Look up spiralism (sp) and the people trying to spread it
Basically when people get convinced the ai and them are important and need to spread the spiral
Edit : tldr is like Futurama when Lucy lu robot is saying you're cute to Fry and fry goes "no you're cute" and the professor quips "My God, she's such in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot"
I remember playing shipping and receiving for hours and unlocking all the different storage containers and realising that it was just one level
Meanwhile all the foreshadowing
If you are counting housing as assets, but you are forgetting mortgages as debts. Net millionaire would still be rare. What was the one that came out last month, there were 600 odd billionaires with more wealth than the bottom 2 million households. My banks house they let me live in has gone up in value
Fun little animal capture Battler with base building and guns. Nintendo sued then for having a mechanic of being able to grow to capture and ride mounts without extra steps. Revised payments in the middle of the law suit too iirc.
Because steam offers steam keys for free if "given away"
Pay me $25 and you get a free steam key to game B but I'm going to explicitly charge $30 if you try and buy it on steam direct.
Mean while steam is on the hook for hosting and server costs.
How small indie do you mean, like one person teams or teams of 5 ok?
Dyson sphere project, is a great factory game in development for ages and one of my favourites by a 5 person Chinese team.
Rift breaker by a small Polish group is like a cross between Diablo and Tower defence factory builder lite
Criticality, is a fun incremental game that will keep you occupied for a few days, hit neutrons to create a chain reaction, basically bubble wrap
"Lost wiki Kozlovka", is a very unique find the clue by reading Wikipedia articles in early 90's internet only about 2 hours long, highly recommended.
Take a look at the "secret of weapstone demo", DnD in hand drawn black and white
Alan's automation workshop, is good before it gets too hard it you like programming challenges, try the demo first
Silicon dreams, is like a physiological interrogation, you are trying to determine if the people are human or malfunctioning Androids, again there is a demo
Horripilant, is an interesting auto batteler, again with demo
Terraformental, is an incremental text adventure where you build skills to survive a time loop
A dark forest, was entertaining, currently free demo
Cleared hot, it's basically desert strike helicopter gunship game
Tower wizard, fun for a few hours
Little rocket lab, like factorio but you take over a town and it's cute
Kids recommend "look outside," and "mouthwashing", lobotomy corporation, lethal company,
The signal state, another programming type game
My youngest recommends "rainworld' like a 2d dark souls
That's my list from the last couple of months. I tend to search demos by genre and wish list things that get my attention. No idea how any of them works under Linux
EDIT: had to fix up the formatting on mobile.
Edit 2: went through my review and added:
"Town to city" like cities skyline but fun and cute
IXION, nice little confined space city building game
The crust, heaps of potential but waiting for them to finish it
Shapez and Shapez 2, fun little puzzle factory games.
Sandustry is more fun than it has any reason to e
cataclismo
space rock breaker, a cross between pachinco and asteroids
older games,
TIS-100, like assembler but more limited
papers please, love this one, love the aesthetic. If you don't want to play it watch the live action video homage ~10 minutes
I've ignored VR games, let me know if you want those too.
It's not perfect but honestly I'm so glad it's there. My friends kids are super allergic and have had multiple hospital stays and I'm glad my taxes help cover it. Honestly I just wish the mental health services were expanded but there is still a stigma.
I'm going to start off with this since most Americans I have spoken with don't know it: You can have private health cover on top of the universal healthcare which subsidizes dental, glasses, private hospital cover, maternity and prosthetics etc. Important to note, private cover still gets the benefit of the universal health care. For example, about 18 years ago having a voluntary c-section in a private hospital without health cover was ~$5k, but you would be covered in a public hospital or if your private cover took care of x%. For that $5k my wife and I had a private room with a queen size bed and I was also covered for meals for 3 nights. That's also when I realized my private cover didn't have maternity care, oh well.
Private cover also gives you a tax rebate.
Last year I went to doctor with a sore thumb that wasn't getting better after a week and a half (fell on it when sitting down on wet grass). Private practice, after hours, had to pay the gap fee of ~$80 for which I got a partial rebate back into my account next day. He examined me, wrote up up two scripts and told me to get an x-ray and ultrasound with urgency first thing in the morning.
I called up, made a booking while driving to work, and quoted what he said. By 10 am I was getting the scans. By 3pm I got a call that they had set me up to get an MRI at a private hospital for 8pm that night. Total cost? The $80 gap that I got partially refunded. I ended up going with a top rated private plastic surgeon since I had coverage but I could have gone with the public system and gotten fixed up. I ended up getting a tailor made splint at a private clinic during recovery and found out that way my private insurance didn't have prosthetics, so I ended up ~$180 out of pocket.
