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Enjoying me some Ultimate Zombie Defense 2.

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I still would not call this game 'predatory' But it is a fricken nightmarish grind fest past tier3!
I think people have bots now grinding accounts up! lol

It's one of those games that asks the question, why work full time grinding in this game when you can grind in real life and earn real money that unlocks even more; in other words, the game becomes less about gameplay at a certain point and more about grinding...

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I guess when you start at rock bottom, the only way is up. Or just quitting I guess..

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When not on Roblox with my daughter I'm alternating between 'Bye Sweet Carol' and an emulated translation of 'Moon Crystal' (was on Famicom).

It's good and I'd not heard of it prior to playing. Also casually plunking around 'Super Mario 64' with my little girl.

We're having fun and she's always giving me grief for save scumming, insisting I just get good instead.

At least she keeps me honest 😁

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So is COSMIC desktop decently different compared to GNOME? because when I see people trying it out I just keep thinking I'm looking at GNOME.

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Just started Prey, It's really fun. Definitely gives off *shock vibes, especially SystemShock with some of the odd ball weapons.

I have been playing on the Deck with my TV, but the TV panel is dying. I've been looking casually, but I can't seem to find a non-smart or non-internet connected TV.

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Quoting: psycho_driverCan you use their terminal as a quake style drop down mode?

Not that I see. I don't see a feature like that in COSMIC Terminal. Loved Guake for that. Saddly had to let it go in favor of a slimmer and lighter apps on my miniPC.

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At 700 games, I saw that most games on the store front had the label "in library" and I realized that I just kept buying games for the sake of it. So I talked with my therapist. But he is a gamer too. So now I'm close to 950. 😇

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Can you use their terminal as a quake style drop down mode?

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While I love it and I still find it's the best of its genre... The development is sooooo slow... Maybe it's everything a plan to make us come back from Death to play as zombies. That way they can implement a new kind of gameplay.

Real zombies vs humans. 😂

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They haven't even finished the release candidate yet. How can they release now?
https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1

I'm using PopOS 24.04 Epoch 1 JSYK

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ROUTINE. 🔥🔥🔥
runs great through proton.

also been continuing to play arc raiders, which is also continuing to be great fun, even when my friends and i are getting rinsed.

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Quoting: Tethys84I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.

I, too, have been playing WT for more than a decade. I'm essentially a free(-loader) player 😄. And to a new player I wouldn't actually recommend it - unless you are into games with military vehicle simulation (especially non-modern), online pvp or high skill ceiling.

It is more predatory ("modern game monetization culture") than anything else I happen to play. If Fortnite, Roblox and other top mainstream games are too unethical or predatory for you, this is too, probably 🤷‍♀️

As for P2W: There are many small advantages to someone who pays. While you technically can get everything for free with enough grind, I'm nearing 2.5k hours in the game and this year I've had at least a full work-week of playing, every week, for more than 6 mo (unemployed 💀) and I still have zero max-level crews and only 2 bushes. I unlocked my first top-tier vehicle a few days ago 😂. But I have gotten very good at the game. Even though (high-)paying players have advantages over me - strategy and skill matters way more. The game has a very high skill-ceiling (in many situations). Very few premium vehicles are actually slightly "broken". And given enough years, luck, and grind, even those may be attained 💀.

So if it is both predatory, has many small P2W mechanics, and impossibly long grind - why as a person with high intelligence and morals [citation needed] have I played this games for more than 10 years? I enjoy the game play and I don't care about unlocking any of the high tier vehicles (more modern vehicles). As a game without skill-based match-making - I can adjust the level of challenge (with vehicle line-up tiers) depending on how tired I'm feeling or how desperately I need to feel competent at something. And even then any opponent might be highly capable or just get lucky - that really keeps me on my toes and coming back for it.

TL;DR: 10/10 - would not recommend. Unless (see above).

PS: if anyone wants to play WT GRB or GSB together in EU/CIS, add me: Marder III H

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Cities skylines 2

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antialiasing in this is causing some real nasty artifacting on my system 

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I finished Clair Obscur last week I really enjoyed the entire game. I did accidentally over level for ACT 3 and defeated the final boss before they had a turn. I tried going though the end game content but it takes so much focus and I had been playing the game for a week straight I'm just tired and worn out so I've stopped for now.

