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Join me and Sam from Feral Interactive at 1PM UTC today for Dawn of War II
1 November 2016 at 12:32 pm UTC
1 November 2016 at 12:32 pm UTC
Just started playing DoWII now. Absolutely fantastic game - not normally my thing either, but I'm loving it.
Why GNU/Linux ports can be less performant, a more in-depth answer
27 October 2016 at 9:58 pm UTC Likes: 9
Do you know how you sound when you try to childishly belittle the people who make this site possible in the first place? Take your Steam Forum bile elsewhere, please. It doesn't belong here.
27 October 2016 at 9:58 pm UTC Likes: 9
Quoting: swickQuoting: liamdaweQuoting: swickSo much better.My article was obviously only scratching the surface and touches on different things.
"It's the drivers! And look, we don't deserve good stuff anyway because we're so few people! And do you even notice a difference? With 2 Titan X you can barely notice a difference because our eyes can't see over 30fps anyway."
Whatever.
Do you know how you sound when you try to childishly belittle the people who make this site possible in the first place? Take your Steam Forum bile elsewhere, please. It doesn't belong here.
What have you been playing recently, and what do you think?
17 October 2016 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 1
17 October 2016 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 1
I've been playing Shadwen. Great fun, and the stealth works, although it can get a bit slapstick sometimes, with barrels, crates and wagons flying through the air and then hearing the stock guard responses of "I thought I saw something there...".
Also nailed a bit of time into Battlevoid:Harbinger. It's a slow starter, but has a really nice FTL vibe after a few hours. I think I might be a hooked now, 9 hours in.
Finally, I got round to playing Kingdom Rush: Frontiers. Like the original, only better. Probably the best tower-defence game out there.
And for some reason, I found myself playing a few hours of Borderlands 2. I think that was a subconscious response to hearing Feral's announcement regarding Mad Max. Bring on the 20th!
Also nailed a bit of time into Battlevoid:Harbinger. It's a slow starter, but has a really nice FTL vibe after a few hours. I think I might be a hooked now, 9 hours in.
Finally, I got round to playing Kingdom Rush: Frontiers. Like the original, only better. Probably the best tower-defence game out there.
And for some reason, I found myself playing a few hours of Borderlands 2. I think that was a subconscious response to hearing Feral's announcement regarding Mad Max. Bring on the 20th!
Join me for a livestream tonight at 19:45 UTC
14 October 2016 at 10:33 pm UTC
14 October 2016 at 10:33 pm UTC
Loving the "sexy voice" comments on tonight's stream. Liam has an admirer.. but I think I'll stick to ShadowSigyn's stream myself though! Just as well you two don't clash. Don't make me choose between you!
'Critical Annihilation', a twin-stick shoot 'em up made entirely out of destructible voxels has a Linux build
10 October 2016 at 12:57 pm UTC
Random, but awesome comment. I got it two months ago too - first time in years. Literally, years.
10 October 2016 at 12:57 pm UTC
Quoting: ElectricPrismSteam Survey 3 months in a row.
Random, but awesome comment. I got it two months ago too - first time in years. Literally, years.
Just a heads up, PAYDAY 2 is currently broken again on Linux
8 October 2016 at 8:36 pm UTC
8 October 2016 at 8:36 pm UTC
They've been aware that voice chat is broken on Linux since release and have done nothing about it. I don't trust those guys to not break this game again in future. Their next project, Payday 3 is pretty much dead to me, to be honest. This one is a pretty good shooter too, so a real loss.
A general guide for the best practices of buying Linux games
7 October 2016 at 3:31 pm UTC
From that article, it's crystal clear that copying in Germany is ONLY allowed:
And as for this:
It sounds like both sides are pretty entrenched here though, so like Liam I'll try to duck out of this now. No promises though...
