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X11, openbox, and no DE... from my cold dead hands.

In reality, I'll switch to Wayland eventually, but not until I am either forced (by X breaking or something?) or I build a new rig (and since I just built one, probably 5 more years).

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Hey folks! I'm the director of Schrodinger's Cat Burglar. Thank you for featuring out game!

Just a quick note concerning the Key Art - it is most certainly human painted, not AI. The artist in question is Tom Williams - https://www.instagram.com/tomwilliams_art - he painted it back in 2022 when we first appeared at PAX Australia. We've had a few comments from people who are not keen on games using Generative AI.

I fully agree! We aren't using Gen AI at all, and we will never. I appreciate that people are concerned on this issue because they are defending the rights of real artists against what essentially is automated plagiarism.

We are in the process of updating our key art, and the new piece (again, by Tom) will likely be in a more 'comic book' style (similar to the prologue video in the demo). Hopefully this will put people's fears of Gen AI to rest.

Again, thanks for taking an interest in our game :)

Martin

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Hm, still using X11, still using XFCE, still a good penguin.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: tohurLutris is pretty much a dead project.

There is activity on the dev channel but they are very slow to release on the stable channel.

I like Lutris. I am going to give Heroic a serious look, however. Some of my Lutris prefixes have been inexplicably corrupting after months (if not years) of working fine. Since I have to reinstall them anyway, I figure I might as well give Heroic a go.

I been thinking of doing the same myself or giving Faugus Launcher a go. I been busy af lately building a Linux Distro so haven't gotten around to migrating away from lutris myself

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Quoting: RFSharpeMy grandsons played many hours of this game on Sunday. During the character creation process the player is able to utilize "Smart Customization Voice." A basic explanation is:

"Smart Customization’s voice mode is designed to map some traits of your real‑world speech onto your character."

You do this by reading the provided sentence into your microphone. Using this, the game generates a “voice preset” attached to your character. If you would like to get a better idea of how this works, this article gives a much more detailed explanation:

https://allthings.how/where-winds-meet-voice-customization-lets-your-character-sound-and-look-like-you/

I am not an expert, but this process smacks of AI...

And now someone has access to an AI generated simulation of thousands of people's voices that were voluntarily given to them.

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Yeah, graphics settings should never be synced in the cloud. Annoying every time I come across it.

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I guess that Debian is a better basis for runtime library changing every few years that the thundering rolling library of Arch.

Intended or not, the diversity is healthy.

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Whats the incentive?

Free XP for profile leveling, if you're into that sort of thing.

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I submitted Factorio for Labor of Love. That is all.

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I missed the chance to buy Cold Fear on physical disk when it was released. I've always called this game "Resident Evil on a ship". Now I just need to not be a chicken and play it.

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Survival Horror is my favorite genre, so I will definitely check out Cold Fear and I Am Alive on GOG (I already have both on Steam, they are in a pretty bad shape there though so would not mind a better/drm free version).

It has been a long time since I played either of those games, but I Am Alive in remember as an original game for the time. Kinda like a more serious Disaster Report type of game.

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Quoting: CyberwormSharing your nominations with friends, comparing them and maybe find games you haven't considered playing before. It's basically a quick and easy way to recommend games to others

A good example is the recommendation that was made by Eike - The Drifter. There have been two articles on GoL recommending this game. I read them, but the game did not click (pun intended) with me. After reading his recommendation, I decided to purchase the game. I enjoy the point and click genre, it is native Linux, works great on the Steam Deck and is on sale. Without reading this article, I would not have made the purchase.

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My Votes (so far), using games that I played, either full or in demos, and trying to keep a different one in each category to maximise the total number of recommended games:

• Game of the Year Award: [Hollow Knight: Silk Song](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1030300?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• VR: skipped


• Labor of Love Award: [Soulash 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2399160?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_) but I might change for [Surroundead](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1645820/SurrounDead/)


• Best Game on Steam Deck Award: [Necesse](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1169040?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• Better With Friends Award: [Jump Space](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1757300?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• Outstanding Visual Style Award: [Absolum](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1904480?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• Most Innovative Gameplay Award: [Mudbourne](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2355150?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• Best Game You Suck At Award: [Cyber Knights](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1021210?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• Best Soundtrack Award: [Tempest Rising](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award: [Promise Mascot Agency](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2585830?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)


• Sit Back and Relax Award: [Cast and Chill](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3483740?snr=1_steamawards_nominations_)

Have not played Clair Obscure, Dispatch, Abiotic Factor which would change the list.