While visiting my sister for thanksgiving I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my SteamDeck since the game had font scaling so I could play it on the TV. I really just want to be with Shadowheart I have no clue why I just want her. Playing as a Mage Elf and just talk my way though most things but sometimes I talk and I get roped in to something else.

Back to now 3 days ago I was talking with my friend and we started talking about tony hawk pro skater do to a video he saw I talked about how I wanted to replay American wasteland but don't since you could only play as a male in the story mode and while looking around we found reTHAWed and I have been playing it since. No female in story still but the modding is fun textures are just PNGs and 2 added classic mode campaigns that I'm going though. They also have a linux updater. I hope they can get a female protag in at some point, supposedly they have a VA for the role but they need to redo every cut scene do to model differences.

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I haven't donated this year to open-source, since I've been unemployed for almost 2 years and family keeps borrowing from me as well. But I really hope I can give something again next year.

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Gonna download this now for a tryout! I wish there was a torrent download though :/

KDE Linux is another interesting up and coming new flagship distro. It has both snap and flatpak by default.

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I think you can use this service easily on Steam Deck now.

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Point and click game "Splittown". A match for Sam & Max or Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle fans.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2117400/Splittown/

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Project Zomboid is a guilty pleasure of a game.

It's a bummer the saves are broken, I wish I had a huge chunk of time to sink into this game, I played 3-5 player and it's a lot of fun.

I accidently woke up an entire concrete building and had to do donuts in reverse for so long to clear the area of the uhm zomboidlings ;P

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Absolutely love what System76 is doing with Cosmic! I tried it out a few months ago with my Cachy install, and it definately wasn't ready, still had some major bugs. But I know they've been hard at work with everything so I'm VERY tempted to give it another go. I love that we have a nice modern new DE!

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Had to set up a computer with Pop!_OS for a science center is October. They needed AR sandbox and system76 had instructions and everything setup for it but even tho the doc says Pop!_OS 22.04 or newer the software isn't in the 24.04 repo. I just when and installed 22.04 since the computer will be setup and never touched again.

Just wish I didn't have to research everything since they where the ones that wanted a to have a topography exhibit all they knew is they needed a computer and kinect. I Should say the only reason I was involved is because my aunt runs the place, so my dad was asked to get the computer since she knows nothing about computers. They original just asked for a computer with linux so we installed linux mint since they didn't specify and that's what my dad default to for people asking for linux. Then they said they couldn't figure out how to install the kinect drivers so they asked for windows. So I installed windows 11 with the kinect drivers (Fun fact the kinect driver doesn't with memory protection enabled). Then they wanted me to show everything working for them. I show up and nothing new has happened they did nothing and surprise the software needed doesn't exist on windows just one project a dad made for their kid that i couldn't get working. So I just took the computer back home and installed Pop!_OS now i just have to wait for them to finish the exhibit,

Uh sorry for the rant the whole thing just annoys me I'm just realizing this is similar to when my mom is asked for constantly changing goal from non programmers at her job.

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Kitten Space Agency? 😰 We all know what happened to the Kerbals in KSP…

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OMG YES!! Best early xmas present ever!

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Just yesterday I was checking if the fps drop was fixed. Glad they did it, since for me it made zooming into the map almost impossible.

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Finally!! Been waiting for this for forever now. Great news!

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Quoting: Cyril@Stella Is the reason, by any chance, is that they won't accept players modding their game? 2 DRM is indeed awful, first time I hear about Capcom Protector it seems.

You can still mod the game but adding DLC content will get you banned. I've modded the game in the past to buy any item so I could complete event armor sets, So I can have longer hair for my character and try the decompressed textures to improve frame times. Tho I don't get why decompressed textures are so unstable under linux one launch it no issue the next launch suddenly it thinks the texture is corrupt. That doesn't happen on Windows.

From my understanding they did make it harder to mod their games after a naked Chung Li mod was show live at a tournament.

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Hopefully they will support mods in multiplayer in the future. I can't play Zomboid without mods, there's just too much that would be missing QOL and content wise.

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I'll be honest, I would be much more interested in an open source remake.

Still, I'm happy to see that someone picked up this project. KSP needs some developer love.

In the open source world, I know of Orbiter, for instance: https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter but it's more of a space sim than a sandbox. Are there others?

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