Quoting: StarbellyDo I need to play the Marathon games in order to understand the plot of Halo?

Nah, you don't - it ended up as more of a spiritual follow-up after getting bought up, if I'm remembering right.

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Wolfire Games was always good about supporting non-Windows platforms, and I enjoyed the first game, Lugaru, quite a bit, so it's really nice to see this (especially since I had forgotten that there's a sequel) - I'll have to grab it when I've got a moment!

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI really hope you don't like Minecraft

Quoting: FrawoI tried the game on the free weekend, too - and had the same issue.

At least we've got Minetest + MineClone 2 as an option, there. Unfortunately we can't say the same for Halo!

After getting hit by an account-related bug in the console version of Minecraft that caused the random loss of a bunch of promotional/purchased skins/maps/etc., with only an unofficial workaround that requires logging into the Microsoft Windows or Xbox versions, neither of which I have access to, I've been playing MineClone 2 instead and have been enjoying it plenty.

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Quoting: mt7479How usable is this with browser Stuff, youtube other video portals and how is the boot time or did you
hook up a usb disk ?

I'll preface this by noting that, for a geek, I have surprisingly light daily computing requirements that (internet stuff aside) haven't changed much since my days with the Commodore 64. Word-processing, image-editing, web-browsing, listening to music (usually via YouTube; I don't know about other video sites, as it just hasn't come up), that sort of thing - an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 is overkill for that, so I'd never use a more powerful machine at my desk anymore because it's wasteful. (The gaming machine in my profile is a GPD Win Max 2021 running Xubuntu, which doubles as my laptop. Portable gaming is my thing, not desk-based gaming.)

That said, I just use Class 10 SanDisk microSD Cards with the RPi4 (just 32GB ones due to price and availability - nothing fancy), and I find it perfectly usable, with pretty fast boot-times, though I usually just leave it on since it's so stable and uses a small amount of electricity. I've been very impressed by what it offers for the price, though your mileage may vary. For expanded storage, I just hook up a USB hard-drive when I need it; The speed benefits of SSDs are sometimes a bit lost on someone who grew up with having to wait for data to load in from cassette-tapes, so I don't need any of those yet.

Also, as mirv notes above, the power-savings are notable. If you've got no need for a super-powerful day-to-day machine for standard practical computing tasks, I would recommend looking into it - they have enough demand for it that they now offer a 1980s-inspired all-in-the-keyboard unit in addition to the traditional bare PCB versions.

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Quoting: kaimanThe cutscenes in TGAAC can be made to work with some native DLLs, as per these instructions. Using that workaround, I played start to finish with no issues.

Thanks so much, brilliant stuff - I'll have to grab it soon!

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Quoting: fenglengshunI swear, cinematics in Japanese games are a pain in the ass.

Tell me about it! That's exactly why I haven't bought The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles yet.

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Quoting: Liam DaweYeah their upgrade process could do with improvements. Last time I did the audio didn't work, took half an hour to find a fix <_<

My desktop machine is a Raspberry Pi 4 and this update kind of broke lxpanel for me - it now only covers a third of my monitor and just randomly cuts off there, and I still haven't figured out what on Earth the problem is, since the settings and config file are identical to before and I haven't found anyone else reporting similar yet (all I get is results for unrelated issues like panel items randomly disappearing).

I use Xfce on everything else, so I might just cut my losses and install that, since lxpanel's fragility in Raspberry Pi OS was already proving to be a random annoyance for a while anyway.

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YES! I love Duck Game in all its insanity (previously played it on the Switch), and this is exactly what I've been waiting for before grabbing it on Steam. \/ QUACK!

@flesk - That would make it even better.

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I've got a couple of GPD devices (GPD MicroPC, and GPD Win Max 2021) - they're nice machines and both run Xubuntu (my favoured distro) excellently. However, when they reach the end of their working lives years down the line, I won't be considering GPD again - this bad conduct has put me off. Hopefully the Steam Deck opening up this market to the masses will lead to some other company offering mini-sized gaming laptops with built-in controls by then!

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Quoting: scaineYeah, I only get a bunch of Japanese kitsune/fox references/imagery too - tried searching "kitsune", "kitsune tails" and kitsune zero". Did you mis-spell a search or something? What on earth did you search for??

I guess that it's about the "Guaranteed 100% free from American electoral politics" bullet-point? But upon looking up the base game, Super Bernie World actually *is* about American politics, so I also don't get what it is that the developers apparently failed to search beforehand...

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