I'm afraid you're conflating "Fallout" with "Bethesda". Fallout 1&2 are peak Fallout, and they are neither shallow nor janky. Well, maybe slightly janky but more in the sense of "dated" than Bethesda type jank.
If you're specifically looking for gaming then there are two gaming-focused distros to look at: Bazzite and CachyOS. Former is based on Fedora and latter on Arch, if that makes any difference to you. I've heard good things about both.
Do note that Linux doesn't support kernel-level anti cheat of any kind, so if you want to play any multiplayer games that require this you categorically cannot use Linux, unfortunately.
Ambivalent is probably correct. What I've seen of the writing doesn't live up to Disco, which makes sense because none of the writers remain at ZA/UM. I will still probably pirate it and see what it's like. Anton Vill is still at the studio (he drew the art for the Thought Cabinet) and I like his art. They have said some potentially interesting things about expanding the Thought Cabinet mechanically and making it more interactive and complex - which is pretty much just implementing scrapped DE features, but still.
The true follow-up will be one of the spiritual successors made by the people who were actually involved in the writing and world building: Hopetown (Martin Luiga is involved), Summer Eternal (Aargo Tuulik is involved) and whatever Red Info is cooking (Robert Kurvitz, Helen Hindpere and Aleksandr Rostov are involved).
Some say the game is only ever good for a first blind playthrough and that the open world stands in their way of getting to "the fun part™" of the game.
Yes, this is pretty much where I'm at and have been since the beginning. I played ER on release and had a blast exploring the world at that time before the wikis were even filled out, where everyone was discovering the game collectively and people on forums/group chats were constantly finding new stuff. However, after finishing it I have had no desire to go back. And after the dust had settled I also came away from it with the feeling that the best parts of the game - the legacy dungeons - were the places where ER stopped being ER and played like DS4 instead.
If the entire game was like Stormveil Castle I'd probably have done a second playthrough already.
Viva New Vegas for Fallout: New Vegas and the Unofficial Patch for VtM: Bloodlines are my go-to examples. Not a mod but Ninja Gaiden Black is the definitive version and much better than both
Ninja Gaiden (2004) and Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
I don't have an easy answer for you, and I identify with your issues a lot. I am intimately familiar with the situation of sitting down in front of the PC with a couple of hours to spare thinking "I want to play some games" and then just... Not getting around to actually double-clicking the shortcut of any of them.
I mean Loops has a For You page, but the algorithm seems much worse than TikTok (unsurprisingly). Partly I'm sure simply because there is so much less content to pull from, so it might seem worse than it is purely because there might not actually be anything worthwhile on it to recommend to you in the first place. But TikTok's algorithm is famously extremely good at identifying things you would like, even things you might not know you would like yourself. To be able to be an alternative in the brainrot delivery market, Loops needs to be able to come at least closer.
I agree, and I think it's a shame it has gotten to this point, but I understand his viewpoint completely and have seen the interactions myself. At this point it's simply more efficient to promote Piefed on Reddit instead of Lemmy, because you want the absolute least amount of friction for potential new users. Literally any single minor inconvenience/negative thing will cause people to not even consider trying it out. Lemmy has unfortunately already accumulated a reputation, and if you promote it you are very likely to run into comments about tankies which is typically enough to scare potential new users away.
At the end of the day it shouldn't matter to us which software people use, as long as we get more new users into the ecosystem.
I watched that video recently and the conclusions were actually the opposite of that: James preferred the week-old coffee from the really good grinder over the freshly ground coffee from the cheap grinder. The testing carried out on "regular people" also didn't show a statistically significant preference for freshly ground in this scenario.
The conclusion is pretty much: if you don't have a good grinder, you're probably better off buying really quality pre-ground coffee. At least if you can buy it in small enough batches. Obviously if you buy a huge bag and take over a month to use it up then yeah, it will be stale eventually.
Well, part of why they want to follow the latest monetisation trends is that the idea of a subscription-based game is a much harder sell these days than it was 20 years ago. The landscape is just different.
For content creators it needs a built-in editor instead of forcing every video to be one take. And for consumers it needs a really good recommendation algorithm. The reason TikTok is so successful is that its absurdly efficient (and incredibly invasive) algorithm will find you content you'd like within probably minutes of setting up an account.
I like that this exists, but I don't think it's ready for mass adoption yet.
Not surprised. I had a friend who was all hyped up about this years ago and I didn't want to tell him then that it looked like pipe dream that was never going to pan out.
The MMORPG genre is dead, you have the big existing titles that exist simply because they're too big to fail or already have an entrenched user base, but I just can't see a new release - especially a new IP - breaking into the market.
I'm not surprised, a V60 and a good pouring kettle is absolutely the best method in terms of balancing quick brew, ease of use/maintenance/minimal cleaning and good tasting coffee.
Plus it's super cheap, the only really pricey thing you'd need to invest in is a grinder (or just buy high quality pre ground coffee in small batches).
If it was it was a complete coincidence, I literally just pulled something clickbaity out of my ass to illustrate the point. Just tells you how similar and boilerplate these headlines are becoming, though.
Been hearing about this game for years now, even played an early test build of it a year or two ago. Glad to see it's shaping up, and glad to hear he has a small little team working on it now and is not just a solo developer. What he was doing on his own was impressive, but it still felt like a massively overambitious project for a solo dev, and when I played the previous test build I was left with the feeling that it was a lot of cool gun-related things in a neat setting in search for an actual game.
I'm glad to see the trailer include both some new stuff like seemingly emphasising the survival elements more with hunting and fishing and also developing the setting further and leaning into the post apocalypse thing. Not the most original concept, but at least it's looking more like there is an idea of what the game wants to actually be now, gameplay wise.
I'm afraid you're conflating "Fallout" with "Bethesda". Fallout 1&2 are peak Fallout, and they are neither shallow nor janky. Well, maybe slightly janky but more in the sense of "dated" than Bethesda type jank.