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Speaking of games, if you like strategy give Battle for Wesnoth a try

I bet someone will 3D print an attachment that could fit a USB CD/DVD player and clip to the Machine

They likely mean that if a game is just a few GB in size, people won’t think twice about uninstalling it since they can just quickly download it again if needed.

By making the download bigger and so the installation time longer, it disincentivizes players to do that.

Sometimes it’s best to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

Ah, yes, the Christian way

FC5 even has a joke about not making you climb towers in the tutorial island

Stretching the definition of “bad”, perhaps, I say Far Cry 4/5.

It’s the classic game with a map full of repetitive quests: go there and kill that guy, liberate the outpost, climb the tower, etc. It should have basically 0 replayability value, and yet sometimes I just need to switch off my brain and mindlessly do one quest after the other.

It’s also possible we’ll see something like a EU law forcing PC manufacturers to offer a choice for the pre-installed OS on devices they sell.

I honestly have no idea. I just got the controller and I haven’t been tinkering with settings or anything, but I’ll take a look. Thanks!

Disclaimer: the last time I used a controller was more than 20 years ago on a PS1, so this might be entirely user error.

I’ve been playing some Vampire Crawlers with the controller and sometimes the sticks act weird. In the game you move around a maze, using the left one to move and the right one to turn, except sometimes the character moves when I meant to turn and vice versa, as if the two inputs got mixed up?

Again, it’s possible it’s me fucking up, but I’m putting it out there in case someone else noticed something similar.

Damn, I’ve seen a few of threads about this and it’s making me feel a little guilty that I managed to order one without really trying hard for it.

To me, clockwise = down would be the intuitive setting.

I’m not saying that’s the “right” way for it to be, just a personal preference that either the devs share with me, or that the same devs believed most users would share.

As for why I find that intuitive, it’s probably because I associate clockwise with “forward” and anti-clockwise with “backwards”. In this specific scenario, “forward” would become “further down”. I hope that makes some sense.

I was already somewhat interested in Linux (as a long time Windows user) when I started studying Computer Science, mainly for it’s core philosophy of freedom and openness.

Given that most courses used Linux as the default OS I installed Ubuntu on my laptop to dual boot it with Windows, and began getting familiar with it.

Over the years I started using Linux more and more, making it my main OS, with Windows still installed for the few programs I couldn’t use otherwise. Over time this set of programs became smaller and smaller, until it was just games.

Last year I bought and assembled a new PC to replace my laptop for daily uses, and given the higher specs and better support (AMD GPU instead of Nvidia) I see no reason to have Windows on it at all. Everything I need runs perfectly fine there.

I use Arch, btw.

I remember someone saying that it makes sense to price games less in lower income areas of the world, otherwise most people wouldn’t be able to afford them

I used to play BfW a lot, I should try that again

Emacs was my first thought too. I wasn’t sure it had a web browser too, but somehow it felt very likely

Far Cry 6.

I know, I know… But right now the whole “go there and do the thing, good, now go there and do the other thing” is kinda what I need to shut off my brain and have some fun.

And the animated Clone Wars series is a close second

At first I read it as “friendship isn’t real” and thought that was a weird thing to say

Love that the protagonist is as annoyed by it as the player

80 hours in and I’m nowhere near, I’m more likely to spin up a new character than to finish the thing