It’s improved a lot since hardware standards have gotten to be a lot better. Wi-Fi kept me away my first go around with Linux nearly a decade ago, but with hardware all from the last five years, it’s a non factor.
I’m not lying to sell Linux as much, as I would like to. I totally expected my Linux gaming experiment to be a disaster. With rare exceptions I mentioned in another post, it’s just fucking worked.
AMD. I’ve heard Nvidia doesn’t work as well particularly with a lot of the features develop for Steam Deck. I think still okay with games though.
one of the big reasons why they're pushing so hard for this always online shit is precisely because of the metrics
Go spend at least 8 hours playing one of these mainstream games, CoD, Fortnite, whatever. Look at the attire of all of the other players and the tiny percentage of it that is included in the base game. You'll see the reason for always online right there. The amount of money they have to making selling that cosmetic shit is absolutely mind blowing.
Oh yeah, I showed my cousin once how I played Doom with only the keyboard, and that's how I played it well into the 2000s. Yeah, he had no understanding of how I ever managed to do that. I don't even remember how mouse-look worked in "base" Doom.
Bazzite. It's really just Fedora with default Steam Game Mode built in. It gets Fedora updates and all. It wasn't my intention to go that way, but I started looking in how to put SteamOS on any old PC and it kept coming up.
So essentially, it boots up just like a Steam Deck into a console-like space. All the Steam stuff works fine in there and if you're all Steam you could fairly easily just use it as a Steam console at that point.
I have much more from GOG, so I go into desktop mode, basically just a Linux desktop and into Lutris, where I can install GOG games. I've done quite a few with a lot of success so far. I even installed an Epic Store freebie game, and while a bit more cumbersome it actually works, and they way it works, EGS runs inside it's own walled garden and only when the game is running. Lutris will link the games to your Steam, so in general all of my gameplay is via the Steam console-like interface. This works with emulators too, but I haven't really tweaked those yet.
I left a Windows 11 dual boot for games that have issues. That was really 75% of the work getting it set up was getting the dual boot right. The only things I've needed that for so far are games that require Xbox app (e.g. the Forza games) and one EA game that I think could be made to work with more effort, I spent a full 10mins on it tops. I've heard the usual suspects for kernel anticheat, like Valorant, won't work in Linux--because Linux doesn't allow kernel access.
I'm not really surprised. As someone who used to play CoD a lot, I used to think I wasn't a fan of SBMM. The more I thought about it though, the problems I had with the game wasn't from that. It was that both the game and the gaming community had left me in the past. It's the same thing with a game like Fortnite. Basically, it's me realizing I'm old and disinterested in learning these new tactics.
I grew up on early FPS stuff, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake. That's what I was playing at the ages you have the most time and room to learn. The thing is those are really simple games. I mean Quake had jump, wow. It was all about keeping moving and dealing damage. After the late 90s, I didn't really do much FPS until around CoD4 and Halo 3. Getting into that, you can see my old school playstyle. I move laterally, jump, and shoot. It wasn't that bad on those games and I adapted to the point I'd learn maps and essentially do what everyone else wasn't to get an advantageous position, then rush at the enemy aggressively just like I'd do with my Doom shotgun.
They are all so complicated now, and I guess that's what the youth want. Slide, dive, different types of sprint, slide cancelling, double jump, wall running, or GoW with "wall-bouncing". Trying to take my antique tactics in there now only marginally works, and it's with the same thing I learn the maps and try to be in their face before they know what happened. I added a slide move, but that's about it.
Long only mildly related story aside, I've made my peace with SBMM, and for the most part just moved on to other things.
I don't really bother with archiving just day-to-day software so I don't care too much about keeping packages. I think you could, if anything from the days of offline Linux. It would be a total pain in the ass though.
Most of the games I've gotten going were my GOG games I installed right off my external HDD or disc(s) where I had stored them. Lutris let me point to the exe file of the installer and did the rest. How well it's all worked has far exceeded my expectations, and I'm only a couple weeks in.
Have you tried it recently? I was extremely surprised. I basically have a Steam Deck now.
while “healthy” people in their desire to cling on later and later into old age actually end up “costing” these government healthcare systems more.
That I believe, because I've seen way too much of it first hand. I really don't understand it myself, maybe when I get to that point I will. They make Joe Biden look like a picture of youth and perfect health in comparison, yet will do anything to add an additional breath to their lives. I also hear of all these tricks to basically ensure the taxpayer pays for it all. Let's just say I don't get a warm response for suggesting that I've had a decent life and afforded enough opportunity that I consider it my own responsibility to make sure I'm provided for in my old age.
young men need the message
Such an important point. They've been trained to look at social media for everything, and as far as I'm concerned requiring validation from social media is one of the least alpha male things you can do.
I'm right there with you with my Xbox One X. Except maybe whatever Nintendo is doing. I was die hard console-first for a decade, and they managed to run me off.
