Though it took about four years, it looks like this is the one that finally got Super Bomberman R working as best as it can under Proton complete with FMVs and all (which weren't working for years), in as far as such an unstable port, which I'm told is just as bad on Windows, can be described as "working". (Not to be confused with Super Bomberman R Online, which is a different game that's perfectly stable under Proton. Hopefully the upcoming Super Bomberman R 2 has more common with R Online than with R 1!)

It's progressively improved over the last three Proton Experimental updates, but I think this is as far as a port this poor can get.

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I'd heard about this genre here on GOL but hadn't given any of these a look because I didn't think that they would be for me, so I checked in just to try to get a better idea of what it's all about.

I was surprised, because what's described sounds like it might well appeal to a Bomberman fan like myself - a top-down view, an inverse difficulty-curve, and strategising to make the best of the power-ups that you find have always been part of the core experience of that series and games like it. I also enjoy the twin-stick shooter Blazing Beaks, which has some of these elements in its gameplay-loop, too.

To keep things simple, would I be best off just checking out Vampire Survivors first (as opposed to other titles that take the idea in different directions) to see if it does indeed overlap with my tastes as it sounds like it might?

Questions aside, veteran Japanese developer Sunsoft is currently staging a comeback, and one of their new offerings will be Ikki Unite, a up-to-16-player title which they've apparently said is somewhat Vampire Survivors-inspired.

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Quoting: CatKillerI think it's the right way for them to have done it: it's their branding, and you're using the same software from the same repositories whichever flavour you're using or even if you eschew desktop environments entirely. And it stops the distro stats being diluted over the half-dozen or so official flavours and many community remixes. But it does make Gnome seem more popular than it might actually be.

Yep, totally agreed, though I do sometimes wonder how the desktop-environment usage stacks up. It's purely anecdotal, but in gaming circles I've seen more folks who lean towards KDE first - not that there's any way of knowing this for sure, of course!

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Quoting: GuestI didn't have a good experience with Ubuntu on desktop (maybe it is just GNOME that makes me hate it), I believe it actually may repel newcomers from Linux, so maybe it is good to let it go away from Steam.

Quoting: CatKillerThe survey just looks at the LSB name, so that part's not going to change.

Yup - I'm on Xubuntu (I don't get on with GNOME, either, and KDE's a bit too heavy for my liking), and finally got pinged for the survey for the very first time recently, but naturally it all goes under the Ubuntu banner.

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Quoting: constI want real community forums back, reddit is cancer.

Well, at least we've got a lovely one here with a growing weekly focal-point in the form of the "Weekend Playlist" posts by @itscalledreality - and it's Friday, so this week's thread should hopefully be along soon. Let's keep it growing.

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Quoting: scaineThe visuals remind me of Beyond Good and Evil. And now that I've mentioned that masterpiece, I want to play it again! I think I owned a physical copy of that game... I wonder what the options are for replay now.

You've got a few! If the Windows version can be made to run, great, but there's always the option of emulating one of the console versions if that doesn't work. Obviously I have no idea which version you had, or what you'd want to go with here.

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Quoting: reaperx7I really like how MineTest wants to be like Minecraft, but also do their own thing equally.

And the cycle goes on, seeing as Minecraft was itself inspired by someone else's game.

Quoting: kneekooMineClone2 is currently the more up to date Minecraft-like game based on Minetest. And while it misses various things compared to Minecraft, it actually offers a lot. But it also comes with a few things [1] of its own and it's both free software and actively developed, which is a huge plus.

For how I play MineClone2 suits me down to the ground, and I've had no reason to want to re-buy Minecraft in order to play it on my PC (I had owned it on the Switch previously, but sold up and left consoles behind a while ago).

Also, it's silly, but I like MineClone2's takes on the iconic animal mobs - they're still recognisable, but also usually a bit different in order to be legally-distinct (whether they're distinct enough I couldn't say, but I like how they look).

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Quoting: AyrannmanThat may be a noob question but how am I suposed to open cemu file.
The "run a file application" doesn't work ?
Help please and don't laugh.

No laughing here - we've all got to start somewhere!

Could you go into more detail about what file you've downloaded, what Linux distro you're using, and so on, please? That will provide more of an idea about what needs to be done next.

Alternatively, you may want to consider asking this on the forum instead, since that's a more appropriate spot for bigger questions, and it'll hopefully catch the eye of more people who might be able to help. There's a specific section for retro-gaming and emulation, even!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySaw a couple of youtube videos from people involved in stuff around medieval weaponry and culture, saying that the policy changed recently-ish and seems less interested in users' personal preferences and more in more global ideas of popularity, to the point where even their subscribers are often not notified of their stuff, and their views are plummeting because people interested in their kind of content are no longer being shown their videos as viewing options.

I'm not at all surprised - I suspected that it'd be something like that, as it's fair to say that the stuff I consider weird (keeping in mind that I definitely don't fall into "average" viewing-habits) is also stuff that I know generates a lot of profits out in the wider world.

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Quoting: KlaasIt depends. The next video recommendations have a tendency to point towards conspiracy theories, dangerous crafts hacks and other weird stuff.

Quoting: randylThe recommendations on my page personally aren't filled with conspiracy theory stuff so much as content I'm just not interested in.

I get what Klaas describes, and the weird "Up Next/Related" content that gets chucked at me has zero to do with what I actually watch - that mainly being video game playthroughs either to seek out what I might like or to watch someone else's views on stuff that I wouldn't enjoy playing myself, food-science videos, and generally-humourous scambaiting streams and documentaries, plus listening to video game music and 1970s/1980s/1990s tunes.

I have personalised recommendations turned off, but until recently the non-personalised "Up Next/Related" stuff was still fairly relevant (i.e., other scambaiting content, different people's playthroughs of similar games/genres, funny reviews and taste-tests of expired food) - then a few months ago it suddenly started suggesting weird conspiracy-theories, dangerous "crafts", random people's/organisations' rants/vlogs/streams on subjects of no interest and relation to what I watch, and other stuff that generally appears to be trying to funnel me towards clickbait. If I want to look through it, I have to scroll down to see more relevant stuff at the side of a playing video, and the weird things get higher billing than the relevant ones.

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