You are mistaken. Heroic simply uses an affiliate link to generate money for the project.

IMHO, two hours is not nearly enough to get a feel for a game. At least, not for the sorts of games I tend to play. I spend longer than that just working through initial technical issues, configuration, and (in games that have one) the character generator.

I have to conclude that Steam’s return window is either intended to be just enough to see if you can get it running, or as much as Valve could talk publishers into tolerating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2016

the development experience for native software has sucked for a long time.

For as long as Windows has existed, I have found its APIs to be noisy, awkward, and generally unpleasant to use. It was a major part of why I switched my development focus to Unix a long time ago. I guess this is a matter of personal taste; I wonder how you’ll feel about the APIs more commonly used on Linux after five or ten years of using them full-time.

Despite a few niggles (I don’t care for Bourne-style shell syntax or Windows shell syntax) I have found my productivity to be better and more enjoyable since the switch. Nowadays, benefits include everything that comes with an open-source ecosystem, like the software install/update model of Linux distros, and the ability to solve or work around library/OS problems myself if I can’t wait for someone else to fix something.

And, of course, having a privacy-respecting platform for myself and my users is important to me.

In short, I’m happier here. Welcome.

By the way, if you do cross-platform desktop app development, give Qt a try. It does an excellent job overall.

I disagree.

1. OP wasn’t at all specific about what kind of transit app they were seeking, as others have noted.
2. Whatever kind of privacy-friendly transit app they want, F-Droid is exactly the place to find it.
3. There are only a handful of each type there. Comparing that to an ocean is absurd.
4. Many people don’t know about F-Droid at all, and just need a pointer to it.

Despite disagreeing, I appreciate that you used your words. Thanks.

I suggest browsing the apps available here:

https://f-droid.org/

I was referring to the image-only link and the embed that you suggested. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

Neither of those is a good approach, because part of every xkcd comic is the hover text.

The environment looks real enough. The “cats” look like weird demon creatures created by some entity that only knows dogs.

Why is he so interested in Greenland? Is it just the natural resources?

I often sit at a desk all day and all evening. I find that these things help:

• Good chair. Height adjusted for my keyboard/mouse height. Upright back. Lumbar support. Comfortable-but-supportive seat.
• Good posture (when I remember to pay attention to it).
• Split, tented keyboard. Mechanical switches that don’t require too much pressure.
• Good display. IPS panel. Light anti-glare surface. Backlight that actually dims the light source, either without pulse-width modulation, or with PWM at such high frequency that it cannot induce flicker fatigue. Brightness turned down much lower than the default. Calibrated at that brightness setting, optionally to a slightly warm color temperature.
• Muted room lighting. Nothing behind me bright enough to reflect much on the screen.
• Comfortable clothes.
• Cup of water. Regular trips to the kitchen to keep it filled.
• Frequent short breaks. Start the laundry. Get a snack. Look at objects outside. Wash a dish. Bring in the mail. Make the bed.
• Exercise. At least 10 minutes daily; preferably 30 minutes or more. Stretches. Squats. Rhythm games that require full-body movement.

Congratulations!

For those who didn’t notice that OP posted 2 links:
(They look like a single link because there’s nothing separating them.)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2021600/Game_Over__A_Musical_RPG/

Nope. They are not.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475407-no-the-dire-wolf-has-not-been-brought-back-from-extinction/

Okay so did they go viral or are they just popular in this one small town? Word mean things

Pedantic is a word.

Also, your criticism of the author’s words would have carried more weight if you had pluralized correctly.

Not much of a trailer, but I think it qualifies as a teaser.

This one?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/112/condottiere

Dungeon Keeper clone?

Have you considered making a Linux virtual machine now, and learning small things a few minutes at a time between other tasks? That ought to give you a head start when it comes time to commit.

Then you purchased a wrong game

Perhaps.

But you’ve made a lot of assumptions in your comment, and you’re mistaken about most of them.

I played the side quests. Many came with a good backstory, but that is not gameplay. Nearly all were copy/paste instances from a small pool of tedious tasks. There were a few memorable exceptions, but very few.

I explored the world, as much as one can “explore” something that is fully labeled with point-of-interest markers. They lead the player to a repetitive handful of uninspired encounters, cloned over and over again.

It has plenty of other flaws as well. If you loved it, then I’m happy for you, but I found the gameplay boring.

The strengths I found in The Witcher 3 were its story, lore, characters, and Gwent. Not its gameplay.

Meanwhile, Gwent is a surprisingly well-designed strategy game. So much so that it ended up spun off into a stand-alone version (although I don’t know how good the spinoff is).

To each their own, I suppose.