It'd be neat if the Bazzite devs would join forces with the Arkane Linux (https://arkanelinux.org/) devs to make a distro. The quality of Arch + the stability of an immutable distro with the Arkane tooling would be fantastic.

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For me the anti-DRM stance is more important than GNU/Linux support... even if I do recall that there was some controversy around a title which could not be played multiplayer if it weren't launched from Galaxy (quick Brave search shows Aragami 2 and Monster Train). I already have my favourite games on GOG backed up, but I do think I'll start adding a little extra when buying stuff (as I said, I consider DRM to be worse than I consider GNU/Linux support to be nice).

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Some more focus on A11Y is always welcome. As the saying goes: we're all merely temporarily able-bodied.

The workspace enhancements are neat, I guess, but until we have monitor-independent workspace switching it's just not great.

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Skipping it entirely?

Yeah, that sounds good. I think I'll have one of those, thank you.

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I just came to the realisation that to own a really good game (like Symphony of the Night, Arcanum, or Chrono Trigger) I could be persuaded to pay 80 USD, but paying that amount to LICENSE a mediocre game? I'm sorry, but that's just not going to happen.

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The market for video games is the largest it's ever been, there are permissively licensed libraries available for everything under the sun, and with modern tech you have basically 0 distribution costs; yet game developers remain underpaid. Clearly there is a huge inefficiency somewhere, and as the saying goes: a fish rots from the head down. Instead of making games more expensive maybe game devs should fire the C suite and get some actually competent people in place.

EDIT: as an addendum, on the topic of so-called 'review bombing': people have the right to leave negative reviews when they are not satisfied with something about a game. If that something is 'the developer said something stupid on xitter', then you can shout 'death of the author' until your face turns blue, it remains proper use of the review system.

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Voice acting is good for accessibility. If I wind up playing this version, though, I'll turn it off because it's bad for immersion.

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I played through Dungeons of Hinterberg about... a couple of months ago. For a game that's basically just an advertisement for Austrian tourism (just like how Darkened Skye is an ad for Skittles, a bit more subtle than Cool Spot or the like), it's pretty good. As a former Souls player I kinda find it too easy, but I guess that many would consider that a benefit rather than a detriment. Just a shame that the Persona-style social links are a wee bit too superficial. Also silly that it does the 'oh no, a bad thing is going to happen, it's important that we prevent it as soon as possible' thing where you can just spend as much time as you want loafing about without any repercussions.

Also Soul Reaver is great, but I think everyone knows that by now.

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I have been playing some Neverwinter Nights 2. I have merged the Tome of Battle, Kaedrin's PRC Pack, and Races of Faerun mods and have played through the Original Campaign, Sean Maxhell SoulPath, Tomoachan, Asylum 1 and 2, and a few more modules. Currently playing through Dark Waters, but unfortunately the Tome of Battle additions don't really seem to work with it.

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The Plasma update isn't great, whenever I switch to desktop mode the screen brightness gets set to 33%, even though I always turn it down to 5%. I actually wanted to report that bug, but I didn't figure out where I needed to go (Valve's GitHub? Somewhere on the Steam forums? Is there a 'report issue' button somewhere?).

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