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I strongly disagree with the premise that there’s a “wrong” way to play retro games.

I understand your sentiment here and you are right too. What I think is, that the wording on this title here is misunderstood. Emulating (old) games without Shaders is not faithful or accurate in the looks. It looks "vastly" different and thus means it looks "wrong". I interpret the "wrong" in the title as "not faithful", instead as "bad", like this: You're Probably Emulating Retro Games Not Faithful (you need CRT Shaders for the oldschool look)

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1295660/discussions/0/

I have looked at the Steam discussion board for the game and people seem to be unhappy (based on the official streaming to showcase): a) Denuvo is planned to be integrated (not sure if plans have changed), and b) game looks and plays much different than any Civ so far. So Denuvo might still be integrated, but game can be perfectly playable on Linux. Denuvo is not an anti cheat system, its an anti theft system against piracy.

Interesting. Thanks for digging up.

There are two variants, one with motion-blur and one without. Besides that, often shaders have additional settings. One can change settings and save it as a new Shader Preset and use that instead. I have described it here: https://thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/showcase-for-retroarch-shaders-2024/8/#learn-and-explore

Shaders are not only useful for CRT emulation, but also to get the look of handhelds:

It's not just the look of it, but the art and games were designed with the limitations of CRT in mind. Not all games off course. An example is the transparency effect on Genesis / Mega Drive:

No, I'm not that guy. I also didn't know about what the guy did, before you telling me here. Officially there was no plans on adding Kernel level anticheat to the game, right? So what the guy did was not based on real information. Or did I miss an official statement?

The previous Civilization games are playable on Linux, so its not really locking out Linux users. But I guess the online part does not work? I never played in online modes, so didn't lookup or knew this.

I would totally ignore these specs for the moment. It's not telling much.

System specs are meaningless without knowing what the terms refer to; the context is missing. Like what resolution and fps we are talking about here? What level of settings (graphics and such) are used for "minimum" or "recommended"? The problem why the devs do not a "proper" specs sheet is, because they could be liable for it. I mean the more detailed the list is, the more people get angry if it does not work as expected on their machine. Also nowadays we have handheld PCs like the Steam Deck, which is pretty standardized hardware. They could provide detailed information how well it runs on a device like this or if its not playable / supported.

The dash - vs underscore _ is also a common "problem" with CLI arguments --file-name, that are mapped to variable names file_name.

This is one of the reasons why I don't like short variable names, especially single letters (unless for very narrow use and obvious like i).

For code bases where this is a thing, you could use greps context lines: grep ---before-context 1 "^main"

Trying? I comment a lot in Brodies videos. :D Often its a little joke or something silly, helps with the algorithm. Sometimes I get in heated arguments with others.

This black color text issue begun a few days before making the this post here.

Exactly me too, lol. I was also confused about the aether, because I knew it was wrong but not why. Currently watching his explanation about how he arrive at E=mc2 right now (paused the video to link here). Not sure if this is the video you meant, but in case not I highly recommend this one too: I never understood why light has ENERGY but NO MASS... until now! - YouTube | Invidious

Probably just a coincidence. Most likely maybe.

I prefer websites and services who just ask if I'm older than 18.

That is longer that expected. But I don't know what I even expected. Laptops can reach those times too (although laptops have bigger batteries).

Pre-configured hardware with pre-installed Linux is the best way to expand. The technical side of driver support and gaming support is solved already (besides one specific kind of games, but thats another topic for another day). The biggest hurdle for people is to try Linux and set it up themselves. Only a few nerds go this far. It's amazing right now!

It would be nice to have direct comparison between Windows and SteamOS on same hardware, performance wise and also how many purchases.

Tekken 5 still my favorite entry in the series. Sad the older games never got a proper PC release. I played Virtual Fighter 1 and 2 on Saturn and 3tb (on Dreamcast), so cannot speak for any newer entries. At least they do not play fluid like Tekken and do not feel as good to me. Virtua Fighter also was less combo oriented. Again, I don't know how the current state of newer Virtua Fighter games are, but I'm a little bit skeptical at the moment. Really need to test them. And I would recommend you too, so you have the right expectations.

But from the trailer, it looks much better to me than what I experienced 20 years ago lol.