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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance re-release is out now with Linux support
17 December 2021 at 7:29 pm UTC Likes: 1

Yeah, it is definitely not the best price point considering the Baldur's Gate games from Beamdog are 70%-80% off right now.

Happy to have it in my Wishlist though.

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance to get a Steam release and for Linux too
17 December 2021 at 1:31 am UTC

Will give it a go if it comes to GOG.com certainly.

Get Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun free during the GOG Winter Sale
13 December 2021 at 10:58 pm UTC Likes: 5

Half the time I try a giveaway I find the game is already in my library.

New Humble Choice and multiple Humble Bundles are live
9 December 2021 at 7:29 pm UTC

Quoting: toorTheir bundles keep getting shittier and shittier. The time of humblebundle has gone. It's Steam time!

Humble is just Steam with extra steps...

It's the wild west out there as EVGA confirm GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs stolen from truck
7 November 2021 at 4:35 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: HamishGreat time for my GPU to have suddenly quit on me isn't it?

Jokes on them though, with the drought eating into my bottom line I could not afford to replace it regardless of the market conditions. Yay me!
Why does drought eat into your bottom line?
Farmer maybe ????
That's the obvious possibility, but when I started thinking about it there were a surprising number of others. Might sell supplies farmers use, might just be in a community where farmers set the economy, or it might be something quite different. I read about a once major lake in the US that has shrunk down to tiny in the last number of years, all the boat docks are standing over cracked dried mud, fishing is done for, and the tourist trade has gone to nothing.
Or he could have a small privately owned hydroelectric dam. No water, no electricity, no moolah.
Sorry to disappoint Purple Library Guy but pete910 was closer to the truth. In my case it was my having to feed my sheep through the summer and fall due to the grass not growing and then having to pay a premium for my usual winter feed for both the sheep and the cows. Even chicken food prices are through the roof right now.

It's the wild west out there as EVGA confirm GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs stolen from truck
6 November 2021 at 3:25 am UTC Likes: 2

Great time for my GPU to have suddenly quit on me isn't it?

Jokes on them though, with the drought eating into my bottom line I could not afford to replace it regardless of the market conditions. Yay me!

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 7: The Arena Eternal
12 October 2021 at 5:53 pm UTC

Quoting: pete910LGP activated there games on steam when they shutdown, It's how I got x3:r on steam. Don't quite remember how though
That was not LGP but Egosoft directly that put the Linux versions up on GOG.com and Steam. Good lads.

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd now Voodoo 3s fetch a huge price because they can be used in Amigas...
Also classic PC enthusiasts. On the other hand, part of the reason I got my Rage 128 Pro for reasonably cheap is that Rage cards are somewhat negatively associated with old Macs.

Quoting: gbudnyCan you take more pictures of Quake games? I have the box version of Quake 2 for Linux, but it's still in the shrink wrap. I don't want to unpack it.
I collected a few more I took on my phone at the time:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/MSvVpqC

Barring that, I do not want to take them out of storage again right now.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 7: The Arena Eternal
12 October 2021 at 5:43 am UTC

Funny how LGP is dominating the conversation when it is not even mentioned in the article...

I do not actually have a wealth of LGP games on hand to try; since they never had the same retail presence that Loki did their games do not really show up on the second hand market, regardless of the DRM situation.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 7: The Arena Eternal
11 October 2021 at 6:31 pm UTC Likes: 3

Information on patching Quake III Arena with download links is posted here:
https://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21699

The Penguin Computing advert turned into a wallpaper is available from here:
https://eng.hebus.com/image-80984.html

A review of the game by Matt Matthews for Linux Games is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020506224902/http://www.linuxgames.com/reviews/q3a.html

And my raw Quake III Arena timedemo data can be found here:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake3-timedemos.txt

Ion Fury gets a big 2.0 patch ahead of the Aftershock expansion in 2022
9 October 2021 at 7:54 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestWHAAAT!? You haven't played it yet? You must be joking, yes?
I played the Ion Maiden preview campaign and Heskel's House of Horrors. Never got around to playing the final product and now I will just be waiting for the patch. Similar thing with Dusk.

It did not help that the performance for me was not stellar but I have upgraded my computer a bit since.