It's such an irritating mess. Some things are in settings, some are in control panel, some you have to know a run command for. At least in my network support days the XPs and 98s I had mostly everything was in one place.
My favorite Windows is actually NT 4.0 that I ran in the late 90s. It just worked and was so solid. Except for DOS games. I was a younger teen then, but I was making money doing web development so gaming was on the backburner or a console. When I did game, modern Direct3D stuff worked great, and I had ZDoom. So I was happy.
The FBI is now claiming that the Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had an unspecified "social media account" in 2019/2020 (when he was 14/15 years old) that posted "anti-immigrant and anti-semitic" content.
Yeah, I'm shocked they would say something like that. Shocked.
Of course the normies will never ask why someone who is anti-immigrant would shoot Trump. Anti-Semitic I guess you could argue, but that's about anyone in DC except maybe Illan Omar.
In a utopia, it's the best way. The problem is utopia doesn't exist. I'd probably even be inclined to argue for single-payer in small homogeneous cultures. Because it could work there. As soon as you start adding diversity, it breaks.
For what we have somewhere like the US, if I had my way I would break up and make independent most of the doctors practices and not allow them to ally with insurance companies, let's just call that price fixing. You show up, you pay the rate to the doctor. Whatever insurances is between the patient and the insurance provider. I might be inclined to regulate hospitals a bit from a more governmental level (no larger than State government). Mainly just cost transparency and oversight type things. Insurances become as big or as small as the consumer wants to make it. Pay for it yourself, ok. Want to have a Church healthcare cost sharing plan, go for it. Faggots want to fund Buttsex United Health Corp to pool the money they don't have to pay for other faggots to deal with their doctoring needs, that's fine too. I'd likely also propose some sort of taxpayer funding for kids somehow. Adults can take their own responsibility.
"Hi, I was playing hockey and broke my arm, I'd like to get a cast."
"Have you considered MAID?"
The US tries to push this more and more I've found too. I ended up going along after my old-school doctor retired. It's not that I can't see the real doctor, just expect it to take longer to get appointments etc. For me though, I'm really just showing up to get blood work done so I can track certain things ahead of time.
So it's not a ton different with us having the big insurance model, just less forced. I'm actually considering looking into something like hospitalization-only insurance if such a thing exists and planning to pay the rest out of pocket. You'll find US doctor's offices can often be receptive to the "how much if I pay you right now" model and it's not all that ridiculously priced. Hospitals on the other hand, wow. I had a surgery over a decade ago, I kid you not I was on the hospital premises for less than two hours from car door to car door, and it was around a $20k bill. Of the total bill, the highly experienced surgeon I'd chosen got less than 10%, anesthesiologist got about 15%, the remaining 75% went to the hospital. $15k for two hours in the hospital, one of which was spent in waiting rooms and the like.
You know, they might be cancelled years later when the list of prohibited words changes and they were found to have used such word in a previous project.
which means anyone trying to play an Xbox One console with dated software will not be able to access Xbox Live or make any digital purchases. Similarly, games that require an online check will also not work.
That is always going to happen at some point, no matter what. There's a reason why so many are against DRM, single-player games requiring online, inability to host private servers, etc. Every game that fights that will be dead. It's why I buy everything on GOG I can and archive it, and why I'm totally loving my short lived Linux gaming experience so far, because it's just so good at making shit work.
Saw something about that yesterday. Just like the others, nothing of value was lost.
I get very little from video game voice acting anyway. For years and years it was text on screen. I'd take well written text and good music 100x over a voice actor.
Sounds like he paid the stupid tax to me.
I'd go for a temporary mod just to see how it goes. Would be interesting to rotate temporary mods. In a way, "here it's your turn to clean up the shit this month."
Where I get concerned is just handing the reins to autists just like Reddit but with different values. Most of the old school of Reddit mods didn't start out with ill intent, they just can't help themselves after a certain point. Then before you know it, all kinds of deletes just because they think they are helping. In which case, I'd really prefer deal with a mod that doesn't come around all that much and a block button.
I've not been that bothered though, I just ignore and move on for the most part. The only thing I might do is restrict handshakes from top-level posts.
I wonder what message gets into the youth there. If they are accepting the woke message, then it's only a matter of time. That's really where I see no end to it in the western world, I mean what percentage of people under 30, under 20, etc accept all of this fully? It's a large number.
This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law.
I don't recall that in the Declaration of Independence. I guess it was founding "our democracy"
I haven't seen a single Harris ad. The beauty of browser ad-blocking plus Pihole plus ignorance of television.
If only I could get ads off of normie social media, but that's somewhere I spend very tiny amounts of my time anyway.
I think that’s one of the reasons ugly people were so in on them, it brought everyone else down to their level. I couldn’t believe all the people I saw who said it gave them so much confidence to wear one.