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  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • I hate NMS. I got gaslit into playing it again after people clamoring for years that they "fixed the game". Big surprise, it's still the same miles wide but micrometer-deep puddle that is was on launch.

    Everything aspect of the game is clunky and frustrating and unsatisfying. Exploration is literally the only reason to play the game and even that manages to be stale and minimally exciting, which is truly impressive given the numbers on display. Within 45 seconds of landing on most planets you've seen everything there is to see on them, and the exceptions usually just mean another chore.

    Sure, you can build a base, you can build up a fleet of ships, you can play with your friends... But to what end? All the ships handle the same, they just have more space or slightly better numbers. Combat is hilariously boring, and the ostensible goal of reaching the center of the universe becomes old far before you get even close. The story that exists is very "I'm 14 and this is sci-fi", and they stretch it so hard that each crumb you're given just feels insulting.

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • What was revolutionary about it? It was just a mid arena shooter.

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • You were probably a PC player. Halo was designed for the console experience, which is why (on top of massive marketing) it did so well. It really dragged shooter design into the mud for years, arguably we've never recovered.

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • Yeah... TotK is better, but I felt like I already burned out on how repetitive BotW was so I stopped after a couple hours. If I had only played the second game I bet I would have a more favorable opinion.

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  • I will say Witcher 3 kind of forced AA/AAA games to up the quality of their writing. It still stands up as some of the best writing in games, but maybe a little less obviously so after a decade of other competent game stories.

    What's really exceptional is how pretty much every sidequest is also very well written, with believable characters and compelling situations. Many games, again especially before W3, might have pretty good main plots, but the sidequests would just be endless dross with maybe one or two standouts.

    As for performance, you probably enabled some silly options. Both Witcher 2 and 3 pushed the envelope in crazy ways for PC graphics; there's an ultra setting on W2 that was still bringing GPUs to their knees a decade later as well. The game still looks great if you turn it down a little.

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  • That's crazy... The only complaint I ever hear about the game that I have to begrudgingly accept and move on is from people who just detest any amount of backtracking, i.e. people who hate metroidvanias.

    Everything about the game's feel, from the controls and movement to the art and atmosphere, I would rate as best-in-class. Unless you get creeped out by bugs or cannot stand anything animated, I cannot fathom what your complaint is.

    I'm curious how much you played -- I will say that the game does bury the lead a bit, both artistically and mechanically. The first area seems almost monochrome and until you get the dash your prime form of locomotion is walking. But once you've been to a few different areas you start to realize how much bigger the game world is than you initially thought.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • What might have happened: if you select a global compatibility tool (proton) in the steam settings, it will use that for all non-native games. But any games that ship a Linux binary will still use that instead of Proton. This is generally good, but some devs ship a Linux binary that's actually not as good as the Windows one. I've seen some games not update the Linux binary until much later than the Windows one, so the Linux one is out of date, and for some games it's just flat-out broken. In these cases you can manually select a Proton version for that game, which will force it to run the Windows binary.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • You seem to be reaching for pretty advanced solutions -- Docker and HA both require you to read a lot of documentation to get started. Bottles is also a powerful and flexible tool, which is the opposite of simple.

    What game are you trying to run? If it's on Steam it should be a no-brainer, otherwise Lutris can simplify a lot of things.

    I doubt you actually need Docker for anything, unless you have a specific use case I would just abandon that. For your lights, I would try searching for "home assistant [model/brand of lights]" and see if you can find a setup that someone else has gotten working that you can mostly copy.

  • Should i pirate EVERYTHING or only things that i bought, but do not own?

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  • You should only feel bad about pirating art made by small independent artists, and even then only if you don't have the disposable income to easily afford it.

    Piracy is an actually victimless crime, you aren't depriving anyone of anything except your hypothetical dollars. And that's only a loss if you were going to spend them in the first place. Then add the fact that selling digital goods at all is basically a massive scam...

    Also, in many cases it's actually better for the artist to donate directly to them than to buy their products from a store that's probably taking a cut.

  • me_irl

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  • Are these intrusive thoughts or just imagination?

  • Meditation

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  • It's possible to transition. I used to have a constant voice in my head, it's no longer constant but I can think that way if I want to.

    Meditation does "help", though I don't think it's necessarily a goal to eliminate that voice. But as you let your mind settle and open your awareness to your whole body while avoiding judgement, the voice gets quieter and calmer.

  • Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

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  • I think so -- gamers these days complain about having 50 ping or less than 120fps. There's certainly a point at which it seriously impacts your gameplay, but I find it laughable when they can't even deal with better performance than even existed 15 years ago.

  • What does 🥀 mean? I've seen it used online a lot recently.

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  • It's a flower

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • Okay? My point is that it's absurd to say that the USFG has been hard on monopolies until Trump's second term.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • Right, because the single anti-trust action against Microsoft in the 90s is definitely all that was justified during the rise of the tech giants.

  • Is It Just Me?

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  • If it saves time but you still have to double check its answers, does it really save time? At least many reddit comments call out their own uncertainty or link to better resources, I can't trust a single thing AI outputs so I just ignore it as much as possible.

  • A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen

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  • Organize by building stronger and more resilient communities. That's what you're supposed to be doing as an anarchist anyway.

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • Using the command prompt is not coding. You sometimes need to use the command prompt in Windows to solve certain problems, the terminal in Linux is just easier to use and more powerful so it's often an easier way to solve problems or get information.

    Also, they're all explained, you just don't care to read the explanations. One of the best things about the Linux terminal is that most commands have exhaustive and clear documentation.

  • What distro do you game on?

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  • You can game on just about any distro -- I'm using NixOS and it's great for many reasons, but also can be a real pain to learn and to solve new problems.

    But if you're looking for the easiest to set up that will be most likely to just work and gaming is a priority, go for Bazzite.

    I will second Fedora and Debian as extremely solid, well-supported distros, though both will require some initial setup (mostly enabling nonfree repos, especially for Nvidia gpus)