Quoting: tmtvlI've never seen a Variable Refresh Rate setting in a game, is that a new thing?

You don't set it. The game sends the frames in the speed it can and the monitor, if VRR is enabled and all, just displays them immediately. I guess you should disable max frame rate and V-Sync, though.

If you ask me, that's the one way it should be done and hopefully, one day, we'll look back and wonder what this ridiculous fixed frame rate and v-Sync was all about...

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleNot parser-based, but have you ever tried any of the Choice of Games titles like Heroes Rise: The Prodigy?

The freedom of just typing what I want and the illusion I could do anything is what makes me playing such games, so I didn't look deeper into Choice of Games than trying a demo. Thanks for the suggestion!

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:woot:

I just stopped playing Hadean Lands. Rather hard, extremely good. Didn't finish (yet). Hope to revisit.
The game has got a very interesting way to cope with dead ends, resulting in kind of meta puzzling.

Does anybody have other recommendations in the quality and size of Thaumistry or even Hadean Lands?

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The "not filled out" box is helpful!

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I had to hop out of the game several times to calm down a bit. The only thing it is not, because it cannot possibly be for most people, is this unforgettable first time, like The Dark Descent was for me and many others.

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Why not let it just Rest In Peace...! :D

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxWell it will be miserable, for example:

Not at all, here.

Quoting: AwesamLinuxBanking: You would have to switch to a bank that still offers an alternative identification solution, or has manual physical handling of bill payments (at additional outrageously high fees of course)

I'm not aware of a bank that does not have other means of identification. (There might be some, but I wouldn't trust those in the first place. I want my bank "too big to fail".)

Quoting: AwesamLinuxFiling Taxes: You could do it by sending traditional paper work, but that comes at a penalty of getting tax refunds several months later than anyone who signed them digitally.

There's a web app for this, usable with every PC. There used to be a Windows application, also usable with WINE until... I think last year.

Quoting: AwesamLinuxBasically you can still work around not having an electronic identification in most cases, but it is getting increasingly harder and more expensive to do so.

I'm not using my phone for identification and I'm not aware of anything where this would be a hurdle or cost an extra penny.

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Quoting: SalvatosThat’s pretty crazy. What do you do if you don’t have a smartphone?

:D
Well, it worked for decades (or thousands millions of years, whatever you want to count). The same still works, at least here.

I didn't buy one for a long time, but finally felt I had to because some people were hard to reach by anything but WhatsApp (and yes, I still wanted to reach them).

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Quoting: scaineIf I were to dip my toe into the Bridge Constructor world... do I go for this, or Portal. I haven't watched The Walking Dead, so no particular skin in the game from a fanboy perspective. Just wondering which of the two titles is more fun for a noob in this genre.

I can't say, but the only bridge constructing game I ever played was the Portal one and it felt like a good entry. It seems the Walking Dead one is deviating more from the usual formula (the portals don't make a huge difference IMHO), so maybe the Portal constructor is closer to your average constructor.

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Quoting: jensWishlisted, this looks (and sounds) indeed really nice. Also very nice to have a scenario involving Berlin :)

Yeah, me too, but the developer explicitly said that it's Neo Berlin, not Berlin. (Quite East Asian, this Berlin. ;) )

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