Weeoo, no need for the alarmism. There’s literally nothing in that trailer that suggests that Nintendo could take any action against the developer.

Funniest thing is those patents were filed after Palworld’s release. Nintendo really has no leg to stand on.

EDIT: Also, Pokemon itself was released after Shin Megami Tensei. It’s important to realize that while Pokemon may have perfected the monster collecting genre (for a time - I’m looking at you, Scarlet/Violet…) they were certainly not its progenitor and never have been the only player in the field.

I find that native clients are almost always a worse experience than running through Proton. Cursors not hiding or not appearing, inability to adjust certain graphics/display settings, and, rarely, worse performance than through Proton (including not actually managing to init).

That said, Proton has its own irritating quirks. Try turning off mouse acceleration in Skyrim on Linux for instance. Have to use protontricks to find the appid, then you have to nav to it in any of the locations that it could be found (depending on flatpak, native, etc.), and then you have to sift through the prefix to find the bloody INI that has the setting to toggle.

But as an indie dev, you should do whatever makes less work for you so you can do more with your time. If supporting native Linux will increase your workload and detract from work on the game itself, then simply don’t support it. Just make sure that your Windows builds work via Proton.

EDIT: Here’s a specific example from today. For reference, I normally play everything through Proton so I haven’t intentionally loaded a native game for like 6 months. But today I loaded up Yooka-Laylee not realizing it had a native version. Get in, alt tab to screencast on Discord aaand… the game nixed my cursor entirely. I mean, it likely just locked it to the game window, but that still means that I couldn’t interact with my PC outside the game window. So quickly downloaded the Proton version and it worked just fine after that.

Then you’re doing something wrong, simple as. I’ve completely unsubscribed from GOG emails and it was ez. Literally just in account settings.

As for Cyberpunk, it entered pre-pro in 2016 and released in 2020. https://www.destructoid.com/how-long-was-cyberpunk-2077-in-development/ So really 4 years, so maybe rushed given the scale tbh. If they had released in 2022 it might have been in a better state, so I’ll concede there.

“rushed job”

8 years of development

I don’t know how CP77 turned out how it did, but it certainly wasn’t due to being rushed. Either way, they managed to fix it although it took like 2 years or something.

As for you still getting GOG emails… Git gud?? Unsubscribing from a service’s emails is the easiest thing in the world if you take roughly 2 seconds to make sure it’s done properly.

I wouldn’t call HGL a better UX. It straight up doesn’t work for me. When it did, I couldn’t get games to install or update and had to DL manually in browser, install into some other Wine prefix, and then manually move the files to an HGL-generated prefix. The UI looks nicer but it’s not nearly as straightforward as Galaxy’s. It’s more like Lutris in its complexity, though I imagine there’s no easy way around that.

I’ve noticed that GOG usually runs their sales after Steam’s sales (or maybe before? Either way, they’re not in sync) and that it’s usually all the same stuff on sale. I don’t buy GOG anymore because Linux but back when I was still on Windows I would wait a week and buy from GOG where applicable.

Here’s my Ashlands base if you’re interested.

Hall interior (pre-furniture):

Hall interior (partially furnished; meeds more light sources, other bits and bobs)

Exterior:

Also, the Portal Stone allows you to teleport metals. I usually build temp ones at existing portal locations and just change portal designations if I need to transport metals. One of the best additions to the game, especially since having to navigate back to the Ashlands every time you needed iron or something would be terrrrible.

That’s good. I actually built the first thing I was ever properly proud of in the Ashlands (before the roof fell off, anyway) and that was about my only good experience with the patch. Generally, the building and resource gathering in any game isn’t interesting to me but grausten is such a cool material to work with. But the combat, exploration, and progression in the Ashlands are plain unpleasant IMO and those are usually the aspects of games that I enjoy most.

I sincerely tried ngl. I managed to get through the Mistlands even though most of it just wasn’t fun to me. Then I managed to get to the Ashlands, did my first stronghold raid and… I wasn’t having fun at all. Maybe it’s better with friends (how I initially played the game), but all of mine are busy.

Also, concerning the quotation: Isn’t that always how AMD has functioned? Release a card that on paper should perform well but in reality takes a year to mature due to ongoing driver development?

I imagine they make convert boxes. Could output the DP to one and then input that to the TV. But I’m still running a 720p Emerson TV so I probably don’t know what I’m talking about.

I’ve never tried Bottles before. Does it differ meaningfully from winetricks/protontricks? That’s what I normally use to manage wine prefixes. Never managed to get GOG working with winetricks tho.

I mean, Heroic straight up doesn’t work for me and I have no idea why. I’ve resorted to launching GOG through Steam and then installing and launching games through that. But it’s mega cursed so I might give this a go.

I can appreciate that. And I do the same, though likely in a different way. Being open and nonjudgmental encourages others to be so, opening the path to change. Peace and understanding, all that hippy stuff.

But in the case of snitties, I must take a hardline stance. Snake people are reptiles and so have no need for snitties. Their many young consume eachother and only the strongest survive.

If I might ask, what do you think is the correct way to fight bigotry?

Here’s my opinion: You say the N word, even as a joke, that’s on you. And it’ll stick to you like shit on a stick. But it’s on me to give people the benefit of the doubt and think charitably of others. I’m not gonna write a person off because they said a slur. I believe people can change and want to see that change in the world. If I didn’t then there wouldn’t be any incentive for others to change. Fighting bigotry is about building bridges, not tearing them down.

While true, I haven’t heard him dropping Nbombs for like 5 years at least.

Do you actually think that two imperialist ethnostates would coexist for any meaningful amount of time? Do you truly think that Nazis actually saw the Japanese as “honourary Aryans”? Political jabbering to maintain good relations. A racist is a racist is a racist and Nazis hated anyone lacking blonde hair and blue eyes.

If you think that has any relevance today then you’re kidding yourself. Had the Axis won the war then Germany and Japan would be at eachothers’ throats by now. Any alliance Nazi Germany had was one of convenience. They didn’t honour their agreements. See: Russia.

If you’re looking for Nazis, look to America.