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I showed this one to a coworker who is known for rigging up things to make it work, told him he needs this one :D

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A nice game I see here...

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one of the best Corsair's songs ever!
author: Vladimir Vysotzky

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Quoting: JasonThis isn't true. The OpenGL 3.x/4.x path on OSX is core profile only (no compatibility profile).
Metro only included a 3.x path only Linux and OSX, they decided not to put two in. It was hardly 'shoddy'. Strictly a business/time/money decision.

But why did they lower standards on Linux to save time. And actually how much business/time/money does it save once you are on OpenGL. I'm not expert, but it couldn't take THAT long to include some OpenGL 4 features. It's not an easy job to port DX to GL, but once your there, why stop short.

It's probably to stop the OSX users whining that Linux got a better port than them which is evil, bad and should never be done.

TL;DR : Any port that lowers its standards to meet another system despite not acutally needing to IS 'shoddy'. There is enough games to line my walls which were ported from consoles and look crap on PC just because the developers wanted a quick cash in.

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Pirate joke should be here

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Quoting: Half-Shot

Quoting: STiATOpenGL is not the problem, AAA titles and others are considering it already only for having a Mac port.

But being Apple, they use their own extensions, an old opengl version and lots of foam over opengl which makes it harder to port. Easier than DX by magnitudea, but by no means a quick job either. We need to convince AAA devs that GL can do much more than what OSX does with it.

This was why the M:Last Light port was shoddy compared to the windoes version. This is why they still think DirectX is more powerful.

This isn't true. The OpenGL 3.x/4.x path on OSX is core profile only (no compatibility profile).
Metro only included a 3.x path only Linux and OSX, they decided not to put two in. It was hardly 'shoddy'. Strictly a business/time/money decision.

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maybe the next borderlands gets a linux support...

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This Game kinda reminds me One Piece - a Japanese manga series :)

I wonder if you can gives names to your crew and equip each crew member with special weapons (swords , guns etc)

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Quoting: Maokei

Quoting: GoCorinthiansOk. got it sometime ago on my library but never tried out because no sound under OpenSUSE but now its ok. SteamOS is fine too.

After 200hrs on Rust lets try another zombie game.

JAVA? what hell! nothing is perfect...

Whats wrong with java? Good for an indie dev, cross platform has a great 2d library.

Not crashing im fine with it...but its most vulnerable software outthere

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What do pirates wear in winter?
Long Johns.

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Ooh, this is like one of the Braid worlds. It should make for some gnarly puzzles.

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Quoting: alexThunder

Quoting: liamdaweWhat's not to be "butthurt" about that?

I thought you're feeling butthurt, because we should lower our hopes for a borderlands 2 port. I mean, I can understand your opinion about Colonial Marines very well, but I think that one doesn't belong to this news/article, does it?

That's the second time you've alluded that Colonial Marines is irrelevant to this editorial. Almost as if you had no idea who developed it.

Hint: Gearbox.

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Glad to see that some of the old titles are getting the Penguin support now.

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This game is so ***ing awesome... The game ender is building thrusters on moons and smashing them into the planet your enemy's base is sitting on. Otherwise it's pretty much Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander.

Might have been my imagination, but I actually think this game ran better on my Arch Linux in Enlightenment than it ever did on Windows. I could swear it was less buggy too! But as the other comments suggest, it may be I just got lucky with hardware, since I'm running Nvidia/Intel.

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How much do pirates pay fore earrings? A buccaneer.

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What does a pirate's parrot parrot say? "Awk!"

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QuoteUpdated the steam-runtime for Ubuntu 14.04 compatibility

This was definitely a nice surprise when booting into my system yesterday :)

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Why did the pirate go on vacation?
A: He needed some arrr and arrr!


A pirate walks into a bar with a big ships wheel down his pants. The bartender says,
"Excuse me sir, but do you know you have a ships wheel down the front of your pants?"
And the pirate says
Aaargh, it's driving me nuts!!


