u/Recent-Tone3196

This is civility and equality after all.

The other night my team got together and tried to update our game's Steam page so that Linux users could have a native build.

- The actual Linux build of the game is confirmed working.

- We created an additional depot for the platform.

- Game files were successfully uploaded using the SteamPipeGUI. The team was able to check that the files do exist on the depot through SteamWorks' web portal thingy.

- The depot for the Linux build was merged into steam's default branch of our game.

- We did set up the launch options for Linux.

Now what happens:

- The minimum requirements for Linux are now listed on the store page.

- Downloading the game on Linux now results in an empty (0 b) download.

- Attempting to launch the Linux version after download expectedly results in an error. However, the error indicates that Steam is looking specifically for the Linux executable name ... the files just dont exist.

- Interestingly, our game's store page does not display the SteamOS/Linux emblem despite Steam clearly knowing a native Linux build should exist from the rest of the behavior I've observed.

- The Windows version is completely unaffected and downloads/plays fine.

- Clearing the download cache on Steam made no difference.

We were working on this for a good several hours, Internet searches were entirely unhelpful and just sort went around in circles suggesting things we already tried. We got nothing.

Given that the official word is that it wasn't ever released (AS leak aside), I'm willing to call it a weird Mandela effect thing.

But man, when I first saw it on YouTube I had the weirdest Daja Vu. I could have sworn up and down that I saw it on TV more than once. Everything from the basic plot, to the gags, the bleeped swearing, even the accents the characters had. My brain just screamed at me "you've seen this, you know this".

Does make me wonder about that old rumor that CN did actually quietly air it in the middle of the night once or twice before AS was a thing. I would watch late night TV at crazy hours when I was a kid (bedroom TV).

I don't care anymore.

Who ever made the decision of not printing discs anymore needs to lose their jobs. I'll fucking burn discs and distribute them at my local community college. I don't care if you lose your job, that's the actual goal.

I went outside to smoke pot and I heard what sounded like a low flying aircraft, but extremely close and it lasted forever. It was genuinely frightening.

If anyone remembers the Kzoo "whoosh" noise incident, it was like that but worse.

I fell in love with it when I briefly lived on the west coast. I've been following their Michigan expansion for what feels like a couple years now.

I've heard the BC location was supposed to open this month, but it's almost June now.

So I've been chipping away at a Flash game project that was intended to be a fun challenging nostalgic thing, I'm completely aware it's not super practical these days :D

So I've been trying to apply as much of my recently acquired gamedev/programming knowledge as I can.

For the most part I've been working on framerate independence (aka delta time) and running some loose benchmarks and tests.

So I have the project's framerate cap maxed out at 120 and have been using getTimer() to measure the milliseconds between each frame.

What I've observed is that it runs at a consistent 8 milliseconds and almost rhythmically jump up to 14 or 15, which does noticeably affect linear movement. If you move the mouse curser all over the place it jumps up to a very noticeable 40 or 50.

Im not really sure how to optimize either and have been contemplating taking an L and just locking the project to 30 where none of this would be noticeable anyway... but Id rather jump down the rabbit hole.

My code isn't particularly complicated at the moment. So far I've tried disabling all mouse events and different project configurations (one frame vs two frames with a gotoandplay(1), ect).

I'm going to try to change out my onclipevent(enterframe) with a onenterframe=function. I suspect the rhythmic performance hiccups to be caused by Flash's garbage collection, and apparently clipevents are actually pretty heavy on it.

I've read a lot of stuff over the years that I'm going to try like bitwise ops (pretty familiar in C, never tried them in Flash) or favoring while loops (I've read multiple times in the mid 2000s that whiles are faster than fors in Flash).