With my luck, the game wouldn't install properly the first time, and I'd end up having to do a . . .
Total Reload.

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That's really looking quite cool. And that's impressive because let's face it, there's a tendency for open source games to have pretty good or even great mechanics and look like crap.

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Quoting: 14It's like Renegade Ops meets Choplifter.

Choplifter? Is that a game where you use a combat helicopter to steal things from stores?

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Quoting: JustinWoodY'know, it's hard to take their desire to preserve these old titles seriously when every Delta Force title was removed from every store front back in June. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/so-much-for-preservation-the-classic-delta-force-games-are-getting-delisted/

Like, yeah it doesn't happen often but the point was that it shouldn't happen at all, right? I kind of thought GoG was supposed to be the old game library of Alexandria, at least to some extent.

Well, in GoG's defence, maybe they were sacked by barbarians.

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Quoting: scaineA 40-second video that can be summed up in four words: "Ayaneo 3, coming soon". Bizarre marketing. Ultimately, it's not going to be running Linux, so I have zero interest in it.

Edit: I've just read the press release. Good lord. Absolute word soup.

They are, apparently, "Teconstructing Imagination" (sic), with a "technological leap", a "completely new concept" and an "evolution in thinking", changing the "way we interact with games", enabling an "unprecedented level of immersion anytime, anywhere". It represents a "reconstruction" of handheld gaming to become your "gaming universe". This will "carry deeper emotions" and remove the "boundaries of gaming devices". Ananeo 3 is apparently a "new starting point", creating a "brand new space for free experience".

Wow.

(stamp) (stamp) (stamp)
Bingo!

Well. Looks like their synergies are driving a paradigm shift!

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Leahi84What I don't understand is why are these companies so hostile towards Linux?

This is such a common misconception. They are not hostile. Why should a corporation be hostile against anything really.

They are ignorant towards Linux, that's what they are. The Linux segment is so miniscule, and the cheating problem so massive, so the potential loss is nothing compared to not holding the cheaters at bay.

Because free anything goes against their capitalistic principals and is an affront to them?

Not really enough of a reason to pass up sales.

That said, corporations are sometimes what can only be described as hostile towards certain things. Maybe it got started by a CEO, maybe it's become part of the corporate culture because said thing is inherently dangerous to the corporation's profits, but the phenomenon definitely exists. In the old days, Microsoft was definitely hostile towards Linux--no ifs, ands or buts, hostility was very definitely happening and a sizable deal for them. "Linux is a cancer" and all that. Since then, on the desktop side they got less worried because their measures to contain Linux succeeded pretty well, and on the server side they gave in, realized Linux was unstoppable, and changed their business model so they could make money from Linux. So they're not exactly hostile towards Linux any more . . . mostly, probably.

But yeah, the anti-cheat thing is generally not about hostility to Linux, except maybe when it comes to Epic, because Sweeney does actively dislike Linux as far as I can tell, partly just because he's a dick and his instincts go against open source ideas, partly because Valve likes Linux so he's going to dislike it. But everyone else is just doing their thing and accidentally stepping on a mouse in the process.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySeems short-sighted . . . 200 million here, 200 million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money!

My mind boggles at thinking of $200 million in profit as "only" and not worth going after.

Opportunity cost. Why make a game that only makes $200 million when they can make a game that makes several billion instead?

Well, but is it an opportunity cost? Couldn't you do both? Hire some programmers for this, hire some programmers for that. And it's less lopsided than this makes it seem . . . that second game you need to run the servers, and you need to keep doing stuff with it forever. You have ongoing expenses and staff requirements. With the $200 mil game when you're finished, you go write a new game. Over the years you would have several $200 mil games.

I suppose though that in a weird way there are opportunity costs. Sure, Valve has the money to do multiple things at once, but I've noticed that even very large organizations have trouble paying attention to very many things at once. So for instance, even the United States government seems to struggle to really push a policy on more than a couple of major foreign policy issues at a time (perhaps luckily for the rest of the world). So, OK, on second thought you probably have a point.

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Quoting: StellaWhy are these Linux patch notes always so cryptic in the Windows Patch notes, you read things like 'game ready driver for this and that', 'optimal settings for this and that', 'fixed this bug'. Whereas with the Linux drivers i feel like I need a degree to understand that. What the frick is VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control for example

This right here explains we have a real problem at least in America. I sincerity hope this problem is not starting to spread to other countries. No one reads to understand anymore. We talk this way to explain the exact details without "sugar coating" this is very much and important skill in IT. I don't even want to get started how we don't ship products with manuals anymore..

I find people who think their narrow knowledge specialty is the only important thing really annoying. And this is just ridiculous--I have lived through the entire trajectory of computing being even slightly accessible to people, starting from the TRS-80 model 1 my dad bought when I was 12, and there was never a time when many people would have understood that kind of note. Which doesn't say they shouldn't have notes like that--there are perfectly good reasons. But you can't have a declinism story when we were never in a place to decline from.

If anyone should be grumbling about decline, it should be me--as a liberal arts type, I at least have a case to make about how with the decimation of the liberal arts and social sciences in modern higher education, nobody understands anything about how civilization works and it's led to horrible declines in our politics and culture. It's probably largely untrue, there are lots of other causes, but at least I'd have a previous better situation to point to.

And incidentally, I'm pretty sure they don't ship products with manuals any more because everything that would have been in the manual is easily searchable on the web now.

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Quoting: scaineBeen playing a load of Starship Troopers: Extermination - janky but awesome fun, with nice progression across multiple classes. But I can only play THAT because I finally finished the absolutely stunning Tactical Breach Wizards, a game that I suspect will live in my "Top 10 Games of All Time" list for many years to come.

How did I miss Tactical Breach Wizards? It sounds so far up my alley it's past the dead end.

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Been sick for a few days . . . have been playing quite a bit of Terraformers. It's fairly relaxing once you get the hang of it.

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