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| IdleOne | http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/ games! | 02:47 |
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| ubot5 | New news from planetubuntu: Nicholas Skaggs: Testing in Cadence <http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/07/testing-in-cadence.html> | 03:26 |
| ubot5 | New news from planetubuntu: Pablo Rubianes: Python Docs Unity Lens <http://pablorubianes.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/python-docs-unity-lens/> || The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 274 <http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/07/17/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-274/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-274> | 04:56 |
| ubot5 | New news from planetubuntu: Aaron Toponce: 128-bit URLs In Python <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pthree/~3/o5dZ-2A_2LM/> | 05:27 |
| ubot5 | New news from planetubuntu: Thorsten Wilms: Get on Board the Blues – Guicussion Remix <http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/get-on-board-the-blues-guicussion-remix/> | 08:27 |
| === popey_ is now known as popey | ||
| jussi | IdleOne: games rock - Im pretty happy valve has finally gone that way | 09:58 |
| DJones | There's only one game playing though...Minecraft :) | 10:01 |
| DJones | s/game playing/game worth playing/ | 10:01 |
| jussi | DJones: lol, you have been hanging out with popey too long... | 10:05 |
| DJones | Heh | 10:05 |
| popey | :D | 10:05 |
| DJones | In defence of popey, I've not seen him play Minecraft for weeks | 10:06 |
| jussi | he plays it vicariously through his kids... | 10:07 |
| jussi | :D | 10:07 |
| popey | busy coding | 10:07 |
| popey | decided I wouldn't play till I had some code finished | 10:07 |
| jussi | So do we think that steam will actually bring some big names titles to ubuntu? | 10:17 |
| DJones | Thats definatly not a question for me, I haven't got a clue about games steam have released/distribute, apart from minecraft, I've not bought a game for about 10 years | 10:23 |
| DJones | :) | 10:23 |
| popey | jussi, well there's already all the recent humble bundle ones which are mostly on steam | 10:23 |
| popey | so if you already bought those you can install them easily via steam | 10:24 |
| jussi | popey: yeah, Im kind of more talking about the super popular mainstream titles | 10:25 |
| popey | time will tell | 10:25 |
| jussi | interested to see whether stuff you see out there being advertised will make it to Ubuntu | 10:25 |
| jussi | popey: this is true :P | 10:26 |
| popey | i expect so, after a while | 10:26 |
| DJones | Hmmh, Actually, I've just realised, my game buying days seem to have gone around the same time I started going with my (now) wife.......... | 10:27 |
| jussi | hahaha | 10:28 |
| AlanBell | is there some kind of reference specification for running steam games? | 10:28 |
| jussi | TBH I havent bought a game since I found civ3 at a garage sale a couple of years back | 10:28 |
| jussi | AlanBell: good question, Im not sure. | 10:29 |
| AlanBell | with consoles like the PS2 or wii the designers know the spec and frame rate it can do etc because they are all the same | 10:29 |
| jussi | AlanBell: true, but how do the PC creators do it? | 10:30 |
| AlanBell | well I know for doom and quake you could turn down the resolution, but I haven't played any PC games since that era realy | 10:30 |
| jussi | I think they can still do that | 10:31 |
| AlanBell | I know games can be quite taxing because there are gaming PCs that are high end still | 10:31 |
| AlanBell | you can set up flight simulators with multiple monitors, probably other games too | 10:32 |
| jussi | true | 10:33 |
| jussi | flight sims are not an issue on linux though, as the best one you can buy is native linux | 10:33 |
| jussi | (and anyone who tries to tell me ms flight is the best shouldreally go try xplane, which equips flight sims that you can actually earn hours on...) | 10:34 |
| AlanBell | I have only played flightgear | 10:35 |
| jussi | its ok, ish, but Xplane is the industry leader. | 10:35 |
| * popey notes flight sims don't feature in.. http://digitalbattle.com/2012/02/21/top-10-highest-grossing-video-games-ever/ | 10:45 | |
| popey | nor http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2011/07/26/top-10-steam-games-of-2011-so-far-usa.htm | 10:46 |
| popey | or http://store.steampowered.com/#topsellers | 10:46 |
| popey | :) | 10:46 |
| jussi | popey: however, I would wager a bet that if you took flights sims combined sales over their life, they would be among the top sellers. ie. MS Flight has been around for 20 odd years... | 11:09 |
| jussi | so flight sims are like a long term investment :) | 11:10 |
| AlanBell | dunno, I think they probably cater to a fairly specific audience though | 11:17 |
| AlanBell | more people in total can play angry birds and get something out of it than a flightsim | 11:17 |
| jussi | true that | 11:22 |
| jussi | a specific, but loyal and cashed up audience | 11:22 |
| popey | who buy one expensive app every few years | 11:22 |
| jussi | popey: no | 11:23 |
| popey | relative to casual gamers, yes | 11:23 |
| jussi | popey: there are lot of addons that people buy, new aeroplanes, new terrain, cities etc. | 11:23 |
| jussi | its not just the game itsself | 11:23 |
| popey | sure, there's dlc | 11:23 |
| popey | how does this look? (the bottom one) http://popey.com/~alan/onair.png ? | 12:42 |
| popey | nice and simple imo | 12:43 |
| AlanBell | I like it | 12:43 |
| jussi | popey: yeah, me too, its nice | 12:46 |
| popey | thanks chaps | 12:46 |
| popey | (I didnt make it) | 12:47 |
| Pici | The CoF on the right looks out of place on the bottom one imho. | 12:48 |
| popey | it does a little.. | 12:48 |
| MrChrisDruif | popey; I think I prefer the top one | 12:48 |
| MrChrisDruif | But that is just feeling, I can't describe why I prefer it over the other. Probably less obstrusive | 12:49 |
| ubot5 | New news from planetubuntu: Jason Gerard DeRose: How Dmedia makes file management go away <http://jderose.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-dmedia-makes-file-management-go.html> | 13:59 |
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| === AlanChicken is now known as AlanBell | ||
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