My account has been locked up because my daughter has three separate BG3 games going with friends. Last week my son said we need to put a time limit on her because nobody else can play on Steam.

I play SSX 3 Gamecube like it’s my 2nd job.

He said he could connect to windows and fedora thru bluetooth.

I was having the same problem last night trying to connect an controller thru bluetoothctl on Mint.

I bought the game and I still considered emulating it just to run it at higher res.

Can’t help but feel like this is the market that exists for anything Pokémon adjacent because Pokémon has sucked ass for like a decade.

Thanks for posting that. That’s exactly where I’m at. I’ll suddenly play a ton on it for a week or two then not at all for a month. I’ll stick to the old one.

New one sounds great though. Good on Valve.

This is a really boring direction of conversation. It’s boring to talk about the false equivalency regarding a decade old OS that the OS maker themselves don’t support vs Linux today. It’s boring to debate the finer points of continuing support in games. It’s boring to talk about Epic outsourcing work to Proton.

But I really hope you find someone that finds it interesting. Good luck.

Sure. But in the context of Epic claiming that Google is a bad guy for telling Epic to pound sand, Epic telling video game owners who have owned a game for years to get fucked is a bad look.

I was a heavy Rocket League player on Windows and I quit when Epic told Linux users to get bent and I won’t use their game store. Epic knew it would piss off a small but vocal minority and they considered it a cost of doing business. Good luck to em.

Fuck em

That’s a very fair question. I think that from the perspective of a power user (which let’s be honest, giving a shit about this makes one a power user), the difference is sorta bullshit. In Googles case they make it hard but in Apple’s case it’s not allowed at all, so how is Apple better? If Fdroid exists for Android, then choice exists and so Apple is at least as shitty, if not more so.

You’re not wrong.

From the court’s perspective, Apple is the honest party. Apple users are never given the illusion of choice. By contrast, Google sells the illusion of choice while actively working against choice and abuses its market position to do so.

And that’s how we get here.

They bought Rocket League and discontinued the Linux version for seemingly no reason. It was a dick move for sure.

The case established that Google acted intentionally to prevent apps, hardware manufacturers, and basically their entire sphere of influence from using other app stores and services.

So no, they are in fact making massive efforts to stop you from using alternative apps and stores.

Same with their search.

Google is a bad guy, buddy. Time to internalize that.

What’s wrong with that?

Cult of the lamb was great on steam deck.

Portia was huge in my house, but my daughter was so hooked it’s going to end up being one of her favs of all time. We preordered and then waited forever for Sandrock, and then she didn’t like it. She disliked it so much it put me off it. I’ll have to give it a shot.

Multiplayer feels good?

They just implemented search and you have to opt in. There’s a value system in place that may change over time (many things do!), but that ain’t happening any time soon. It took a huge push to even allow search.

That’s right, there is no single vision. That’s why there’s so many different front ends. I currently pay $5/month to 4 different ones cause I like where they’re going. Which do you support?

So obviously we’re talking about it and you want one and there isn’t one. Why do you think that is? Do you think that maybe projects and protocols “speak” direction by the implementation? Do you think that the fact there’s a bunch of front ends and apps for Lemmy and Mastodon and all the rest and NONE of them have this feature might be a clue that the fediverse is trying to tell you something?

No, I mean, I guess “the fediverse” didn’t come right out and say it to me, but I guess I can read between the lines.

But I’m super excited to see your investment in what you want! Post back here with what you come up with.

Then you should make that!

An algo requires analyzing user data, which is exactly what the fediverse doesn’t want. There are front ends that surface popular Mastodon posts, but that’s about it and that’s how they like it.

Real hard to justify using it if privacy is your thing.

We moved from Houston to Seattle and we adore all the seasons here. Spring comes just as the winter feels like its dragging on. First the daffodils, then the tulips, then cherry blossoms explode! Then its summer and camping every weekend and Rainier and North Cascades and just go go go the entire time. Then fall comes and I fall over from exhaustion. Its time to put in the order for tea for the winter and catch up on all the shows we missed and all the board games we haven’t been playing and just relaxing. Just when I’m tiring of the cold and the wet, the first daffodils pop up and we do it all over again.