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blind3rdeye

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  • Best way to use GOG on linux

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  • When I was first getting started, I briefly tried Lutris - but was put off by two things. The first was that it felt very complicated. I was new to Linux at the time, and I'm being asked helps of config questions about how to install which-and-what components in order to use such-and-such runners or launcher or whatever... basically just a heap of stuff that I didn't really understand. And when I tried using a recommend 'gold rated' auto-setup to install something, it just froze. So that was disappointing. I decided that maybe I'd try something else.

    I've seen Lutris recommended in a lot of places; so apparently it's pretty good. But at the time I used it, it wasn't really what I was looking for. I think a lot of people praise Lutris for the way it lets you have case-by-case special configurations for all sorts of things, which might allow you get some stubborn stuff working. But for me, it felt like more things I could break. I've got enough games that I'm happy enough to just say that if it doesn't work then I won't play it. So I guess Lutris wasn't for me. [edit - Bottles also had a lot of config choices to get started; but I was lucky enough that what I picked worked first time; and I haven't looked at the config since.]

  • Best way to use GOG on linux

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  • That sounds like a similar setup to what I'm doing; just using proton-ge rather than bottles. Perhaps your way is a bit more light-weight, which is probably nice.

  • Best way to use GOG on linux

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  • Heroic does seem to have jumped in popularity recently. I'd never heard of it when I first started installing games on Linux.)

    Does the comet support mean that it can also do Galaxy cloud-saves and achievements? I wouldn't say those things are super important to me, but it would make switching between launches easier - since I wouldn't have to stuff around trying to move save files to the right place after switching.

  • Best way to use GOG on linux

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  • I'm more than happy to just download the installers, and only manually update. That's how I use to do it when I was using Windows. But the installers don't run natively on linux, I'm just not sure how best to use them. My first attempt was to use bottles to run an installer, then again to run the game after it installed. That worked - but after doing it once I decided that it would be easier to just install Galaxy instead so that I don't have to setting things up over and over.

    I'm curious about how Steam responds to you adding a non-steam game like that. Are you using innoextract to unpack the files from the installer into some personal directory, and then telling Steam to run the game from there? Or do you tell steam directly to run the installer? .. And when you add a non-steam game to steam is that an entirely local thing? (I don't really want to be reporting to Valve about what GOG games I'm playing.)

    I see one advantage of using Steam is that if I already have Steam, then it saves me installing another tool. But some disadvantages is that it presumably won't do save syncing, or Galaxy achievement tracking - and the installation process for each game might be a bit fiddly by the sounds of it.

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  • Hey man, you're currently posting on lemmy - and bringing up linux totally out of context. Perhaps the problem is not 'other people'.

  • Mozilla wants users to take part in a survey about browser features

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  • I'm half-way through the survey right now; and rather than continuing, just stalling because I don't want to rank another set of three options that I don't care about. Some of the choices already given were like "well, I guess I'll pick the feature that I've at least thought about using once..." but now it's just a list of 3 things that I don't want whatsoever. I'm trying to give useful feedback, but I feel like I'm really just giving noise.

  • Newsmax pundit accuses Kamala Harris of 'doing blackface' to win presidency

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  • Remind me, does /s mean "s-tier facts" or is it "stringently verified"?

  • Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)

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  • I liked the idea for awhile as well. But for me, learning about the "proof of work" underpinning is what changed my mind. That - and the fact that cryptocurrency does not actually have any of the strengths that it claims to have. It's definitely and interesting idea... but in practice it's all just scams and incentivised waste.

  • What are your favorite open-source games?

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  • Widelands is a great strategy / building game. The gameplay and UI style is a niche - but that's one of the things I like about it. It's doing something different to most games.

    (The gameplay is similar to Settlers 2; before that franchise changed direction.)

    [edit] But the open-source game I've spent the most time playing would be OpenXcom-extended, with xpiratez. That game is truly huge.

  • What are your favorite open-source games?

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  • CrossCode is fantastic. But it is not an open source game.

  • What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲)

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  • In many ways, the silky-smooth convenience offered by modern computer software makes everything much harder to learn about and understand. For anyone that used zip files before this Windows feature, the problem is obvious - but for younger people it's not obvious at all. Heck, a lot of people can't even tell whether or not a file is locally on their computer - let alone whether it is compressed in some other file.

  • Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C

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  • I hope that Ladybirdy gets something good happening. I simply having a another browser in this space would give Mozilla a good sanity check for their direction and values. Otherwise they're just kind of fumbling around.

  • Olympic casual GigaChad

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  • They removed the soldier's hand!? That's serious dedication!

  • Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C

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  • I'm starting to worry about Mozilla. Firefox is still the best browser, and I've used it for many years... but there are more and more anti-features popping up that require a few settings to be changed. No one thing is a big deal, but I'm starting to feel the same way about Firefox as I did about Windows before I stopped using it: like it's just trying to trick me into doing something I don't want to do rather than aiming to be a good product.

    I'm thinking specifically about the address bar getting 'search suggestions' from Google by default; and the special 'ad effectiveness tracking' that is turned on by default to help Facebook. Privacy should always be the default setting. We shouldn't have to keep up-to-date with the latest features and settings just so that we know what to disable!

  • Miracles

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  • "To many people too cure" Got it.

  • can we be all rich together?

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  • ♫ Imagine all the people sharin' all the world ♪ ♪ Yoo, hoo, oo-oo ♫

  • Abandoned dog

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  • I agree that it is creepy and subservient... but it is also entirely accurate. The dog is a pet. It is entirely reliant on the owner, and it is only allowed to do what the owner lets it do. It eats when the owner tells it to. It goes outside only when the owner says so. It probably even had its genitals removed at the request of the owner.

    So yeah, 'master' is an appropriate word here.

    I find it a bit uncomfortable too, which is why I don't have a pet. But from what I can tell, dogs are generally fine with this arrangement. Most dogs seem to like it this way.

  • Concerned Ape (Stardew Valley): I swear on the honor of my family name, i will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live. Screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath.

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  • Charging for updates isn't intrinsically bad. A good expansion pack at a fair price can be a good deal for both the players and the devs. But there is a modern trend of games trying to squeeze players for every dollar they can get; and when content is deliberately held back in the hopes of selling it for a bit more money later, it starts to become a bit perverse. The game itself can become an advertisement for selling more bits of the game in the future - and it just devalues the experience.

    In the specific case of Stardew Valley, the game is a major hit - and it continues to sell well. So even though existing players are getting the new content for free, the developer is still going to get paid. Obviously he could get a lot more if he charged for it, but he has decided he doesn't need that. He'd rather just make the game as good as he can make it.

    Here's a personal story of mine, about a different game: Several years ago I was selected to be a beta tester for a major game franchise. I was a very well known member of that community, know for making custom balance patches and bugfixes - and so they wanted me to test their new release. I was pretty excited to be a part of that. But when I got my first beta copy, I didn't really play it much because the game barely worked. It crashed very frequently, and so my feedback was basically just "it crashes when I do this". I figured it wasn't worth trying to give balance ideas when the game was in that state. Anyway... time went on, and things didn't improve much. There were some graphics changes and a bit of UI work... but it was still super unstable. The release date was getting pretty close. But before it was even possible to do a full playthrough without constant reloads to dodge game-ending bugs, there was detailed plans posted on the beta forums talking about the first 4 DLC packs that would be released after the game launched.

    I stopped taking AAA games seriously after that. I was totally disillusioned. They were launching their AAA game in non-functional state, with the hope of fixing the worst bugs in a day 1 patch. Very little useful playtesting was done, and so the features of the game were a bit slap-dash, but yet somehow they were dividing up content for as many DLCs packs as possible. They didn't even have a functional game and yet they were talking about how to sell more stuff. It was a real eye-opening experience for me; and it really colours the way I see other games that launch in a buggy state, where pretty much the only thing that works is the in-game store.

    So yeah, I can appreciate the view that maybe charging for updates is a slippy slope that Concerned Ape doesn't want to step onto; even if he does have very solid footing for if he wanted to tread that ground a bit.

  • There's no rule that says you have to grow out of sleepovers

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  • The angle is so bad that I was wondering if it was a joke about them falling asleep right at the start of their movie-marathon, before even eating their pizza.