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Quoting: 0ttmanpatch works perfectly using Luxtorpeda.

I wish there was some way to flag games in the Steam client and/or the Steam website to indicate Luxtorpeda support.

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The seemingly glacial development pace was probably an indicator it wasn't going to last. That's fine for a hobby project, but not for something that people are being paid to work on...

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What a strange change. If clown award farming was such a problem, Valve should have disable point transfer, for that award specifically. And that would be enough.

If Valve's goal was for me to care even less about anything on Steam outside install/launch button then they certainly succeed...

:(.

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but the PC release has a lot of issues on modern platforms

I seem to recall it having a good chunk of issues on PC even back then. Was an impressive game though.

Quoting: GoEsrSam Fisher's a badass!😆

That he is. 😄

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Steam Awards and the Points Shop are some of the worst updates Valve has ever made to Steam IMO, the community discussions were already kinda foul before but they have been borderline unusable since awards were added. Hopefully this solves some of the problem while maintaining the appeal of giving helpful posts awards (until someone finds a way to screw it up again at least).

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Quoting: SzkodnixI hope Umamusume series won't be enshittified too soon.

Brother, Umamusume IS the enshittification game.

I remember the time before Umamusume. When projects were allowed to make a decent profit, and player goodwill was the priority. A lot of free resources, rates were permissive, events weren't excessively monetized.

If you want to look at what post-Uma Cygames looks like, look at Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond. I play that game, and I would rather spend money on the physical Shadowverse Evolve TCG despite them costing more due to how greedy the monetization in SVWB is.

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Change the WINDOWS app to FOSS programming, THEN worry about porting it after that. THIS is the way.

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There is a lot they can do with gog galaxy; if they can make it more like playnite and then put in linux+proton/wine support on top, then they'd be quite set to sale.

However one of the big things steam has going is community features include fully fleshed out mod support!

Oh also VR support would no doubt help. Plus handheld support... Yeah Steam is a HARD nut to compete against, especially when your upper management only want to hoover off profit from selling games but don't want to put any effort into store functionality and compatibility (EGS and everyone else is a good example of this).

They continuously cry about Valve Steam monopoly but ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to ever even attempt to compete! There is more to selling games then just throwing them up on some horrible DRM store app!

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The Linux response just sounds to me like "yeah, if we have some free time and nothing better to do we *might* look at Linux." So, not likely.

The comment about Windows was far more shocking to me. I'd like to believe that after 30+ years the tide might be turning...but I'm not holding my breath. Seriously though, how is it possible that young people don't even question that they're running the same OS, just a newer version of course, that their GRANDPARENTS ran? Youth don't do this with any other product that I can think of. The unquestioning fealty to Microsoft is something I suppose I'll never understand.

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Quoting: CaldathrasWhile I've gotten used to their DRM-free script-based Linux installers, I would love it if they moved the Linux offline installers to AppImage, with all of the dependencies incorporated.

eh, appimage isn't really the 'container format' that it seems to have initially been sold as. In many cases there are system dependencies and linked libraries that as per linux will get updated to a point where by the appimage cannot work at all, which then requires a full appimage refresh & update. it is also not sandboxed without firejail.

( anecdote incoming: i thought i was archiving programs originally, turns out 6 months is a long time in software, my favorite appimage was just a grey empt box with a gtk crash handler message.. and this was on linux mint not exact a rolling release.)


Now flatpak .. That is much more inline with a kind of 'bottled' instance of software, it too also needing to remain somewhat in step with the system but it has some other benefits of better system integration & is sandboxed. Plus flathub / flatpak is becoming the de-facto distro agnostic software distribution method so there is consistency of support via popularity.

imo ofc

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I'd really love to see a git-based or other repository-style mod site. One of the biggest issues in modding is the modder gets bored and their mods eventually break because they don't keep up with dependencies or game updates, but no-one can do anything about it because the mods would need to be disassembled, assuming that's possible, or it's not clear whether anyone else would have permission to fork it.

