The gesture is appreciated, but I mainly intend on playing OG Skyrim on my deck if I ever end up playing Skyrim again, since modding games with a mod manager is one of the very small few pain points left on Linux and Steam Workshop mitigates this.

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääPlease, stop these wars everywhere.. Just put down your weapons. Please.

Expect more wars in the coming decade. It will get worse

There's never been a decade without wars. We humans are a miserably warlike bunch. But I guess "worse" is when it affects us personally.

I've always hated the cynical "we as humans are really bad" rhetoric with a passion, it implies there's collective blame to be had for all of humanity, that we never learn anything when clearly if you have people saying "hey can we stop this war shit" that's not the case, as someone is recognizing an issue that has plagued us and wants to put an end to it, thus making it not the fault of "humans" but individuals.

Where we should really be putting blame is on just a few individuals within humanity in upper echelons inside a military industrial complex who gain capital whenever there's a war thus are financially incentivized to continually send us into them, additionally, in regards to environmentally related things people would all switch to eco friendly options for things like transportation tomorrow if it was genuinely more affordable. You'd have some holdouts who held onto gas guzzlers out of stubborn tradition, but frankly if people are able to live more affordably with an eco friendly option they wouldn't hesitate to do it in a second.

It's like blaming the pawn for a king and queen's poor decisions. It's not really the pawn's fault that they're limited to moving and defeating other chess pieces in the most inefficient ways possible, and the game doesn't end out of empathy and respect for the loss of a pawn, only when the king is gone. That's just the way the game is designed by forces above the pawn's control.

...So how about that Linux gaming, huh? Pretty neat how much progress is being made right? :sad:

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Quoting: ripperPerhaps a stupid question, but what's the purpose of adding your Steam games to Lutris? Steam already has Proton integration, so what's the benefit?

When Lutris supports protontricks, users can create a script that automatically suggests protonfixes.
So say a game needs an extra protontricks install like d3dcompiler_47 or something, [External Link] assuming a user put in a report, lutris will be like "oh we see there's a problem with this game that requires winetricks/protontricks intervention; here's an option to automatically install this steam game with d3dcompiler_47 inside the prefix automatically so you don't have to worry about that" so games "just work" if you choose to install them through lutris, as opposed to "shit, this isn't working even with GE-Proton, what do I do?"

In some cases, like how right now if you install The Suffering from GOG, or Soldier of Fortune, it'll suggest a third party community patch for the game that fixes some major bugs or fixes resolution issues.

But again, people do need to be creating scripts and submitting them on a per game basis to the lutris website to tell lutris to do this. It doesn't "just do it" by default.

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The reason this sounds so bad is because I believe this excuse is the honest truth when they say it.

After all, if so few people are reading it, who's gonna notice when you delete it to fuck people over, right? I mean that's how I'd think if I was an evil CEO like John Riccitiello.

so really, no matter which way you slice this post, whether you approach it from the angle of "A LEGAL DOCUMENT ISN'T A YOUTUBE VIDEO YOU HAVE TO PROMOTE IN THE ALGORITHM TO JUSTIFY IT'S EXISTENCE YOU ABSOLUTE CRETINS" or "So you deleted something important because you thought there weren't enough people to raise hell about it", it's a bad excuse.

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Wait, if they're walking back the install fee, why do devs still need to "Self-report" installs?

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I'm still hoping that one day HGL will add itch.io support, cause then you'd basically only need two launchers on windows, steam and HGL.

On linux it would be three launchers, since HGL doesn't really have a WINE prefix management settings interface for games that don't come from any of these sources (for abandonware games and such) as in depth as Bottles or Lutris unfortunately. But still, it's closer to perfecting a secondary launcher than anything else I know, since Lutris still has trouble downloading amazon games and HGL doesn't.

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Irdeto is a cancer on this industry and anyone who paid for games that use their software should be ashamed of themselves, because now they have the funding to create what is essentially an anti-modding tool.

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I just want them to ensure SteamVR is as good as it is on windows. Last I used it, it was still lacking core functionality like motion smoothing, SteamVR Home SDK, and camera passthrough, At least on Nvidia cards. Here's hoping deckard is really gonna release and fix up some of this stuff.

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Quoting: bisbyxI wanted a mindless diving game. The restaurant minigame had enough complexity (or at least perceived complexity in the moment) that it made me put it down, because I didn't want to think too hard. Haven't picked it back up yet, though I intend to eventually.

It's not that complex, but I can see how it would seem daunting, I suppose.
-Hire some NPCs to serve and cook for you faster. All you personally should be focused on is refilling the Wasabi during operating hours and pouring drinks, your staff will handle the rest, you only should be serving dishes yourself if you're already heading in that direction and it's on the way.
-Sort your dish menu by price, and leave it that way.
-Any time you have an excess of one type of fish, upgrade it.
-Special days for certain types of food will get you more cash, prep ahead of time in your diving expeditions.
-Do the side missions, they get you new dishes, among other things.

That's about as complex as it is at least where I am in the game, this game is wonderful in that it continues to slowly dripfeed more mechanics as the game goes along to the point where more than once I've been like "Wait, there's more? Nice." which I appreciate, so I don't know if more mechanics get added later.

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Nice, Nvidia wayland fixes are really important and welcome. I wonder if the h264/h265 video decoding things are gonna result in better proton compatibility too for videos.

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