Missed opportunity for OneShot to come to GOG?
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I'd like to play Oneshot but it's not on GOG. I went looking to see if anyone had said why not and I found a post from the Oneshot dev GIR saying he submitted the game to GOG.
I'm curious about what happened. I'd love to see Oneshot come to GOG.
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I'd like to play Oneshot but it's not on GOG. I went looking to see if anyone had said why not and I found a post from the Oneshot dev GIR saying he submitted the game to GOG.
I'm curious about what happened. I'd love to see Oneshot come to GOG.
If just for the sake of having it DRM free, if/while GOG doesn't pick it, it's on Itchio too
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I'd like to play Oneshot but it's not on GOG. I went looking to see if anyone had said why not and I found a post from the Oneshot dev GIR saying he submitted the game to GOG.
I'm curious about what happened. I'd love to see Oneshot come to GOG.
apparently this is a big problem with GOG, they have a very strict and opinionated policy for accepting games on their store.
on one hand, this means GOG doesn't have much shovelware, unlike Steam or itch. this is good. but it also means incredible games get the pass for ridiculous reasons.
iirc they passed on Balatro because it "wasn't what they were looking for on the store right now", and they initially passed on Undertale because the game's graphics made them think it was unpolished... i wonder how many incredible indie games aren't on GOG because of this?
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apparently this is a big problem with GOG, they have a very strict and opinionated policy for accepting games on their store.
on one hand, this means GOG doesn't have much shovelware, unlike Steam or itch. this is good. but it also means incredible games get the pass for ridiculous reasons.
iirc they passed on Balatro because it "wasn't what they were looking for on the store right now", and they initially passed on Undertale because the game's graphics made them think it was unpolished... i wonder how many incredible indie games aren't on GOG because of this?
it also kinda devalues GOG as a preservation platform, imo. even shovelware deserves to get preserved. but GOG being a preservation platform is more marketing than fact tbf
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it also kinda devalues GOG as a preservation platform, imo. even shovelware deserves to get preserved. but GOG being a preservation platform is more marketing than fact tbf
How do you propose GOG should handle forever support for a nearly endless number of shovelware games? Preservation is more than offering the downloads, the games also need to run on systems people actually have.
As far as I can tell they are fullfilling all their marketing promises by taking charge of updating games when developers stop doing so. I wish they would do that for the Linux versions as well as the windows versions, but it's absolutely better than nothing.
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How do you propose GOG should handle forever support for a nearly endless number of shovelware games? Preservation is more than offering the downloads, the games also need to run on systems people actually have.
As far as I can tell they are fullfilling all their marketing promises by taking charge of updating games when developers stop doing so. I wish they would do that for the Linux versions as well as the windows versions, but it's absolutely better than nothing.
what GOG is doing is great and i commend their efforts (even tho i wish they’d relax their submission policies juuust a bit), and as a store, not having piles of shovelware is great!
but as a preservation platform, GOG’s approach is inherently limited. they can’t have every game, and they can’t keep supporting every game. that’s the fundamental problem with them as far as preservation is concerned.
the only way i can think of where we could have total game preservation is if every game ever made had it’s source code readily available, and all people were taught the programming skills necessary to make the games work on whatever future computers we have. that way, even the most obscure games which don’t have a passionate fanbase can be ported, fixed and played for years to come.
which, obviously, is not something that’s doable, by GOG or by anyone else
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@mdione @srtcd424 @Mr_GHARice @float13 the smart bit inside the inverter box decides how much energy should be taken by the panels, batteries or grid, and how much energy should go to the house, batteries, or grid
the panels are ok with only providing less energy than they could produce, with no ill effects, because electovoltaics are *magic*; (I assume that there is a bit more heat going around, but still less than what would have been released by the sun hitting a dark-ish roof, so easily dissipated)
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Sotto l’asse, i capponi europei crepano
Di questi tempi, gli assi europei sono soprattutto tattiche fragili da crisi esistenziale. Quello italo-tedesco non sfugge alla regola mentre l'Europa dei capponi di Renzo cerca la quadra
https://phastidio.net/2026/02/16/sotto-lasse-i-capponi-europei-crepano/
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@alorenzi magic :D
i pannelli non producono oltre quanto viene richiesto dai carichi
(suppongo ci sia un po' di calore in più da qualche parte, visto che il sole ha colpito la superficie, ma non a sufficienza da causare problemi)
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@Mr_GHARice I think you're answering a different question, that of "what happens if the main grid generators go down (f.i., disconnected from the grid) and the solar panel is still connected". My question was "what happens if there is no load", and similarly, "who actually provides the energy if there is load, solar vs grid; and what happens to what is generated but not used". On the grid side it's regulated by generating more or less energy depending on load.
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@Mr_GHARice @mdione @float13 @srtcd424 there is a bit in the inverter box that decides whether to recharge the batteries, deliver energy to the hourse or send it back to the grid, and it had been setup not to deliver energy to the grid, until the meter is ready for it
otherwise, the meter would have happily registered it as energy passing through it, and billed us for it
it's not the system that shuts everything down when there is a power outage, as there often is a trickle of energy going up into the grid according to the monitoring system, enough to be dangerous for people working on the outage, but not significant for billing reasons.
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@misantropo70 ma infatti io sto con babbo 😉
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I finally got the chance to watch Evan’s (@evanprodromou ) talk¹ on tags.pub from #FOSDEM.
There is no denying that the Fediverse needs something like this, but I don’t understand how tags.pub is substantially different from #FediBuzz Relay², which already exists.
¹: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WNDQUQ-tags-pub/
²: https://relay.fedi.buzz/
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@valhalla domanda sciocca, cosa succede all'eletricitá in eccesso? si surriscalda qualcosa? O si manda in grid a gratis?