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Quoting: dindonPeople from Cygames' community that complain about the idea of them using AI are such hypocrite. Cygames is a gacha-making company that exploits gambling addicts for profit.

there are some people who see both things are wrong, just one of then or neither, i dont see the issue here.

afaik , japan has an culture of gacha since the days before gaming was a thing (see gachapon), and they also value artists a lot, with their huge culture for anime, manga and stuff like that so i can see why they would reject ai when(if) they know about the plagiarism involved, but im not sure its the same community that despise it.

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For anyone owning the original Splinter Cell on Steam, I have verified that the new EnhancedSC v1.4a patch works perfectly using Luxtorpeda.

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I used that site for handful of times anyway. ModDB FTW.

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Why not just a simple thumbs up/thumbs down.

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Quoting: scaineI always find the disconnect between enterprise/management and the general public on GenAI absolutely amazing.

It blows me away that no one in the Marketing Department says, “There are people out there that passionately hate GenAI. Maybe we should spin this differently. We will probably get flamed for this.” Instead it’s, “lets run with a press release that says we are cheap, evil and don’t care about our employees.”

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While I subscribe to some of the Steam forums, I've not used any of the awards. The amount of posts about the changes today is getting annoying.

I don't use points and I'm careful about the forums. I find the forums extremely limiting and think they should allow simple emoji icons without having to use Steam points.

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Quoting: PenguinFor reference: the Mint team updated their Xfce flavor (from 4.16 to 4.18) in Mint 21.2.

Uhm... I have Mint 21.3 XFCE currently. It ships with Xfce 4.16. The update actually happened with Mint 22.0. We likely won't see Xfce 4.20 until Mint 23 comes out.

As @AsciiWolf pointed out, it has to do with the base version of Ubuntu they rely on. The only exception is Cinnamon, which the Mint Team manages themselves.

Well, I was eagerly waiting for the (back then) new Xfce clock plugin, which was delivered in Mint 21.2 with Xfce 4.18, and I remember it well. Just to be sure I'm not crazy, I did some research, and you can read more about the Mint 21.2 release here:

https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-21-2-victoria-is-slated-for-release-on-june-2023-heres-what-to-expect

In the article it says:

"Most notably here, the Xfce edition will be based on the latest Xfce 4.18 desktop environment."

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New GOG owner Michał Kiciński also mentioned in regards to Windows how "It's such poor-quality software and product, and I'm so surprised that it's [spent] so many years on the market. I can't believe it!".

that is HUGE!

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I hadn't encountered this particular problem, but if this helps fix it that's a plus.

I just wish it didn't still take five clicks to give an award*. Imagine if you could simply hover over the "Award" button, a palette of options pops up (easier now, since there are fewer), you click the one you want**, then a "Confirm" button, and that's it.

*Click the "Award" button, click the award you want to give, click "Next", click "Give Award", then click the "Close" button.

**Or, even better, select more than one to give concurrently.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

If anyone thinks that there is less "nanny state" now than there was before, they are deluding themselves.

I suppose it depends on your definition. Most people who use the term generally use it to mean "Government doing anything useful". So, building housing, "nanny state"; providing health care, "nanny state"; social safety net, "nanny state"; regulations saying your food can't be poisoned, "nanny state". And, there is a lot less of all that stuff than there used to be in, say, the 70s. If you use it differently from that you're very much in the minority and can't be surprised if people misunderstand you.

Hmm... I thought the use of the phrase would be obvious but your definition is definitely different than mine. However, I can see how your definition could overlap and eventually evolve into mine -- government interference and hand-holding, as if their citizens are all children that need constant guidance (as one would expect from a nanny to her/his underage charges). In recent years, that has been very prevalent.

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(Hugh Laurie as Prince Regent voice)
Well, hurrah!

