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Skyhighatrist ,

I’ve never heard of that type of action occurring anywhere else.

There were a couple of high profile cases in Canada a while back.

Skyhighatrist ,

As long as it continues to be sold on store shelves, it’s modern enough to count.

Skyhighatrist ,

I can’t see the name Crash and not think of the 1996 movie with James Spader. Which is weird as fuck.

Skyhighatrist ,

That deck appears to have a kickstand. It’s hard to see, but it’s just to the right of the cable.

Skyhighatrist ,

You can add it to steam, it’s free and dlc bought from ea works with the steam version.

I find it’s easier to get the ea version running though, so I usually just add the launcher as a non steam game, and that works fine too.

Skyhighatrist ,

That game’s closer to 20+ years old. It’s been a very long time since I’ve played it. It was way back when gaming on Linux was mostly limited to games that had a native Linux release.

Skyhighatrist ,

My bet, A youtuber discovered the game and made videos that did reasonably well in the indie audience, then other youtubers picked up and it snowballed some. I’ve been seeing more coverage of the game on youtube for a couple of years now.

Skyhighatrist ,

Many people misunderstand. It’s not that Orange Cats have a single braincell. It’s that all orange cats on the planet share a single braincell among them. At any given moment only one orange cat may be using the braincell.

Does anyone know of a half-way decent FOSS alternative to Kega Fusion?

To start off, I just want to say that Kega Fusion is a wonderful emulator for pre–Sega Saturn emulation. However, the fact that it is not open-source concerns me. What if something happens and the person is required to take it down? (Not likely after 14 years but still…) Or hell they just decide to take it down for whatever...

Skyhighatrist ,

I haven’t tried these so I cannot comment on their quality. But this has a list. Of particular note is RetroArch, OpenEMU, and Gens as three FOSS options.

Edit: Also, alternativeto.net is usually a decent source for finding alternatives for specific software. Here’s the list for Kega Fusion alternatives. This has some more options than the other link I provided.

Skyhighatrist ,

The tooltip for fedipact says: “Agreed to block all communications (their blocklist is private)”

To me that says, they’ve agreed but it’s not confirmed that they’ve gone through with it because the blocklist is private. Blocked on the other hand says “All communications are blocked”

Skyhighatrist ,

I quite enjoyed the dungeon keeper games back in the day

Skyhighatrist , (edited )

IIRC Exanima itself was never meant to be the full open world RPG. It was always intended to be a smaller game to perfect some of the game mechanics for their ultimate goal of building that open world RPG. I have no idea if they still plan to build that other game or if they are working on it in parallel or have ditched it entirely.

Edit: The community seems to believe that the devs are still planning to make Sui Generis at any rate. Exanima has been in EA for 10 years or so now, and based on what I’m seeing online they are almost at their 1.0 release version, at which point they will divert their attention to to Sui Generis. Take with a pinch of salt, as this information comes from the r/exanima community on reddit.

Skyhighatrist ,

AFAIK it ends up on the ground, and in the ground water. Which means that it could contaminate drinking water if it’s not treated properly. It will enter rivers and lakes, and snow and everywhere else that water gets.

Skyhighatrist ,

When I set up mine, I created a separate /data mount point and drive for anything that I expect to keep between distros. The problem with keeping the home directory is that means all your personalized config files which may or may not apply to a new distro you switch to. I keep configs I want to keep in a git repo (like my i3 configs and scripts that I absolutely wouldn’t want to redo from scratch), data I want to keep in /data, and everything else can pretty much be wiped for a new distro on a whim without too much hassle.

What game do you recommend someone who likes the mechanics but not the setting of Baldur's Gate 3?

I saw people going on about how great BG3 is on this site, so I thought I’d check out a let’s play to see what all the fuss was about. I immediately fell in love with the graphics and the mechanics, such as the classes, races, spells, dice etc, but I disliked the emphasis on gore/horror in the game, and I know I wouldn’t...

Skyhighatrist ,

Wrath of the Righteous*

Skyhighatrist ,

It’s a fork bomb. It exponentially forks processes in the background in an attempt to consume all CPU cycles.

Inspiron One 2305 has corrupted graphics after coming out of suspend (lemmy.world)

This Inspiron One 2305 has corrupted graphics after coming out of suspend, this has happened with Gnome (Wayland), i3, less commonly Swaywm, almost everything I have suspended it with, and makes the computer unusable outside of a TTY. I am considering trying KDE next. What can be the issue here? I am currently using EndeavorOS.

Skyhighatrist ,

I had a similar problem with one of my displays going wibbly like that every time I rebooted during POST and system boot. Only going back to normal once X started.

When I checked my monitor’s display settings when it was wonky, I found that it had the refresh rate set to 14hz and really strange resolution. Turns out it was the display port cable. Replacing that fixed it right up.

Skyhighatrist ,

Your spoiler tag works fine on the web client. That is the supported way to do spoilers on Lemmy. However, Sync, if you use that doesn’t support Lemmy spoilers and only supports reddit spoilers. Unfortunately no matter what spoiler method you use, it will not work for someone, somewhere. There is no unified spoiler markup across the fediverse, but there really should be.

Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)

They frame it as though it’s for user content, more likely it’s to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.

Skyhighatrist ,

I saw this getting traction on Tik Tok a few days ago warning rightsholders they have until, I think, Mar 5th to pull their content from the platform.

Skyhighatrist ,

Rogue*. I’m not usually that guy, but this particular typo makes me see red.

Skyhighatrist ,

Yeah, that is indeed the joke I was making.

