If you’re the Adams brothers making Dwarf Fortress then yeah, I’d agree with you.

You’re 100% allowed to just enjoy it and not worry about the drama. That said, we’re looking at the fifteenth year on the horizon with no follow up to Skyrim.

A “AAA” studio taking fifteen years to make a game is unacceptable. Especially when its a game that guarantees massive sales thanks to the IP’s pedigree.

Bethesda leadership is incompetent.

Halo was very much like this. The overshield and cloaking power ups were so sparingly used in the early games. Did you enjoy Halo as well?

I don’t really know any of the binds and I’m having a good time.

The community is definitely working hard on getting peripherals working. I’m kind of amazed by how much better things have gotten in the last 5 years.

Yeah, I’d never recommend cold turkey-ing it. That’s a recipe for dissatisfaction I think. A gradual transition is easy and there’s so much less pressure when things go awry.

Not sure why someone downvoted you, so have an upvote. The peripherals thing for gaming is a tough one for sure.

Hot damn, that’s awesome. Glad you’re enjoying it! Nobara is great!

Many people are going to say Linux. It’s probably annoying to hear, but its just the truth at this point. It probably seems daunting to switch over, but let me give you a very brief suggestion from a beginner on how to smooth over the transition.

Load up youtube and watch a few videos reviewing linux distributions for beginners just to see what’s recommended. My personal recommendation is to stick with a distro that uses KDE Plasma as the desktop environment since it will be very familiar coming from Windows. Once you decide what looks best for you…

Check and see if your computer has an available SATA port on the motherboard. If it does, grab yourself a SATA SSD and put your choice of a Linux distribution on it. Once Linux is up and running, set your BIOS to boot into Linux by default. Use Linux for everything you can and slowly migrate your workflow over to the new OS. Keep Windows as it is on its original drive and boot into it whenever you encounter something that doesn’t work or you haven’t set up on Linux yet. Don’t stress about rushing through this part. You have almost a year before Win10 is unsupported. Take your time and enjoy the process.

Over time, your Linux OS will become very useful for you as you uncover more ways to use it instead of Windows and Windows will be reserved for those infrequent edge cases where your needs are not met by Linux. This decouples you from the Microsoft ecosystem, making their enshittification less impactful on your life. I followed this exact path and I’m now a near full-time Linux user with Nobara as my chosen distribution and I could not be happier. I love my PC again.

The only thing I use Windows for now is sim racing games, as I haven’t yet dedicated time to find out how to get the expensive sim racing peripherals I own working on Linux yet. Apparently it’s possible and some people have had great success with it. This is something I will be actively working on over the coming year. Everything else I own runs perfect on Linux. I run a home studio so that means a lot of audio peripherals and specialized software. For 95% of my use case, Nobara just works.

The transition will take some work, but in the end if you can get yourself away from dependence on Windows, the options and freedom available to you expand like crazy. Its worth it just to show Microsoft that no, they no longer have a stranglehold on desktop PC users. The more we engage with non-mainstream options, the more the mainstream has to behave itself.

The whole game is like this. Every single description of an object in the game is written like this. Its amazing.

For anyone concerned that it’s expensive… It’s worth it.

A CRT for gaming allows for the least amount of input lag. Not only that but playing retro games on a CRT just feels right.

I just bought a CRT for my retro consoles. Its the best money I’ve spent in a long time.

Upvoted because It seems like somebody doesn’t understand the concept of an opinion and downvoted you for it. Thanks for the review.

Good thing I downloaded everything I wamted before they took a shit on Vimm’s Lair.

Can confirm that Graphene is easy as hell to get up and running and is an excellent OS.

I’d consider accounts with only a single game most likely to be bot or cheater accounts. I wonder what the percentage would be.

Dude, you took the words right out of my mouth. HLD is a masterpiece.

How well does it run?

They’re fundamentally different approaches to the skateboarding genre. They can coexist just fine.

Sim Racing. (iRacing, Assetto Corsa, or Richard Burns Rally).

Hyper Light Drifter was so unbelievably excellent. I have very high hopes for Breaker. Let them cook.

It’s not hard to use a search engine.

Already uninstalled. I’ll never buy another EA title.

If you use a free VPN like Proton you’ll need to disconnect from it to be able to see devices on LAN.

Just like the popular digital audio workstation software Reaper, the trial is unlimited but the software is not free. I’ve gladly paid for it twice in the last ten years because I support this business model. It respects the end user.

In my experience it has also never been necessary to engage in the microtransactions to have fun.

I played EVE for years in the 2010s. Amazing game. I just don’t have enough time for it anymore.

What browser are you using? Some browser features have caused issues like this for me in the past. Specifically privacy-focused browsers like LibreWolf and Vanadium.

Heart Machine rules. Hyper Light Drifter is my absolute favourite game. Would love to see them expand on HLD but I’m also looking forward to these new endeavours.

Hyper Light Drifter is absolutely stunning and its a 2D pixel art game with amazing lighting.

Dense games tend to provide strong rewards for your time. I think its always worth it to tackle a a game like this. EVE Online was one of those games for me back in the day. Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud are more recent challenges for me. I’m definitely getting this game soon.

Qud is amazing. I also found Cogmind to be an absolute blast as well. Love these kinds of games.

That’s just how digital zoom works with modern phones. Optical zoom is typically very limited so you’re stuck with digital zoom.

Signed it! Seems to be just over 4k signatures at the moment. Let’s pump those numbers up!

Well that’s interesting because what this individual posted about is the exact behaviour I experienced trying to get my work’s Slack connection set up.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1662-work-profile-sandboxed-google-play-services-android-device-policy-help

Not sure what you did to circumvent this.

Android Device Policy (ie: the spyware that is work profiles) doesn’t work either. An important FYI for folks whose personal device doubles as their work device.

Consider getting a Pixel as your next phone, immediately flash GrapheneOS onto it and never look back. Its very easy to do.

If this annoys you, try QKSMS instead. Go another step further and flash GrapheneOS onto your Pixel. It’s worth it for the peace of mind.

Sex With Hitler was all I needed to see to know GabeN no longer gave a fuck lol

How anyone could think that going so far as to invoke thoughtcrime is relevant in this discussion is beyond me. It should be self evident to anyone that fantasies are a thing. They’ve been a thing for the entire history of the human race. In no way do fantasies compare to creating reproducible and sharable media of someone in a pornographic situation without their consent.

You can’t transplant your fantasies into someone else’s head. Your fantasies literally cannot hurt anyone. On the other hand, imagine if you found out that someone was distributing pornographic material depicting one of your loved ones. It can quite literally ruin someone’s reputation to be seen in a pornographic situation.

Your argument is some slippery slope fallacy shit.