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+====== Issue 2013 - September ======
+===== I became a hypocrite =====
+I'm sad to say, but I became hypocrite. Some years ago, I've signed an oath not to buy any UEFI device. I did break
+this oath yesterday by buying Samsung ATIV Book 730U which has UEFI BIOS. I'm sorry. Perhaps one day there will be
+an open BIOS replacement or something. And of course, I've turned Secure Boot off and didn't install Windows 8 shipped
+with this notebook(no, I haven't even accepted EULA!).
+ --- //[[stybla@turnovfree.net|Zdenek Styblik]] 2013/09/01 17:51//
+===== Plea to game developers - NPC AI is good nowadays, but could it be better? =====
+Despite it may seem a as a rant, it's actually seriously meant post. I've been quite amazed by NPCs in Batman: Arkham City
+and Dishonored. By amazed I mean they felt alive particularly by having meaningful conversations(more or less in case of
+Dishonored) between each other.
+Now, the space for improvement I see is these NPCs have no links/communication channels between each other. Two NPCs are having
+a conversation. If you kill one of them, the other one doesn't notice; doesn't investigate why the other side became silent. But we,
+people, would, wouldn't we? I would. I suspect this is because NPCs don't have communication channel between each other, but are
+rather event driven with a bit of randomness(Do I feel like replying to event I've received?). Would be something like this hard to
+do? To keep track of conversations, making and breaking/ending them. I think it would make games not only a bit more challenging,
+but it would add a bit more life-likeness to NPCs as well. On the other hand, I'm well aware making NPC AI isn't easy and I'm sure
+somebody from game industry could give me a handful of corner-cases where this would either break the game or would cause NPCs to
+go crazy :-)
+ --- //[[stybla@turnovfree.net|Zdenek Styblik]] 2013/09/07 10:43//
+===== Reaction to: GoG rules out Linux support due to platform disparity =====
+I've just read [[http://www.computerandvideogames.com/428338/gog-rules-out-linux-support-due-to-platform-disparity/|GoG rules out Linux support due to platform disparity]]
+and I must say it sounds to me like a lot of bulls. Why? Because I have a port of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 for GNU/Linux which
+still runs after all those years and it doesn't matter whether it's on 32bit or 64bit, whether it's Slackware, Debian or Ubuntu.
+So, please, don't tell me how impossible it's to support games on GNU/Linux. What? HoMaM3 isn't 3D game. I hear you. Hidden and Dangerous 2 then?
+Seriously, stop it.
+Why don't you do it as Valve? Just clone [[http://www.winehq.org/|wine]], compile it with static libraries and off you go.
+I'm not exactly sure what else you were planning to do. Re-write all games to be native on GNU/Linux? I doubt it.
+Again, why don't you do it as Valve? Just support one distribution. Which one? I'm sad to say, Ubuntu. That's where your user-base is most likely
+going to be. And Debian will, or might, come along since Ubuntu is somewhat "clone" of Debian. Also, game is an application like any other,
+right? So, how came we have a lot of those years old applications which are still able to run nowadays. Strange, isn't it?
+There are ways how to do it. I understand it most likely isn't viable right now and would be rather a money sink hole for a quite some time.
+Again, look at Valve. From time to time, there are news about Steam's GNU/Linux user-base thinning out at [[http://www.phoronix.com/|Phoronix]].
+It could be caused by the fact nobody is going to reboot into GNU/Linux just to play Half-Life 2. I wouldn't.
+But don't bull people with poorly constructed excuses. You don't understand GNU/Linux, it's not viable/profitable deal for you, whatever - that's
+all fine and we understand. Just don't bull us.
+ --- //[[stybla@turnovfree.net|Zdenek Styblik]] 2013/09/08 10:46//