The worst kind of an Internet-herpaderp. Internet-urpo pahimmasta päästä.
Curious to know what happened with Bazzite to make you switch. I haven’t used it myself but I’ve only heard good things about it.
Been thinking of trying out cachy, but I already have perfectly good and configured Arch, so haven’t bothered.
Edit: 498 days? Holy… It feels like 365d was just a moment ago
that does sound quite cool. I’ll have to check this out, feels like something I would have really enjoyed as a kid.
Thanks!
only played the shareware, until I found out that the full game was eventually released as freeware.
Then years after I went to game store and bought One Must Fall: Battlegrounds on release day… mistakes were made.
somehow missed zzt entirely, never played it, seen some random screenshots back in the day and thought it was some kind of weird nethack -clone with occasional ascii graphics. But also the only few screenshots I recall looked like nethack, with ascii smiley -character instead lf @ as user avatar.
So… it’s some kind of game engine which you can script to make any kind of game, kinda?
ut99 > 2k4! But it is a close call, admittedly.
But also, epic released some absolute bangers in the 90’s, though admittedly as a publisher. eg. Castle of the Winds, One Must Fall 2097.
started Red Dead Redemption 1 last night, seems like just hitting esc during cutscene pauses it.
Admittedly I was wanting to go to settings and drop some settings, but that’s only allowed during gameplay, not cutscenes x)
the bane of my eyes. I don’t have glasses, but holy hell this effect starts to strain my eyes when games have it.
in general: settings which have multiple levels, display it as a slider so I can visually see which ones are actually maxed out and which arent. It’s insanity when most settings have off/low/med/high/higher and randomly some of them have additional levels like epic/ultra/psycho/gigaultrapseudobullshit. You have to go each and everyone through to figure out which have higher settings. Now, this is not a flex, my system can’t run new games on gigaultrapseudobullshitultra++, but older ones? sure.
for fps & tps games: FOV.
otherwise, in no particular order, option to toggle off entirely:
otherwise, must haves:
They do have a website up - https://www.horses.wtf/
by their own description:
CONTENT WARNING: This game contains scenes of physical violence, psychological abuse, gory imagery (mutilation, blood), depictions of slavery, physical and psychological torture, domestic abuse, sexual assault, suicide, and misogyny.
The game looks like it’s about keeping people on a ranch, with horse masks on.
I guess the banhammer was swung because of sexual violence and mutilation of subjugated slaves?
it kinda feels like the more expensive a game is, the less value it seem to have.
heh, I have Superbook for the exact same purpose! (for the uninitated: it was a “laptop” which used your phone/tablet/etc as the tech, it was basically just a 1080p screen and keyboard for a phone).
Mine took 3-4 factory resets and firmware flashes to get working, and then the damn thing gave up the ghost the same night and hasn’t worked since… not that it has any real use anyway. Good buy /s
The factory transport network must grow!
really drawing a blank on the other ~3 games. Probably some mix of old Lucas Arts adventure games (indy atlantis, day of the tentacle, the dig…), imsims (dishonored, deux ex).
Steam would know best.
indeed!
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
seems like 16 GB ram and 8 GB vram is the most popular setup.
Also, wasn’t the ram upgradeable in the gabecube?
Chants of Sennaar was great! Had an absolute blast trying to work my way through it. I probably sounded like I was playing Baba Is You when trying to wrap my head around the glyphs (?) and the messages they try to convey.
Figuring out the symbols, their meaning and then using them properly to translate between different people was surprisingly rewarding and fun. I wouldn’t have minded if the game had a bit more gameplay, but at least it didn’t overstay it’s welcome.
is the game configured to use wine or proton? which version?
if I’m not mistaken, the game uses ddraw instead of d3d, so dxvk probably doesn’t help here.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082 - it seems like this is a fairly long standing issue. Though, apparently if you can blindly navigate through the menus, the game should work otherwise? Hardly ideal, though.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082#c181 - the later comments on the thread seem to have some solutions to get the game working “more properly”
edit: though, as the other comments have pointed out, devilutionx is probably the way to go. TIL about it as well.
even current steamdeck / steamos can run basically any desktop apps. I’ve seen some folks even run kdenlive (nle video editing app) on it, obvs using mouse&keyboard rather than the “gamepad”. While it’s gaming first ui, it does have a regular desktop too.
As for literally word/excel? Not sure, but doubt it. Reasonable alternatives like libreoffice or others? Absolutely.
depends. high refresh rate is great if you play fast moving games. The difference is pretty much “same” as 30->60 when going from 60 to 120, for example. After seeing something at eg. 120 fps, “60 feels like 30, kinda” - just a personal observation.
For turn based 4x games, isometric rpg’s etc, probably won’t make much of a difference.
FPS, racing, etc fast? yea, it’s great.
edit: if you’re a movie enthusiast, 144 Hz screen might make sense if you watch a lot of stuff which is 24 fps. As 144 (and 120, for that matter) divide evenly with 24, making the tiny judder go away compared to 60 Hz screen.
is Steam a flatpak or such on Bazzite? AFAIK that makes quite a difference. DE shouldn’t, but… who knows.
Either way, if the change was a positive one, it’s great.