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(on Wikipedia)
https://mate-desktop.org/
A desktop environment/window manager that continues GNOME version 2, after it was abandoned.
summary
Reasonable. The Pyra will use this by default.
I much prefer Openbox, but I wanted to try this a little.
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Entertainment > Games >
https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/
https://geneshift.net/
A top-down shooter with superpowers.
An awkward and unforgiving game that’s zoomed in too far to be fun.
2020-06-30 — The forum seems to have been dead since 2017-08 or later.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2189221/
was defiance.com/en/series/
In a world ruined by an alien invasion and terraforming, an ex-military turned scavenger and his alien adopted daughter take refuge in one of the few reasonable settlements: Defiance.
Although it has elements I like, it doesn’t have anything that actually grabs me. In a world where there is so much else of better quality, this is not recommended. There are a couple of characters who are really well acted, but again.. it’s not worth the trouble.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654580/
was https://www.fox.com/almost-human/
A buddy cop show with an android, set in the near future.
It’s great all around, especially the acting from the lead characters. Once the initial interest wears off, it lacks the good writing to give it either an episodic groove or an overall story arc. It’s especially poor with an arc which could last it into another season, trivially-justifying its cancellation.
Recommended only for fans of “loose” science fiction who would be interested in the robot buddy cop angle. Watch one episode, then decide. Others can give it a pass, unless they like Karl Urban, who plays a cop played by Karl Urban.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/
https://www.facebook.com/Fringe
When investigating unusual crimes, a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent is brought into a United States Department of Homeland Security task force that investigates such things.
It took a while to like it at all, but ultimately it was lacking an aggressively-pursued over-arching story arc. It was so damned episodic and boring. Also, the lead actor’s constant grimace is incredibly disturbing.
I gave this a good long shot, and by the half-way point of season two, I just had to abandon it.
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http://www.jbox.dk/downloads/edit.c
http://www.jbox.dk/sanos/editor.htm
A simple and small text editor.
This doesn’t really have a name. Even in it’s source it’s just called “Text editor”.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/210770/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200110212906/https://www.coffeestainstudios.com/games/sanctum-2
A combined first-person shooter and tower-defense game.
Seems pretty cute, but I hate tower defense games which have multiple entrances.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/209190
https://web.archive.org/web/20190907045712/https://www.stealthbastard.com/
A side-scroller puzzle game.
I played around with it a bit. It’s fair. It’s overwhelmingly unforgiving and gets complicated.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/stellaris/STST01G-MASTER.html
Build and expand a space-faring race who learns they are not alone in the universe.
Master of Orion – (1993 game) but with updated graphics and a confusing interface. I expect would have loved this in the past, but now it’s just awkward. I’ll still tag this as ‘liked’, as it’s pretty good. It’s very hard in the eyes. Take a lot of breaks.
Extremely stupidly hard.. and confusing. I’m shelving it. I only paid $12 USD for it, so it’s not a big loss.. still, I wish the UI was better and the tutorial was better and the gameplay was better..
