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It has been working for a while but you needed an opt-in Beta. Seems you no longer need that.

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Quoting: fenglengshunChinese New Year, as usual.

We do usually see a drop every February, but nothing like this, it's usually quite minor.

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Chinese New Year, as usual.

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I thought that Vermintide 2 doesn't work on Linux because of anti-cheat. At least that was true last time I tried it.

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A friend gifted me Baldurs Gate 3 for birthday, and i just got started, i will try to do it on the deck only. I love it, it seems to run great!

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Quoting: Chrisznix

Quoting: EWGI don't understand games like this. Instead of virtually pretending to do things. I could actually pick up an instrument, book shows, and all the rest. lol

That´s cool, you probably should then. :)
For me, i never stepped above hobby levels and went down the Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS) path of instruments and synthesizers. I know some folks that went that route, and quite well actually, but man is that a tough life. So... i'd rather play Legends of Rock. :)

The [Mod: Dwarf](https://mod.audio/dwarf) solves GAS. It's fully libre and does everything from effects, utilites, amp+cab sim, to loops, metronome, and other stuff. Forget the AxeFX or huge pedalboards that cost in the thousands. lol

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what have you been playing lately?

Of those in the list? I have a few, have a few more wishlisted. Only one I played last month was Slay The Spire.

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Out of everything I played, Dungeons of Dusk and Darkhaven have me the most excited.

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That's funny. I played a whole bunch of demos over a few days, and *none* of them were on the top played list. Apparently my tastes are non-standard.

My list:

Approximately Up (meh)
Besmirch (interesting)
Burden Street Station (brilliant!)
Clicky Islands (pretty good)
Collector's Cove (not my style)
Dungeons of DUSK (slow pacing and navigation sucks)
Dungeon Sweeper (meh)
Garden Ink (pretty good)
Highreach (crashed)
Helix: Descent N Ascent (very good)
Hozy (fun)
Hypnos (confusing for no good reason)
Looking for Fael (very good)
Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth (very good)
Map Map - A Game About Maps (meh)
Nightfall Café (pretty decent)
Pluto (obtuse, didn't like it)
Shanty Town (very good)
Truckful (didn't recognize my controller)

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Vampire Crawlers is pure evil.

That is all.

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On deck nothing. On desktop I've finished up my playthrough of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Amazon Luna. The game was good but the Luna experience was subpar. Mostly due to input lag. And after finishing it I ended my Amazon Prime subscription. That was my last subscription service to bite the dust!

More recently I've been playing Lego City Undercover. More fun than I expected. It's basically Lego GTA3. And the best thing: no need for more ram and my GPU isn't even spinning up its fans. 😀

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Interesting. Ages ago they actually had a previous game with the same title in development for sixth gen consoles. Very different from Postal:

https://www.unseen64.net/2020/12/08/flesh-wire-running-scissors-cancelled/

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I played some shin megami tensei V earlier this month. Last week, my limited gaming time was spent in ets 2 ( the fact that I saw a gorgeous Scania R580 6*4 at work had a lot to do with that). And for the weekend, I played a game called "should I buy resident evil requiem ?"

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Luca

Quoting: ShmerlStill waiting for Debian team to package 6.6.x.

Still waiting for Mint team to package any 6.x!!

Understandably slow for Mint with its long term releases, but I'm talking about the rolling versions of Debian.

I think in Debian it depends on newer Qt, and packaging that is usually a pretty heavy lifting. Not sure how other distros manage to do it so quickly. They might simply ignore all the bugs fallout caused by that, while Debian Qt/KDE team have do that carefully.

They do it like this: https://openqa.opensuse.org/

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I am sure that more testing from users for betas will help reduce that 😇

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A lot of Stardew Valley as I've somehow never gotten round to playing it till the last few weeks.

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Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing lately?

This month on the Deck I've been playing Destroy All Humans and Unreal.

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Yeah every time I return to postal 4 and think about how I paid money for it, I'm certainly NOT saying "I regret nothing" because I regret buying that game lol

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Few more:

Just in case if somebody missed the article, Vampire Crawlers is bit simple deckbuilder reimplementation of Vampire Survivors. There's some fun to be had with combos, but it's bit too easy to form a routine.

Dungeons of Dusk had also recent article. This one is closer to dungeon crawler, but it's Dusk themed. Shooting is not as satisfying as in original Dusk and at least first floor is one big sewer level. Skill tree and consumables could maybe offer some variation, but of course first floor didn't show much what they actually have to offer.

[Everything is Grab](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4308510/Everything_is_Crab_The_Animal_Evolution_Roguelite_Demo/) is fun take on evolution as game mechanic in roguelite form. Evolution is shown as different set of random features what you can choose from and you have to eat to level up in order to evolve. What you choose visually affects your player character. The boss battles are bit of challenge, so I guess you have to choose wisely how you evolve. Though you might have to pick something to survive in more extreme biomes, so there's plenty of hard choices to be made.

[Far Far West](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3819240/Far_Far_West_Demo/) is multiplayer extraction shooter. What makes is fun is that gunplay is fun and there's different combos and spells. Also jokers you can collect offer either something funny or useful. Levels also have side quests and secrets. There were also some puzzles. Works as single player, but leaves feeling that it's more fun as multiplayer.

