Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 completely dominated the spring and summer. Nobody would shut up about it. This year’s Baldur’s Gate.

First time I’ve heard of this game. Wild to see the deluxe edition cost less than the base game Itself though.

Welp, made the purchase, now I know what I’m doing after work.

Meanwhile Battleblock Theater and Castle Crashers are still receiving updates 10 years later. Goes to show how far a game can go if you put a little effort into it.

Be nice if Minecraft was released on Steam so Linux users didn’t have to emulate an Android device just to play it.

TIL Java works for Linux, as others mentioned I was mainly describing Bedrock as friends/family have already transitioned over to it.

Yeah, once you get the basics of BASH down Linux becomes really easy.

Open up your Console/Shell/Terminal and type “help” it will give you the list of standard commands that let you navigate the shell.

• cd = change directory
• mkdir = make directory
• nano = edit file
• rm = remove file
• rmdir = remove directory
• sudo = run command as administrator/root privileges

And once you get that going you’ll eventually get the options for each command, for example rm -rf is remove a file forcefully (the -f option), if you apply that command to directories it will remove anything within those directories with recursion (the -r option).

You also don’t need to cd into a directory if you want to edit a file in it. For example nano /home/user/Desktop/SomeRandomFile.conf

BASH will be your best friend for any Linux distro.

Breaking News:

This just in new game requires sudoers access to play!

What does this mean for Apple then? Will someone open a case against Apple arguing unfair practices? Man I hope so.

If it connects to the internet, you can change the DNS to whatever you want it to be. If Tim over at Apple had his way I’m sure he’d force his ‘i’ devices to use a “Secure Apple DNS Pro™️” server.

Depends on the host name, I’m sure there is a PiHole blocklist out in the wild but likely only targets telemetry.

PSA Se7enSins has helped me find some really obscure and cool mods in the past, they’ve been around for decades. Worth keeping an eye on relevant forums.

Garry’s Mod was fun, now the only servers that have people in them got ridiculous rulesets and the constant begging for donations & locking superior weapons behind a paywall gets old real quick.

Not hard to spin up a docker container for a Garry’s mod server, these server hosters are abusing their position and think hosting a server is difficult.

Ever since the Nitter matrix server got blasted with CSAM with no moderation I’m hesitant to spin up an instance, cool to see they have resurrected it I suppose.

Damn, didn’t know Nitter still existed.

I’m not too heavy into gears of war lore but I would assume the Retro Lancer, which has a bayonet in lieu of a chainsaw and was introduced in Gears of War 3, was the precursor to the modern lancer.

This is where we need dedicated servers and self moderation

My knowledge towards battlefield games ends at BF4 but I’m pretty sure people pay to host custom servers, EA refuses to open source it and only supply a handful of third parties with the actual code for them to charge hosting fees.

I’m sure there is an NDA involved.

It would be nice if companies accepted regional payment options, for example, Canada has Interac e-transfer to easily transfer funds from one bank account to another, local businesses in Canada have offered this as an option for payment but anything international it’s either PayPal or CC.

Interac E-transfer is so simple to use and definitely beats having to use third-party apps like Venmo and CashApp.

Does this still have a wild amount of drm

If I’m not mistaken Star Wars is still owned by Disney, of course it’ll have many many many layers of DRM.

and extra launchers

In my experience it’s only the EA launcher that it needs. it works on Linux despite all the bullshit.

afaik linux players can still play older battlefields, like battlefield 4,

Yup, I still play it pretty often despite all the cheaters. Battlefield hardline was the last battlefield to allow Linux users.

Maybe this time they’ll let Linux users play.

I owned a three foot metal energy sword for god’s sake.

As someone who works in metal fabrication, thank you for the idea!

i paid nearly $100 CAD for the game, and I don’t regret it.

Such a good campaign.

GTA VII when?

While I enjoyed Gears of War Ultimate Edition they really should’ve remastered 2,3 and Judgement.

I would’ve really liked playing the RAAM DLC again with higher graphics and on PC. Ah the nostalgia.

And lying isn’t the answer either.

drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux

I dunno man, Debian makes it pretty easy.

1. Prerequisites

x64 Kernel headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

2. Debian 12 Installation

Disable secure boot & add ‘Contrib’ repository to sources list:

sudo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Install Nvidia driver

sudo apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

Restart system.

Bonus points for optimal performance follow CUDA doc & OptiX doc for Ray-Tracing & utilization of Nvidia cuda cores.

Read receipts have yet to work.

Interesting, I intentionally left RCS off on my iPhone because I didn’t know if read-receipts were on or not.

The read receipts setting use to be for iMessage only and Apple’s documentation for RCS made it seem like it was always on.

I really couldn’t enjoy this game, it for some reason made me nauseous and tired.

Wanted to enjoy it, unfortunately couldn’t.

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Here’s hoping that Linux becomes good enough within a couple years from now.

I jumped head first into Linux without any prior knowledge a year-ish ago, I went and chose what seemed to be a simple distro (Debian) and later found out it’s one of the more difficult distros out there (also most native packages are outdated) and some how made it work day to day.

Basically every game on steam is Linux compatible and a good handful of popular anti-cheats have partnered with Valve to ensure proper compatibility.

Now the problem is, game producers (like Ubisoft & EA) have been pushing this rhetoric that Linux users are all cheaters & hackers and intentionally prevent users from connecting to their servers or even launching the games.

I think the switch isn’t as bad as you make it seem. Hope I provided some insight.

Edit - dropping ProtonDB (fixed the link)

Ubisoft cannot be forgiven on how much time they wasted remastering all the original maps. That’s when I called it quits.

they’d have to do all kinds of work embedding their anti cheat in the kernel.

Prime example here is Rainbow Six Siege, they use Battle-Eye for their anti cheat. Battle-Eye has supported linux since 2021 and all the developers have to do is phone up Battle-Eye and enable Proton support.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/supporting-linux-proton-and-the-steam-deck-with-battleye-is-just-an-email-away/

Ridiculous right?

What baffles me is how they intentionally make their games unplayable on Linux, and the same can be said about EA.