7 October 2016 at 3:31 pm UTC
Quoting: voyager2102Quoting: scaineInteresting! But a bit of googling seems to completely disagree with your example of German Law. Can you point me in the right direction? What I've found appears to suggest that German law is very close to UK law - you can make copies for your own use, but copyright law is still in effect - that is, only the author of the works is allowed to redistribute/reproduce it for anything other than personal backup purposes. There appeared to be a debate around this in Germany around 2002/3, but nothing I can find suggests that the law changed significantly.
Your google-fu is bad ;)
German law interpreted by a lawyer, please use goole translate or the like to translate it. The paragraph is linked from there, too
From that article, it's crystal clear that copying in Germany is ONLY allowed:
Quotefor their own private use without profitSo your example of making a copy for your friend is still obviously illegal.
and this not be distributed or published
Quoting: voyager2102You're getting confused here between "is piracy legal?" and "is DRM a good thing?". I don't care about your justifications for why people pirate material. I'm asserting that in most (relevant) countries, the answer to that first question is "no, piracy is illegal".Quoting: scaineBottom line, ask yourself how you'd feel about selling one hundred copies of your work, only to discover 100 thousand such copies were being enjoyed by the masses? I'd be pissed off. How about you?
It's true - I really don't understand anyway who defends piracy. At all. Happy to be "educated" however, but that education must address not just laws and jurisdictions, but more importantly how that defender-of-piracy would justify and accept living on the street if they were the artist with no income and not the pirate.
I actually answered that in your other post (going bottom up). It is a mental excercise - you need to overcome the reflexes learned in countless hours of education, TV, advertisement etc.
Ask yourself:
1) Are you going to prevent piracy with any form of protection? No, you are just going to make life harder for your paying customers and maybe prevent the pirates to use if for a while. Everything gets cracked sooner or later - law of nature ;)
2) Why did those evil pirates download your software? There are different groups:
a) The ones that do it because they don't care about you and download it to save a buck. Those are a lost cause <snip!>
And as for this:
Quoting: voyager2102Now that you ask - I actually would expect people to download and pirate it as that is the way things are. If they can't afford to buy it they are indeed welcome to download it for free and if they wouldn't have bought it anyways and read it because they pirate it then all the better - maybe they will find it fun and pay me afterwards or buy my next work!.Well bravo. We agree to differ and you're a bigger man than I. But it sounds like you can afford that attitude because you don't rely on copyright law to pay you for your work. My point was that if you were starving on the street because, despite your talent, piracy deprived you of income, I'm pretty sure there's not a human being in the world who would defend piracy let alone advocate it.
It sounds like both sides are pretty entrenched here though, so like Liam I'll try to duck out of this now. No promises though...
A general guide for the best practices of buying Linux games
7 October 2016 at 1:32 pm UTC Likes: 2
So if you write a book, stick it on Amazon for six euros, you'll be cool when I and thousands of others download the torrent instead? It's only digital, right? I wasn't going to buy it anyway!! Apparently I'm entitled to your cultural contribution without paying?
Man, I'm really trying here, but I just can't understand it.
7 October 2016 at 1:32 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: voyager2102Anybody who discounts that there is a severe difference between a physical and a digital good can't be taken serious, I'm sorry. Of course there is a fundamental difference between me taking an apple from a tree and me copying the technique that the apple farmer uses to keep the birds off of the apple tree. In one case I dimish what he has and in the second case I do not unless I take away from his customer pool.
So if you write a book, stick it on Amazon for six euros, you'll be cool when I and thousands of others download the torrent instead? It's only digital, right? I wasn't going to buy it anyway!! Apparently I'm entitled to your cultural contribution without paying?
Man, I'm really trying here, but I just can't understand it.
A general guide for the best practices of buying Linux games
7 October 2016 at 1:26 pm UTC Likes: 2
Interesting! But a bit of googling seems to completely disagree with your example of German Law. Can you point me in the right direction? What I've found appears to suggest that German law is very close to UK law - you can make copies for your own use, but copyright law is still in effect - that is, only the author of the works is allowed to redistribute/reproduce it for anything other than personal backup purposes. There appeared to be a debate around this in Germany around 2002/3, but nothing I can find suggests that the law changed significantly.
