Quoting: Mountain ManHas it really been 25 years? Wow.

I still remember getting the Half-Life beta CD with the Magazine (PC Gamer?).



There was some kind of GameDev, or Learn C++ bundled on the same CD or another CD at that time and it basically got me into programming and eventually game development for the next decade or so.

Valve made a part of my life and now as a 10 year Linux Gamer I made part of theirs. Life is so strange.

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Quoting: fabertaweExcellent review I really should use mine more!

Its just a matter of finding the right game.

Stardew Valley is a great play on Deck.

Then of course Ship of Harkinian (Ocarina of Time)

And I am sure there are many more,

Tony Hawk HD or equiv

Halo MCC

BioShock 1 Remastered

Imo are all good picks

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: dpanterNice changes, but making the album art smaller and the download button bigger is the opposite of improvement IMHO (unless the images are reversed).

Nope, images are correct and yeah that doesn't particularly feel like an improvement, the buttons are way too big and you actually now see less of the list.

Awful change to the media player. Who the hell approved that? Glad I don't use Steam for playing music, I guess.

I wouldn't call the old version "good", maybe some people liked it? But I would be happy if they kept messing with the Media Player until it comes out right instead of not at all.

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Considering the large number of sudden deaths this year, I wonder if some FOSS people would be interested in codifying certain FOSS projects as recipients in the event of their death.

I could easily think of a dozen FOSS projects that would be worthy recipients in my opinion.

Even what 1M could do for GIMP if they can get the foundation squared up.

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Absolute Fucking Legends!

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I guess I won't have to manually install Baldurs Gate 3 mods. Great. Though I think we are done with the game until they stabalize it and get their updates out of the way. 4 playthroughs in enough.

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Quoting: aparthyTried to play surf maps after this update without success. I tried a couple of low ping populated servers and one time I got asked to dl a map from workshop but after accepting I still didn't get into the sever. I did not investigate further so all i can say is for now I feel the experience is still lacking

Thanks, yeah IIRC this may be because the servers are still hosting for CS:GO only.

I spent like 4 days trying to navigate map porting but the Workshop Editor in the launch options only runs on Windows.

Also last I checked there were some serious hoops to jump through to host a dedicated server, you have to install a csgo server and then update it, and I don't host a server so I didn't go ahead.

Using the console `%command% -console` launch option it's possible to manually load a map `map surf_mymap` and then there is a series of surf commands so you can surf offline temporarily to test it out.

Edit: In case anyone wants to try here are my notes on what commands may be relevant.

 
CS:2 SURF SERVER
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1787323188

sv_cheats 1; sv_falldamage_scale 0; sv_party_mode 1; mp_freezetime 2; mp_round_restart_delay 2.5; ragdoll_gravity_scale 0.5; sv_accelerate 10; sv_airaccelerate 1400; sv_gravity 800.0; sv_maxspeed 620.0; sv_maxvelocity 7200.0; sv_enablebunnyhopping 1; sv_autobunnyhopping 1; sv_staminamax 0; sv_staminajumpcost 0; sv_staminalandcost 0; sv_staminarecoveryrate 0; sv_accelerate_use_weapon_speed 0; weapon_accuracy_nospread 1; mp_solid_teammates 0; mp_autoteambalance 1; mp_respawn_on_death_ct 1; mp_respawn_on_death_t 1; mp_roundtime 99999; mp_startmoney 99999; mp_buytime 99999; mp_spawnprotectiontime 0; mp_respawn_immunitytime 0; mp_restartgame 1;

map cs_surf_map;
give weapon_awp;


weapon_recoil_scale 1;

https://github.com/sarim-hk/cs2-map-importer

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Quoting: sherriwWith some groups I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3, Icarus & Valheim

I absolutely hate Valheim -- but that's not my point -- my point is how cool would it be if I could give my 2 copies away to someone who might like it.

This was possible with the physical game world, and it should be a thing.

I have many games I am no longer interested in that I would love to give away or gift, it's lame how content is locked.

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I have to admit I stopped playing, I nearly exclusively play deathmatch and workshop maps got bored of being so limited. de_dust2 was nice, but it gets old.

Also I am not happy, CS:S wont launch the community browser on linux -- it has some logic loop where it complains about requiring beta even though beta is on. So it's not like I even have that fallback.

I really hope CS2 surf_ becomes a decent thing, I did not like csgo surfing very much, but I fear the glory days may be over in that aspect. I hope I'm proven wrong.

Also, workshop maps and custom servers are the most important things ever. I hope they get it fixed soon.

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Patch 4 broke Vulkan

https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940

Also broke mods sadly ( https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/327/ )

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