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The removal of Russian references is hugely ironic because STALKER itself is based on the book "Roadside Picnic" by the Brothers Strugatsky, who were outspokenly pro-Russian during the Soviet era. If they are gonna remove Russian things they might as well remove all mentions of the word STALKER because thats Russian too

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The game is quite blurry on default settings but this is easily remedied by just changing them a little.

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Yeah, it made me think of Polly Pocket (and Mighty Max) too. lol

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Congrats! One of the best games of all time.

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fabertawe:
I modded Fallout 3 "by hand" and whilst it was good fun, it was also very time consuming and I'd rather do FNV using Nexus Mods! So still waiting...

FWIW, Vortex runs fine under Proton, just need to install .NET 6 runtimes. I install both the runtimes and Vortex in the same prefix as my game, and launch it via Protontricks. With this method there's no permission issues, no need to symlink, no need for SteamTinkerLaunch etc.

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Apparently all mentions of Russia and russians have been removed from the game assets.

I understand why they would want to do this but it's a huge shame to do this to games that take place in fictional contexts.


Remember that these games also have the option to be run via openxray which also fixes bugs and adds qol enhancements.

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Awesome news, I have been excited for this one.

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The point was that there was no vulnerability which OP claimed there was.

Are you now claiming the CVEs are fake? Of course there were vulnerabilities.

We are actually wrong (shim apparently was not blocked by this update) but the main point still stands: The affected distributions are at fault.

But don't take my word for it:

[…]

SBAT was developed collaboratively between the Linux community and Microsoft, and Microsoft chose to push a Windows update that told systems not to trust versions of grub with a security generation below a certain level. This was because those versions of grub had genuine security vulnerabilities that would allow an attacker to compromise the Windows secure boot chain, and we've seen real world examples of malware wanting to do that

[…]

The problem we've ended up in is that several Linux distributions had not shipped versions of grub with a newer security generation, and so those versions of grub are assumed to be insecure (it's worth noting that grub is signed by individual distributions, not Microsoft, so there's no externally introduced lag here).

[…]

The outcome is that some people can't boot their systems. I think there's plenty of blame here. Microsoft should have done more testing to ensure that dual-boot setups could be identified accurately. But also distributions shipping signed bootloaders should make sure that they're updating those and updating the security generation to match, because otherwise they're shipping a vector that can be used to attack other operating systems and that's kind of a violation of the social contract around all of this.

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https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70348.html

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"European Union funded"? That does not sound good given the European Unions recent actions. I'd be wary

Honestly, the only alternatives to google that offer decent search results and even links to warez if thats your thing, are yandex and baidu

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Have they finally foxed the multi-monitor VRR issue with nvidia gpus?

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This game seems to be similar to Mudrunner, I wonder if there is any connection. Its so similar thst there are even similar vehicles....hmm if it is it may be worth a try

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Oh look more slop from GSC. Let me go play STALKER Anomaly instead. Cant believe any true fan would play this slop

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Waiting for support for Valheim, because r2modman on linux is a clusterfire of problems. Keeps breaking symlinks in my .steam directory for no apparent reason... heh.

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Any one else remember Poly Pocket?
Very cool idea!

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Great review! Thank you for the amd, proton, and valve rating details. I was very hype about this one and the demo had me really thinking about skipping it.... and Valve's Deck Rating/Compatibility System is less than reliable right now. Happy to add this one to the collection asap!

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@morbius
From the official NVIDIA page, it looks like that GPU is also supported by this driver.

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I'm a little worried about this, as if this is pushed on EU citizens, could they make it biased against specific political or philosophical searches?? Especially as a more 'conservative' person, I worry if the EU could use this against people trying to search for information that promotes right-wing or right-leaning ideas.

Search is already biased against specific political or philosophical searches. Or rather, against specific political or philosophical viewpoints coming up in searches relevant to politics. Google systematically suppresses left wing and socialist points of view. A few years ago, certain sites such as Counterpunch and the World Socialist website suddenly noticed that traffic coming in from search dropped by about two thirds; within the rather small world of leftist political news there was quite a kerfuffle about it. Of course the media in general did not consider this worth reporting, so mostly nobody heard about it.

