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Isn't OpenGL FOSS? Isn't it possible to improve it?

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AMD have suck for a long time.
The biggest issue I have is that they are extremely power hungry, and have, in my experience always run extremely hot (on windows and linux).

The last amd hardware i bought was a hybrid card in a Lenovo thinkpad edge. Absolutely terrible battery and performance! They always run hot!
Today I would never consider purchasing anything with AMD inside it.
Unfortunately the only credible choice I have are Intells offerings.

After all the years they've been in business, their chips are incredibly bad - why is that?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: KurremkarmerrukName one game remotely similar to this. Also, I am really confused as to how you got the wrong impression from the trailer.

Ok, I watched the trailer again and there is indeed a guy who hits 3 times on a tree at the very beginning… But the (long) rest looks more like Sim City mixed with Starcraft. Or whatever. But not a crafting game.

It is also an crafting game. You have to collect a lot of different resources to CRAFT things.
Have you noticed the pickaxe which you are using to collect your first ressources? xD

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Quoting: SamsaiLinus Torvalds is in a special position. The kernel team is very exclusive and they have to have a clear authority to make sure the kernel doesn't suddenly break completely.

Is he though? IMO he behaves inappropriately. He's totally capable of not being abusive with his feedback. That wouldn't undermine the stability of the kernel.

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Well the beauty of this entire situation with Eon and Co is simple, if you don't like what theyre doing (as in not contributing upstream and what not), just don't buy their games... or any closed source games.

That way you can feel morally superior whilst playing open source games.

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You firstly need to learn to do simple math for percentages over there for me to take this benchmark seriously.

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this is from the original creator of megaman, but he was kicked out of capcom after he had an argument with the current staff, then he started this :-).

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One of the best games on Linux in my opinion. But then I am a huge fan of simulation games. Haven´t tried the new alpha yet, but alpha 20 was quite polished in my opinion, but sometimes it´s hard to know what´s a bug and what´s not.

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Quoting: a4644246Im not calling names Im just describing my observation. When there is a problem in F/LOSS just ask your self "What will Linus do", he would throw couple of "f*** you"s then said do it right way or GTFO. My approach is healthy for F/LOSS platform it is unhealthy for corporation and developers, and if they dont care about F/LOSS platform I dont care about them.

Linus Torvalds is in a special position. The kernel team is very exclusive and they have to have a clear authority to make sure the kernel doesn't suddenly break completely. Here you are on an open community website and here your attitude is only poisonous and it won't be tolerated.

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Quoting: pbAh missed that part, sorry... So maybe only the ascii version will remain free? Or maybe by ADOM Classic they mean 1.1.1? Now I'm confused as well. ;-) Also I wonder what it is going to be priced on Steam, since they only promised the keys to backers who pledged $40+ :o

Plus, they already have ToME to watch over there. Wonder if they'll sell *at all* if they ask for more than their "competitor"...

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How about instead of complaining that it's broken, get your hands dirty & fix it?

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I think the graphics are a bit ugly. I wish it had Japanese / final fantasy 6 kind of graphics.
I can see ascii appeal, ASCII is pure text, you don't see you just read.
I had and Amiga in the nineties sadly I was not introduced to this kind of game. I was too busy wanking all the time anyway
Looking forward too it.

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This is the lastest publicly available prerelease.

means the next PRE-release will not be public, does not speak about the end version so their indiegogo promise still stands

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Maybe someone can check if the two week limit for offline mode is still active. As of a few months ago people were complaining about this issue. Despite Valve saying offline mode is designed to be perpetual, they also admit offline mode has some bugs. (I'll try and fine the source url where I found this out). I'm not a Steam user so can't test this myself.

It's important to not get caught up in Valve's business practices over whether or not Steam is DRM. With that said, I do have a very strong opinion of the business model; and it's not a favourable one. While the two are integrated, DRM is one aspect of the business model, not the whole. To that end, the forcing of installing the client from physical media does seem to comply with DRM models.
Personally, if all it was was a store front, then I'd have no problem with Steam. I haven't used GOG, but I do buy from Humble and Desura, and both of those services do not require the client run. With Desura the client is optional. With Humble you don't even have to register; email address is sufficient.

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Reading the full article was very insightful.

As it was stated earlier - I think that the discussion is good for Linux and OpenGL. I don't think that OpenGL is broken per se - it's been "good enough" for many games to use it as a secondary or even as primary on Linux/Mac for years.

"We" work hard on these OSS projects so its easy to be emotionally upset when someone takes the time to offer a fresh detailed list of criticism that bother them about OpenGL - we need to remember that everyone including Timothy Lottes want OpenGL to be as kick-ass as possible and view it as constructive criticism which he hopes will give OpenGL the "jolt" it needs to become even better than it already is now.

I support these realistic evaluations of ourselves and our software, it's inevitable that OpenGL overtake DirectX simply because its open source and will be ported to every kind of arch and device anyways.