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Quoting: Tethys84I stopped voting in these a while back. I just don't see why it matters. Why does anyone care what the game of the year is? Whats the incentive? I'd rather spend my time playing the games than care about who gets what award.

Sharing your nominations with friends, comparing them and maybe find games you haven't considered playing before. It's basically a quick and easy way to recommend games to others

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Since the most recent game I got was already two years old when I purchased it (Stray), this really doesn't mean much to me.

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Very old good releases from ubisoft

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I'm a little confused. Is ZOOM Platform Media separate and distinct from the ZOOM Platform storefront? Or, does the storefront sell Steam keys? I'd be somewhat surprised if a non-Steam, DRM-free version from the storefront included Steam achievements...

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Online co-op and offline single player.

I like that the devs explicitly state this!

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Quoting: Luca

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'll switch when Mint does; I'm vaguely hoping that will be soon, but I haven't had any problems with X11.

The only thing I really miss on Mint is actually Plasma 6.

Lol. I get that. Still, I've been pretty happy with the Cinnamon edition. I find the DE to be pretty robust and flexible, with a lot of modern features. I only wish I could find a decent, stable tray applet for displaying CPU and GPU temperatures. XFCE has an excellent one.

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Funny timing, a few weeks ago I scored 3 perfect 10s in a row in the Ring Of Fire and was surprised when there was no achievement.

Flat Out 2 is a great Steam Deck game, The Career Mode map circuits can be a little redundant, and some of the stunt modes like the High Jump seem almost impossible to score #1 on, but it runs great and is a lot of fun.

That video intro though, it's a PITA you can't skip like 2 minuets of startup video on Steam Deck launch.

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Quoting: tohurLutris is pretty much a dead project.

There is activity on the dev channel but they are very slow to release on the stable channel.

I like Lutris. I am going to give Heroic a serious look, however. Some of my Lutris prefixes have been inexplicably corrupting after months (if not years) of working fine. Since I have to reinstall them anyway, I figure I might as well give Heroic a go.

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Quoting: tuubiHopefully you'll find time to do it before Mint 23 comes out in half a year or so.

Wouldn't be the first time I've completely jumped a version!

But, in all seriousness, I won't be able to do that using the Mint upgrade tool so I guess I better get around to it soon...

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As usual with every new tech, I will be waiting a year after release to see how well the Steam Frame performs before purchasing, especially with the state of SteamVR on Linux right now (at least in the stable branch).

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Steam Deck → PC graphics note. If you play on Steam Deck and then jump back to PC, your graphics settings may be set to Low automatically. You can raise them again from the settings menu on your PC. We know this is inconvenient and will work to solve it as soon as we can.

I swear it isn't that hard to decouple the settings from your save file.

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Not that I don't trust Pocketpair, but I'm not comfortable with many games coming under a single publisher. Call it pattern recognition or deja vu, I just have a bad feeling about it.

I really hope that it doesn't become anything more than a feeling.

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Quoting: JarmerNot really into platformers but man the art style aesthetic they have going here is amazing.

Welp, I came here to say this!

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I need to want this, and I want to need this... Want! Need!

Want and Need sitting in a corpse tree, h-e-a-d-b-a-n-g-i-n-g

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I humbly object to using xorg/X11 anything and "fresh" in the same sentence.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'll switch when Mint does; I'm vaguely hoping that will be soon, but I haven't had any problems with X11.

The only thing I really miss on Mint is actually Plasma 6.

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I'll switch when Mint does; I'm vaguely hoping that will be soon, but I haven't had any problems with X11.

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