Quoting: tonRI'm very sorry to Electronic Arts (EA) for losing "the worst game publisher in the world of the year" title. This year "competition" is so damn tough.

It's actually bit funny as Electronic Arts has done something that's quite opposite what Take-Two is doing right now. The source code of Command & Conquer: Remastered Collections is available in Github with a GPLv3 license (though they have supplementary conditions to the license, which GPLv3 actually allows for certain things). In that particular case Electronic Arts actually collaborated with the modding community. I have probably forgotten some of the details, but Noclip has done documentary with some additional details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MUDQYWk6qY

So releasing remastered version can be handled differently.

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Quoting: AnzaJust dropping in to say that there should be now a beta branch with name linuxqa. So if somebody wants to test the game and give feedback to the developer, it's now possible.

Latest patch has Linux support again, so beta branch is no longer needed. It's not advertised on store page (yet?) and Liam was already asking about that.

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Quoting: nenoroand 0.001% Gentoo
Probably the only one who uses gentoo and plays games on it...

I just hope Valve switches for gentoo for steam OS hue hue hue

Not the only one for sure, I use Gentoo and play games. Gentoo is just not for everybody and that's OK. If people find installing Arch hard, telling them to unpack the base operating system in order to compile the rest might be bit too much.

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Damn, I haven't finished the playthrough with Green Planet enabled even yet

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceFirst Death Trash and now this, what is it with puking in games these days ?

I guess if there's just two, it can still be a coincidence

In Valheim though there's clear logical use case for it. I think I have accidentally ate something that's not suitable several times. When building or running around, stamina is really useful and it might be good to save up some of the good stuff. Situation can suddenly change though.

Regular enemy spawn points can get somewhat predictable, but events come up more as a surprise. Without proper wall and moat, there's very good change that you might have to actually fight. Fight will be much harder if your stomach is full of berries.

Of course puking wastes food, but when about to be swarmed by enemies, it might be acceptable compromise.

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What caught my eye was that Terry is quite optimistic about results of having the source code available (that is quite evident even from the shorter announcement on Steam). So it really seems like Ethans suggestion of trying the open source approach really worked. Let's see if source code of some of the other games end up on Github.

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Just dropping in to say that there should be now a beta branch with name linuxqa. So if somebody wants to test the game and give feedback to the developer, it's now possible.

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Demo is worth trying out. Even when the game kind of is somewhat extended hacking minigame, it's somewhat oddly satisfying.

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Dropping this here before the next article drops.

In latest video Valheim goes Death Trash: https://youtu.be/huLGffRVH1s

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Quoting: poisond

Quoting: AnzaThere's remedy though that I use. I prefix CPU and IO heavy operations with following snippet

nice -n 20 ionice -c3
Just remember to add the heavy operation to the same line, those commands won't do much on their own.

Except the nice will do nothing because of retarded default behavior these days. You first have to disable scheduler auto-grouping:

 
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

As a Gentoo user I have managed to avoid whole feature. I did some reading and I think I know little better how autogrouping works. It seem to be trying to alleviate the CPU hog problem altogether, but it might not always work perfectly. Seems to be nifty, though affecting the scheduling needs to take autogroups into account.

This seems to be the most helpful resource: https://superuser.com/a/1151279 (man page of sched should have largely the same content, though potentially more up to date)

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