You might want to check your list, Liam, as neither Fera nor Enotria have a Linux demo as far as I can tell.

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Quoting: Dmitri SeletskiWaiting for Dead fire patch... I still have not completed it yet.

Wasn’t there one early this year?

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Gosh darn this is pretty. Very fun to discover the ways things clip and combine together. Seems like brilliant tech under the hood. Definitely leaves one wanting more variety in items and buildings in the demo, but this is one to keep an eye on for sure. Would be awesome if it's successful enough that they start making expansions with different types of environments and architectural styles!

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Quoting: Nic264

Quoteit does drop Banana Steam Items every so often and everyone then dumps them onto the Steam Marketplace hoping to make some extra cash, which you can then use to buy Steam games

So basically all the downsides of the modern usage of NFTs (speculation, dubious valuation, Ponzi scheme) without any of the upsides (decentralization, no vendor lock-in, potentially lower transaction fees).

That's where my mind went as well. Great way to waste electricity if people are leaving their computer on specifically to farm those items.

I'd say it has an upside that the NFTs don't, though, and it's fundamental: The game is free.

Same is true for nfts.
The methods to generate them are free to use(blender, real crypto wallets).
The objects(nft/Item) aren't.

But in this case, the people who create the nft-like things are not charging you for them. You get the game for free, you get the item drops for free. Then, yes, apparently you can become a profiteer because some suckers are willing to buy them for some reason. But the actual game-and-image creators are not scamming you, the game user and recipient of item drops.

You can buy some of them directly from the developer, actually, e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/2923300/detail/57/
Oddly enough, people are buying and selling this particular one at higher prices on the Marketplace, so it seems about as sensible as NFTs to me.

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QuoteI can organize a refund for you out of pocket.

Out of pocket? I had to check the definition of this to make sure it meant what I thought it meant, and it does - "having lost money in a transaction"

They aren't losing money in this transaction, they are just returning it to the person who gave it to them in return for a Linux version.

They do lose money if they refund the full amount the backer paid, as that amount includes payment processing + KS fees. And Kickstarter themselves don't do refunds.

Some might argue that they still come out ahead due to the benefits of having had that money upfront (and the clout of having those backers onboard), but on a single-transaction basis, they do lose money on each refund.

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Quoting: Nic264

Quoteit does drop Banana Steam Items every so often and everyone then dumps them onto the Steam Marketplace hoping to make some extra cash, which you can then use to buy Steam games

So basically all the downsides of the modern usage of NFTs (speculation, dubious valuation, Ponzi scheme) without any of the upsides (decentralization, no vendor lock-in, potentially lower transaction fees).

That's where my mind went as well. Great way to waste electricity if people are leaving their computer on specifically to farm those items.

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I’m glad there’s a demo because this looks like it might be a bit too technical for me but I’m still quite intrigued and willing to try it out.

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Quoting: SalvatosI don’t know what Sui, Web3 or Playtron are, but I like how the shoulder buttons seem to be labelled to be readable by people not using the device.

Just like the tops of seemingly all laptops in the world - to my never-ending irritation.

Ah, that one makes sense to me since you can't be looking at the top of a laptop while using it (plus there's no need to since it's just a brand logo).

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I don’t know what Sui, Web3 or Playtron are, but I like how the shoulder buttons seem to be labelled to be readable by people not using the device.

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Not the type of game I would play, but I sure loved watching the crazy stuff people came up with on YouTube. This ought to inspire more craziness

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