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Well no, they didn't have printing presses yet. They did have books and manuscripts, and if you think stuff like a ct ligature adds unnecessary flourishes and break immersion, I can only assume you would prefer for the text interface to more resemble this: which we can all see is very spartan and has no decorative frills. :^)

I would have guessed that upper and lower case existed before printing, is that not true? Sort of! While miniscules were invented before printing, I doubt the terms based on the word "case" saw much use before Gutenberg. Doesn't. Thank god there's a way to turn them off. De gustibus non disputandum est. B-)

But why would you kill the baddies (pull the lever) if you don't get XP (sugar water)? Are you telling us you're too good to play in a skinner box, Nakia?

Yep. The st and ct ligatures aren't much used in modern typography (I've got a newspaper that does it in its weekend extras), but fi, ffi, fl are pretty common, and fj and ij in certain languages or fonts. If you take a look at this article promoting LaTeΧ, you'll see it compares MS Word's inadequate handling of ligatures: to how Latex does it: and it includes images of other, optional ligatures, like ct and st: The thing with ligatures is in the way printing used to be done, with metal blocks, a ligature would be a single block rather than two separate character blocks: So it both looks good, and lets you use fewer metal blocks when printing common character combinations, i.e. if you didn't have any fi ligatures you'd have to have more f and i blocks to compensate, or possibly do something else, more complicated, to get all the letters onto the page. Next up in the history of printing: Why do we use the terms "lower case" and "UPPER CASE"? Were the upper-case letters stored in a case above the lower case ones?

Cow-people? I think you mean Brahmin.

They really should put in a duck. Really.

As I understand it, companions are your party—you start off with the main char, and can build a party with either prewritten companions (who will have personalities), or faceless goons you create in the adventurer mart. Or a mix, if you find you only like a few of the premade companions. On the off chance that you're not familiar with it, try playing Baldur's Gate, find the ranger called Minsc, and ask him about Boo.

It's an NSA honeypot. If you PM Sensuki you will be forced to fly drones until you think your first name is Ender. Don't do it, man.

Steam, just because I'm lazy (slacker backer very much appropriate tyvm). I wish the concept of DRM would just die off already, but it also works more or less like a package manager. (Also I haven't been on gog since before they offered Linux versions I think.)

Some time next week is our target. Can't be more specific than that right now. Nice I remember Wasteland 2 had some bug during the early release that would flat-out crash my machine, but it was gone by the time it was released. Almost made me feel like I was running windows again. :') XCom still managed to do it last time I tried it, so I'm hoping your Linux testers will be able to eliminate bugs of that magnitude before releasing. (I have no idea what the bug was. Probably related to the open source ati driver since it managed to take the machine down, rather than just crash X.)

I don't know about you, but I pre-ordered the game when I saw I would get a miniature giant space piglet. The linux version helped, but the piglet sealed the deal. Thanks for saying that, because I really had trouble believing anyone would like those pre-order bonuses. I literally burst out in laughter when I first saw what the bonuses were. I couldn't imagine anything more useless to me even if I tried... good to see that at least someone likes that piglet. I burst out laughing, too. There is more to the game that I like, but the miniature giant space piglet just sort of … I don't know, it showed a developer personality I could get behind? Like you wrote, it'd be worse if it was something that gave noticeable differences in how the game plays. Too bad it seems like the BB testers don't like the ranger much, otherwise I'd know who'd get the honour of carrying it around.

I don't know about you, but I pre-ordered the game when I saw I would get a miniature giant space piglet. The linux version helped, but the piglet sealed the deal.