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Merry/happy all the things!
A special huge hug to Liam for continuing to provide a healthy watering hole for the ever growing penguin horde. Cheers!

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Finally some good news – although I'm not sure if the reappearance of the Forum will bring back the old spirit.

I'm not in a festive spirit at all. Saturday's annoying stream of Christmas songs has left me completely oversaturated. I want everything Christmas related to be gone as soon as possible. This might be the first year that I skip watching Christmas Vacation in forever.

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Digimon Story Time Stranger. Not only do I like the game for gameplay and story reasons, but I really appreciate it on a technical level. Saving is instant. The game feels very responsive. Frame rate is silky smooth. Absolutely lovely game.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThe forums are returning? We are so back! Will the content be restored or are we starting from scratch?

Pleased to say all content apart from the old Patreon forum will be restored.

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The forums are returning? We are so back! Will the content be restored or are we starting from scratch?

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Only new game I got was Civ7 and.... that was a mistake.

Mostly played Civ 5/6 and BERT (heh), Valheim (lotsa that)

Finally started No Mans Sky and enjoying it (even though no clue what I should be doing)

Not many new games look interesting enough to make me part with my money.
(I'm fussy)
:P

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I'm on my own this Xmas, but it gives me plenty of extra time to play games!!! I hope you have a good one.
I don't know how anyone says "Happy New Year" anymore. All I can think of is what Eldritch horror awaits us in 2026.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New year. :)

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My GOTY was definitely Metro Exodus. 9/10 game and was fun to play. It wasn't released this year though. Didn't buy any 2025 games personally. All money went into PC upgrades.

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The year of Linux VR is coming!

(We'll have Linux used by humans on Mars before The Year of the Linux Desktop. ;) )

Happy holidays, happy New year!

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Have a good one everyone, sounds like 2026 is going to be busy 😀

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Happy Christmas and thanks for all the games!

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Yeah, Silksong.

Just Silksong.

Doesn't need a link, everyone bought Silksong already.
So buy another copy on gog or steam.
Don't forget to buy the soundtrack, too.

SILKSONG!

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Quoting: PhlebiacDon't they just keep coming back if you feed them?

I suppose . . . still better than being dead. Of course once you get the recipe right it would be routine, which would be boring, so presumably the game kind of skips that.

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Speaking of Skyrim competitors, Tainted Grail was definitely one of the most interesting games for me this year and probably one of the best RPGS in years, writing is really good and even what seems like a tiniest fetch quest is likely to surprise you with something. Later sections of the game were a bit rough on launch but after some patches and a DLC I expect it to be in a pretty good state, although I'm yet to do a second playthrough.

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Yay! The forum comes back! 😁

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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2025 has been a good year for games, but Zexion is probably my favourite.

Award for the absolute worst (re-)release for 2025 goes to The Fortress of Dr.Radiaki - Fancy Edition. The dictionary definition of motion sickness would point at this game!

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The standalone seems to rune fine under Wine.
At least on my system ;)

Thanks for the tip, it is an awesome mod/game so far.

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Thanks for all your effort this year Liam, this is still my favorite place on the internet. Looking forward to the return of the forums. Next year is shaping up nicely for linux gaming, I am particularly looking forward to the release of the Steam Frame - I hope that it won't be too hard on my wallet.
Happy Christmas and New Year to all.

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The demo is available - and interesting!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: KeksusThe game is cool. But I wish they would take the time to unify their art style. It's kinda weird that many factions follow a completely different art direction.

. . . Wouldn't it be normal for different factions arguably representing different cultures to have different art? But I expect there's good ways and bad ways to do that.

I am really talking about the overall art direction. Not that they have different looking buildings.

It's been a while since I played it. But I remember that for example one faction uses 2D sprites, another 3D models. It is completely inconsistent and feels like assets from completely different games meshed together.

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Don't they just keep coming back if you feed them?

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Always good to see Linux Mint chugging along. I was just thinking though, does anybody know how far along the folks at Linux Mint are with the Wayland migration?

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Quoting: ShmerlA better question is how old hardware has to be (x86) to be 32-bit only. AMD stopped making 32-bit processors by early 2000s and Intel shortly after.

Intel dragged things out a bit with Celeron, and then Atom. Killing off IA64 in favor of AMD64 was probably a tough pill to swallow for some over there. 😆

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Quoting: shadow1w2I'd be down for a Deck Lite or Deck Pocket if they need to fill the entry level gap.
Guess theres still any pc fpr entry level and who knows if third parties will try a cheaper mini steam os device eventually.

This is something that would be really neat to see

With them now working on arm for the steam frame, perhaps they could take what they learn from that and apply it to a steam "pocket" or deck lite

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe point is, now they'll be sitting under some rock without their games. That will push them to take some kind of action.

Quoting: EikeI think there was a free upgrade way from some Windows usually installed with 32 bits until today. Most people do not reinstall their OS if they see no reason. Most people probably never ever install a new OS. (Not sure if the latter applies for gamers as well.)

Yeah, I mean they aren't blocked or anything. They'll have to reinstall an OS and more likely recent Windows won't work there anyway, not because of 32-bit, but because Windows has way shorter span for hardware support than Linux and the hardware that's still running 32-bit Windows even if it's 64-bit itself would be too old for recent Windows by now. So that will motivate them to install Linux or get new hardware.

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Wake me when they patch out Denuvo. They are not getting my money until that happens.

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Oi, the HoN Reborn fix is interesting. I was running into issues when we wanted to play HoN last week. Unfortunately they turned off the previous version "Project Kongor" which was the original HoN (unfortunately without the native Linux version), which they kept online until HoN Reborn went live.

I couldn't get Reborn up and running with Proton experimental, but 9.0 worked for installing and starting. Yet, joining a match didn't work.

HoN was really great back then, and even Project Kongor had the same feeling. Reborn... not so much. Too bad they force players to switch to Reborn, I wished they would let it mature a bit more before turning off Projekt Kongor.

Let's hope Reborn will become a worthy successor eventually.

edit: hmm... I can see what the umu-heroesofnewerthreborn fix does, yet... how to apply it automatically via GE-Proton? 😅

edit#2: oh... just add GAMEID=umu-heroesofnewerthreborn as written 😇

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Im still rocking my 512 lcd day one deck which has had its shell cracking apart since the day warrenty ended heh.
Still holdin up sides my L button just shattered ibto nothing but hwy grip buttons a good option if not tedious to set every game.

A shame they cant keep up the best handheld gaming deal but they are introducing new devices so they'll need the focus.

I'd be down for a Deck Lite or Deck Pocket if they need to fill the entry level gap.
Guess theres still any pc fpr entry level and who knows if third parties will try a cheaper mini steam os device eventually.

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