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Less today, but better quality.

[Beneath](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238080/Beneath_Demo/)
Beneath is Cthulhu inspired horror FPS. Demo has less Lovecraft though, but trailer has stronger vibe. Practically it seems to be some mix between Doom 3 and Half-Life. I guess worst thing is that it really doesn't do anything that hasn't been done before, but towards the end there's bit more sense of purpose. There's even more hints about the storyline.

Kind of mixed thing is that there's no manual saving. If things get too difficult, it gets frustrating. But when the balance is just about right, it's more tense than it would be possible with a save anywhere system.

Kind of almost wishlist material. Don't know though if I would have enough patience to play it all the way through. Though at least there's easier difficulty level available.

[The Last Caretaker](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1783560/The_Last_Caretaker/)
The Last Caretaker is openworld survival crafting game, but it does things bit differently. In the demo you do lot of door opening and connecting cables. And draining batteries. Didn't get a chance to punch a tree at all. Based on the store page, it's vaguely similar to Raft if it had robot as player character.

Store page hints also that there's more. For example small things like saving humanity.

While the demo was fun, there were some issues though. The recycler seems to be quite poorly introduced. And it's pretty essential in advancing the demo. Had to read the discussions to figure out where it could be.

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Nice. I have this one my wishlist.

For the record, I spent too long searching for this [Diablo-like games](https://itsfoss.com/diablo-like-games/) list on GoL only to resort to a web search and find it again -- on It's FOSS. lol *facepalm*

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This is a pretty good improvement to store pages.

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Tried the demo; it's overengineered, i.e "too much" at times without clear direction. Pass.

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I checked and UZDoom doesn't have a package on the AUR. I'll try building one but I have no experience with makepkg or anything so I have nfi how it'll go.

probly would be easier to start with the gzdoom pkgbuild and then replace with the uzdoom specific parts.

if you have any issue i would be glad to help as i have packed a few programs.

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There's always jerks in any community. In corporations they become the boss and nobody can say no to them. One of the big benefits of Free/Open Source software is that you can tell the jerks to go (insert appropriate expletives here) and do good things without them.

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Damn, another douche in the Free Software community? :D
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Anyone have a list of the worst ones? Asking for a friend...
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I'm waiting for DrMcCoy to comment on this and see what he thinks. ^^
I might be a bit devilish but it's always a pleasure to read that sort of "things". But sure it's not a happy end for GZDoom, at least it shows that most developers don't like that shit and move on to do things nicely.

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What does the "U" stand for

It stands for 'Ultimate', as in 'Ultimate ZDoom'.

I checked and UZDoom doesn't have a package on the AUR. I'll try building one but I have no experience with makepkg or anything so I have nfi how it'll go.

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@d3Xt3r Thanks for the pointer. However, despite following that guide 100% my system would still not recognise the 8BitDo controller through Wine. No error messages either!

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Have just compiled UZDoom for the first time for my Tumbleweed system. Seems to fire up nicely :-)

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Going by memory Graf didn't much care for implementing id24 after the Night Dive port, but also didn't seem to mind if someone else felt otherwise... Depends on who sticks with GZdoom, I guess.

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I have stability issues with Plasma as well, otherwise I'd be using it too. I like both XFCE and Cinnamon but Plasma was so intuitive and customizable.

On an interesting sidenote, I wonder if M$ is feeling the pinch? I discovered about two weeks ago that M$ is making extended security updates free as long as the user is willing to create a M$ account and enable the "synchronize your account" feature when they register for the extension. In the EU, they were forced to give the extension for free without the strings attached. Could they be realizing that users are not going to be strong-armed into an unnecessary and wasteful hardware upgrade (and hence, Windoze will lose a chunk of its market share)?

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What does the "U" stand for (assuming the "G" stands for Graf)?

And who will be the first to fully support "Heretic: Faith Renewed" and "Hexen: Vestiges of Grandeur"?

Important questions...

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@scaine Thank you - this is a ton of help!