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This game looks hella fun. Never got into MM but really loved Super Metroid, Super Mario.

This reminds me of that Road Rash successor they're doing. I would love to see a Battle Tankx successor now that we have a Crusin the World successor - `The 90s Arcade Racer` game.

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Oops...:'(

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As I already pointed out elsewhere, the difference this time is that you play the aliens, trying to knock out those lousy humans!

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This is a lot like Alpha Centauri, and as un-Firaxis like as can be. Picking this one up soon!

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Quoting: loggfreaka industry without AMD would be quite horrifying

Yes it would be quite horrifying to have a industry with very little shit linux drivers

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Quoting: FTW

Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.

I agree with others, if they go out of bussiness, Nvidia has nothing to worry about, I mean, Intel isn't exactly a beast when it comes to graphics cards.

I say vote with your wallet, don't buy AMD for Linux systems, if the Steam machines kick off they might see that they are loosing some market.

That is the thing, though. I vote with my wallet, and the company I want to vote for is AMD because AMD is the only company to offer an ever improving, gaming capable, open source driver.

lmao you got scammed then. AMD don't bother putting effort into their drivers because they know it cost money PLUS they are just releasing documentation so they don't have to do the open source driver them self

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Quoting: GuestMeh, I’ve just tried the demo and it’s just another annoying survival/crafting game :(. I wasn’t expecting this based on the trailer.

Name one game remotely similar to this. Also, I am really confused as to how you got the wrong impression from the trailer.

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I think he is referring to Minecraft & Clones.

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Quoting: What the FWhy would someone set payment options via paysafecards set to "my paysafecard" only? Well kills it for me, and I'm gonna wait for a sale.

Huh? That's exactly what Paysafecard is a pre-payment system.

There are multiple payment options including paypal, so I don't get the problem.

Yes, but "my paysafecard" is an additional service from Paysafecard. It's like a wallet or an bank account. At first you have to register and run through an identification process. After that you can top up your account with paysafecard PINs, and pay with just an username/password combo instead of PINs.

I have no clue why the developer has chosen this account option only, instead of PINs or both.

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Ah ADOM, I've been playing it for years and I keep failing. It's a great addition to my Nethack addiction.

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Quoting: a4644246You are saying that technology doesnt mater, but it does matter, very much.

I'm not. I'm saying that game devs who don't fix stuff or don't bother actively contributing fixes upstream (most don't) don't end up providing much benefit to the F/OSS ecosystem.

Quoting: a4644246My approach is healthy for F/LOSS platform it is unhealthy for corporation and developers, and if they dont care about F/LOSS platform I dont care about them.

It's not healthy for F/OSS at all, and it's super disappointing that we have prominent people who're abusive and act like bullies. Elitism breeds exclusivity, which is unsustainable and more or less counter to what makes F/OSS communities and good F/OSS development work.

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Quoting: GuestMeh, I’ve just tried the demo and it’s just another annoying survival/crafting game :(. I wasn’t expecting this based on the trailer.

Name one game remotely similar to this. Also, I am really confused as to how you got the wrong impression from the trailer.

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Quoting: CheesenessHow does anybody but the developer and the game's players benefit from bug reports for closed source proprietary games?

Because games are using bunch of other middle-ware and there is open-source ones and developers should use them. For example, zlib for compression, game use it, it has bug, bug is fixed and everyone who doesnt game can benefit. You are saying that technology doesnt mater, but it does matter, very much. Most developed part of Linux/Liber/OpenSoure are most used, that is how it works, by using eON and wine developers are ignoring FLOSS alternatives and they will stay underdeveloped. And then shit like this happens:
http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154
http://timothylottes.blogspot.com/2014/05/re-joshua-barczaks-opengl-is-broken.html

D3D had same/similar problems but developers used it so they got polished.

Quoting: CheesenessAlso, what value is there in calling people names? Being misinformed or unclear on something doesn't make a person an idiot. Your post is full of the sort of thing that is unhealthy about the way people have been approaching this situation. I'd suggest following some of Wil Wheaton's advice.

Im not calling names Im just describing my observation. When there is a problem in F/LOSS just ask your self "What will Linus do", he would throw couple of "f*** you"s then said do it right way or GTFO. My approach is healthy for F/LOSS platform it is unhealthy for corporation and developers, and if they dont care about F/LOSS platform I dont care about them.

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Desura is great! But since they have modified their payment options I'm not longer able to buy anything from them. My favourite shop is now: IndieGameStand

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Quoting: What the FWhy would someone set payment options via paysafecards set to "my paysafecard" only? Well kills it for me, and I'm gonna wait for a sale.

Huh? That's exactly what Paysafecard is a pre-payment system.

There are multiple payment options including paypal, so I don't get the problem.

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Why would someone set payment options via paysafecards set to "my paysafecard" only? Well kills it for me, and I'm gonna wait for a sale.

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