Malgas

I’ve been on NixOS for a little over a year, and have been absolutely delighted at how well gaming works now. I initially thought I would dual boot until Windows 10 EoL, but have had no reason to use Windows in that time and a couple months ago I converted my storage disk from ntfs to ext4.

Steam is nearly seamless; there have been one or two titles where I’ve had to switch the Proton version to experimental or GE, but nothing more than that. Heroic and Lutris have been similarly easy for non-Steam games. There has been nothing that I have tried to play that hasn’t worked, but I don’t play multiplayer games so YMMV there.

That said, this is not my first rodeo with Linux. I used it extensively in the late '00s and early '10s, which probably helped to sand some of the rough edges off of my recent experience. Though back then wine was not really suitable for gaming. I also have an AMD GPU, which I understand has an easier setup process than Nvidia. (I literally haven’t had to think about graphics drivers at all.)

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair

And that’s why nix exists.

Sturgeon’s Law has been around a lot longer than that.

Back when copyright was created, it had a fixed term of 14 years.

The old tractor-feed dot matrix printers never had great print quality, but they were built like tanks.

I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me

Out of curiosity, have you played any of the non-Bethesda Fallout games? Because the Fallout-nees of FO3 (haven’t played 76 or 4) is a paper-thin veneer composed of random elements from previous games jumbled together in ways that make no sense.

I don’t want to diminish slavery in any way

Speaking of the ambiguity of language…

but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.

Custom official controllers are a thing.

When public officials tamper with elections, it’s election fraud.

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Technically, what he’s doing is election fraud.

Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.

I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.

You say that as though he isn’t one of them.

Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?

Well, not always: Plural ‘they’ is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular ‘they’ is about a century later.

But, yeah, you’d think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial…

Hmm. I wonder what the nature of Owlcat’s relationship with GW is? Was the recent Rogue Trader game part of an ongoing licensing deal or just a one-off?

Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.