1. I'll look into trying to add ways to cancel just one blueprint sigil - we also have an improved controls/rebinding update that I didn't have time to get in before next fest.
2. Yeah, you're 100% right, the current behavior is just bad. Will be fixed in the full game/future demo update!
3. Pretty sure I know which card(s) you're talking about. That behavior was intended, but after looking at the card, I can see the description being potentially confusing to new players. I'll look into adding an additional tooltip or something similar to "On Play, Infuse Ghost" cards.

Seriously, thank you for checking it out and taking the time to write up feedback!

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Hopefully retail projects like selaco will move over to this new fork

Selaco is already using their own fork, so it doesn't really affect them

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Specifically @"simplyeven"

The engine has several minecraft-clone style games, and the engine is extended with Lua, which provides about as much flexibility as the Java Edition of Minecraft. It has a decently active modding/game making community, with clones for advanced trains, technic-inspired stuff, monsters, etc. It doesn't have 1:1 featuresets, as that would be highly illegal, but it rhymes. Some things are honestly a LOT better in Luanti than in Minecraft - for example you can join any modded server and don't need to have all the mods pre-downloaded. The server sends you what you need. And yeah it has a very active discord, forums, blog, X/mastodon, youtubers, etc.

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This whole AI conundrum is not going to end well for humanity. emoji

Yep. That's why I'm hoping that the bubble bursts sooner than later. Just the damage to the planet alone will contribute to our demise.

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The puzzles in the earlier games/episodes are inventive and the overall design is on point. Looking forward to the next one.

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Heroes of Hammerwatch, loved that game, 200+ hours
Heroes of Hammerwatch II... 13 hours, uninstalled.

Ehhhh.

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So up to now, Steam Deck support wasn't really . . . Satisfactory.

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I wrote a piece on my blog about the (lack of) ethics in AI, but this piece about coding standards stands out in the context of Graf espousing AI code generation. Maybe it'll improve... but right now, all it does is slow you down.

[External Link]

That was early 2025. By now, ai should have improved the slowdown to 25%.

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Never could get along with the kde desktop's breakability.

They still get their share in my yearly round of open source donations, though. Kde's software fits really gracefully in my xfce setups. Kupfer, kwrite, kolourpaint, okular, falkon, kdeconnect, ...

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I am a yearly supporter. Currently supporting KDE, Thunderbird, Blender, fsf. Just the software I and my family use every day.

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I wrote a piece on my blog about the (lack of) ethics in AI, but this piece about coding standards stands out in the context of Graf espousing AI code generation. Maybe it'll improve... but right now, all it does is slow you down.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

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Off Topic: Recently, Selaco caused my Steam Deck to crash so badly that it simply shut down and then starts with the Boot Loader menu.

Of course, I initially thought it was a hardware defect, and I still do. On the other hand, I have used the Deck frequently with other games since then and have not experienced any further issues. Has anyone experienced this issue with Selanco?

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If you have any feedback after trying the updated Demo, I'd love to hear it.

Only a couple of games in, but a few QOL pieces:

1. When placing a tile, it's jarring that I can't right-click to cancel placement (I have to press escape).
2. When viewing my deck, it's jarring that I can't press escape to exit (I have to press the "back" button).
3. I got a "forbidden" card who's name I forget, that occupied every outside tile, but was meant to have "ghost". But when I played it, it wasn't ghosting, so I kind of ruined that turn - it occupies so much of the moon that I couldn't play anything else! Also, I suspect I'm misinterpreting its effects - not sure I understood what "resonance" does, but since I couldn't play anything after playing it, I never got to experiment!

Loving the new cards, and the base character feels more rounded with lots more cards providing "Focus", which I love.

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This whole AI conundrum is not going to end well for humanity.

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Just donated as well. Plasma and KDE Applications have been powering my life for years, just can't say enough good things about them.

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Hopefully the new fork will have a sane build script now; because currently the thing that builds GZDoom is an odd concoction of shell scripts & CMake recipes.

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I set up monthly donation years ago 🤎

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