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Quoting: PenguinFor reference: the Mint team updated their Xfce flavor (from 4.16 to 4.18) in Mint 21.2.

Uhm... I have Mint 21.3 XFCE currently. It ships with Xfce 4.16. The update actually happened with Mint 22.0. We likely won't see Xfce 4.20 until Mint 23 comes out.

As @AsciiWolf pointed out, it has to do with the base version of Ubuntu they rely on. The only exception is Cinnamon, which the Mint Team manages themselves.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

If anyone thinks that there is less "nanny state" now than there was before, they are deluding themselves.

I suppose it depends on your definition. Most people who use the term generally use it to mean "Government doing anything useful". So, building housing, "nanny state"; providing health care, "nanny state"; social safety net, "nanny state"; regulations saying your food can't be poisoned, "nanny state". And, there is a lot less of all that stuff than there used to be in, say, the 70s. If you use it differently from that you're very much in the minority and can't be surprised if people misunderstand you.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: suchValve is the funding/driving force behind mainstream Linux gaming, GOG can - at best - reach remora status to Valve's shark... ness here. Not that I'd mind solid, actual competition.

Why can't GOG work with Valve on this? Why do they need to compete? Perhaps I'm suggesting too radical a change in mentality for contemporary business thinking...

It's interesting, especially here.

I mean, let's assume that GOG and Valve put in an equal amount of work, resources etc. Looking at it from a traditional business point of view Valve has the larger share of the market, so it will benefit more while investing disproportionately less. Effectively, GOG would be paying for Valve to make more. Of course, as this Linux situation currently stands GOG is basically choosing not to benefit from development that Valve is essentially giving out for free. It's right there, they just need to make the effort to pick it up and run with it. Even from a capitalist point of view that market is a growing one, albeit still small and probably not with the potential to overtake Windows. Maybe. Even that cost didn't seem to make business sense to GOG... up to now.

Maybe that's why business people are cagey about Linux support. It's got those weird "not everything has to have a price tag" and "long term plans over short term profit" things going on.

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Quoting: mr-victory@TheSHEEEP the problem with the Clown emote was that people (clowns, dare I say) deliberately wrote idiotic posts with the intention of receiving clown reactions and/or Steam points. So with the lack of clown reaction, you may start seeing fewer idiotic posts.

Well less idiotic posts as 'bait', the organic idiotic posts will remain 😆

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

If anyone thinks that there is less "nanny state" now than there was before, they are deluding themselves.

Personally, I am a fully adult citizen. I don't need the government holding my hand and warning me about the dangers of things that are more than obvious. I am capable of assessing my own risks and moving forward as I deem appropriate.

I'll concede to your point about laws governing unethical behavior, however.

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In my experience, Heroic is so effortless and versatile that I don't think I'd use Galaxy even if it had native Linux support.

Agreed. And it's to the point where I actually don't know what they could contribute to the likes of Heroic. Every GOG game I have is click Install then Play.

Is there some sort of missing features and integrations they could help with ?

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Quoting: mr-victoryThe installed version of Office is made sometime in 2022 for Windows 7 and is 32 bit. It doesn't receive updates.

Uhm... a 64-bit version of MS Office has been available alongside the 32-bit version since Office 2010. The version you appear to be referring to is Office 2021, which is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit and would have been made for Windows 10. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7 in 2015, after all. Office 2021 is still supported.

FYI, the latest offline version is Office 2024.

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Personally, I'm all in on the idea of working with existing open source game management tools. It would be the wiser approach for them to take.

While I've gotten used to their DRM-free script-based Linux installers, I would love it if they moved the Linux offline installers to AppImage, with all of the dependencies incorporated.

Offering up something like the Steam Linux Runtime libraries for the open source tools to use would be great too. Lutris has one of their own and Heroic taps Steam somehow (not sure which one they use but it's not Runtime 4) but neither are as comprehensive as Steam themselves. That would really help, I think.

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