fartsparkles
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- Comment on Sony trying to warn the player they're settling for a lesser horse 3 weeks ago:
What game?
- Comment on OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully a full release will mean the TES3MP project picks up steam again. I don’t think there’s been an update for a year now.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 4 weeks ago:
I was doing that until Microsoft pushed an update that fucked it up. I can’t be bothered paying attention to Windows updates to know when they’re patching a Secure Boot club vulnerability that’ll bork my machine so I’ve had it off since.
I’m being lazy but I’m looking forward to Windows 10 support ending so I can get off my ass and switch over to Linux fully. An old Windows 10 image can sit in a dusty VM with GPU pass through for the odd game that doesn’t work though Proton or natively.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 4 weeks ago:
Please drink verification can.
Imma sit out this game. Zero interest in secure boot since I can’t dual boot with it enabled.
Honestly, if Overwatch doesn’t need this shit, I don’t see why Call of Battlefield needs it either.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 introducing a native Steam Deck build that improves performance by reducing CPU load and memory usage 4 weeks ago:
If anyone from Larian is lurking, please do a GDC talk on this. I’m super interested in their approach to shipping a (native) Linux build of the game.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 4 weeks ago:
That’s the one (darn autocorrect). It’s an indie game made by a small team so there’s a little bit of jank / rough edges but the overall experience is really special. Hope you enjoy!
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 4 weeks ago:
Currently jumping between Planet Crater (planet terraforming survival crater) and Rimworld (colony sim / Dwarf Fortress on an alien planet).
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 4 weeks ago:
I’ve already voted with my wallet. I won’t be picking up this game because I’m not a “true gamer” or whatever.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 month ago:
You can literally turn off the throttling in the Settings > Battery > Battery Health (option shows up when your battery has degraded).
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ve run the gauntlet of distros too (including setting up distcc across several boxes so I could run Gentoo everywhere (which is far too much of my life I can never get back).
Arch is the best of Gentoo/Slack with the ease of Ubuntu/Debian.
Also sounds like I need to buy a new card as I’m nvidia too right now.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
No I didn’t. I think the public source was a nightmare to build and get working (never tried, friends did though) and I wasn’t going to pay for it when the Wine project was publicly annoyed by the proprietary forks not contributing upstream (didn’t Wine relicense because of Cedega?).
I payed for CrossOver over the years as they had Office working pretty well and as much as I use FOSS office suites for personal use, inevitably someone sends me something that wouldn’t open and I’d have to use MS Office.
My biggest gripe with using Linux for gaming over the years was drivers and needing to switch between them since some would be good for compositors (typically the FOSS ones), others for gaming (typically the proprietary blob ones). Then there was the regular breakages etc.
I wish I had switched to Arch sooner as I’ve had so few issues with that distro given the core packages are so minimal, there’s less opinionated cruft that other distros have.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
It’s been 12 years since Gaben committed to Linux publicly and honestly. It’s impressive to see that Valve has remained committed all this time and become a stellar contributor to the Linux ecosystem.
They could have forked and kept their toys to themselves but instead they’ve continuously pushed their hard work upstream for every Linux distro to benefit from.
My behemoth of a gaming rig is to be switched over to Linux in the coming weeks, bringing my use of Windows to an end after 30+ years (my gaming rig is the only system I still have Windows on).
I’ve been using Linux since 2002 and if you told my younger self it would be the ex-Microsoft people behind Half-Life that would kill Windows, I’d have laughed you into oblivion. And yet here we are.
- Comment on MindsEye director reportedly says the studio will relaunch the game, as around 300 staff are at risk of being laid off 3 months ago:
Turns out Leslie wasn’t the biggest reason GTA was such a huge success and they’re not taking it well…
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 5 months ago:
Personally, these mandates have been a positive. We’ve been hoovering up incredible talent to join our team since we’re a remote-first org (we have offices and co-working spaces for those that want or need it; some don’t have space in their homes to work or want the in-person socialisation).
The stupidity of these orgs with these mandates - their best and critically important talent are the first to leave. Not to mention how some of the best talent have long left the major urban areas and will never be moving back.
I feel incredibly bad for the juniors though, who will be left picking up the pieces of these terrible management decisions.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors 8 months ago:
If true, this whole story is utterly appalling. I feel so bad for the original founder.