I looked at a few sites, but this is the cleanest: http://limegreenip.hoganlovells.com/article/33/copyrights-copyright-protection-germany
Bottom line, ask yourself how you'd feel about selling one hundred copies of your work, only to discover 100 thousand such copies were being enjoyed by the masses? I'd be pissed off. How about you?
It's true - I really don't understand anyway who defends piracy. At all. Happy to be "educated" however, but that education must address not just laws and jurisdictions, but more importantly how that defender-of-piracy would justify and accept living on the street if they were the artist with no income and not the pirate.
7 October 2016 at 1:26 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: voyager2102Quoting: scaineBut in the musician example above, we're not talking about piggy-backing a live performance, a closer example would be a copied CD. You're paying nothing for a perfect copy of what other people did pay for. You are stealing. This can't be debated. It just is.
Wow... another one of these judgmental phrases so devoid of any actual fact, yet, oozing with sense of mission! You are moralizing. You just are ;)
Counter example of what you say: In Germany copyright law says that you can take a CD that you bought, bring it to a friend and even make a copy for him as long as you don't charge for it.
The law explicitly allows this and here you come and say it's stealing an "that is just so"! Wake up! We should adopt the Jolly Roger as our new flag!!!1!
Interesting! But a bit of googling seems to completely disagree with your example of German Law. Can you point me in the right direction? What I've found appears to suggest that German law is very close to UK law - you can make copies for your own use, but copyright law is still in effect - that is, only the author of the works is allowed to redistribute/reproduce it for anything other than personal backup purposes. There appeared to be a debate around this in Germany around 2002/3, but nothing I can find suggests that the law changed significantly.
I looked at a few sites, but this is the cleanest: http://limegreenip.hoganlovells.com/article/33/copyrights-copyright-protection-germany
Bottom line, ask yourself how you'd feel about selling one hundred copies of your work, only to discover 100 thousand such copies were being enjoyed by the masses? I'd be pissed off. How about you?
It's true - I really don't understand anyway who defends piracy. At all. Happy to be "educated" however, but that education must address not just laws and jurisdictions, but more importantly how that defender-of-piracy would justify and accept living on the street if they were the artist with no income and not the pirate.
A general guide for the best practices of buying Linux games
7 October 2016 at 9:51 am UTC Likes: 1
The article has generated lots of views - many of your comments have had likes, as have many of the counter arguments. Gaming On Linux has never been "in it for the hurrah's". The near-complete lack of advertising should attest to that.
There's some nice irony that you're getting upset because not everyone agrees with you, so you're attacking the editorial and website... because you don't agree with it.
BTW, the idea about liking an article is a good one. I don't think it would stifle discussion either. Right now, the only gauge to an article's popularity is the Views count at the top of the article. That's useful, but people like yourself are engaging with this article despite (or because of) not agreeing with it. A like button would be cool gauge of support for a given article.
7 October 2016 at 9:51 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: buenaventuraIt simply echoes what you wrote in your article. Using "arguments" like "that's just how it is" or "it's just a fact" or "you say something else but I am right so buzz off", even "this is my site and look, a lot of people repeat my baseless "it's a fact, you are just entitlement sillies" statement over and over, thus it is true", it would have been better to just disable commenting for this article - you do not seem like you want to read or respond to anything but people agreeing with you. Perhaps a like-button on your articles would be better than letting people actually write, if you are just looking for hurrah's.
The article has generated lots of views - many of your comments have had likes, as have many of the counter arguments. Gaming On Linux has never been "in it for the hurrah's". The near-complete lack of advertising should attest to that.
There's some nice irony that you're getting upset because not everyone agrees with you, so you're attacking the editorial and website... because you don't agree with it.
BTW, the idea about liking an article is a good one. I don't think it would stifle discussion either. Right now, the only gauge to an article's popularity is the Views count at the top of the article. That's useful, but people like yourself are engaging with this article despite (or because of) not agreeing with it. A like button would be cool gauge of support for a given article.
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