YOU ARE WEAK! You do not deserve the air that you consume. You dishonor is all. Drop and give me twenty.

Jk, use whatever works for you.

I always know it’s Halo when I look at the screenshot and take a moment to understand what the hell is supposed to be pictured.

Don’t follow me for advice, I know nothing about this stuff other than “line is down - buy, line is high - sell”

Good. Time to buy.

When you can’t compete, sue.

I can get immersed in incredibly simple games, like Baba Is You. I have simple rules to follow and a world that conforms to those rules. I can tune out reality and immerse fully in the game.

The main thing is that I don’t need hi-res realistic 120 fps graphics for this to work, I don’t know if this is because the way my brain is wired or because I was raised in the 8 bit era and imagination was a significant part of that immersion.

I bought the collection a few years ago and played nearly all the titles.

There’s something about these games that makes them feel “off” for me and I can’t quite put my finger on it.

I mean, there’s guns and aliens to shoot, huge buildings and large terrains to cross with cool vehicles. Yet, it never clicked with me. It feels like the games have no soul.

It’s a weird feeling that I could never explain properly.

Currently I prefer Windows versions of games. I understand the people who much rather have a native port, but I’ve come to view Windows (Wine, Proton) as the Linux Gaming API Layer. When you think of it like that, it doesn’t really matter if the game has a native port or not.

Last week I installed a game on Steam (can’t remember the title, sorry) that had a Feral native port. It complained about my card not being supported and crashed. I then installed the Proton version and it simply worked.

Even if there is a native port, it probably takes work to keep up with Linux rapidly evolving features than to keep it running on Windows relatively static APIs.

So I thank Microsoft for the Linux Gaming API (and the intrepid Wine devs), I’m sure they didn’t intend it to be this way but here we are.

I wouldn’t say unusable, it’s tolerable. But it does get in your face in a very opinionated way, that gets old fast.

Yes, everything you like about the original is there. The storytelling, the philosophical undertones, the brain wracking puzzles. Except that everything is way larger, with much to explore, new gadgets to master and characters to interact. They dropped some of the stuff that annoyed me in the original, like the machine guns and mines.

The puzzle difficulty is spot on, so if you played the through the original you’ll find the first puzzles easy but then they ramp up.

I’ve finished the main story and now I’m going back to get the 100% stars, as one does. I’m sure I’ll buy the DLC for this one as well, as I did for the original. Its is that good.

Soma may be my favorite Frictional game, even though I played nearly all the Amnesia series.

I think I’ll install it again after I’m done with Talos Principle II.

I’ve avoided Gnome since the shift to GTK 3, when it became apparent that the devs were hiding functionality in the name of some greater vision that was never explained to lesser mortals.

You don’t get to treat me as a moron, only my wife can do that.

XFCE and KDE have served me well, at least they don’t hide settings and functionality from me.

I have this broken game in my backlog for decades now, I wonder if this will make it run this time. Hexen II, according to Steam it was released back in 1998.

I’m finally playing The Talos Principle II. It has been in my waiting list for a long time. I’m a big fan of the original and I’m currently hooked on the sequel. It has everything I love about the first one, only in a much larger scale. The storytelling is spot on, the puzzle difficulty is tweaked to make it easy for beginners to get the hang of things but gets quite challenging later on even for hardened players. There’s lots of new artifacts and mechanics to learn and some of the old classics like the laser connectors.

If you loved Portal and Portal II, this is for you.

I assumed primary is ctrl-c/ctrl-v and secondary is select/middle-click. I’ve never come across this ctrl-middle-click, it does the same with and without the ctrl key.

I seen to recall reading something this week about a distro dropping middle click, so I probably conflated both issues and failed.

But you’re right, I did not read the fine article.

I’ve been using the “select copy + middle click paste” since the late 90s.

I find it useful for simple intra-document editing because you’re just using the mouse, no need to reach for the keyboard.

It can be combined with the traditional copy/paste, say you have your password in the clipboard but you need to also copy some part of a long ssh command. You can have both and paste them on the command line one after the other.

I know I’m a minority and this will eventually be dropped because it’s too confusing for the end users, man.

Yes, I get it. But I’ll miss it.

These motherslapping sons of goats, that refused to support open drivers for their paying Linux customers will now generously allow said customers to rent the gaming experience instead? How nice of them.

That happens more frequently in closed source than in open source.

I’ve had to dig through shady sites to download drivers for printers or scanners that are perfectly fine but the manufacturer decided not to support the latest Windows versions. The manufacturer wants you to buy a new printer, there’s little incentive to support old hardware.

Meanwhile my ancient Laserjet 1100 works out of the box in any Linux.

This is the magic of open source. It takes one focused and motivated developer to improve the status quo for every user.

Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.

Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.