Skyhighatrist ,

Krieger (The character int he GIF) built himself a virtual girlfriend. youtu.be/lMbq_Oar7gA

‘It’s That Simple’: Mark Meckler Says The Only Way To Secure The Border Is By Invading Mexico (www.rightwingwatch.org)

Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal...

Skyhighatrist ,

Am I missing something? What makes you say Scotland? I assume they are referring to Canada.

Skyhighatrist ,

Those style of spoilers are not supported on Lemmy except in the Sync app. For literally everyone using the web, or accessing the content through the fediverse from other federated services, those are just plain text visible for everyone to see.

Skyhighatrist ,

Unfortunately, there isn’t a spoiler format that works for all cases. There’s not much you can do. It was just a warning since you were obviously trying to mark spoilers I thought I’d let tou know they just don’t work.

Skyhighatrist ,

The series shit the bed with the online only bullshit with small maps, and then Cities Skyline came along shortly thereafter to steal their lunch.

Skyhighatrist ,

Well yes, ultimately that was the problem in the end. But they had 2 good releases under EA before that happened. Somewhere along the way EA went entirely to shit and Sim City was one of many casualties.

Skyhighatrist ,

I suspect you may have been running the wrong way. It’s an easy mistake to make. But that entire sequence can be challenging even after you get on a horse.

Skyhighatrist ,

Yeah, at the beginning of the game you’re complete ass at swordplay. You get better as you improve your skills and learn how to parry, but those are gated behind experience and training in the game.

Skyhighatrist ,

Yeah, I definitely died a few times when I first started playing the game on release. And then tons of times after that too because the game is very unforgiving at the start (But gets better as you improve your skills).

Just an FYI though, those types of spoilers don’t work on Lemmy clients other than Sync. So your spoiler is just visible to anyone that is not using Sync. Sadly, Lemmy’s spoiler format isn’t supported by sync, so you’re screwed either way.

andrew , to games
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The future of Xbox will be revealed on February 15th

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24070445/microsoft-xbox-business-update-event-future-february-15

@games

Skyhighatrist ,

Recent news that they would be releasing games that would have previously been exclusive to X-Box on other platforms such as Playstation has led to many a rumour that MS may be planning to stop developing the console at all.

Skyhighatrist ,

Yes, as soon as I enabled JS I see the same behaviour. It seemed fine with JS disabled though, albeit with nothing showing in the sidebar.

Skyhighatrist ,

Whatever the reason, this appears to be fixed now.

Skyhighatrist ,

I just tried again now with JS enabled and my ad blocker enabled in Firefox, and it seems to be working ok now.

I started using tiling window managers. What tips do you have? What packages do you use to make yours fully functional? Lost noob needs some guidance...

I decided to dive heads first into window managers and need your input for your guidance. I’m absolutely not a Linux-pro. I basically never use the terminal, just started using Github, and only used Gnome (+ KDE for 1/8th the time) for now....

Skyhighatrist ,

Rofi is a good alternative to dmenu as well.

Skyhighatrist ,

In every dev job I’ve ever held it’s been me or one of the other devs doing demos (usually me though). Granted I haven’t worked on anything truly high profile that a demo would be An Event.

Skyhighatrist ,

There kinda is a movie with a premise similar to that. Violent Night

Skyhighatrist ,

But what, practically, is the difference? If more and more websites use shit that only works in Chrome or Chromium based browsers, the effect is the same. The web doesn’t work as well for Firefox users.

Skyhighatrist ,

They won’t answer, because they can’t answer.

For me, I’ve noticed a few websites that complain that firefox “is an out of date browser, you should use something more modern”. My bank’s website does that, but still works fine as far as I’ve been able to tell.

Skyhighatrist ,

It’s shitty for sure, and I definitely think Chrome needs to die, or at least have better competition. Sadly, not enough users are using non-chromium browsers, that they don’t see a problem with using chrome only features. It sucks, and it’s going to lead (is leading) to the further enshitification of the web. I’m doing my part by using Firefox, and any web application I develop is guaranteed to work in Firefox.

Skyhighatrist ,

All the benefits of their Visual Studio add-in, Resharper, are built-in to Rider.

And it’s faster because they don’t have to work within the restrictions placed on VS plugins.

Skyhighatrist ,

Yeah the surprise in this thread is surprising to me. I’ve considered Opera to be untrustworthy for years now.

Skyhighatrist ,

Sure, that’s fine if people were actually specifying any sort of modifier. But calling everything a roguelike makes it hard to find the traditional roguelikes for those that like them. I’d be ok if the terms were standardized with modifiers like “Traditional Roguelike”, etc, but they aren’t. Everything with permadeath gets the label roguelike these days.

Skyhighatrist ,

If everyone treated it like you do, this wouldn’t be an issue at all. But these days everything with permadeath gets the roguelike label and that makes it hard to find the traditional roguelikes if you don’t already know about them.

Skyhighatrist ,

While I generally agree with what you’re saying. Jedi Fallen Order has several hallmarks of the soulslike genre. Meditation resets enemies. You collect “souls” under a different name. The difficulty isn’t really up to scratch for a soulslike, mind you, but IMO it definitely falls into that genre.

Skyhighatrist ,

You know it can straddle two genres right? I don’t disagree that it also had metroidvania elements.

Skyhighatrist ,

Bloody Mary.

Skyhighatrist ,

Several years ago I had a significant hardware failure and was without a PC for longer than I care to admit. When I finally rebuilt it, Windows wouldn’t activate. So I nuked it and haven’t looked back. It’s not the first time I installed Linux. But it has been my daily driver since. Now I only use Windows for work, and Linux even there whenever I can (which isn’t often, but sometimes anyway.)

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