[Snacktorio](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902940/Snacktorio/). (there's also recent article) This one is basically side scrolling Factorio mixed with a puzzle game. After tutorial levels, there are few actual levels where you make a factory that makes a dish that you feed to a monster or two.

Bit rough around the edges. I constantly had items in the hand, which blocked using the hotbar. Also thrash could have a warning before it deletes the items. Problems is that you can't build some of the essential things yourself if you get full stack at the beginning of the level. Still, mostly fun, though I didn't get feeling that I would want to play more after I finished it.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismGreat news, it will be interesting to see how the community does creating 4k and higher resolution models for this classic.

I'm assuming the mods will go here? https://gamebanana.com/games/22970

Here you go. Click the SpaghettiKart icon under 'Downloads' to get the O2R file, put in in Mods directory, boom.
https://evilgames.eu/texture-packs/mk64-reloaded.htm

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut individually, they're trying to maximize profit, and there are two basic ways to do that--maximizing revenue, and minimizing expenses. Probably the biggest component of minimizing expenses is not paying workers more than you absolutely have to.

I can confirm this. You know those freelance consultants they bring in to help you make your business more "efficient"? The first thing these so-called "experts" tell you is that wages are the largest and most easily controlled expense of your business. (This is also pushed by books & websites as well.) I dislike the mentality because it treats your employees as if they are resources (like office supplies) instead of unique and valuable individuals contributing to the success of your business. The less you pay your employees, the more turnover you will see. There is a high cost to that as well.

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Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: JarmerI think I've played through GD ... 4 times? 5 times maybe? I think it's got to be one of my most-played games of all time at nearly 500 hrs. ITS SO GOOD.

I agree.

Quoting: Jarmer[…] to get to the highest difficulty you have to do the most boring thing ever of all time: slog through the game mindlessly once all the way to the end […].

That’s true if you play SSF (solo self-funded) characters. Otherwise, you can do it once only and then put 'merits' - which unlock the highest difficulty - in the stash for other characters to use. 🙂

oh didn't know that! I always play every single arpg ssf because I dislike multiplayer, but ..... now that you've enlightened me to these "merits" I may or may not have to look up if there's a way to hack or mod these into new chars without ever getting them to begin with!

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Quoting: BumadarIs bought my wife [this desktop](https://www.cirrus7.com/en/produkte/cirrus7-incus/) in october, if I configure it exactly the same as back then its about 37% more expensive, crazy. So yes they missed the boat and sadly valve probably has too with all the stuff they lined up a gew months ago.

I went back to my pcpartpicker listing for the exact computer I have now in my pc info on the left, and it's about the same, roughly 1/3 more expensive. Which for this machine means like $800 more. INSANITY. I think ram and ssd was most of that increase? Just absolutely even more crazy that the gpu isn't the problem (as far as cost) goes anymore ... like at all. That hasn't changed.

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Quoting: UltraAltesBrotAll fun and games until you see the racist stuff RWS CEO Vince Desi posts on twitter between reposts of fan art.

Is this from the "everything I don't agree with is racist" book?

No.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPEither way, while I am looking forward to the game in theory, I am very hesitant due to the really bad state Postal 4 launched in.
It is playable now at least (but still very buggy), and a BIG overhaul patch is in public beta... but if this is the state years after Postal 4 release, what state will Flesh & Wire be in on launch?

So much this! The reviews on Steam really speak for themselves.

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I love this game. I bought the base for £5 on steam over a xmas and I couldn't step away. I bought the expansions and everything they've released to support them. The community made leagues have been fantastic too.

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I initially resisted the deck, didn't think too much of it. I bought the LCD on sale when the OLED came out. I'm glad to have been wrong. I love this device and it made me love my games again. I am tempted to buy the OLED, but it's a lot of money for a small upgrade. Plus, I'd have less to put towards the new devices 😁

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Quoting: buonoValve need to start manufacturing their own ram, ssd and cpus 🤔

That would be ideal and in the long-term, would save them money... But the initial costs upfront would be enormous (which is exactly why even the likes of Apple doesn't do this)!

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Quoting: UltraAltesBrotAll fun and games until you see the racist stuff RWS CEO Vince Desi posts on twitter between reposts of fan art.

Is this from the "everything I don't agree with is racist" book?
Couldn't read it to the end, personally. Got boring really quick.

Either way, while I am looking forward to the game in theory, I am very hesitant due to the really bad state Postal 4 launched in.
It is playable now at least (but still very buggy), and a BIG overhaul patch is in public beta... but if this is the state years after Postal 4 release, what state will Flesh & Wire be in on launch?

So I'll be following this for sure, but there won't be a purchase until a whole bunch of gameplay reports and reviews are in.

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not touched this one for about 9? years myself , seemed pretty good at the time but i didn't have a comfortable setup to pc game with at the time as a tv/desktop bedside player , i've thought about going back to it a few times over the years so maybe this'll be a reason to finally get it off my backlog

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I confess I like firearms and have accumulated more than a few of them over time. However, I can say with 100% certainty that loot boxes played no role in my appreciation for firearms.

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