businessfish

businessfish, 2 months ago

i don’t see why they wouldn’t be allowed provided you could demonstrate the game runs the same as windows, but also i’m not exactly at the level where i need to worry about the leaderboard cred lol.

businessfish, 2 months ago

i think many pc games would be relatively lenient with this as long as you can reasonably demonstrate there are no beneficial differences with proton, especially lower on the leaderboard.

honestly i hadn’t given leaderboard verification much thought, but yeah currently i just speedrun for fun and just keep the times/videos for myself.

businessfish, 2 months ago

your work is one of those things that so perfectly hits a niche that i love, but because it gets so deep into that niche i dont have anyone irl i can send it to who would really appreciate it lmao.

technomage rules!!!

businessfish, 2 months ago

i don’t think many people would consider posts that are literally paid advertisements part of “our space”

businessfish, 2 months ago

yeah i’ve basically never had an issue that wasn’t my fault for tinkering with something that is either unstable or that i didn’t understand well enough.

i will say that rolling releases like arch can introduce system-breaking issues (it happened to me like twice in the 3 years i’ve been running arch, but man it sucks when it happens) so users who aren’t so into tweaking and messing with their systems should probably opt for something more stable.

businessfish, 2 months ago

been battling impostor syndrome for my whole career, and today i learned that one of the new (not new to the field) people on my team doesn’t know how to use excel, the thing i spend like 50% of my working hours using.

worrying for my team and maybe the industry, but very comforting personally lol

businessfish, 2 months ago

HE DOESNT KNOW OMEGALUL

businessfish, 2 months ago

just beat a difficult game about climbing and i loved it! it’s the only other game in the genre that has risen to the heights of getting over it in terms of gameplay mechanics and level design.

if anyone reading this knows about a community for these types of games (foddian? getting over it-likes?), please send it my way. i love these games to bits and have so much to say about them but to my knowledge basically no one cares about these games outside of watching people on twitch get angry at them.

looking forward to playing return of the obra dinn, then i’ll probably start speedrunning the climbing game until baby steps releases lol

businessfish, 3 months ago

i think a lot of “guy things” are just people things but guys are like “omg thats totally me and not anyone else”

having said that, its definitely a guy thing to claim things as guy things.

businessfish, 3 months ago

i upgraded last night! and when i booted up this morning, i was unable to log into any accounts in the login screen lol. if anyone else has a similar issue where the only option login screen gives you is wayland and that doesnt work for you or you want to use x11, what fixed it for me was installing plasma-meta as for whatever reason that wasn’t on my system at the time. this allowed me to select x11 again from the login screen and my system is working as normal.

i know we’re still in early days of plasma 6, but does anyone know any good calendar/weather/time widgets that i can replace this one with? store.kde.org/p/998901/ haven’t found another good calendar widget yet.

businessfish, 3 months ago

just gave it a go, unfortunately it errored out and i dont have time to troubleshoot atm

appreciate the suggestion though!

businessfish, 3 months ago

well skyrim was good in 2012, kinda hard to say it can stand toe to toe with modern titles (without mods obviously)

businessfish, 3 months ago

well, different strokes for different folks. could just be i like different kinds of games now - it has been a long time and my tastes have definitely changed. most of the appeal of skyrim for me is just that i love games you can mod the shit out of lol

businessfish, 3 months ago

me too! i stuck with mine quite a bit longer, but it ended up in the box all the same. there are very few good vr games that don’t have that tech demo-y format lots of early titles had. and valve’s promises of linux support were quite exaggerated, which made playing the couple games i kept coming back to even less convenient or just a worse experience. i stopped playing half life alyx halfway through, and came back and i couldn’t get it to run on my linux pc anymore - like, thats the single game/hardware combo valve promised would 100% work on linux.

its kinda sad because i really believed in consumer vr back then, but seeing how the industry has stagnated has shown that either it isn’t possible or we aren’t ready for cheap, good, open vr. nobody is making good vr games because there are no users and there are no users because its too expensive to get a good vr rig and there are no games.

businessfish, 3 months ago

seriously in poor taste

businessfish, 3 months ago

just because he did it doesnt mean we should. there is no reason we can’t be better.

businessfish, 3 months ago

are you serious lol? in what world would you trust one person with the purchasing power of entire countries?

businessfish, 3 months ago

then what did you write?

it sounds to me like you trust bill gates to use his piles of money for “good”, but the simply fact is nobody should have that much power. would you trust me with all of bill’s money? i promise to use it for good.

the simple fact is that humans are fallible, much like how you and i are not likely to come to an agreement here. so who is to say that bill gates (or any billionaire) has successfully defined “good”? what if he’s wrong? what if he makes a mistake? there’s very few people or entities powerful enough to stop him, and even according to you he is one of the better ones.

being rich and having more than you need is one thing, but billionaires literally have more pull than most of the planet. i don’t see why we should be ok with them having nearly all wealth on earth and “charitably” sprinkling some where they deem fit.

businessfish, 3 months ago

i bet you aren’t even certified to run that nuclear reactor in your base, probably isn’t even up to code

businessfish, 3 months ago

i’ve been feeling the same way the last couple weeks. i like lemmy but there’s nothing to see here if you don’t want to talk about politics or linux, and it exhibits many of the same things i dislike about other social media platforms as well.

its also making me realize that maybe i don’t want “reddit when it didn’t suck so bad” but rather what would really bring me the happiness i’m seeking in reddit replacements is likely something entirely unrelated to social media.

businessfish, 3 months ago

and most are pathetic for it

businessfish, 4 months ago

i’m glad you posted about it - it’s something i, and i’m sure many other people who are struggling, tend to think about.

i think it’s generally a good thing to talk about these sorts of topics, especially ones like depression where it’s easy to get lost in your own thoughts and it can feel like you’re the only one suffering like this. i know for a fact that it helped me realize that i’m not alone and that there are ways out of the pit i found myself in, despite feeling like it would never get better and my suffering was so unique that there was no cure.

granted, commiserating alone won’t get you back to a happy baseline, but it does broadcast this to others who might not realize it: you are not alone, there are people who care, and it is not impossible to be happy again. i wish you the best.

businessfish, 4 months ago

time for competitive ranked conversation