What would be awesome is to have Heroic Game Launcher somehow integrate fully with SteamUI. Like, insert new tabs for the other game stores, then have all the games you can install through that store.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain ManBut here is something to think about: countless works of art have been lost throughout human history, and will continue to be lost. Are we worse off as a species because of it?

Yes, we bloody well are. You know that old question, what would you do if you had a time machine and could use it just once? You have no idea how many people answer that question, "Would go and rescue the books from the Library of Alexandria"; although my mother leans towards "Would go stop the fire that burned down the building that held all the Anglo Saxon literature that was ever written down".

You say that we're worse off as a species because the Library of Alexandria was destroyed. I'm curious in what way you think we're worse off, and what your basis is for claiming so.

Getting into deep philosophy here. In what way or for what reasons can you say any person, let alone the species, is "better off"? Any basis you propose can be readily disputed.

I personally think it is better to have wisdom than lack it, better to have knowledge than lack it, better to have stories than lack them. Being better off is not just about how many calories you consume. Many works of great philosophers, many accounts of history and mythology, were lost. Just having the missing Aristotle stuff would probably make a surprising difference to our thinking, considering how foundational the stuff we do have is. And as I recall, we know there is missing Aristotle stuff because other people's commentaries have referred to it. It's not just in physics where new thinkers stand on the shoulders of giants; philosophical and political thought also builds on the ideas of the past, and if we'd had more of them to build on, our whole intellectual tradition would be richer.

The only reason I asked is because you can't possibly answer without begging the question.

I'll hop in here for my fellow GURPS player; Imagine as it were that the internet and all it's knowledge was one day erased. You could no longer look up answers on wikipedia, you could no longer search for stepsister pr0n. All knowledge of scientific discoveries were only kept in the brains of old people that would eventually die off.

The burning of the library of Alexandria is pretty much the ancient equivalent of that. People from all over the (known to the Old world) world would go to Alexandria to study everything about science, philosophy, religion, etc. The burning of Alexandria literally started what many historians refer to as 'the dark ages'. We didn't have anything similar until the renaissance. Now imagine if we were about 1400-1500 years more advanced than we are now... Granted maybe we would have destroyed ourselves 300 years ago :P

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Quoting: MohandevirLord of the Rings Online... On the Steam Deck... Why? Because I can. It's playable. The maps are a little on the small side, some parts are hard to read and you need to get used to the button mappings. No need of the touchscreen, if you don't want to. I wouldn't use it as a daily driver, but as a backup plan, it's better than I thought.

Prior to this, I finished a Ori and the Will of the Wisps run. Great game! I had quite a blast. I tried RDR2, but even though I recognize the quality of the game, I can't seem to get the hang of it... Probably my ADD. Else, I dusted off some Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor and Mad Max. All on the Steam Deck or on my desktop via the Steam Link app on my Nvidia Shield.

Ha, I spent the effort trying to get D&D Online to work on the Steam Deck, but the controls are definitely intended to be with keyboard and mouse.

Elder Scrolls Online wirks pretty well on it though! I also keep meaning to try Star Trek Online on it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeCould be an interesting subject matter for an essay; as we know commercial competition drives innovation, but it seems to in the open source realm as well. It could be argued that instead of group A working on one product (like Heroic Game Launcher) would be drawing talent away from improving a different product (Lutris) that group B is working on. But I think in the case of these two, they seem to work just like the commercial environment where if you have no competition, you end up floundering around with little to no improvement (or you end up doing what Windows does and try to just slide in more ways to make money off of essentially the same crap).

I need to try out Heroic Game Launcher again.

They're two different products. They might seem identical, because they both help you play your Epic and GOG games. But Heroic replaces them with a single launcher, while Lutris doesn't replace anything, it just helps you install their launchers instead. Two totally different approaches.

They both eventually launch games though, right? I actually prefer the Lutris method as launchers are crap. :)

But they both attempt to organize your collections from digital stores, so there is a repeat of function. Since I do not own any games on the Epic store, I really have no use for the heroic game launcher.

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Itch.io is odd. Like I think I bought some giant RPG bundle, but only ever get 'this thing has been updated' for one of them.

Also, I should look to see if there is an Amiga client, as some Amiga games get released there. There was a mixed bag of good and crap stuff in the last bundle, if I recall. Anything great in this one?

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Could be an interesting subject matter for an essay; as we know commercial competition drives innovation, but it seems to in the open source realm as well. It could be argued that instead of group A working on one product (like Heroic Game Launcher) would be drawing talent away from improving a different product (Lutris) that group B is working on. But I think in the case of these two, they seem to work just like the commercial environment where if you have no competition, you end up floundering around with little to no improvement (or you end up doing what Windows does and try to just slide in more ways to make money off of essentially the same crap).

I need to try out Heroic Game Launcher again.

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Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: benstor214“People who emulate games are all committing piracy.”

I can't remember somebody saying this. Could you cite it please?

That’s the nice thing: you don’t need to! You just have to murky the waters and blur the line between emulation, game preservation and piracy. You only need to place one group near to the other and subsequently insinuate that there is no difference between both groups at all. Sooner than not game preservationists are deemed criminal and Nintendo’s upper management opens a bottle of champagne to celebrate the successes of the hard-working minions in forums and comment sections.

I prefer people citing what has actually been said and react to that instead of making up quotes. It always makes it look like they wouldn't trust their arguments enough.

You are right. Consumers don’t need rights anyway.
Most of them even smell badly in my experience.

Buahahaha. Oh wait, he's talking about ME!

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Quoting: Mountain ManNintendo is just protecting themselves. I've never had a problem with that. They're still a great company.

They haven't been a great company since they blocked all competition from making games if they also wanted to be on the NES in the 80s. They more or less bukkied their way into success back then.

They are also one of the most aggressive companies about going after sites hosting their old crap. Also the most aggressive about reselling the same stuff over and over again, and not giving credit to the emulator writers when they use them in their own products.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: BoldosWhat constitutes a 'flavor' in their mind? Is that Kubuntu, or is it things like Linux Mint / PopOS. Some of them still use the Ubuntu repos. This just seems like early shots to try to eliminate competition.

You might be on to something there. With Linux Mint, they have stated that the reason they maintain an LMDE variant is for testing and to ensure that Linux Mint would still survive should Ubuntu ever disappear...or in this case, try to screw them over. I'm positive Linux Mint will be okay, but other Ubuntu Derivatives..I"m not so sure about. I think if Canonical tried this, A lot of users of Ubuntu Derivatives would just run pure Debian or OpenSuse.

Yeah, I'd think a lot would switch to things like Sidduction, Debian, PureOS, etc. There are tons of Debian based distributions out there that are not Ubuntu based. You really do know that LMDE exists purely because Ubuntu have done some sketchy things here and there.

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Quoting: akselmoBrilliant game, should play some of the campaigns I haven't yet.

I may have to start over the original campaign (Yeah, I know most people thought it was boring, but I liked it). I managed somehow to get up to a 14th level wizard, then got stuck... but then lost my saved game during a hard drive mishap. Now we have cloud saves, so that shouldn't happen again... I've started that campaign so many times; last time my bro and I were playing it, I played a dumb half-orc fighter and he played a wizard... but he kept running off and dying :P

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