Tried some games on Wine

Hitman Sniper Challenge doesn't work on Wine.  Oil Rush on the other hand works splendidly although I initially had trouble getting it to run.  You have to switch it to use opengl instead of DirectX. To do that, go to /path/of/steam/steamapps/common/Oil Rush/data/launcher and edit interface.html.  From there, edit the video_app to opengl instead of auto.

This will also help those who want to use Steam's startup parameters from the property dialog box.  Open Steam Works Link on Oil Rush

Linux as a Gaming Platform?

I'd like to think more and more companies are looking into Linux as a viable platform.  Ubuntu is making a significant push for this and Valve is on their side as of the moment.  If Ubuntu is pushing for a Gaming Platform, I think it makes sense to make an edition that uses a rolling release system.  This ensures that there is only 1 configuration that publishers and developers aim for, and all the rest is just upgrading versions instead of major overhauls that has been happening with every major Linux distro release.  This also makes it easier for maintainers because all of this is just open source software, so they'll figure out just what a game needs to work for their system.  Lastly, this helps gamers who just want to bump up the packages they need to get something to work.  Doing the distribution upgrades takes a lot of time to do and is very risky as well.

If a manufacturer targets a single Linux platform, everyone in the open source community can pick up the slack and figure out how to make it work elsewhere.  This is the open source community at its best and brightest.  Adding a rolling release on top of it, in my opinion, just makes the entire process easier for everyone, gamers and developers alike.

Congrats Reversion on Suzanne Award for Best Designed Short

Congrats to the Reversion blokes for bagging a Suzanne Award.

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O'Reilly vs Stewart 2012: Great and Disappointing

There's really not much to say about the debate between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart but that it was funny, substantive and not surprising for those who have seen the two duke it out.  I had a great time watching this, but had a cruel sinking feeling as the credits began to roll.

After trading jabs, jokes and political points, nothing has changed.  Both sides agree to disagree on a myriad of issues and at the end of the bell head to their respective camps, with neither men convincing the other of anything that they don't already believe.