Quoting: RFSharpeI have had a desire to play this game for years. I think... "I can do this." I then go to the fantastically informative Caves of Qud Wiki [External Link]. At this point, I am still thinking "I know I can play this game! Where should I begin?" I go to random page, such as Default Controls Map [External Link]. It is then that I realize that I am much too intellectually challenged to play this game.

LOL yes it can be a little daunting. It's just so different from almost anything else.

I vote for reading nothing at all about anything on any wiki or anywhere else, do the tutorial just to get the UI and controls understood, and just .... go somewhere! just start exploring.

That's what I'm doing now and having a blast. I'm currently in a cave fighting spiders with a sympathetic merchant. I keep aggroing the spiders and then dragging them back to the merchant who shoots them. Then I heal up and repeat. LOL. I'm about out of food though and I haven't come across any vendors selling it out in the wilds so I will have to find out how to make my own food soon I guess.

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YES I've been waiting for you to post about this game!!!!!!!!! This has been highest on my wishlist for a while now since trying it out a while back and then deciding to wait for 1.0. I absolutely LOVE this game.

I would like to focus on this one bit you mentioned though:

Thankfully there's multiple game modes, so you can make it a bit more adventure-like and less punishing

This is so important! Using these settings you can make the game into a regular ol rpg. You can save in any settlement and reload your character if you die from any number of hilarious deaths (lol). You can also make the game into just exploration with almost no combat if you want, just to run around and see what's up. And of course there's the standard "rogue" mode of permadeath, but that's not the only way!

The game's interface is a delight, the lore and writing is incredible, and as you mentioned, the detail is just off the charts. I just can't say enough good things. Highly highly recommended.

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I'm not in the market for anything like this, as I just use my htpc to also double as a living room gaming computer, but I really do hope they can pull off a steam machine comeback!!

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it's just an android device, so yes, you could offline whatever geo area you want into google maps or osmand or whatever other mapping app you want and then use that offline with gps all day long. I have done that multiple times on trips abroad when I didn't want to turn on cellular data to save money.

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Quoting: JarmerOMG I want that one with the keyboard. It even has an ETHERNET PORT!!!!!!!!!! yessssssssssss just take my money.

You know what I'd really love? If I could use something like this as my day to day phone:
https://shop.boox.com/products/palma2 [External Link]

basically the middle ground between a full fledged smart phone and a completely dumb phone. On a device like that, the battery would last me like a week because I would only ever use it for calls, texts, playing podcasts in my car, stuff like that.

And then anything else, like emails, or looking up webpages, or using apps, I could use this device! Man............... If my family weren't so tied into the apple ecosystem (shared calendars and photo albums etc) I would totally try it.

edit: DAMNATION ... they're going to launch it as a kickstarter ffs. I swore I'd never again use kickstarter for anything ever ever ever, but ............................ shit.

I've looked into the Palma 2 before, but it doesn't have a SIM Card slot, does it? I would need it to use GPS on the car/bike, otherwise I'd probably try to switch to it soon.

No it doesn't. They've made comments about "looking into it for palma 3" but that's all I've seen. For it to REALLY replace a phone, yes I'd need that as well so I could have voice/data while out and about.

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OMG I want that one with the keyboard. It even has an ETHERNET PORT!!!!!!!!!! yessssssssssss just take my money.

You know what I'd really love? If I could use something like this as my day to day phone:
https://shop.boox.com/products/palma2 [External Link]

basically the middle ground between a full fledged smart phone and a completely dumb phone. On a device like that, the battery would last me like a week because I would only ever use it for calls, texts, playing podcasts in my car, stuff like that.

And then anything else, like emails, or looking up webpages, or using apps, I could use this device! Man............... If my family weren't so tied into the apple ecosystem (shared calendars and photo albums etc) I would totally try it.

edit: DAMNATION ... they're going to launch it as a kickstarter ffs. I swore I'd never again use kickstarter for anything ever ever ever, but ............................ shit.

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Just wanted to drop a note here to anyone who hasn't played Prey: omg. Just do. Get it through this bundle and help out the site, or get it on steam, or walk to the Arkane studio and give them some cash for a flash drive of it (lol) .... WHATEVER IT TAKES JUST PLAY IT. It's sooooooooooooo good. Probably my favorite fps in the last decade.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Been a while since I followed intel gpu's, are the Arc series still a mess on Linux?

It always seemed to me that the actual hardware is not half bad but the drivers are a different story.

Still loving my RX 6800, it continues to serve me well. Next upgrade will most likely be the new AMD card.

This is me as well. I will wait for some reviews to come out on the various sites comparing these new cards to the amd 6xxx and 7xxx lines. I'm also currently on a 6800xt and waiting for the 8xxx series to come out before building an entirely new system. Looking forward to the release!

Speaking of these cards, I also do really hope they can enjoy some form of success so competition is just a little better for us consumers. AMD not competing against nvidia at the top end is just so so so bad.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: GuestI just moved back to Fedora (from Tumbleweed). Still feels like my comfortable home after all these years - stays up to date, no big issues with upgrades, fast. I do think Anaconda blows as an installer but after it's done and I check a few boxes for repos I have just about anything I would ever need.

I'm doing the same right now. I'm just ready to get off of rolling releases. I've had so many problems within the past year that have resulted in non booting systems, booting but with no GUI at all, and more. I've had to do so many snapper rollbacks I can't even count them.

Alot of my annoyance was using Packman and having it become out of sync and stay that way for days (or weeks) at a time. Heck, half the time without Packman, the updatews would fail with incompatible dependencies. Worst I had a few months back was the firmware package that completely broke the GUI and I had to manually get inm find and reinstall an old version. Most of my time with it was "boring" enough that I never felt the need out of my way to start over and I ran it for the better part of two years now. I just had free time not long after 41 came out and thought, why not?

I'm sure there are issues to be pointed out but I've had nothing but smooth sailing on Fedora except when I've gone in poking things and breaking them myself. I haven't compared how up to date it stays with a full rolling release, but the bigger things to me (kernel, Mesa) seem to be reasonably close in update time.

ha! I'm almost entirely the same! I got sooooo annoyed with Packman over time. I'm a little worried that using rpmfusion on Fedora (what I'm on now) will be the same annoyance since it's a 3rd party repo, but time will tell. I am hoping that since Fedora is a much larger distro in terms of usage it'll have better support/maintainers for rpmfusion compared to packman in tumbleweed.

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Quoting: GuestI just moved back to Fedora (from Tumbleweed). Still feels like my comfortable home after all these years - stays up to date, no big issues with upgrades, fast. I do think Anaconda blows as an installer but after it's done and I check a few boxes for repos I have just about anything I would ever need.

I'm doing the same right now. I'm just ready to get off of rolling releases. I've had so many problems within the past year that have resulted in non booting systems, booting but with no GUI at all, and more. I've had to do so many snapper rollbacks I can't even count them.

I think fedora has a huge community and developer userbase which is really attractive to me. Fedora KDE here we come.

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