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And it might be the only game where I have ever enjoyed proximity chat

Did we play the same Battlebit? I don’t remember much positivity coming out of proximity voice chat. Every match started with a flood of VOIP spam of screaming and loud, shitty music. It seems without fail, I’d spend the first 15 seconds of every match muting everyone that appeared in comms. At least the devs made that super easy.

Battlebit filled the hole I needed it to while I avoided BF2042; quite fun, but the population died off and it started feeling stale.

I might look into the update when it hits, but with a worth-playing new-release Battlefield, I’ll probably just stick to Battlefield.

DOOM Dark Ages. I’m about halfway through.

If this infographic is accurate, it doesn’t much matter what consumers are willing to spend. AI/datacenters have deep pockets.

If they did, it would just be because they want to. Based on the success of GTA V’s currency, GTA VI could be F2P and still be profitable.

A proton is a positively charged subatomic particle doing in the nucleus of an atom. But in this context, Proton is a translation layer that allows games that were built for Windows to run on Linux.

I just meant you’d have access to them. Didn’t mean to imply they were all good. I mean, I owned Shadows of the Empire on N64.

Every Star Wars game…

Flight Simulator

I didn’t even realize Antec still existed. I knew them for their cases (I had the Twelve Hundred), but I haven’t seen any build pics with their cases on Reddit/Lemmy for years. There was a year where it seemed like everyone was building in the Bitfenix Prodigy, then another where everyone was in the NZXT Phantom, then after that it’s been mostly Corsair, Cooler Master, and Fractal. My last 4 have been Fractal.

I wasn’t aware of swipe down. Not sure if it was added later or I just missed it.

It’s still there, and not because my phone is slow - even a brand new Pixel with no apps or Google account has this delay. It takes nearly 2 seconds to go home - long enough to make me question if I hit the home button.

Pixel 6 Pro, in use since release… I don’t have any noticeable delay. Pressing the home button (I have 3-button navigation instead of gestures), the transition from foreground app to Nova home screen I’d estimate to be under 1/4 second. Feels pretty instantaneous.

I landed on Nova back in 2013 because it allowed me to assign secondary app shortcuts to icons on my dock that are accessed by swipe-up gestures. My hotbar has:

• phone, but swipe up for contacts
• messages, but swipe up for Gmail
• music player, but swipe up for YouTube
• Firefox, but swipe up for clock app

Haven’t paid any attention to any newer launchers.