I mean, I'm basically already 'leasing' my games anyways. I'd usually just buy during discount periods and took credit card payment plan that's closest to 0% interest. So I'd buy in bulk, play it through the year, pay it throughout the year also. And once I paid it off, I can buy different games. It's a lot like subscription, but it's more permanent, and more targeted to what I want.

Subscription can make sense, it's just that I prefer to play games at my own pace, and I hate the idea of paying and then not playing because I got a busy month or weeks. If I buy the game on Steam, sure in effect it can still be the same, but I could get back to the game at any time and mostly not worry it about any removal from the catalogue or needing to subscribe to multiple different catalogues.

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I hope that by "based on HoloISO" that meant a proper fork of HoloISO that they'd maintain. I used to follow their Telegram channel (which is their main update channels - GitHub repo is seldom updated). Looked at it again, and yep, they're still as unprofessional as they used to be:

- https://t.me/HoloISO/415 [External Link]
- https://t.me/HoloISO/467 [External Link]

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This is good. I wouldn't mind people favoring ROG or Lenovo Go had they run Linux. I just want them to run Linux to push adoption, don't really care what the teams are winning as long as team Linux won.

Gives me hope we'll see more Linux desktop releases. Wouldn't be a surprise for some SKUs for less economic country to put Linux to save money - in Indonesia, there was a time they shipped Linux by default to save money with expectation user will go to a shop to install Windows or have someone to do it for them.

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A bit late, but sure. Makes it more convenient since I don't have to enable Invisible to not bother others with what I'm playing.

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There is also an xwaylandvideobridge update [External Link], which makes it not start when already running in x11.

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Oh, hey, Hitomi Downloader, that's nice. One of my favorite video downloaders back on Windows, it was pretty annoying when it didn't run on Wine (at least, I don't think it worked right on Wine).

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No more Visual Novel festival? Well, then again, most of the good stuff there are Japanese games with rather risque nature, some outright requiring a separate patch for any enjoyment (Subahibi, for example, only have the prologue without patch and none of the denpa contents it's great with).

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Quoting: AL2009manI'm surprised this hasn't been done much sooner.

We kinda have this with steaminput, but this is more independent, and probably more adaptable to more game engines.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI've regularly covered Game Dev news for years now, there's even a dedicated tag for it :)

That's true. I guess this is just more low-level than I'd usually see, which is Godot, Blender, and the rest of the big giants so I didn't put it in the same mental category.

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Huh, would have expected this content to be on Phoronix, but gamedev news is nice.

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