Kobolds with a keyboard.
I especially love it with puzzle games like Blue Prince, where it’s less about sharing solutions and more about sharing theories and ideas. “Hey, maybe if we do X…” “Oh, that’s a neat idea - oh, wow, I bet if we used Y there it’d do Z…” type discussions. You get those neat eureka moments of shared inspiration riffing off of each other.
Treating games like books in a book club - where you play through something for the first time alongside a friend who’s also playing through it for the first time, and discuss it as you go, is a lot of fun and often leads to a greater insight into the storyline or mechanics or whatever else than you’d have gotten alone.
You’d have just gotten fucking banned.
A) Just don’t use the software that requires it, you don’t need social media etc. in your life anyway, and B) I’m very confident someone will create a way to circumvent those checks very quickly anyway.
Yeah, it doesn’t fit the template but the low IQ version would be more like “You only need ChatGPT for coding.”
Purchasing the license unlocks features such as an even more Windows-inspired desktop and control panel, an integrated Android subsystem with graphics acceleration, a graphical OneDrive client inside the file manager, Copilot and ChatGPT integration, advanced system configuration tools, improved security for web browsing, and exclusive desktop enhancements that are not available in the free base Winux install.
I’m surprised they didn’t include these things by default and remove them when you buy a license; that sounds like a straight downgrade. Aren’t these things some of the main reasons people stop using Windows?
I think Minesweeper is a great tutorial game. It forces you to learn different variable types, data structures, loops and user input at a minimum, and it’s really easy to expand on to make it more complex without requiring unique or difficult logic. Turning it into Battleship is a fun progression - I hadn’t considered that, but I like it!
A fun way to do this (IMO) is to pick some really simple classic game, and remake it. Something like Minesweeper, but pick something that’s at least sort of related to the concepts you want to learn.
In an unfortunate coincidence, the tables were sorted by the children’s parents’ annual income, so it was the poor kids whose data was lost. That’s why rich kids get more presents.
Whether they’re surprised or not, going public with it was a good marketing ploy because I never would have known about the game if they hadn’t, and I bought it. I’m sure many more of their sales can be attributed to the same.
I have played the game. There’s far more pornographic games on Steam. All of the nudity is censored, there are no kids or even characters that could be mistaken for kids in the game, and it’s obvious in its intent - there’s nothing that I’d describe as even approaching titillating; the whole experience is clearly just intended to - and successfully so - make you feel uncomfortable and unsettled. The scene in question - the one that previously had the young girl - is particularly unsettling specifically because of how it normalizes everything else that’s going on, and I agree with them that the scene works better with a grown woman than it would have with a kid. There’s no reason for this to be banned on Steam.
Thanks, I hate it.
Well, thanks for bringing Epigraph to my attention!
This seems… so completely not worth getting upset over. What image was supposedly censored?
I’m not familiar with open typer, klavaro or gnu typist, but there’s nothing particularly complicated about making a typing game. However, you simply aren’t providing enough information for anyone to really be able to offer advice. What are you actually needing help with? Do you have any sort of plan for how you want this hypothetical game to work?
Elder Scrolls games by and large suck out of the box. The prolific mod community is what makes them worth buying / playing. I’ve got a few hundred hours in Skyrim and I’ve never actually finished the main storyline. Don’t know how it ends, don’t care.
Personally, I prefer your last case. I put comments before my functions that explain in plain text what the function is doing, e.g. “If the widget is vibrating, do X; otherwise, do Y”. If the function is particularly complex, I’ll put more comments inside it that explain how it’s accomplishing that, but I like being able to just see at a glance a summary of the function’s… function, without scanning the whole thing for comments. It’s like the index of a book. You quickly scan to find the page with the thing you’re interested, then you read that page in detail.
unbugged 1.0 launch
Based on recent Steam reviews, it seems to actually be pretty buggy, and the Mixed review score doesn’t bode well for it anyway.
It’s valuable to see comments like this, though. You could claim it’s ignorance on the part of the writer, but a better takeaway is that Linux doesn’t do a good job of explaining how it works. This could have been prevented with some kind of post-install documentation explaining exactly what you just posted, for example. The “New To Linux” experience is really not great if you don’t have online communities or external-to-the-OS resources to reference to find out things like this. I went quite a long time after making the switch before really understanding that the desktop environment is largely independent from the OS and how the two relate.
On that note, having multiple desktop environments available to “demo” on the live USB pre-install would help massively. Hearing “Oh, there’s X desktop environments to choose from!” isn’t useful if you don’t know what the difference is or which one you prefer, and online resources aren’t particularly helpful if you’re coming to Linux from another OS. Fuck anyone who installs, say, CachyOS that has what, like 15-20 options? rather than 3 for Mint.