So yes, clearly it can happen because it is happening. Although not from government, except probably in China. And not to suppress the right--to the contrary, all the social media and search algorithms seem to systematically promote right wing viewpoints, particularly the far right because their stridency promotes "engagement" (and in one certain case, because the owner is a fascist).

Meanwhile, if this EU initiative does things that bias the results returned by search engines that use it, in a way that's unacceptable to search engine companies' right wing CEOs, then I guess they won't use it. So I don't think you need to worry too much about right wing viewpoints ceasing to have a massive advantage.

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I modded Fallout 3 "by hand" and whilst it was good fun, it was also very time consuming and I'd rather do FNV using Nexus Mods! So still waiting...

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Minions . . . so does that mean all those war machines are piloted by little yellow fuzzy guys?

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That's the chain of trust. The first in the chain (Microsoft) is only responsible for their link (shim) & must ensure that vulnerable links cannot boot. That's what they've done. So it doesn't matter if the bootloader was fixed as long as the old one was still bootable, this must be prevented.

The point was that there was no vulnerability which OP claimed there was.

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I'm waiting for it to support Fallout4 and Skyrim.

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I had the originals so I thought I'd try "Shadow Of Chornobyl". I had the crash as well (desktop), so used "-nointro". Sounds like there may be an intro video I missed in that case, so I'll try "SteamDeck=1", thanks. I used Proton 9.

Looked fine to me and runs fluidly on my RX 6600 on high settings at over 70 fps. Good enough for me. I don't know what the almighty fuss about it being blurry is about.

Is there any point to the FSR option? It was off by default.

Edit: one incredibly annoying thing I did notice - I couldn't assign mouse buttons in the controls.

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This is a project for an index for other search engines to use, not a search engine itself. The main reason there are only two real search engines right now is that only Google and Microsoft have thrown enough money around to build an index. Others have tried but they pale in comparison.

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I'm a little worried about this, as if this is pushed on EU citizens, could they make it biased against specific political or philosophical searches?? Especially as a more 'conservative' person, I worry if the EU could use this against people trying to search for information that promotes right-wing or right-leaning ideas.

Outside of that, I don't really see the issue with our current search engine list. Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Bing, I've never had a issue with them.

@SirMCJeager It's good that you worry, I don't think they will, but only because concerned citizens like you exist.
On what is wrong with that list form an eu standpoint.
I can give you a few suggestions:
Each of these parties is stationed in the USA, which makes them basically by definition non-gdpr compliant, since Trump signed away the privacy shield.
This same Americanity also associates it with Trumps recent instability including his tendency to modify and forbid certain delivery of service in the EU.
Each of these parties has done exactly what you worry about the EU doing and often synchronous for one point, so they've reason to distrust them for that exact reason.

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Great! Question. Can I install it on Linux?

Yes it is called Distrobox :D

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I'm currently working on completing the last DLC of Witcher 3. After that's done I'll have clocked about 600 hours in the three games. Over about 10 years. Started with the first game when Witcher 3 was announced for SteamOS. We all know how that went.

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I'm a little worried about this, as if this is pushed on EU citizens, could they make it biased against specific political or philosophical searches?? Especially as a more 'conservative' person, I worry if the EU could use this against people trying to search for information that promotes right-wing or right-leaning ideas.

Outside of that, I don't really see the issue with our current search engine list. Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Bing, I've never had a issue with them.

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Wow, 10 years!

I remember having to help debug issues in anv to get this game rendering on a skylake igpu notebook. Then finished the game at sub 20fps on lowest settings. And I still enjoyed it.

But it was a few years old at that time already.

It really is a very well done game.

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Microsoft is all about subscription $$$ to Azure and Cloud services. "Windows", while still important to them, is NOT the direct money maker anymore. It exists to funnel you to Azure services and monthly subscriptions (OneDrive, O365 services, etc..). More than 50% of the workload in Azure is Linux based and Microsoft even uses Linux "under-the-hood" for a lot of things. So, them embracing Linux is certainly them trying to make themselves more money, but it's not the "nefarious" Microsoft trying to take over the world with Windows anymore.

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My favorite game of all time, I absolutely recommend it wholeheartedly!

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