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better late than never I suppose… the biggest culprit here must be the 2 DRM's they are running AT THE SAME TIME (Denuvo and Capcom Protector), and what's worse is that the game apparently checks every single texture going in and out of memory. Such a waste of processing cycles for nothing useful.

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After spending most of this year gaming on my desktop, I've finally returned to the Steam Deck OLED and "fixed" the awful static issue the 3.5mm jack had on a lot of launch models by slightly loosening the screws holding down the audio board. So to fully make use of a static-free headphone jack, I've been relaying Furi.

Banging soundtrack and an overall exhilarating game. I'm about halfway through and love it just as much as I did the first time round many years ago.

I haven't abandoned my PC completely though and have been making my way through Two Point Hospital. Another game with a fantastic soundtrack (though for wildly different reasons) and it's generally a relaxing time. I'm currently at the Tumble hospital and my receptionists keep whining about needing to go to the toilet despite the overwhelming amount of toilets I build for them, but it's otherwise going smoothly.

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Tokyo Xtreme Racer (I beat it and started a NG+ run), Blood Refreshed Supply, Chasm, Xuan-Yuan Sword 7, Halls of Torment, Yet Another Zombie Survivors, and I went back to Earth Defense Force 5 too. And that's just the PC games.

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I came back to Hero Siege, after 2 years since I played last time. It is still as amazing as I remember. I played a good amount of hours to Astroneer, and started a couple days ago a new game in Pokemon Añil, a fangame GBA style Pokémon. A good variety of genres

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WHERE WINDS MEET is taking nearly all of my free time. Incredibly impressed with it for a Free game. It seriously feels like a game they could’ve charged top dollar for. Theyve seemingly created a huge community for it. Unreal how much content is in there, how graphically beautiful it is, how clean the combat plays, how fun the puzzles are, and again how FREE it is.

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Oooh, bit of everything. Haven, Little Rocket Lab, Until Dawn on the PS4, Viewfinder are the most recent ones.

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Mostly various maps for Duke Nukem 3D

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I've been playing Legend of Grimrock 2. I like old-type dungeon crawls similar to Dungeon Master, and Grimrock 2 adds outdoor areas that work better than I expected. Having a lot of fun crawling around the sewers.

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I was super hoooked on Arc-Raiders for a few weeks too, probably in large part because a discord I'm in made it their game du jour. It's a great game, but I've not felt the urge to play it for a week or so now really.

Instead I first started paying Diablo 1 again since I wanted to see what I actually think of a game I really only played when I was 13 years old. Then after a tip from my younger brother who's even more of a Diablo head than I am, I checked out Children of Morta again. I played it a couple years back but never got hooked then. I would like a co-op partner for it (my brother has it on a different device), but it's pretty good for what it is so far. Like Diablo 1 it's also more of a dungeon crawler than an arpg, which I like.

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Melvor Idle and Luanti (Hades Revisited) for the most part. Looking in on other games here and there, but nothing sustained.

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Mostly Outer Worlds 2 ... It's good. Not excellent, not groundbreaking, but it's fun to play. The stealthy sniper build I have going is super fun. I'd say I'm probably 2/3 finished. I'll get it done by the end of the year. Then next I'm REALLY hoping they'll fully release the turn based mode for Pillars of Eternity 1 (currently in beta) so I can play that one. Really looking forward to that.

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EVE Online, since 18 years straight now.
Pax Dei, from some of the guys who developed EVE.
The Lords of the Rings - Return to Moria, and we're digging deeply and greedily (what can go wrong?).
Elite: Dangerous, basically since 1984...
HumanitZ, but we stopped the EA playthrough, as we wait for release.

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Halls of Torment and King is Watching mostly

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Not much due to lack time, energy and willingness. Occasionally, Super Mario Bros Remastered.

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I just bought Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story because they are going to remove it from Steam, and it was heavily discounted. It's, well, ... more "Lost Phone".

And I played Year Unknown. The demo already is half of the game. There's that one big choice in the end...

I don't regret playing either, but they're no must have played to me.

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Outer Wilds & The Finals these days

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

Couldn't it attach the same way the closed source Nvidia driver does?

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

That might be a strength in the long-run though, because if you're relying on security through obscurity, we all know how that ends. But if you implemented an open-source anti-cheat tool that was actually robust? That would be a huge win.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Xpanderflatpak

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users.

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

A fix for your appimage problem is [appimage-launcher](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher).

Thanks! But another fix is to avoid AppImages, haha!

I think we have a slight problem with a packaging format that needs an external app to manage the packaging format. I suppose the same could be said of Flatpak needing flatseal, but now that Plasma has integrated that into the Plasma settings, I'm definitely a flatpak guy these days. Not for Steam... but definitely for everything else that I can't install easily with my existing package management tool!

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Xpanderflatpak

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users.

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

A fix for your appimage problem is [appimage-launcher](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher).

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: scaineI love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users.

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

Its fine if you like it.
flatpaks are just awful with their runtimes and permissions. Appimage at least is fully self-contained sandbox, not some random runtime this and that here and there with sometimes no access to this or that unless you manually modify things.
each their own. I don't like my distro to become an android device.
native distro packages are prefered for me.

Appimage is not a self-contained sandbox.
Appimage simply runs with the same permissions as the user that runs it(this includes root).
It can do anything the user can do without entering an extra password.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: The_Real_BittermanMaaan glad Linux has CoW file systems. Well doesn't help with downloading but at least storing these chunky games is better.

it was useless in this case, because it couldnt auto detect those file duplications and save space, nor ir would be usefull in an HDD where you really needed those duplications.

The de-duplication process in, say, btrfs is not automatic. Right? You have to run a scan periodically. I doubt many people do this.

However, when you perform such a scan, it compares blocks in the filesystem, which means it can de-duplicate portions of files. Files don't have to be exactly the same content or name or size.

Most distros I know of, using BtrFS by default, also ship de-duplication tools and implement a SystemD timer to periodically run these tools.

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Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

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I for one am looking forward to it. Factorio has occupied a lot of my time and while I'll probably continue to play it on and off for as long as I can, I'm definitely happy to try another take on the genre.

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Quoting: gbudnyI'm guessing that PenguinPlay can now cause some issues in Candy Cruncher because this website was closed.

The installer that I used patched the game up to just before they added in support for PenguinPlay, so that sidestepped that particular issue for me.

I have never been that invested in competing for the highest possible score myself, but for those who are so inclined, I can definitely see it adding an appreciated extra dimension to the game.

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Really hope government and regulators put a stop to this.

This acquisition will kill Hollywood along with Cinema's and Physical media. The end result will be significant price increases and removal of choice.

Thankfully I already have a large physical media collection because if this acquisition goes through then a lot of classics are going to rewritten or disappear entirely.

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I donate to KDE and Thunderbird every month.

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Quoting: PaldinoX

Quoting: mZSq7Fq3qswhat is XR?

VR and AR. XR is just an umbrella term used to describe both

Thank you

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Quoting: tohur

Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.

sadly will NEVER happen as will never be enough people using either to gain traction

I just read an article that governments are interested in using Matrix - and funding it.

Yes, it's already the case in France: [https://tchap.numerique.gouv.fr/about/a-propos/](https://tchap.numerique.gouv.fr/about/a-propos/)

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