When you say “unrecoverable” do you mean the graphical desktop didnt load? Or you couldnt even log in to the terminal?

A lot of newbies assume that not getting to a graphical session means the OS is dead and nuke it and start over. When in a lot of cases, you can just switch to the command line and troubleshoot or roll back the broken drivers

Just for future reference if you try linux again

Wait… Are they the good guys now?

Day 1 kcd2 has been pretty good.

Only 1 bug so far forced me to save/exit. But no crash to desktop or anything game breaking so far (knock on wood)

The sudden, abrupt ending…

Pretty sure curl is the actual winner here

I used to think vram wasnt a big deal, but my 10G 3080 is already useless for some newer games, namely indiana jones

Not literally unplayable, but severely hamstrung, which is not OK for a high end card thats only 2 gen old (soon to be 3 gen, i guess)

Not one mention of fairphone? Not fully modular but it definitely ticks all the boxes for repairability and sustainability

Wait, so everything since 22nm has been just marketing hype?

There’s a whole documentary about reclaiming pepe called “feels good man”

The more we discourage people from using pepe because WP and shitheads, the more they win.

Wow thanks. That sounds amazing!

Will definitely give it a try asap

Steam has been so easy since proton, i honestly never learned to use lutris. I think i played with it once and gave up, but this was 6 years ago at this point. Maybe its easier to use now

If we could somehow merge steam’s linux support, with GOG’s dedication to DRM-free preservation of games

I really tried to support GOG for a long time, but steam was much easier when i went 100% linux

riscv is the future.

I’ve bought and paid for every civ game since civ3…

I even paid for civ4 twice. Boxed CD and on steam… And now you’re going to treat me like a criminal with shitty DRM??? Welp, i guess i’m not buying Civ7, Sid…

No more turns…

Well thats kind of the point of my statement about “it’s 2024”

I understand game AI is a complex problem. But it seems like we havent made any progress since civ3… And we’re right in the middle of an AI hype cycle… Can we not use AI for something useful like games? Instead of just making deepfakes, disinformation, and firing workers?

It’s 2024… Please fix the AI…

Biggest weakness in every civ game is the shitty AI that requires massive cheating, and terrible diplomacy (constantly making ridiculous demands, then getting mad and denouncing you if you dont hand over the goods)

So… Nvidia’s been basically 100% focused on AI and intel and AMD havent been able to take market share??

Cheaper, faster, better… Pick 2

I"ve been playing this in early access for a while now…

Based on the current state of the game, october seems a bit rushed

They have a lot of bugs to fix, and a lot of optimization to do to get the fps up to where it needs to be.

Been playing since civ2…

I sank so much of my life into civ4 and civ5…

I couldnt get into civ6… Probably under 20hr of play time

I hope civ7 has something special that will get me back to that “one more turn” feeling…

[Principal Skinner meme]

Could it be my poor forecasting and management causing problems?

No, it’s the workers who are lazy…

Exactly. Cant apply for a mortgage if you have an unstable income. Cant plan for having a family without stable income

All the things we take for granted, we just expect journalists not to have because we are all entitled to their work for free

oh yeah, publicly funded research should 100% be open access to the public

go visit any of the news subreddits/communities… any time people post a link to a news site there are a bunch of comments complaining about paywalls, or OP gets downvoted

I’d rather just pay a subscriptiom fee (aka paywall) than buy some branded crap that i dont need…

Like, whatever a creators markup is on a tshirt, i’d rather just give them that money in susbscription fee.

Why would i buy a $55 tshirt and have have the creator take home $5? I’d rather just give them the $5

Patreon is just another “paywall”

Who is going to pay for it? Every time journalists try to get paid enough to eat and have a roof over their head people cry “paywall!!!”

Or if they do ad supported people cry “ad infested cancer site!!” Or “lol adblock!”

Just to be clear, i adblock the shit out of the internet. I prefer some kind of paid model, but i’ll get downvoted to hell for saying that. I’m not smart enough to have any good answers on how to pay journalists. But crying “paywall” at everything is not helpful…

What i dislike is having to have an account and password for everything. There needs to be a better model/system for paying journalists (not just in gaming media)

Currently the only business models are:

1. ad filled clickbait
2. billionaire backed media
3. unpaid volunteer work
4. paid subscription

And it seems like the only sustainable ones in this day and age are 1 and 2 (to the detriment of our society)

Arm is dead. The future is RISC-V

Hmmmm… I wonder why…

Over $1000 for latest gen GPU that still has the same 16GB VRAM as the last generation

In my mind, island of Montreal would be the last holdout to resist American annexation.

Why not Canada? We have RobCo headquarters in Montreal

i think its a bit more simple than that

If a product is really good experience for you (ie. Not crammed with ads) AND you dont pay anything for it, then it’s not profitable.

Google didnt become one of the biggest companies in the world by doing volunteer work for your benefit

They only exist to show ads and/or harvest your data. Once those goals are met, then the user doesnt matter. They NEVER mattered

Thanks! I’ll check it out

I just found out there was a series off “Wallace and Gromit” adventure games from Telltale (RIP)

bought them all on steam and playing the first episode now. So far the writing and visuals are spot on

Last time i looked it was just slowed time, not paused

Also, whats up with the downvotes for preferring to play an RPG with turn based combat, or at least something close to it??

Even FO:3 and FO:NV vats is fine

Anything that doesnt force me to play like an FPS. Anything that pauses combat fully… Or better yet make it fully turn based

I want to play 4 but i also want to play with proper VATS…

Is there an option or a mod for this?

If i wanted to play a shooting game, i would play FPS.

letting the same artists that are already doing this well do it faster.

Not just doing it faster, but i think there might be some benefit to allowing AI to generate content that would NEVER have been made otherwise.

Like inane NPC chatter. We could have virtually unlimited NPC conversations, instead of “i took an arrow in the knee” over and over again. Would that make a game better? I dont know. Maybe, maybe not. But what i do know is that endless NPC chatter is not something ANY developer would EVER take the time to do so why not let AI do it (if it makes a game world and lore better)?

Despite all the hate AI tools get here, they havr their uses

Why not make your workforce 30% more productive and make your products 30% better?

Instead companies are using AI tools to make the same shitty product with less labour cost.

“The invincible” is very much in the spirit of firewatch with amazing scenery to explore. I cant remember my exact play time, but i finished it in a weekend.

I wonder if this is in response to paralives…