Leahi84

I saw the original 70s one when I was a kid, but only as re-runs.

I saw the original series during its first run. I think my parents even took me to see the movie at the theatre.

@Purple Library Guy
Sudden axe, in my opinion. For me, the original series was great right until the last episode. The follow-up series, Galactica 1980, in the other hand, was horrible. A lot of people look on that series as the final season of the original. I prefer to ignore it.

As to the reimagined series, it was not made for my generation. I just couldn't get into it. I wanted the shiny cylons that looked like knights wearing armor, not this The Thing borrowed cylon that looked just like any other human being. I never made it past the initial miniseries. But the series was huge with the twenty-somethings that worked for me -- as big as Babylon 5 was for my cohort when I was in my twenties.

@Liam Dawe
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'll probably grab some of the "season 1" DLCs from GOG before Nov. 15th.

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I found today that long posts in the activity page are shortened with a link to read more. Love it. There were games I took off my watch list due to too long news postings.

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Hope they find the issue with wake-on-bluetooth, but also hope they fix the dock problems so I don't have to constantly connect/disconnect the HDMI when turning the Deck on.

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Ahhh, hardly anyone remembers the original TV show . . . and deservedly so! After the original movie, which at the time seemed almost as big as the original Star Wars, they did a TV show, which was actually not bad for a while, but sank deeper and deeper in cheese as it went along until I gave up. I don't know how it ended, or if it really ended at all as opposed to getting a sudden axe.

I saw the original 70s one when I was a kid, but only as re-runs.

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I'm still on it, would like to have more time to play. The difficulty is no big issue for me. It slows my progress but I wouldn't give up because of it.

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This looks as if it could be a sequel to [Alphabear](https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear/). I actually checked to see if it is the same developer. Alphabear is a big hit in the family, it works well for kids and adults equally. I'll watch this.

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Ahhh, hardly anyone remembers the original TV show . . . and deservedly so! After the original movie, which at the time seemed almost as big as the original Star Wars, they did a TV show, which was actually not bad for a while, but sank deeper and deeper in cheese as it went along until I gave up. I don't know how it ended, or if it really ended at all as opposed to getting a sudden axe.

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^ I had the good fortune of watching the show after a good friend of mine went through the entire thing. He told me exactly specifically where to stop watching and just consider that the end, and not watch the actual end. I was so glad for that!

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Is there anyway to download games from Leagacy Games on Linux?

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How well does crossover handle the newer microsoft offices these days?

Fifteen years ago, it handled office2000 very well, only problem being the help function.

You can only run up to Office 2016 in Crossover, everything above that is not possible to run through Wine, you need a VM, Winapps, Winboat, or a Windows Docker Container for that
I use this https://github.com/eylenburg/linoffice which works pretty well, it auto installs everything for you, and you can then simply launch Office like a native app with full Linux integration

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Of course the DLC isn't on sale on Steam where I already have a copy of the game.

I loved most of the show, but the ending still infuriates me. They went through all that hell just to decide to live like cavemen (and why did Apollo get to make that decision for everyone, and why did nobody dispute his decision?), and the whole God thing was ridiculous. It just annoys me so much. I get that it's just a show, but the ending was just so illogical. Also, making Starbuck an angel was stupid. I can never watch that show again because of all that nonsense.

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This game is tough to compare to other games, since it had insane levels of hype and wishlists, but I do wonder how many people gave up on it (as I did) simply due to frustrating difficulty. Are we a minority or a majority? Not sure.

Maybe it can be estimated by the percentage of achievements? Of course, some being in the game will still play on, but it might give a hint.

(I had a case with a point and click where you could choose the level to play. There was a certain amount of people who wanted to see the ending, but not play through all levels...)

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but I do wonder how many people gave up on it

Check the player chart in steamdb. I would expect anyone to take 2-3 weeks to finish the game (unless you're speedrunner type) but you can see a steady drop off in the first month. Now it's stable around 30k.

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Now I will download it to my NAS and own it forever! Mwuhahaha!

That's good of course, but usually you can still download the game after is has been "delisted".

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This game is tough to compare to other games, since it had insane levels of hype and wishlists, but I do wonder how many people gave up on it (as I did) simply due to frustrating difficulty. Are we a minority or a majority? Not sure.

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You know it's some ultra shitty lawyer reason / publisher reason for this. When this kind of thing happens, I really wish one of the old devs would anon drop a torrent with all of it and share it on bluesky or whatever, just to keep it alive.

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I had it on Steam but bought it on GOG. With all DLC.

Now I will download it to my NAS and own it forever! Mwuhahaha!

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Ehvis, that's just how procedural generation works. I suppose there could be value in a Terraforged-style world creation menu which allows you to see in what kind of biome you spawn with what kind of terrain around you; but I have, at several points, created a new world in Minecraft only to be dumped in the middle of a massive ocean where it took me over a full Minecraft day to find land (I may have just randomly chosen the wrong way to go, but point still stands). I have also spawned in stone (and there are others who had that experience. I believe one of Kikoskia's Hardcore Minecraft series had him spawn in stone so that video was made an outtake), on islands without any trees, and, if I remember correctly, in a surface lava lake.

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How well does crossover handle the newer microsoft offices these days?

Fifteen years ago, it handled office2000 very well, only problem being the help function.

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Re: "The Eyes" - this is why I rarely use my Deck and why the only type of game I have on my phone is chess!

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There's literally a 5 hours free trial and you get invited by a friend to try the game with friend pass.
And as mentioned if you bought it on steam, you can always refund it.

I was not aware on The Crew Motorfest, as I said, I have seen very little about the game. Thanks, I'm gonna give it a try, seems to be in that sweet spot of semi arcade semi simulation.

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I did a quick try of VoxeLibre and I don't think it will be replacing minecraft any time soon. In my short try I saw two major issues:

1. New player experience is pretty bad. If you don't know what you're doing, you're going to have a hard time.

2. World generation. This can be split into how it looks and how appropriate it is. I'm not a fan of how it looks. It feels too unnatural. But I suppose this is subjective. The practical aspects are a much bigger issue. First try: I got spawned on the slope of a giant mountain sticking out of the water with a few patches of ice around. Traversing it was a pain, so I quit and generated a new one. Now I got spawned in what looked like a desert. I need wood. Trees? No trees. Started running and found a town. A partially destroyed town because the world generator decided to generate a crevice right through it. Still no trees. Run further. After a while I find a second town. Also partially destroyed. After that town I finally saw the first tree. By then it was night of course.

As long as stuff like that happens, the majority of people will not be taking it seriously.

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When Pi 500+ becomes available in my part of Eu (in two weeks?) and its keyboard proves to be usable, it will definitely get a lot of "Amiga/ST" love from me, but if CodeWeavers help me play new itch games or gog games on it...

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Luanti and VoxeLibre are good enough if you are not demanding (like me). If you want something backed by the insanely rich money making machine ran by Microsoft then sure, stick with Minecraft.

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Any fans of GeForce NOW reading?

Hi 🙋 Only using GFN sporadically and it is still missing some games that I want to play so 🤷

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