Quoting: g000hI just had a little squint at the spoilers and noticed "Tamed creatures" are in the game. I dislike the idea of taming and using creatures within games (although obviously other people do like that feature).

Wondering how "important" tamed creatures are in the game - Do you have to use them (e.g. Like you cannot get anywhere without dinosaur-taming in ARK) or is it just a nice to have, but not needed, "animal familiar" or similar?

With boars at least, taming them means they don't attack you and can breed with other tamed boars to produce piglets (so long as you feed them carrots). The only purpose for this is, as Ehvis says, is to use them as a food source.

I've never encountered wolves, or lox, but I imagine tamed wolves attack enemies.

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\o/

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Looking at my own purchase history, looks like Day of Defeat: Source was actually my first purchase on my own account back in 2008. What was yours?

For me, it was Half-Life 1 Anthology (bundle of HL, HL: Blue Shift, HL: Opposing Force, and Team Fortress Classic), in June 2008. :shock:

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Quoting: AussieEeveeWhat I am expecting from Valve is an easy way to install these other game stores. Yes, they are competitors but Valve promised me that I could.

Where?

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware [External Link]

You can also install and use PC software, of course. Browse the web, watch streaming video, do your normal productivity stuff, install some other game stores, whatever.

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Nice to see Valve responding quickly on this.

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This could be good, if it's done well. Z-level mechanics can really make a game shine. Take Dwarf Fortress for example -- it was a good game when you could interact with only one z-level, but adding the ability to dig down to the magma sea (and, uh, beyond [External Link]) really opened up the possibilities. Here's hoping it's done like that, and not say modern XCOM base-building mechanics.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeProbably because I didn't notice until I had told it to restart the computer because I was going to do something in Debian, and it compiles to a temp dir.

In that case, either set PKGDEST (see 'man makepkg.conf'), or stop compiling in tmpdirs. :tongue:

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Quoting: slaapliedje2) it took so long to compile still, and I was doing other things, that it then prompted me for the sudo password, as enough time had gone by where it'd need to be re-authenticated. Problem was, I didn't notice it prompting for a while, and it gave up. Guess what that means? I get to recompile Librewolf again...

Why on earth would you have to recompile it again just because the sudo prompt timed out? Just install the built package with `pacman -U`.

Incidentally, consider setting `passwd_timeout` in your sudoer defaults if you find the default 5m timeout too short. A value of 0 disables the timeout.

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Time files when you're having fun. :D

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Oh boy, I can't wait to see how long it takes for their new flagship features to be exploited in the wild and subsequently throttled by microcode/kernel updates. :whistle:

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