Quoting: MrDerby

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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"Quiet Stability" huh? I was kind of expecting a name like "This time dammit!"

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Quoting: kuhpunktI'd like to see a quote/source for that.

Closest I can find is this post on HN from a supposed former Valve employee:

"One very senior employee even said that Valve would never make another single player game, because they weren't worth the effort. "Portal 2," he explained, had only made $200 million in profit and that kind of chump change just wasn't worth it, when you could make 100s of millions a year selling digital hats and paintjobs for guns"

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20099167

Seems 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.

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Quoting: WhomGyro without needing to swap to a Switch or Dualshock/sense mode is actually huge, there's currently a gap where most third party controllers with gyro are for the Switch and as a result can't use analog triggers along with gyro even if they have both features.

So you're saying you have to Switch between the two?

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The Wine is too strong, it cannot be contained!

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OK, I've been wondering about the basic thing of this game. I mean, this is painfully obvious so I'm ashamed to ask, but . . . normal Russian Roulette is with a revolver, OK. So, the point is that if you put one bullet in the revolve-y thing, and the other five places are empty, and then you spin the revolve-y thing, then there is a one in six chance that when you pull the trigger it will hit an empty one, which is to say if you put the gun to your head, a five in six chance that you will actually survive. So, foolish and insanely dangerous, but there is this random factor. But with a shotgun, there is no revolve-y thing. If there's a bullet at all, and the gun is to your head, you die. This seems kind of anticlimactic and lacking in suspense. So like, what's the dodge? Seems a game with one move where you just die wouldn't be as popular as this is.

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Hmmm . . . I wonder about the card thing in nautical combat. I'm not sure I want my tactical options restricted by what cards I pull. It feels weird. Like, I can't maneuver unless I draw a card that says I can, seems kind of immersion-breaking.

Mind you, I don't think I've ever seen a nautical game where I thought the combat had that, you know, Horatio Hornblower/Master and Commander feel that I was looking for. So maybe I'm just picky.

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Quoting: doragasuSure it's going well for them: Denuvo even on small, cheap, old indie titles like Scott Pilgrim vs The World (so they don't lose a penny from piracy) and no unfair Steam cut, so they must be doing piles of money!

What? They are almost bankrupt? Unimaginable!

Inconceivable!

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