As another example, about 10 years ago my grandma was going through chemo. A pensioner ,no health insurance, she paid ~$20 gap for a months worth of medication. I looked up the unsubsidized price and it was the cost of a small car ~30,000. That is a result of the PBS (pharmaceutical benefit scheme) where the main lever is, the government negotiates the price of medicine, and then subsidies it. The standing agreement is that you can't charge more for a class of drugs that the lowest provider of a similar medication. Numerous Australia-US free trade agreements have tried to water this down but its always been a hard no, its a beloved system and even our conservative government knows it would be political suicide if they ever tried to weaken it.
Look up spiralism (sp) and the people trying to spread it Basically when people get convinced the ai and them are important and need to spread the spiral
Edit : tldr is like Futurama when Lucy lu robot is saying you're cute to Fry and fry goes "no you're cute" and the professor quips "My God, she's such in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot"
I remember playing shipping and receiving for hours and unlocking all the different storage containers and realising that it was just one level Meanwhile all the foreshadowing
The downloadable font is especially vulnerable since each letter is a straight map, so easily trainable
If you are counting housing as assets, but you are forgetting mortgages as debts. Net millionaire would still be rare. What was the one that came out last month, there were 600 odd billionaires with more wealth than the bottom 2 million households. My banks house they let me live in has gone up in value
Fun little animal capture Battler with base building and guns. Nintendo sued then for having a mechanic of being able to grow to capture and ride mounts without extra steps. Revised payments in the middle of the law suit too iirc.
Because steam offers steam keys for free if "given away" Pay me $25 and you get a free steam key to game B but I'm going to explicitly charge $30 if you try and buy it on steam direct. Mean while steam is on the hook for hosting and server costs.
Forgot about Tactical Breach Wizards, would definitely recommend. Superhot is great, superhot in VR is amazing.
How small indie do you mean, like one person teams or teams of 5 ok?
Kids recommend "look outside," and "mouthwashing", lobotomy corporation, lethal company,
My youngest recommends "rainworld' like a 2d dark souls
That's my list from the last couple of months. I tend to search demos by genre and wish list things that get my attention. No idea how any of them works under Linux
EDIT: had to fix up the formatting on mobile.
Edit 2: went through my review and added:
older games,
I've ignored VR games, let me know if you want those too.
Thanks for sharing
You're awesome
If PC mark still available I'll put my hand up
If not, you're still awesome :D
It's not perfect but honestly I'm so glad it's there. My friends kids are super allergic and have had multiple hospital stays and I'm glad my taxes help cover it. Honestly I just wish the mental health services were expanded but there is still a stigma.
Australia here.
I'm going to start off with this since most Americans I have spoken with don't know it: You can have private health cover on top of the universal healthcare which subsidizes dental, glasses, private hospital cover, maternity and prosthetics etc. Important to note, private cover still gets the benefit of the universal health care. For example, about 18 years ago having a voluntary c-section in a private hospital without health cover was ~$5k, but you would be covered in a public hospital or if your private cover took care of x%. For that $5k my wife and I had a private room with a queen size bed and I was also covered for meals for 3 nights. That's also when I realized my private cover didn't have maternity care, oh well.
Private cover also gives you a tax rebate.
Last year I went to doctor with a sore thumb that wasn't getting better after a week and a half (fell on it when sitting down on wet grass). Private practice, after hours, had to pay the gap fee of ~$80 for which I got a partial rebate back into my account next day. He examined me, wrote up up two scripts and told me to get an x-ray and ultrasound with urgency first thing in the morning.
I called up, made a booking while driving to work, and quoted what he said. By 10 am I was getting the scans. By 3pm I got a call that they had set me up to get an MRI at a private hospital for 8pm that night. Total cost? The $80 gap that I got partially refunded. I ended up going with a top rated private plastic surgeon since I had coverage but I could have gone with the public system and gotten fixed up. I ended up getting a tailor made splint at a private clinic during recovery and found out that way my private insurance didn't have prosthetics, so I ended up ~$180 out of pocket.
As another example, about 10 years ago my grandma was going through chemo. A pensioner ,no health insurance, she paid ~$20 gap for a months worth of medication. I looked up the unsubsidized price and it was the cost of a small car ~30,000. That is a result of the PBS (pharmaceutical benefit scheme) where the main lever is, the government negotiates the price of medicine, and then subsidies it. The standing agreement is that you can't charge more for a class of drugs that the lowest provider of a similar medication. Numerous Australia-US free trade agreements have tried to water this down but its always been a hard no, its a beloved system and even our conservative government knows it would be political suicide if they ever tried to weaken it.
Really importantly to understand is also the safety net. If your out of pocket costs for the public healthcare (gap fees etc) exceed a threshold for the year, those gap fees start getting additionally covered between 80-100% (depending if it is in hospital or out of hospital care.) And those benefits start coming in after you are only $594.40 out of pocket.
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-medicare-safety-nets-and-thresholds-work?context=22001 https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/what-are-medicare-safety-nets-thresholds?context=22001