Quoting: AndrewWI was really hoping this year to get a ten-year gaming PC that can carry me happily through my backlog. Guess that's not happening.

Same, but I decided to just bite the bullet and get a new machine before RAM prices get insane (I'm actually getting 'high-performance' RAM with a discount compared to regular RAM for whatever reason, so I'm getting in while the getting's good).

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My picks:

GOTY: Digimon Story Time Stranger (DSTS)
VR GOTY: Assetto Corsa Rally (ACR)
Labour of Love: X4 Foundations
Best on Deck: DSTS
Friends: ACR
Visual Style: Stories from Sol The Gun-Dog
Gameplay: ACR
Game I Suck At: ACR
Soundtrack: DSTS
Story: DSTS
Relax: Seeds of Calamity

As you can see, there were two games released this year which I really like and I wear my heart on my sleeve.

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I've tried to install Fedora a few times now and every time I bounce off because I'm particular about my partitioning set up and the Fedora installer doesn't appreciate that (ESP on /efi instead of /boot/efi, both / and /home with btrfs but separate partitions instead of a single partition with submodules, full disk encryption with a bunch of specific options,...). Arch, Gentoo, and Guix all let me use the partitioning I like, but Gentoo's packages are too old for my liking and doing full disk encryption on Guix is a pain because Shepherd doesn't do the systemd multi-partition unlocking.

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GOTY: Digimon Story Time Stranger. Best racing game: Assetto Corsa Rally.

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'Video game library manager', huh? Well, we already have Lutris, Heroic, and Steam, but I suppose another one wouldn't hurt. I mean, there's something like half a million desktop environments, so ecosystem fragmentation isn't anything new.

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How sim-heavy are these games ? I'm highly interested in a good Rally game, as long as it's fun with a controller and doesn't require the steering wheel etc.

Open to other Rally game recommendations as well

Assetto Corsa Rally (ACR) is far heavier on the sim side than the arcade side. If you try to drive it like it's DRIVE Rally or WRC (both more arcade-y, more controller-friendly games), you're gonna have issues. I've found WRC 9 to work pretty well on the Steam Deck (just had to bind the back paddles to shift up/down).

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Valve, for the love of all the gods, let me wishlist the Controller now. I can live with not buying it now, but I want to wishlist it right now.

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I like Fanatical's build your own bundle system, if there were something like that for GOG, it would be very interesting... were it not for the fact I already own pretty much everything I may like on GOG.

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Digimon Story: Time Stranger. Why are the Digimon Story games so good? There's no need for them to be so good but they are. Also a bunch of WRC 9 because rally would be a fantastic sport were it not for the environmental damage it causes. And, lastly, some Neverwinter Nights 2 with Kaedrin's newly updated PrC pack. I'm not very interested in the remake because the original is fantastic and there's a bunch of content which may not work so well with the remake.

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Ehvis, that's just how procedural generation works. I suppose there could be value in a Terraforged-style world creation menu which allows you to see in what kind of biome you spawn with what kind of terrain around you; but I have, at several points, created a new world in Minecraft only to be dumped in the middle of a massive ocean where it took me over a full Minecraft day to find land (I may have just randomly chosen the wrong way to go, but point still stands). I have also spawned in stone (and there are others who had that experience. I believe one of Kikoskia's Hardcore Minecraft series had him spawn in stone so that video was made an outtake), on islands without any trees, and, if I remember correctly, in a surface lava lake.

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