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ben, to random
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Game devs: Here that cool thing you all wanted!
Players: Yay!
Game devs: It's literally 95 bucks ON TOP of the 150 bucks super premium edition!

Me: lolwut? Fsck that shit.

ben,
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Honestly, at 30 bucks I'd have called it a "No-brainer" and SPT-AKI would have been dead in the water.
At this price? And at 250 bucks if you buy new? Hell, no!

britt, to random
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In the hospital, again. Please, please send good vibes.

My third infection in a month. My poor body 😢

ben,
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@britt Oh no :-( Hope you get better soon! All the best otter and beaver vibes!

ben,
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@Blisterexe Get a Mayflash Magic NS-Lite, configure it as XInput and pair your DS Controller with it. Works like a charm for me.

EighthLayer, to gaming
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Giving Insurmountable a go next! It’s only about £3 on Steam at the moment.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1385100/Insurmountable/

ben,
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@EighthLayer I got it during the EGS giveaway way back when. It's really good, hope you'll enjoy it!

ben, to random
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Replaying games from the DS/PSP era or older feels really strange today:

  • no events
  • no 'join our discord"
  • no ads ("real" or plugs on the main menu)
  • no daily patch cycle

Just a game. So strange.

ThePlant, to random
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Looking forward to Mastodon and Threads integration so that my Mastodon feed can be filled full of:

  • Here's my big turn-offs for men list
  • Here's my big turn-offs for women list
  • Big brands replying to each other trying to be funny
  • People dunking on each other for how many people they've done the deed with
  • And then all the "influencers" posting random one-liner bait questions constantly and everyone quoting it with shit

Yes the Threads algorithm is total junk.

ben,
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@ThePlant One of the big questions - for me - is more technical really: Will the mastodon servers be able to handle the friehose of threads incoming traffic?

ben, to steam
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Finally figured out how to play games I start from @lutris with my Steam Controller:
Add Lutris as a Non-Steam game.

I tried adding games to Steam via Lutris's context menu option "Create Steam shortcut" but that would only put the Steam Controller into Desktop mode for the game.

So anyone looking to use Steam Controller with games started from Lutris:

  • In Steam Launch: Add Non-Steam game
  • Check Lutris in the menu
  • Start Lutris from Steam
  • Start game in Lutris

#Lutris #Steam

ben,
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@lutris I tried that, and it works mostly, but I wasn't able to get the right Trackpad work as right joystick or use the joystick as left joystick either.
Screenshot shows options for the joystick, see the lack of "joystick" option.

Also, after running the /usr/game/lutris rungame:xx command, Steam would revert any controller configuration back to Desktop mode, with the issue above then.

scy, to linux
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The article's title: What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?

Me: "Well, cargo culting for people who don't know how to quote in the shell?"

Turns out: no. There are several good reasons why people did this, and the bugs it's been a workaround for have continued to exist into the 2010s.

If you're somewhat proficient in scripting and/or interested in history, this is an awesome read.

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035

ben,
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@scy Considering the age of some Linux installations I come across, this is still good practice today.

ben,
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@isotopp @scy You can probably say that for a lot of languages. Give it ten years, and you can add today's hip languages to the heap as well.

Just because I have it bookmarked: PHP and https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

ben,
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@isotopp @scy Oooh, thanks for that link. Need to bookmark that right next to eevee.

lisyarus, (edited ) to random
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To all players who've faced sound issues after playing the game for a while: I've identified the problem (a nuanced audio resampling bug in my audio mixing library), the fixed version is already on Steam!

As always, go try my first released game, I worked hard for almost a year to make it :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2403100/Costa_Verde_Transport_Department/

ben,
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@lisyarus Found this game through this toot and just bought it myself! Thank you for this, really chill and great for a bit of relaxation between two meetings :D

gamingonlinux, to linux
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Humble has a bundle full of awesome games IGN gave 9s and 10s https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/humble-has-a-bundle-full-of-awesomegames-ign-gave-9s-and-10s/

ben,
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@gamingonlinux Oooh, Wildermyth! One of those way too unknown gems! Bought it on itch a long long time ago.

ben, to random
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I just saw that - no idea where from - I own Star Wars Fallen Order on Origin/EA/WhateverItIsCalledNow. And now I'm torn between that and Cyberpunk 2077, which I've also never played beyond the first tutorial mission...

gamingonlinux, to random
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Tomorrow, around 3PM UTC, our big server move will start. So there will be some downtime.

Any important updates will be posted here.

ben,
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@gamingonlinux Good luck!

ThePlant, to random
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I get the weirdest fucking emails

ben,
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@realsimon @ThePlant Thought the same, but I'm afraid to learn that...

grumpygamer, to random
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I've got a better idea Steam! Why don't you add real 2FA instead of your silly custom system. I don't work with my fucking phone next to me. Use some of those billions (yes, with a B) you make every year and hire some programmers.

ben,
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@grumpygamer Seriously, TOTP and WebAuthn exist. The only reason to implement this in a way that requires phone-apps is to send advertising popups to said phone.

oldschoolpixels, to gamedev
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Ah, sigh, I fell down the rabbit hole of static site generators to publish my posts... I have used WordPress up until now because it's simple to set up and easy to use, but in my quest for simplicity I hate that I have to use a database and dynamically generated pages for content that is basically static and can be generated offline on my computer.

In fact, I believe that dynamic CMS is only really needed for very complex and rapidly changing websites.

Anyway... currently trying Hugo.

ben,
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@oldschoolpixels If you have anything to share about that quest, I'd be interested in how things compare to jekyll. Been using it for a few years now, but my blog is very low-frequency so once I settled in I stopped loking.

ben, to random
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Sometimes I wonder if I reply too much to the same people. I recently found myself several times deleting a response to some people when I realized I've been responding to them very frequently, even though on different topics.

That's nothing to worry about, is it?

gamingonlinux, to unity
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Unity attempt to clarify new install fees as developers revolt https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unity-attempt-to-clarify-new-install-fees-as-developers-revolt/

ben,
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@gamingonlinux Thank you for aggregating all this information! It really help to have an overview over the whole situation.

BlindiRL, to random
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People really need to stop saying "free" on gamepass. It's not bloody free. You are paying a monthly fee for it. It's also not actually that cheap unless you download multiple games a week.

ben,
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@BlindiRL I can see Gamepass being attractive for variety streamers, who play many different games at a time.
I tend to sink hundreds of hours into individual games, sometimes over the course of one or two years. At that point, Gamepass wouldn't even allow me to play that game anymore.
It's just not for me, I guess.

ben,
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@BlindiRL @ThomasAbballe No, no it's certainly not. You can rent the access to it for a fee, for however long Microsoft says you are allowed to, but free it ain't.

gamingonlinux, to unity
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Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unity-introduces-new-fees-for-game-devs-based-on-revenue-and-game-installs/

ben,
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@gamingonlinux What about me installing it on my PC and my Deck? Will it cost twice?

cassidy, to Steamdeck
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I'll keep saying it, because it keeps coming up. If you're working in the FreeDesktop, Linux, or Flatpak spaces, you need to understand this, even if you don't personally care about gaming or Steam Deck.

#SteamDeck #Flatpak #Flathub #Linux #FreeDesktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

ben,
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@cassidy Frankly, I've been a Linux user for over two decades now, and the Steam Deck is literally my FIRST contact with Flatpaks.
It was annoying not being able to find stuff in my $HOME, but after a while I figured out where both Lutris and Dolphin flatpaks drop their files.

I'm not a terribly big fan of the "package everything the distro provides again" as it requires updating each flatpak individually if a dep updates, but I see the need for an easy deployment method.

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