Quoting: AciDYou forgot Griftlands, Gordian Quest and Fate hunters ;)

Griftlands! How did I forget that! I love Klei games. Never heard of Gordian Quest - thanks for that. And yep, Fate Hunters is excellent and of course there's the "spiritual remake" of that, Dreamgate, also excellent.

Quoting: FurysparkYou also forgot Last Evil. :P

Never heard of it! Incredibly, it looks even more gratuitous than Neoverse!

And separately, just yesterday, a couple of days after writing this article (even though it only got published today), I bought Incryption, which is also worth a shout out, because it's just all kinds of awesome and even has a Linux beta.

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But is it better/more fun than Beat Invaders!? I need to play more Beat Invaders...

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Quoting: Mountain ManThe claim that Valve will delist games that are sold cheaper elsewhere is false on its face. Humble Bundle has been selling Steam games at a steep discount for over a decade, and not a single one of them has been delisted.

Yeah, Fanatical too. I have no idea where this is coming from. Absolutely baffling from Wolfire, and even the legal system itself could do a 5 minute check on the veracity of this claim. I'm very confused by all this.

Like, right this minute, on Steam:

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I must be missing some nuance of the case.

The base price is the same. The final price you're seeing is from 50% and 58% discount, but the base price is the same.

Yep, that'll be it.

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Quoting: Mountain ManThe claim that Valve will delist games that are sold cheaper elsewhere is false on its face. Humble Bundle has been selling Steam games at a steep discount for over a decade, and not a single one of them has been delisted.

Yeah, Fanatical too. I have no idea where this is coming from. Absolutely baffling from Wolfire, and even the legal system itself could do a 5 minute check on the veracity of this claim. I'm very confused by all this.

Like, right this minute, on Steam:


But on Fanatical:


I must be missing some nuance of the case.

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Post-2019 GPU prices will do more to kill PC gaming than consoles, handhelds and mobiles combined.

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Quoting: Para-GlidingAbout "toning down", I feel that's beginning to be your main line in comment: not making waves, no head sticking out, no comment that would go against one of your own convictions or feelings (because you accept non-neutral comments when they go your way; Which is okay, as it is your own site; But should be clearly claimed, would help readers to figure out if we will seek information there or other places). Quite perturbing for me and make this site more and more unpleasant to read for me while I enjoyed your works for years. Is it a matter of monetization (if so, should be publicize, I guess), or you no longer want to compromise? or getting the big head (hope not!)?

A couple of points on this. First of all, I sponsor this site via Patreon and help with occasional back-end admin, but I'm otherwise as much a consumer of this site as you. It belongs to Liam, not me. I comment a lot though, so I get why you'd think I'm involved more than I actually am.

As for my comment on toning it down, you're right I use it a lot, but I try to put a positive spin on it - although in your case, that was only a smiley face, so apologies for my tone. I didn't intend it to be an attack.

But I can't deny that your comment annoyed me. Here's a company trying their best to do right by Linux users, selling laptops at probably next-to-no margin, and your first take was to be negative about the lack of technical detail, and so pronounce the entire outfit as "not professional". I just find that attitude so tiring, so depressing. And worse, it was nearly trivial to find that information if you looked - but you didn't, you just commented here negatively. So, yeah, I'm sorry for my tone. I just find it really hard to ignore.

As for rest of your comment, that's for Liam to respond to if he chooses. I think he moderates this community well, despite lots of varied opinions, but that's just my 2 cents.

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Quoting: Para-GlidingWhen a company doesn't provide the energy unit of the batteries in Wh or in MJ (knowing that 1Wh = 3.6 MJ), it can't claim something about the battery life of a laptop, and be considered as a professional laptop company

I agree that it's odd that the site doesn't mention the battery at all beyond this vague claim, but I also think you need to tone down the rhetoric a bit. Star Labs have been selling laptops for years - they're obviously a professional laptop company. Just because you, personally (and yeah, okay, me), are offended at the lack of technical detail doesn't change that!

Anyway, a quick visit to their support site, I found a complete disassembly guide for the Star Book, and it looks like they use 65wh li-on battery, as pictured.

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I'm not sure why Noita is in there, but I highly recommend it anyway (it's Proton though).

Otherwise, now is a good time to pick up Unexplored. I did a review of it a while back on GOL.

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Quoting: scaineDrives me nuts, just so much hypocrisy.

Spot on. Sorry for pretty much just re-iterating your point in my post a second time.

Too late! I went on a big rant! Goddamit!

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Quoting: scaineWeirdly though, when Canonical do this, suddenly it's "they're not collaborating", or they suffer from "not invented here" syndrome.

Maybe because they are not collaborating? Microsoft has upstreamed more code to the Linux kernel than Canonical has, for example.

Instead of pushing Wayland forward, they create Mir. When Gnome-shell first started out, instead of adding some coders to the pool, they decided to do their own thing with Unity, etc. They keep claiming they can do it better / faster, when they should have treated these core components as a community and pitched in. They fork because they want to be THE Linux Distro. But instead all they do is divide people.

Wow, the kernel argument, eh? Haven't heard that in years! Canonical aren't kernel developers - the only reason MS contributes is to ensure Linux runs on Azure. Meanwhile, outside of kernel commits, yes, they collaborated so, so much - they just got pushed out of a lot of it.

Unity - upstream patches to Gnome were straight out rejected, and their vision for widgets on the top bar rejected (ironic, since, yep, client-side decorations are a thing now). That vision precluded them using extensions, hence Unity, where they made real on other promises like global menu and HUD.

Mir - they needed certain features for their display manager that would fit into their requirements around phone interfaces. Surprise - the Wayland devs rejected their requests. Mir was born. Wayland devs cried like babies for literally years over this decision. Infuriating.

There are other examples. The discussions are generally public and I lived through them. I honestly don't want to regurgitate them again, but people keep jumping down Canonicals throat over this stuff and it's simply ignorant to place all that "blame" at Canonical's door. Sure, Canonical weren't always the good guy in this stuff, but it's regularly and unfairly overblown to be all their fault, they never collaborate, it's all about them, blah blah.

Quoting: slaapliedjeThey fork because they want to be THE Linux Distro. But instead all they do is divide people.

Eh? They ARE "the" linux distro. They have been for decades. THEY STILL ARE, despite quite a few mis-steps in recent years and some momentum around Arch. They don't divide people - they have, by far, the biggest community in the Linux "world". For a long time, people argued (myself included, although I don't really feel that way any more) that we should stop referring to Linux and start referring to Ubuntu. Ubuntu, for well over a decade, was just that synonymous with Linux as a whole. Well, desktop Linux anyway. Things like OMGUbuntu! and Ask Ubuntu, they happened for a reason.

Maybe that will change, but regardless of what distro we use here, as experienced players of games on Linux, almost everyone here would recommend Ubuntu, or a derivative like Mint or Pop, to a first-time user. Why? Because it's still the defacto standard. And they didn't get that way by being divisive. Quite the opposite. It's just that certain loud voices didn't like that they weren't number one any more.

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