Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: hardpenguin

This appears to happen across drivers 550, 555 and even the latest 560.

Yet again I am grateful for Debian Sid maintainers keeping me on the 535 line

Ditto for the Linux Mint maintainers. Also on the 535 line (at least, for LM 21 -- haven't upgraded to 22 yet).

Mint 22 inherits 550 from the Ubuntu 24.04 base. But several older driver series are also available in the repositories. 550 isn't forced on you.

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Quoting: rambo919On one hand the brain does not make the same distinctions as we do, on the other hand behaviorally you wont do something either virtually or really unless you are capable of doing both.

No, because I've always understood that games are not real. And so do you, hopefully. They're not even very good simulations of reality. No amount of pseudo-psychology is going to change that.

Your theory echoes the various moral panics in relation to gaming we've seen since the eighties. All of them equally unfounded.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczDry Crumbs= USA
Revontuli= Finland
Holzberg= Germany

Didn't catch what's the 4th location though.

Based on the traditional buildings and their history of hosting rally events, maybe Indonesia?

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Quoting: tuubiThe function of most games psychologically is to entertain the player.

By acting out scenarios. You would never kill or rape someone virtually if you were not capable of doing so in person. To reverse it if you cannot do something in person you could never force yourself to do it in a game. The entertainment comes from virtually doing what you physically cannot, the fact that it's entertaining is linked to the purpose of games being preparatory for real life things. You enjoy doing things in games that you might do later in IRL the same way you enjoy other things IRL that benefit you, that's how endorphins work.

None of this is true. I can kill someone in a game only because I can easily make the distinction between a bunch of pixels and a real human life. If endorphins are released, that's because I succeeded in a challenge provided by the game and am rewarded for my effort with points, loot, whatever. Not because I think I just murdered a person. You're way out of your depth with this sort of armchair psychology.

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Quoting: tuubiSome games do aim to play out scenarios and allow you to learn without risk, others are just a bit of fun or harmless wastes of time. And regardless of the scope or aim of the game, you're always secure in the knowledge that any consequence is purely virtual, and it's perfectly safe and acceptable to make decisions you'd never willingly make in real life.

That's a self deception. Anything you would willingly do in a game where there are no consequence you would do IRL under the right conditions. The same way many people think themselves "good" just because they have never done anything truly evil.... yet. There exists no such thing as a "good" human as history and any large jail has proven.

Have you considered that maybe you're just a nihilist?

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Quoting: rambo919The function of any game psychologically is to play out scenarios, a form of learning without risk. Anything you do in a game is an expression of what you would do IRL if given the opportunity and resources, it's just that most seem to not notice this about themselves.

The function of most games psychologically is to entertain the player. Some games do aim to play out scenarios and allow you to learn without risk, others are just a bit of fun or harmless wastes of time. And regardless of the scope or aim of the game, you're always secure in the knowledge that any consequence is purely virtual, and it's perfectly safe and acceptable to make decisions you'd never willingly make in real life.

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Quoting: redmanAnd it was called Circle of Blood

I never understood why it needed an edgier title on the wrong side of the big puddle.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyUgh, that looks like an AI upscale of the original intro animation:

Doesn't look great, but maybe that's why it says "BETA FOOTAGE, NOT FINAL QUALITY".

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A fully sentient frog capturing and breeding other frogs. I'm not sure if I should feel perturbed or not...

Anyway, game looks fun.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Is buying this bundle really more convenient than `flatpak install flathub io.github.freedoom.Phase1`, or the equivalent on your distro's software manager GUI?

I suppose it's more convenient if you want to play Doom or Doom II and not Freedoom.

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I might be upgrading to a 9700x from my trusty 3700x, but I'm in no particular hurry.

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