Why did the Pirate kill his wife?
A: She couldn't get it haaaaarrrrrrrrrrrd


Now give me arrrr blarrrrrdy key.... pretty please

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if you are using ATI there is a work around - i think hitting one of the F keys to display FPS, forces the image to redraw.

I had that issue

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Quoting: liamdaweWhat's not to be "butthurt" about that?

I thought you're feeling butthurt, because we should lower our hopes for a borderlands 2 port. I mean, I can understand your opinion about Colonial Marines very well, but I think that one doesn't belong to this news/article, does it?

Quoting: liamdaweI paid out for two pre-order copies ~£60 of Colonial Marines based on "actual game-play" videos

I hope you learned your lesson then :D

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...Game still doesn't render. Still not happy.

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Quoting: Speedster

Quoting: Anonymoustoo bad they dropped support for the majority of some of their not-so-old "Legacy" graphics cards completely

Which ones, 4000 series? I've heard the free driver works really well with those now, so Catalyst doesn't really seem needed.

Radeon FOSS have it more nailed than AMD ever did, your in safe hands.

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Quoting: STiATOpenGL is not the problem, AAA titles and others are considering it already only for having a Mac port.

But being Apple, they use their own extensions, an old opengl version and lots of foam over opengl which makes it harder to port. Easier than DX by magnitudea, but by no means a quick job either. We need to convince AAA devs that GL can do much more than what OSX does with it.

This was why the M:Last Light port was shoddy compared to the windoes version. This is why they still think DirectX is more powerful.

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I bet this means no

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Quoting: Anonymous

Quoting: entropyWasn't Gabe Newell saying recently that it turned out to be easy to convince publishers to support Linux? Gearbox obviously disagrees.

convincing to do new game for it is 100x easier than convincing for late port

when you do new game (if done correctly) you'll need minimal work. it will share marketing expense and you'll sell over all platforms. this is simple win which is not hard to persuade into

late port needs extra work, extra marketing... and there is a fact of how many people will buy it. lots of people already bought windows version to play native or on wine. now... this is where persuading over risk gets trickier

Good point.

Let's see what the end of the year will bring us from the big publishers.

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Ahoy! Puns ahead!

Where do you take an injured pirate?
To the YARRRR!

Why do pirates fear the full moon?
Because it is curvy. :P

What do pirates do when they are horny?
They make a booty call.

What linux distro is favored by pirates?
ARRRRch.

Why couldn't the pirate stop playing games?
He was hooked!

What is the favorite pirate drink?
A salty dog.

What is the second favorite pirate drink?
Grape shot.

Why do pirates hate George Lucas?
Jar Jarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

What memory do they use on their pirate computers?
Corsair.

What car does a pirate drive?
A scallywag.

What does a pirate say when he can't speak loudly?
Come carouser.

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How do you define a pirate?
public class Pirate {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    for (String arg : args) {
      System.out.println(arg);
    }
  }
}
Oh and the "code" block in this editor does not preserve spaces. You may want to look into that.

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Liam The Fearsome Pirate Captain

Pirate 1: Captainnnnn , Captain ......... a ship to our right!!!!

Captain Liam : Take out the cannons and bring me the RED SHIRT!

The fight goes on and after a while the fight ends with Liam the Fearsome Captain as the Winner

Pirate 1: Captainnnn , all went good we won , but why you wanted the RED Shirt?

Captain Liam: In case I was going to get shot by a bullet I didnt want my crew to see any blood on me and panic.....Yarrrrr!
I am the Fearsome Captain Liam.....I dont afraid of death.....Yarrr!

After a while...........

Pirate2 : Captaiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn................ CAPTAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 Navy Warships to our LEFT!!!!!


Captain Liam : TAKE OUT THE CANNONS AND HARRY UP BRING ME THE BROWN PANTS!!!!!!!!

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